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Three months ago I took a shot at guessing how many Windows Phones Nokia sold during the first quarter of 2012. Using some simple multiplication, a few statistics published by a couple of analyst firms, and after making some assumptions, I cranked out the number 2.2 million. The actual result? 2 million. Nokia is going…
Nokia’s Lumia 800 launched in the UK in mid-November 2011. Prospective buyers had three colors to pick from: black, blue, and “magenta”. Eight months later and American shoppers will now be given the option of owning a pink Lumia, but not the cute and tiny Lumia 800. Instead it’s the 4G LTE packing Lumia 900.…
Nokia has this really cool service for developers called “Remote Device Access”, RDA for short. Instead of making developers pay top dollar for smartphones to test their apps on, they can instead secure some time to remotely play with a handful of devices that sit in one of Nokia’s offices. According to GSM Arena and…
Richard Kerris, Nokia’s Global Head of Developer Relations, recently sat down with Neowin and told them a few things that are worth repeating here. First, he confirms what many of us already know, that Verizon Wireless will be carrying Nokia’s Windows Phones. When? “It wont be long,” which is about as vague of an answer…
February 11, 2011, was a brutal day for Nokia fans. That was the day the company’s CEO, Stephen Elop, got up on stage and announced that Symbian was going to be thrown under the bus, that MeeGo was going to get shelved after the N9 shipped, and that the future of Nokia will be put…
Nokia has teamed-up with NAMCO BANDAI to bring the publisher’s 22 classic games to the Asha Touch devices. In total, 22 games will be released to Nokia Store including PAC-MAN RIDGE RACER Drift, Flight Control, SOULCALIBUR, ACE COMBAT NORTHERN WINGS, Final Fantasy, RIDGE RACER Drift, BRAIN EXERCISE with Dr. Kawashima and GALAGA Special Edition. As…
Sotiris Makrygiannis, who according to his LinkedIn profile is “Director of Applications, MeeGo” at Nokia, has just tweeted that after 12 years with the company it’s time to call it quits. He sent several additional tweets saying how he remembers the hard work his team put into the N9, that February 11th, 2011, was a…
Last year was a bumpy ride for Nokia fans. In February the company’s CEO, Stephen Elop, told the world that Symbian was going to be taken behind the barn and shot in the back of the head. The future, according to him, was going to be Windows Phone. Nine months later, in November, the Lumia…
Canada’s Koodo Mobile is about to get its first Windows Phone device – Nokia Lumia 610. The carrier turned to Facebook to spread the good news saying: FACEBOOK EXCLUSIVE: We’re launching the Nokia Lumia 610 this Friday! It’s sleek, it’s fast and it offers one touch access to all of your social networks. We do…
Let the Nexus 7 hate begin. Almost one week after Google announced its introduction into the tablet market, the search giant finds its Nexus 7 tablet under some heat from the waterloo company known as Nokia. The Finnish based manufacturer is accusing Google and Asus of infringing on its patents. Yes, you heard correct. According…