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Nokia was founded in 1865 by a guy named Fredrik Idestam. Back then the company worked on making paper, but as well know they switched to rubber, then cables, then computers, and now they’re in the mobile phone space. That poses a very important question: What market will the company try to enter if and…
Seton Hall University, which is about 15 miles away from New York City, it announcing that the entire class of 2016 will get a Nokia Lumia 900 for “free”. I say “free” because according to Seton’s website, they charge $16,350 per semester to educate full-time undergraduate students. That’s $32,700 per year. Considering AT&T will sell…
What do Linus Torvalds and Nokia have in common? They’re both Finnish. And if you haven’t heard of Mr. Torvalds, that’s OK, but chances are you’re familiar with his work. He’s the guy who wrote Linux back in the early 1990s. Linus moved to America shortly after releasing the Linux kernel, and he’s been there…
Psh. Google and Apple — these two mere mapping mortals; don’t they know they face much bigger competition than each other? “The next dimension of Google Maps” — give me a break. In the midst of all the I-can-jump-rope-longer-than-you-can type warfare between these two amateurs, Nokia wants to give us a friendly reminder of who…
Are you sitting down? Because what we’re about to tell you something doesn’t make any sense to us whatsoever. Nokia’s stock price is up over 7.5% 11% on the Helsinki Stock Exchange because there’s a rumor going around that Samsung is interested in buying the company. Think about that second. If you were to combine…
Anton Nagy from Pocketnow has produced an incredibly informative 18 minute video where he pits Nokia’s new Lumia 610 against the year and a half old LG Optimus 7. The Lumia 610 is the first device on the market to run Windows Phone Tango, which is a version of Windows Phone that supports devices with…
Nokia has announced an update that they’ve made available for AT&T Lumia 900 devices. The update contains a host of bugfixes that Nokia has identified by way of user feedback from the popular Windows Phone device, and the update should squash most, if not all, of those pesky bugs on the device. The update is…
Nokia has announced three new phones today, all of them running their proprietary Series 40 featurephone operating system. Starting with the Asha 305 and 306, they’re both the same device, except that the latter has only one SIM card slot while the former has two. And as for the Asha 311 (pictured above), it’s the…
The Dark Knight Rises app is now available for those of you owning a Nokia-branded Windows Phone device. Available as a free download, it also comes pre-loaded with the new Nokia Lumia 900 Batman-themed phone, offering cool content for the fans of the Caped Crusader. Aside from the movie’s official trailer, wallpapers and some other…
Last month Microsoft announced that they were going to hold an event dubbed the “Windows Phone Developer Summit” on June 20th. We weren’t given any information as to what was going to be discussed at the event, but now some new details have recently surfaced. According to The Verge, Microsoft plans on giving developers a…