Nokia has recently released Qt SDK 1.1, offering integrated development environment (IDE) for the creation of Symbian and MeeGo applications, as well as desktop apps for Windows 7, Mac OS X and Linux. According to the Finnish company, with this latest version of the SDK, developers get a “complete, easy-to-use tool” that cuts app creation…
Nokia plans an event in Athens, Greece next week – Windows Phone 7 devices on the way?
Next week, Nokia plans on holding some kind of event or meeting in Athens, Greece, but there aren’t too many more details on what might be going on out there. The last time we saw one of these save-the-date invites, we didn’t really hear any big news from the Finnish manufacturer. So we’re going to…
Apple tops Nokia for smartphone market share in Western Europe
Apple is slowly-but-surely rising to greater heights worldwide as it just took Nokia for its top spot in smartphone market share in western Europe. The shift is significant because that is Nokia’s stomping grounds. If there is any name in mobile technology trusted and respected in that part of the world, it’s Nokia. However, without…
Nokia offers free Symbian^3 games in select markets
Nokia is currently running a promotion in the Ovi Store, offering a number of high quality Symbian^3 games for free in select markets, including France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. We don’t have the complete list of countries where users can download free games, so if you spot something “interesting”…
Nokia chairman will step down next year
Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila said he will be leaving the company next year and this marks the end of an era for the world’s largest handset maker. Ollila has been an instrumental figure for Nokia for the last twenty years and he saw the company transform into the world’s largest handset maker. He has also…
Nokia C7 ORO Gold edition coming soon
Nokia C7 will soon be available in a special, so called “ORO” edition. The name “ORO” comes from Italian for Gold, hinting us what this baby is all about. As you can imagine, we’re not talking about Average Joe’s next phone — rather it will be a device for the select few willing to pay…
The Nokia C3 lands on American shores via Consumer Cellular, only $80 without contract
When a Nokia handset launches in America, somewhere in heaven an angel gets its wings. The Finnish handset maker has had such terrible luck with exporting their products to the United States that we wonder why they still even bother trying. In their Q1 2011 financial results Nokia said they shipped 1.2 million handsets in…
Nokia patents dual screen mobile device with both 3D and 2D displays
In a new Nokia patent discovered by Unwired View, it appears that the Finnish handset maker is planning to release not only a dual screen mobile phone at some point in the future, but that one of those two screens will be 3D enabled. The question you may be thinking to yourself is why? The…
Nokia to launch a pink N8, bundles ELLE fashion app and “Little Pink Diva” theme
Nokia has just announced via their official Nokia Conversations blog that they’re going to release a pink variant of the N8. When exactly it’ll hit the market, and more importantly which version of Symbian will be onboard, was not mentioned, which is about as big of a PR blunder as you can make. The images…
IDC: Q1 2011 mobile phone sales hit 371.8 million, top 5 handset vendors lost share to smaller players
The bean counting analysts at IDC have just released their tally up of first quarter mobile phone sales, and they’re impressive, but not if you’re in the list of top 5 handset makers. Just how many phones were sold during the first 3 months of this year? About 371.8 million or roughly 2,870 phones per…