I’ve been reading Matt Jones blog “Black Belt Jones” for around 7 months now. He has been working at Nokia since 2003 as a Concept Development Manager and Director of User Design. It is his last week and to commemorate that he has posted the manifesto that he received when starting over 3 years ago:…
Nokia files another counter-suit against Qualcomm
The battle between Nokia and Qualcomm is still going strong. The latest development is another counter-suit, filed by Nokia, that alleges Qualcomm of infringing on Nokia’s patents. This time, Nokia is claiming that Qualcomm’s Brew smartphones and MediaFLO chipsets are infringing on Nokia’s patents.
Prediction: Nokia is going to open a Flagship store in Shanghai
Surfing around Nokia’s Career Finder page I stumbled across the following positions, all in Shanghai: Product Specialist Sales Specialist I Sales Specialist II It isn’t a surprise to anyone that most of Nokia’s profits are being made in the Middle East and Asia. There is already a Flagship store in Hong Kong, looks like Shanghai…
Nokia Aeon: The ultimate USB key
Remember the concept phone known as the Nokia Aeon? Well the Chinese were smart enough to make a rip off. This one doesn’t make calls however, it just stores whatever it is you usually have on a usb stick:
Jaiku now works within Widsets
If you’re in America you probably have no clue what Jaiku or Widsets actually are. Jaiku is the Finnish version of Twitter. Main differences are the fact that it has some location based services embedded and it is an application that sits on your phone as opposed to SMS powered. Widsets is what happens when…
What does Nokia mean by “entirely new type” of mobile phone?
The Nokia E90 just launched in Finland, limited quantities of course, and during a press interview Antti Vasara, General Manager of the Mobile Devices Business Unit said a few interesting things: Nokia is not too enthusiastic about touchscreens, since all their tests had shown that users prefer keyboard and joystick for an input device. But…
Review: Nokia Media Transfer (Verdict: Beta, but a nice start)
According to the latest numbers from Steve Jobs there are 22 million active OS X users. These poor souls have been ignored by Nokia for the longest time, until now. Alex Wrege takes an in-depth look at what exactly the “Nokia Media Transfer†application does and initial reactions so far indicates that this program gladly…
Nokia BH-801 Bluetooth Headset viral marketing: Win N95, N800 and more!
In order to promote its latest Bluetooth headset – BH-801, Nokia is running a viral marketing campaign under the codename “The Connected”. Finish company prepared a special mini site where users can play the easy game, and retrieve the previously stolen headset. You can play with either man or women agent and rely on the…
Nokia adds Mac support
In order to grab the Mac users’ hearts and minds, Nokia recently launched the dedicated part of the site for Mac fans, as well as the set of software tools that will make pairing a Mac and a Nokia handset a more convenient experience. First of all Nokia has added appropriate iSync plugins, which will…
Nokia S60 team wants your feedback; S60 Agents pilot program launched in New York
Nokia’s S60 division launched S60 Agents pilot program in New York. The idea behind this is to gather as much as possible feedback from the people living in Big Apple, and to increase the awareness about S60 ecosystem.