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For all the flack we give Nokia about being noncompetitive in the smartphone space, mainly for being late to the touch screen game and because they alienated so many people with the Nokia N97 back in 2009, the Finnish handset maker is surprisingly ahead of everyone else when it comes to near field communications (NFC)…
Finland is a small country of just 5.3 million people, for the sake of reference: there are more folks living in the state of Wisconsin, but one of the many things that makes it special is that it’s home to the world’s largest mobile phone vendor by volume: Nokia. It’s something that many Finnish people…
Dual SIM devices don’t get a lot of love in North America, but they’re huge in many Asian countries and in several parts of Europe. Why should people limit themselves to just having one number? Better yet, if some operators offer better deals on texting and calling to subscribers who are on the same network,…
While we’re anxiously awaiting to see what Nokia can do with Windows Phone given enough time, the Lumia 800 is a rushed out product when you really think about it, there’s one area of the mobile industry where the Finnish handset maker remains untouchable. Feature phones. It may seem difficult for most of readers to…
Android developer Trevor Eckhart uncovered software that may be secretly installed on some Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones. The software, Carrier IQ, tracks almost everything the user does on his or her handset and sends it back to Carrier IQ servers. Eckhart exposed this software earlier this month and called it a rootkit for your phone. Carrier…
While we got a tantalizing glimpse at the Nokia Kinetic Device at Nokia World, we didn’t really get to dive into it because of all the hustle and bustle going on. Well, at the Nokia Research Center in Sunnyvale, Calif., we were able to handle this prototype and it looks very interesting. It’s definitely a…
It’s clear that accurate mapping on the go is one of the best things about this smartphone revolution, as I would literally be lost without services like Google Maps on my phone. Still, the one big hole is when you get in doors and while Google and others are trying to tackle this issue, Nokia…
Most people who either already picked up the N9 or are seriously considering buying it this holiday shopping season know full well that it’s the first, last, and only device that the Finnish handset maker will release running MeeGo/Maemo/Harmattan. That means developers don’t really want to support it since there’s no future in the ecosystem,…
Two months ago Nokia announced that they’d be cutting 3,500 jobs and closing their factory in Romania. They said the factory would be shut down “by the end of the year”, so folks thought that meant the last day of 2011. That doesn’t seem to be the case as Nokia laid off 500 people last…
It was a little over a year ago that Microsoft introduced Windows Phone and WP7 handsets hit retail shelves. The platform has been slow to gain ground against Android and iOS, but the latest stats from Facebook suggest things may be turning around. Wmpoweruser closely watched the number of Windows Phone users on Facebook and noticed…