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Nokia’s ex-Microsoft CEO, Stephen Elop, recently spoke at the Open Mobile Summit in London, and spoke fairly bluntly about the nature of Android and iPhone’s openness. For one, he claimed that “Apple created Android, or at least it created the conditions necessary to create Android. People decided they could not play in the Apple way,…
Back in October 2008 Nokia acquired a Canadian company called OZ Communications with the goal of putting their instant messaging client on all future Nokia handsets. Roughly 2.5 years later you can see bits and pieces of OZ’s software on Nokia’s low end feature phones, but devices running Symbian^3, the latest version of Symbian, only…
Richard Green, Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer since May 2010, has announced that he’s going to take a leave of absence for an unspecified amount of time due to “personal reasons”. After just 1 year on the job, he’s out, and Reuters say his departure is due to disagreements with what Stephen Elop, Nokia’s new CEO,…
SPB Software and Nokia have teamed-up to launch a Symbian application for the most popular social network in Russia and CIS countries – Vkontakte. The free to download app will allow 100 million Vkontakte users to easily keep up with their buddies while on the go. In addition, there are some unique features included such…
Nokia’s Research Center, filled with some of the best minds in the mobile industry working on things like materials science, battery research, and radio technology, have released a video demoing what they’re calling “Explore and Share”. Sadly, they don’t provide any background information whatsoever about the tech that powers their demo, but we think we…
Forget anonymous tipsters and WikiLeaks like scandals, these days it’s often companies themselves that blow the lid off their own announcements. From Microsoft announcing Mango in Romania before their official press conference in New York to Motorola accidentally showing off their product portfolio for the second half of 2011, we’re overjoyed that there are webmasters…
One has to wonder about Nokia’s future these days as rumors are beginning to crop up that it is going to be purchased. If not Microsoft, then maybe Samsung. The Wall Street Journal has received word that Samsung, maker of the Galaxy series of smartphones and tablets, is preparing to purchase the Finnish company. In…
Canada’s Videotron is spicing-up its portfolio with two Symbian smartphones – Nokia C7 and E73. The first of the two is a Symbian^3-powered device with a 3.5-inch nHD capacitive touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera with HD video recording, HSPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, 8GB of built-in storage that is further expandable with microSD cards. All this could…
Back in February when Nokia announced that they were going to dump Symbian, kill off MeeGo, and switch to Windows Phone, their stock price dropped like a rock. Betting your future on an unproven platform, and worst of all telling customers, operators, and partners, that the ecosystem they’re currently invested in will cease to exist,…
Nokia has just announced a new app in their Beta Labs called Play To, which brings video, music, and photo sharing to home electronics over the local Wi-Fi network. Nokia Play To is based on the DLNA standard, so your TV and/or stereo system will need to be compatible to work. Phones like the N8,…