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Who would have thought that the iPhone would ever surpass Windows 7 machines in terms of Wi-Fi usage? As we become more mobile and increasingly reliant on data, it becomes easier to see why iPhone users would be gobbling up data via Wi-Fi over laptops – we tend to have our phones with us more…
The Nokia N9 was announced a few days ago and it came with NFC support. NFC is a technology that’s capabilities are still very mysterious to a lot of us but one of the features was recently demoed in the video below. Wireless file sharing was one feature Bluetooth had in the bag for years…
Images of an upcoming Nokia Windows Phone device surfaced online, and while the images themselves seem a little dubious, the presentation from which they came does not. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop held a little presentation and demo to employees asking for their confidence, and to put away cameras. Elop is a smart enough man to…
Earlier this week Nokia unveiled the N9, both their first and last device to be built using the MeeGo operating system. To say the internet went wild over this thing would be an understatement. Vlad Savov from Engadget penned an editorial about 15 hours ago wondering why Nokia is giving up this fine platform; his…
Several hours before Nokia Connection 2011 kicked off in Singpore, leaked press images of what we now know to be the Nokia N9 hit the internet. One thing we immediately noticed was that it looked nothing like the device we’ve been calling the Nokia N9 since August 2010. Said 10 month old images showed a…
Felipe Contreras, a Senior Software Engineer at Nokia who lives in Finland and works on hardware adaptation for MeeGo, meaning he’s part of the team who makes sure MeeGo will properly run on shipping silicon, said in a blog post yesterday that he received an email from Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, that one of MeeGo’s…
Inside Nokia’s newly announced N9 is a 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP3630 with a PowerVR SGX530 GPU and an 8 megapixel camera. Compared the dual core superphones that are already out on the market, it isn’t the fastest device on the planet, but Nokia thinks they’ve optimized the N9 so well that when it eventually…
Earlier this week Nokia held their annual Nokia Connection conference in Singapore where they unveiled the N9, which is both the first and last smartphone they’ll make running the MeeGo operating system. Back in February Nokia announced that they’re going to scrap their plans to use Symbian for low to mid range handsets and MeeGo…
We know there are “not that many” (to say the least) Symbian fans in the U.S. If you happen to be in this group, you’ll be glad to know that Amazon has started taking pre-orders for the Nokia E6, which as you probably know, is the Symbian Anna-runnin’, touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard equipped smartphone. The…
Several hours ago Nokia unveiled the N9 to the world. Forget the hardware specs and the fact that it runs an OS that the Finnish handset maker refuses to support for a minute and just look at how gorgeous the device is. Notice something that’s different about it compared to just about every other mobile…