When you look either at Nokia 6300 or LG Shine folder, you realize that both of them are uber-stylish devices and are competing to reach the same audience. And by audience I mean people who are not that much into features, but are looking for a decent, reliable yet good-lookin’ device. As always, at the…
Nokia and Tsinghua University working together in new Research Center
The world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, has joined forces with China’s Beijing-based Tsinghua University for a new research center. This partnership is the first Nokia Research Center venture for Nokia in the Asian continent – Nokia has already setup research facilities in the US, Finland and UK. Students at the Tsinghua University will be…
Nokia launches WidSets, Mobiledu in China
Nokia introduced two mobile Internet services serving Chinese consumers: WidSets – mobile widgets service that recently got its millionth user registered, and Mobiledu – China’s first interactive mobile learning service. While we’ve already wrote about WidSets, we’ll focus our attention on Mobiledu. Nokia’s new mobile learning service integrates teaching material from a variety of educational…
Pre-Order your Nokia 8600 Today!
Nokia’s beautiful, sliding Nokia 8600 (Luna) has not-so-officially been bumped up to pre-order status. But, it seems that a third-party retailer has jumped the gun on Nokia and taken it upon themselves to offer the 8600 for pre-order. Carphone Warehouse‘s website shows that the high-end Nokia 8600 Luna will be rocking a 2 megapixel camera,…
Survey: Brand’s Country of Origin Not Important
A new study by marketing-research firm, Anderson Analytics, shows that a mobile phone manufacturer’s country of origin has little affect on college students’ perception of the brands’ phones. Among polled college students, 47% thought Motorola was a Japanese brand (come on people, doesn’t anyone remember the US Army radios made by Motorola?), but ranked Motorola…
Nokia fires back at Qualcomm; Files Counter-suit
Nokia and Qualcomm’s ongoing licensing battle does little more than bore us, at this point. We’re pretty confident that neither company will take any drastic, industry-upheaving action against the other – they both have a lot invested in this whole shebang, and rely on each other quite heavily. Both companies are still going at it…
Is this the sketch of the next Nokia communicator?
Nokia’s latest patent describes a device sporting two touchscreens and a removable keyboard. Is this the way of the next Communicator? Or next Internet tablet? It’s still only a patent filling, and I guess it’s way to early to say when can we see such device being released by the Finish giant. On the second…
WidSets reaches 1 million users
If you’re have widgets running on your mobile phone, you’re likely using WidSets – Nokia’s Java-based widget service. Today they’ve announced that WidSets has reached 1 million registered users worldwide, making it the single most used mobile widget platform on the market. Commenting on the announcement, Ulla Särkikangas, Director of Consumer Internet Services at Nokia…
Nokia Handsets to Become Lightning Detectors
What else are they going to come up with? Nokia must really be running out of ideas for features to pack into mobile phones. In what must be more marketing than practicality, the n handset manufacturer has started development on software that will allow their handsets to warn the user of incoming lightning. We can’t…
Nokia E90 may be bulky, but it can dance!
Over at S60 Blogs, MRKTNGman posted a funny video of Nokia E90 dancing. Yes it is a bulky device, and has everything a smartphone can have, including GPS, HSDPA, WLAN, camera, full QWERTY keyboard and much more. But from now on, the E90 is not just a smartphone queen — it’s also a dancing queen!…