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The Nokia N9 is a divisive handset because many love the design and specs but may be turned off that it runs MeeGo, which won’t be supported by Nokia. Well, judging from the photo samples that have just been released, I think it’s easy to say that the Nokia N9 will have a great camera.…
Most Nokia news these days surrounds its Windows Phone 7 efforts, but the Nokia 700 “Zeta” reminds us that Symbian handsets are still floating in the pipeline. It looks like a nice phone for those who are looking for a simple smartphone without all the bells and whistles of the higher-end Android or Windows Phone…
If there’s one thing consumers hate more than overpaying for goods and services, it’s buying something that quickly becomes obsolete. These days you need to do a lot of research before signing a 2 year contract and taking home a new smartphone. Is it running the latest version of Android/Symbian, will it get updates, how…
Although it’s far from commanding a dominant market share in the U.S., Nokia’s Ovi Store keeps growing like crazy. According to this post on Nokia Developer’s portal, more than 300,000 new Nokia accounts are created daily, and consumers are downloading 6 million mobile apps and content every day! In total, there are about 48,000 apps…
Does anyone remember their first Nokia and how it used to have a model number that seemed like a random string of 4 digits? That changed back in 2005 with the introduction of the Nseries, then several years later with the Eseries, and more recently there’s been the Cseries and Xseries. Just as we’ve started…
Nokia announced “Nokia Money” back in late August 2009 and with it the promise to deliver a service that would let anyone with a mobile phone send and receive money using nothing more than a text message or phone call. Here we are, several days before the start of July 2011, and the Finnish handset…
Nokia’s new phone, the N9, has been taking up most of our attention the last few weeks but the N5 is trying to get some show time today. A batch of shots of the prototype Symbian device give us a good idea of what to expect. The phone is destined to be a low-end version…
Nokia released a new software update for the X6, its first Symbian S60 5th Edition smartphone with a capacitive touchscreen. Firmware version 32 (or 3.2) brings several performance enhancements while at the same time making the device more stable than ever. In other words, many (if not all) of the known/reported bugs have been fixed…
In September 2010 Nokia got a new CEO, Canadian born and bred Stephen Elop. His appointment was controversial because of his former role as the Head of Microsoft’s Office Division. Questions began to arise as to whether or not Nokia would switch to Windows Phone and if Elop was nothing but a mere Trojan horse.…
One of the main reasons people still prefer to buy a Nokia rather than something from a competitor is their consistently amazing build quality. For all the potshots we like to take at Symbian, the death of MeeGo, and the decision to bet the farm on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, there’s something to be…