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Over 2 years we covered a Samsung feature phone called the E1107 Guru. It was an incredibly low end device that didn’t even connect to the internet, but what made is special was that it had a solar panel on the back of the unit. Supposedly you got 5 minutes of talk time for every…
Last week, Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite published a rumor that suggested Nokia will release an LTE handset for AT&T called the Ace. Additional information from PocketNow claims the Nokia Ace is the rumored Lumia 900 and will launch as a flagship handset for the Finnish manufacturer. The Ace is expected to debut sometime in the…
Nokia announced a new Symbian Anna smartphone in China that’s ready for NFC-based contactless payments. In addition, the device marked as 801T rocks a 4-inch ClearBlack LCD touchscreen, China Mobile-friendly TD-SCDMA connectivity, 8-megapixel “full-focus” camera with 720p video recording support on the back, VGA front-facing camera, 8GB of built-in storage, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 256MB of…
The folks over at Nanapho.jp, a foreign Windows Phone news publication, did some digging on a Nokia Lumia device to find Nokia’s diagnostics app, which is accessible via the terminal. There, they found different tests for “LTE TX” and “LTE Band Lock.” The latter is for choosing which LTE band the hardware should use and the…
Thanks to the huge the success of the iPhone, nearly every smartphone on the market looks the same. Hell, just look at Samsung. They’ve been so “inspired” by Apple’s designs that they’re in multiple court battles with the makers of the Jesus Phone. Nokia is different though. They wear their “We’re from Finland!” badge proudly,…
Take the following rumors with a huge mountain of salt. Someone in Finland who claims to be a Nokia employee tipped off DGui with some key information about Nokia’s product lineup at CES next month and the future of Windows Phone. Said anonymous source believes that Nokia will show off two devices at CES. One…
Nokia’s official corporate blog has just announced that they’re no longer calling the latest version of the Symbian operating system “Symbian Belle”. It’s now been changed to “Nokia Belle”. If that isn’t a sign that Symbian is about to get thrown under the bus, then we don’t know what is. Also in Nokia’s announcement of…
One would think that before Nokia started shipping their first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, that a team of engineers would have been tasked with testing every little feature of the device to make sure that it was absolutely bullet proof. Turns out that such a scenario is nothing more than a fantasy. In late…
Next month thousands of people will convene in Las Vegas, Nevada to attend the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. If you’ve never been to CES, it’s worth checking out. If you’re a member of the press however, CES is about as terrifying as being diagnosed with testicular cancer. It’s three days of pushing, shoving, running to…
Say what you will about how Nokia’s handled their smartphone strategy over the past few years, there’s one thing that the Finnish handset vendor almost never gets wrong, and that’s building devices that can take a beating. Case in point, Singaporean operator Singtel, who has 416 million customers if you count all the other countries…