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The mobile phone world seems to revolve around the North America, Korean, and UK mobile phone market, but there’s more to the mobile scene than what we usually talk about. Quirksmode.org put together a chart of how other countries are using their phones to browse the web. The countries covered include Brazil, China, Egypt, India,…
When Stephen Elop, Nokia’s new CEO as of September 2010, announced back in February of this year that the Finnish handset maker would transition away from Symbian, throw away MeeGo, and bet the farm on Windows Phone, he sent the company’s stock into a death spiral. Pressure has mounted for Nokia to release Windows Phones…
Millennial Media, a market research company, just released its Mobile Mix report for the month of May to give us an idea of how the market is being split between all the major platforms. Wednesday, they released this chart showing us how Android and iOS are currently doing against Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS and…
If you own some of the older Symbian S60 touchscreen smartphones such as the Nokia N97, N97 mini or C6-00 – you may’ve noticed that adding an RSS feed on the homescreen isn’t as straightforward as it should be (or at least me thinks so). On the other hand, it’s not an impossible task and…
For some reason Nokia is shipping select Symbian^3 smartphones with text auto-correction turned off. Nokia C7 comes with the feature enabled by default and the E7 has a full QWERTY keyboard so it doesn’t need it. The two “problematic” devices are the N8 and C6-01, making typing on the virtual keyboard a pain. Luckily there’s…
When Stephen Elop, Nokia’s new CEO, got on stage in February at Nokia’s annual Capital Markets Day event and announced to the world that the handset giant would dump Symbian, throw MeeGo under the bus, and switch exclusively to Windows Phone, he upset many loyal fans, not to mention sent the stock into a death…
The epic patent battle between Apple and Nokia has finally come to a close. Nokia this morning announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Apple and that all the trials currently taking place in various countries are to be terminated immediately, along with both parties retracting their complaints filed with the U.S.…
The Nokia Widnows Phone 7 deal made headlines on all major blogs when it was announced. It’s been a few months, and CNBC interviewed CEO Stephen Elop on TV late last week for an update. The interview talked about everything from how long until we see a Windows Phone from them, in what numbers will…
Nokia has dominated the smartphone market in terms of sheer production and units shipped since 1996, but Samsung and Apple are set to overtake the Finnish manufacturer soon. Investment banking firm Nomura has said that Samsung is poised to overtake Nokia this quarter, and that Apple may rise to second place which will set Nokia…
When people think of Nokia they think of a company that makes mobile phones, but they forget about Nokia Siemens Networks, the division of Nokia that is responsible for building the equipment that powers the wireless networks that mobile phones need to connect to so they can actually be useful. Nokia Siemens Networks has some…