According to a rumor over at Fortune, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will be launching a music service and new devices on August 29 in London at the famous Ministry of Sound Club. Will he be dancing with intoxicated teenage girls and inviting them onto one of his many boats is what I’m really curious about,…
Nokia 6500 Classic passes the FCC hurdle
Slick and stylish Nokia 6500 Classic has been approved by the FCC, and is ready to be sold on the U.S. market. Unfortunately, not many carriers actually supports the built-in GSM radio, though this one may end up on AT&T. Or, there are always Nokia Flagship Stores or Dell marketplace, where you’ll be able to…
Mauku – Jaiku client for Nokia 770/N800 Internet Tablets
Here’s something for all you folks that like to inform us what are you doing at any given point of day. You’ve heard about Jaiku, the Twitter kind of application? Well, it’s now available for Maemo platform, which powers Nokia 770 and Nokia N800 Internet Tablets. If you have one of the mentioned two devices,…
Quickoffice Premier 4.5 released; Promises near-desktop level functionality
Quickoffice just released the new version of its popular mobile office tools for Symbian S60 3rd edition smartphones. Going forward from the previous release, the version 4.5 promises to deliver near-desktop level functionality, especially if you’re using the Nokia E90 Communicator with large screen and the full QWERTY keyboard. Improvements in the new version include…
Nokia: Watch out for those jealous laptops – they’re dangerous with envy
Nokia’s marketing department deserves a round of applause for their newest act of advertising genius. Rather than go toe-to-toe with the incredible iPhone buzz-machine, Nokia opted to go the comedy route for their N95 – a damn good decision, if you ask us. Playing on the Nokia N95’s role as the multimedia computer, the ads…
Nokia outs N81 in leaked wap website profile
We can’t tell you how much we love it when phone manufacturers in surreptitious web page publishing. Do these guys really think that no one will notice? Case in point, Nokia has published a WAP profile for their slick new N81 3G slider. We were expecting the Nokia N81 to launch in Q4 2007, so…
Nokia set to snap up photo-sharing website Twango
In their push to expand their social networking offerings, Nokia has announced their intention to buy the photo-sharing social-networking service Twango. Anssi Vanjoki, head of Nokia’s multimedia unit said, “The Twango acquisition is a concrete step towards our Internet services vision of providing seamless access to information, entertainment, and social networks.” The future of mobile…
Video: Nokia 6110 Navigator commercial unveils Nokia’s new tagline; Be More Nokia
I never understood the phrase “Multimedia Computer.” I have no clue what “Be More Nokia” tries to say either. The commercial however, I like. [Via: Mobile Review]
Nokia reaches 32% market share in Taiwan
A huge congratulations to my favorite company in Northern Europe. Apparently the Taiwanese love your stuff, buying 600,000 units in June versus 580,000 in May. That boosted market share from 30% to 31.8%. Who is number 2 and 3? Motorola and Sony Ericsson with 17.3% and 17.2% of the market. [Via: Digitimes]
Video (French): Unboxing of the Nokia E90
Absolutely beautiful language. You can view the specifications over at Forum Nokia. The video was made by the fine folks over at Symbian France: