Talk about biting off more than you can chew. Stephen Elop Nokia’s CEO is on record to promising the first Nokia Windows Phone to hit the market in Q4. In this interview in China (below), Stephen Elop talks about the roll-out of Windows Phone 7 handsets, saying “it will start in Q4 and progress from country…
Nokia N9 available for pre-ordering in Australia for AU$829
Yep we knew the Nokia N9 is heading to Australia where all major carriers and phone retailers should get it. It’s almost there, with one of the companies already accepting pre-orders. Don’t get too excited though, cause you’ll have to pay a small fortune to grab the first MeeGo-powered device. Retailer Harvey Norman asks a…
Nokia N9 coming to Mexico, drug mules no longer necessary to smuggle one into the USA
One day in the not too distant future we’ll look back at 2011 and the Nokia N9 and wonder what would have happened if the world’s largest mobile phone maker decided to bet their future on MeeGo and not Windows Phone. The N9 is a smartphone that many technology journalists have had a chance to…
Nokia wants to give you $10,000 to make the next version of their infamous ringtone
In what’s probably going to be deemed the ultimate use of crowdsourcing, Nokia is asking the internets to create the next version of their infamous ringtone. Said ringtone will be used in several models due to come out in 2012, and Nokia claims it will be preinstalled on over 100 million devices. If Nokia selects…
Video: Nokia accidentally leaks upcoming Symbian device at IFA 2011?
At IFA 2011 in Berlin, Nokia’s booth featured all the company’s latest handsets, specifically the recently announced 701, 700, and 600. On one of the 700 models at the show, a video was being looped that showed a Nokia handset we’ve never seen before. It looks like it runs Belle, the latest upgrade to Symbian,…
Tero Ojanperä leaves Nokia to start Windows Phone investment fund, this will not end well
Tero Ojanperä, who has been with Nokia for more than 20 years, is finally leaving the company. We say finally because frankly, we have no idea what he’s been doing for the past few years. In September 2009 he was profiled by Fast Company and he described his job as doing nothing more than partying…
Nokia N9 hitting all Australian operators and major retailers in October
MeeGo fans in Australia will be able to try out the Nokia N9 at some point in October. The Finnish giant has struck a deal with all big operators in the country — including Optus, Telstra and Vodafone — as well as major retailers. The unlocked device will come in black, blue and pink with…
Leak: Nokia 703 is the Sea Ray we saw earlier this year, launches at the end of November
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop made a now infamous presentation at Nokia Headquarters in Espoo, Finland earlier this year (watch below) where he showed off the company’s first Windows Phone, a device he called “Sea Ray”. It looks exactly like the Nokia N9, except for an added button on the side of the device. Since his…
Nokia launches the 100 and 101, the cheapest phones they’ve ever made
Yesterday Nokia announced Belle, their forthcoming update to Symbian, along with the first three devices that will (hopefully) be shipping by the end of this quarter with Belle onboard. The cheapest of those three devices, the Nokia 600, comes in at around $260 before taxes and subsidies. Today Nokia announced two new devices, the 100…
Nokia announces Symbian Belle and the first three devices to run it [Nokia 701, 700, 600]
Update: Plenty of videos added to the bottom of this article! As we expected, Nokia just announced Symbian Belle, the successor to Symbian Anna, which as of right now is a whopping 5 days old and is still in the process of being rolled out to various territories. Back to Belle, the user interface gets…









