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Being green is all the rage these days. Buy organic food, recycle the beer cans left over from your house party last night, switch to LED lightbulbs, all in the name of showing your friends that you care about something other than your favorite reality television show. Nokia’s looking to ride the eco-friendly phenomenon by…
In November 2010 at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition, Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President of Smart Devices at Nokia, said that in early 2011 Symbian would be getting an improved user experience, new browser, and split screen text entry. We’d find out 5 months later that this update has a name, Anna. It’s the latest…
Late last month Nokia introduced their first and last device to run on MeeGo, the N9. Despite the wide praise it’s received from the industry, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said in an interview he has decided that the Finnish handset maker will not be releasing any additional MeeGo devices and then further reinforced the message…
Your company is only as good as the people you hire. Everyone knows this, especially Nokia, who according to a recent piece in the Finnish publication Helsingen Sanomat paid $200 million in 1997 to keep 44 engineers from leaving the company to join Nokia product developer Jyrki Hallikainen at a new company he was setting…
Rumor has it that Nokia will soon adopt a 3 digit naming scheme, replacing what the system they currently have in place of a letter followed by a number, and more confusingly a dash followed by said number with an added 2 digits if there are several variants of a product. One of the handsets…
If you’re taking a beating from the likes of the iPhone and Android, one of the ways you might be able to compete is to cut prices. That appears to be Nokia’s strategy right now, as it appears to be cutting prices by about 15 percent for many of its smartphones in Europe. “There are…
Nokia Ovi Suite 3.1.1 is no longer a beta product. The Finnish company’s “beta arm” announced the news on its blog, allowing everyone — not just the techies — to grab the latest version of Ovi Suite from the software’s official page. At the same time, existing Nokia Ovi Suite 3.1.1 Beta users will be…
Nokia’s mad scientists working at Beta Labs have released a new application called “Nokia 3D World Gaze”. Like many augmented reality applications that have come before it, most of which are absolutely pointless and serve no other function than being a technology demo to wow a crowd at a conference, you point your mobile phone…
Synchronica has (conditionally) agreed to acquire Nokia’s operator-branded messaging (OBM) business that covers tier one mobile operators in North America, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, Rogers and Telus. All those carriers get Synchronica additional 6+ million users, and combined with existing 80+ carrier contracts in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Russia, and Asia, Synchronica’s goal is…
Nokia’s C5-00 may not have a lot of fans here at IntoMobile since it has a diminutive 2.2 inch screen, but make no mistake about it, it’s a full blown smartphone running Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. Announced in March 2010, the C5-00 originally came with a 3.2 megapixel camera, but today Nokia…