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We’re less than a month away from CES, one of the biggest and busiest consumer electronics events on the face of the planet. It goes without saying that there’s going to be a few new phones announced. One of the handsets we’re most looking forward to is a Nokia Windows Phone. Whether it ends up…
Nokia unveiled the Ovi brand to the world a little over 4 years ago at event in London that I was lucky enough to attend. Everyone sitting in the auditorium, listening to the presentation that was being given about how the future of mobile was going to be all about devices that connect to the…
Analysts at Exane BNP Paribas surveyed 1,300 Europeans in 5 different countries last week about what kind of smartphone they’re looking to purchase and when they were going to actually cough up the money to buy it. Of the 456 people who said they were going to purchase a new handset during the next month…
Well, it looks like our speculation was right on as T-Mobile will be bringing the first Nokia Windows Phone to the United States when the Lumia 710 lands Jan. 11 for a cool $50. Nokia and T-Mobile are squarely aiming for the first-time smartphone buyer with this move, as the $49.99 price point (after a…
Social media is a double edged sword. On one hand companies can now tell their story directly to their customers, rendering institutions such as IntoMobile effectively useless for those who want marketing fluff and could care less about objectivity. On the other hand social media also enables low level employees to say something that wasn’t…
The next movie in the Batman series, The Dark Knight Rises, is set to be 2012’s ultimate summer blockbuster. When a movie of that caliber comes out, you know brands will do anything to associate themselves with something bound to receive such an ungodly amount of attention. One such brand is Nokia, who will take…
Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest bank, has issued a report saying that Nokia will sell their smartphone unit to Microsoft during the first half of 2012. Aleksi Moisio, who reported this story in the Finnish news publication Taloussanomat, reminded me that “this rumor has been out there around for quite some time,” which leads me to…
The Nokia N8, released back in October 2010, hasn’t had much competition in the imagining department during the past 14 months. Not even from the wildly popular iPhone 4S. It’s a testament to Nokia’s serious commitment to producing some of the best camera phones to ever hit the market. Now several weeks ago we reported…
Back in October we reported that Nokia was going to focus a large chunk of their marketing efforts on young people. At the time we laid the snark down pretty thick and said that of course they’re going to try and seduce young people, it’s because everyone in their late 20s to early 30s has…
It’s all well and good that Nokia is trying to resurrect their glory days by partnering with Microsoft and releasing Windows Phones, but until they step foot in America then nothing they do matters. That’s the sad truth of the situation. We already know that T-Mobile is going to make an announcement tomorrow saying that…