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Nokia has just announced the dual SIM capable X1-01, pictured above. It’s a feature phone that runs Series 30, meaning you’re not going to get even basic internet access on this thing, but for the audience it’s targeted for, mainly markets such as India, China, and Africa, the ability to not only have a device…
Nokia is getting set to build Windows Phone devices after its partnership with Microsoft was announced some time ago, and it looks like Qualcomm will be powering the devices. Of course, options do seem limited when Qualcomm has been working closely with Microsoft for processors in WP7 devices. However, Nokia did state that it was…
If you’re a handset maker and want to build a device running Windows Phone A) you’re insane and B) you need to follow a strict set of guidelines that Microsoft enforces. It isn’t a coincidence that every Windows Phone device on the market is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, that’s how the the platform was meant…
Gartner has posted their report for the first quarter of 2011, which shows predictably solid growth in smartphones, and re-establishes many trends we’ve been seeing all along. Nokia’s hardware market share has dipped to 25%, Samsung is down to 16%, and LG to 5.6%. That leaves Apple with 3.9% market share (up from 2.3% last…
Nokia has one more MeeGo, formerly known as Maemo, device in the pipeline before they thrown the operating system under the bus. Depending on who you ask, it’s either going to be called the N9 or N950, implying it’s a successor to either the N8, the best cameraphone on the market that sadly failed to…
Two Nokia Symbian Anna smartphones, E6 and X7, have started appearing for pre-order across Europe. After Three UK, which at the moment has only the X7 on its “Coming Soon” page, Finnish retailer Markantilo started taking pre-orders for the two devices. From their website we learn that the E6 will ship on June 10 and…
Eldar Murtazin, Editor of Mobile Review and a man who is widely regarded within tech circles as someone with an extraordinary amount of inside information, dropped a bomb on his personal blog today. He claims to have knowledge that Microsoft is in talks to purchase Nokia’s handset unit and that the deal may close by…
Back in the summer of 2007, when the first generation iPhone was barely two months old, Nokia gave birth to the Ovi brand. Finnish for “door”, Ovi was supposed to be the the umbrella brand that brought together N-Gage (discontinued), Nokia Music (discontinued), Nokia Maps, and the various other online services that would launch between…
Nokia X7, which is the Finnish company’s gaming and multimedia-focused Symbian smartphone announced alongside the E6, is heading to Three UK. Not that we didn’t know that before — after all it was the carrier’s marketing team that leaked the device prior to the official announcement — it’s just that this time we have a…
When Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop announced that the Finnish handset maker would dump Symbian and MeeGo and make Windows Phone their primary smartphone operating system he broke a lot of hearts. Symbian, as complicated as it may seem to new users, has many fans around the world. MeeGo on the other hand has a…