When CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo decided to call Nokia an internet company people around the world thought he was stark mad. With 1 in 3 mobile phones consistently being purchased quarter after quarter by consumers around the world, healthy margins even on low end devices and over 4 billion Euros in the bank, why would…
Video: The force comes to Finland, Nokia Lightsaber
Someone named Graham Oldfield used the accelerometer API inside the Nokia N95 to create a lightsaber application which you can find here. Symbian Guru, Jedi Cadden, made a little video demoing this for us: As useless as the application is, you can’t talk smack about Star Ware, especially you LoTR people.
Video: Unboxing the Nokia E51
And we have the first Nokia E51 unboxing video. As you can see the stylish retail box contains all the necessities — including battery, charger, syncing cable, headsets (I think), and of course the CD with the Nokia PC Suite software. Anyway, here’s the video. Enjoy! [Via: Cell Addict Blog]
First video of the Nokia N82!
Pictures, as they say, are worth a thousand words. Videos, in that case, are priceless. The Nokia N82 is mere days away from its official launch and pictures of the highly-anticipated device have been flooding the interwebs. We love live pics as much as anyone, but videos are just so much better. So, without further…
Brief: Confirmed: Countdown timer on Nseries is for the Nokia N82
Someone on Mobile Review (smart Russian hackers absolutely rock) decompiled the flash file which housed the countdown timer. The one line of code that gave it away: flash.external.ExternalInterface.call(“_hbPageview “, “n82_virtual_event”, “/Microsites/n82/virtual_event/”); That pretty much confirms that we’re only expecting one device, no surprises. Less than 90 hours to go!
America gets a new Nokia N95-3 color: Bronze
Got an email asking me why the Nokia N95-3 Bronze is $80 more than the Black version. I never even knew a Bronze color existed, but here it is: As for Eric, the answer is you pay more for the new color. People like exclusivity. Nokia, and every other maker of consumer goods, will often…
Weekend Reminder: Nokia’s warranty service still stinks
Since I began blogging I got a lot of email from people thinking that I have some magical powers to fix their mobile phone just because I have a few friends at Nokia. This is not the case, please stop sending me emails, but recently I stumbled across a blog post that resonated all too…
Happy Birthday Nokia: 15 years of mass producing GSM phones
15 years ago today Nokia launched the 1011. It was their first mass produced handset and at the time was a technological revolution. Here are the specifications of the device that won the hearts and minds of the people more than a decade ago: 2 line display 475 grams 195 x 60 x 45mm Enough…
Video: Nokia N95 8 GB unboxing
As promised:
Nokia Beta Labs releases MOSH Client, Audiobooks software
Nokia Beta Labs has been busy these days and as a result Nokia smartphone owners can now grab two new applications for free. The first one is MOSH client, which allows you to use Nokia’s MOSH social networking service — upload, search, browse and check your stats — directly from your phone. Previously it was…