Our Canadian readers who love Nokia smartphones will be pleased to know that the Nokia N95 may be coming to the country. Apparently, the GPS and 5 MP camera equipped Nokia smartphone was spotted in the drop-down menu on Rogers Wireless’ game downloads site, giving some hope Canadians may soon get a chance to experience…
The Nokia 5710 exists, picture for proof
Finally got around to checking out the images I took during CES, here is the Nokia 5710 that has yet to be announced and been floating around the rumor mill for quite some time. As you can see it does NOT have a 3.2 megapixel camera, nor does it run S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack…
Nokia Sports Tracker goes Facebook
Some time ago, we wrote about Nokia Sports Tracker going Web 2.0. At that point Nokia has introduced the application’s web component, allowing users to log their workouts online, analyze them and compare the data with other users from around the world. Now, to make things even more Web 2.0-ish, the Finish giant’s Beta labs…
Brief: Nokia to close German factory, lay off 2300, move to Romania
In order to say competitive Nokia is closing their German plant in Bochum and laying off up to 2300 people. It will be cheaper to do the same work in Romania. “We are moving production to existing plants, mainly in Romania, which will start during the first quarter.” – Nokia Spokeswoman Arja Suominen In other…
Brief: Anssi Vanjoki to keynote the 2008 Game Developers Conference
Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s head of the recently instituted Markets Division, will keynote the 2008 Game Developers Conference with a presentation titled: “Play with Anybody Everywhere — Context, the New Paradigm for Game Play.” I’m going to go out on a limb here and say N-Gage will be launched during his speech on February 18, but…
Nokia CTO Bob Iannucci: The current mobile space is equivalent to the PC industry of 1982
In the latest episode of Nokia’s Technology Podcast “The way we live next” Nokia’s new CTO Bob Iannucci talks about where we are today in terms of mobile and how the next few years will look absolutly nothing like the decade prior. He likens today’s mobile industry to the PC world of 1982 and gives…
Nokia to release 6 to 12+ devices in the USA during 2008, even more in 2009
Mark Louison, president of Nokia’s North American business recently said that the EU and APAC dominating company plans to throw even more crumbs to the colonies in 2008 and 2009 than it has in previous years. How many devices actually do come out are dependent on the facist like American operators, but Mark was quoted…
Motorola joins Nokia in investing towards NFC company INSIDE Contactless
NFC, which stands for near field communications, will be all the rage before this decade is out. Being able to pay for things by simply hovering your mobile phone over a sensor, get more detailed information about an object by just waving your phone in front of it and exchanging contact information by just touching…
Nokia 5700 cloned, again
Again and again I keep wondering who’s crazy enough to buy one of the Chinese clone devices we see appearing on an almost daily basis. Lately, we’ve spotted the fake Nokia 5700, the device we earlier spotted cloned as a pure media player. And even though the ripoff device has some decent specs — including…
Xing Bao N98 uses Nokia NSeries naming scheme, iPhone’s look and feel
If it wasn’t for the name and the “familiar” look, the Xing Bao N98 would be an interesting device. Similarly to the Samsung UpStage, this Chinese phone sports two screens — one on the front and the other on the back of the device. The front part is reserved for the huge 3″ touchscreen, while…