Thanks to Tommi Vilkamo for linking to a new Nokia Podcast RSS feed. There are only two episodes so far: Bob Iannucci, Head of Nokia Research Center talks about the future and how collaboration is critical to shaping the next generation of services and Tero Ojanperä (pictured right), the CTO who reviews how well Nokia…
Black Nokia N95 8 GB pictures leaked thanks to the FCC
There she is, all in her 8 gigabytes of glory. Rafe from All About Symbian just tipped me off on this over Skype and I can’t say I’m surprised. Rumors about the screen being larger were true and I’m digging the enterprise-device-like cluster
Nokia’s brand image in India might be in shambles, CEO to visit next week
Calling the BL-5C battery recall situation a nightmare for Nokia would be an understatement. With news that the Finnish giant knew about the defective batteries almost 8 months ago, people are starting to wonder why nothing was done sooner. What really takes the cake is India; a market experiencing the fastest growth in wireless telecommunications,…
Nokia may be in more hot water with Japan for overheating batteries
Just when we though Nokia’s overheating battery problem was getting taken care of, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has ordered the Finnish handset manufacturer to “report by next Friday on details of a series of accidents.” Apparently, Nokia Japan took a little too long (10 days is the limit, they took 16 days)…
Nokia wants import ban on Qualcomm chips too!
What’s this? Nokia’s jumping on the ITC bandwagon with their new proposal to have Qualcomm’s chips banned from US import? Well, it seems the Finnish handset manufacturing giant is asking the US ITC to ban another subset of Qualcomm’s 3G chipsets from US import, which would deal another blow to the embattled chip-maker. Nokia and…
Nokia N95 8GB coming to UK before Christmas?
Wow, that would be awesome — at least for citizens of the UK. Other parts of Europe would follow soon, I guess… Anyway, at this stage we have no official word from the Finish handset manufacturer whether this is true or not — apparently, this information comes from one of the UK networks and somehow…
Stop calling the specially formatted mobile websites on the iPhone applications!
Blogging about the iPhone is a popular thing to do, for many reasons. You have the people who think the iPhone is a gift from god without realizing it is probably the most locked device to ever be released on to the market, you have the people who think that the mobile websites built on…
New Nokia N76 firmware adds A2DP support and improves stability
Rafe from All About Symbian has the scoop on the new Nokia N76 firmware that not only improves stability, but adds new features as well. One has to wonder however, why wasn’t A2DP turned on by default? [Photo from All About Symbian’s review of the N76]
Nokia adapts Digg like voting system to help make S60 and future applications better
Nokia’s corporate slogan is “Connecting People” and with the launch of the second version of wishlists today they just proved that are indeed connecting we the people to the developers working on S60 and the developers building applications for the platform. I’ve long been a critic of the first version of the S60 application wishlist,…
Epocware optimizes SlovoEd dictionaries, Handy line of apps for Nokia E90, Motorola Z8
By now, Symbian smartphone owners are certainly familiar with some of Epocware’s applications — their dictionaries and utilities are one of the best-selling titles for the platform. Now, they decided to optimize their existing portfolio of applications for the Nokia E90 Communicator‘s large screen and for the recently release UIQ 3.1-based Motorola Z8. I wouldn’t…