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Qualcomm has just announced that Peter Chou, CEO of HTC , Jon Rubinstein, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Palm at HP, and Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia, will be giving keynotes during the two day Uplinq event scheduled to take place next month in California. What’s going to be talked…
One of Canada’s young up-and-coming wireless service providers, Mobilicity, has recently expanded their network to include Calgary, Alberta. To kick things off, Mobilicity is offering the Nokia E73 and a the Samsung G-Touch (a TouchWiz messenger phone) for $149.99 and $139.99 off-contract. The Nokia E73 is a respectable handset for business types, especially for those…
In October of 2007 Nokia announced that they were going to purchase Navteq for a cool $8.1 billion. Many analysts were dumbfounded by the move, but in the end it could be explained by simple economics. Rather than having to fork over hundreds of millions of Euros a year to put mapping data on the…
Nokia has just issued a press release announcing what many have been anticipating since Stephen Elop got on stage and said Windows Phone would become the primary smartphone operating system for the Finnish handset maker going forward. About 7,000 people are going to be leaving Nokia’s payroll in an effort to save 1 billion Euros…
A week ago we talked about Nokia’s new version of Ovi Maps which comes with photorealistic 3D cities. The Finnish company joined forces with C3, the leading provider of 3D mapping solutions, to make this happen and needless to say – we were *very* impressed with the end result. Soon after the announcement they shot…
Although Nokia said it would be hooking up with Microsoft in February to produce smartphones with the Windows Phone platform but the companies finally signed an official agreement today. The Nokia, Microsoft deal revolves around four major points. The first is that there will be a combination of complementary assets, as it won’t just be…
Nokia has just posted their Q1 2011 financial results [PDF document] and there’s a lot of numbers to go through, so let’s just dive right in. The Finnish handset maker has reported net sales totaling 10.4 billion Euros, which is up 9% year on year, but down 18% compared to Q4 2010. Profits came in…
Nokia has just enhanced its Ovi Maps service with photorealistic 3D images of major metropolitan areas. It’s one thing to look at a colored rendering, perhaps even some distant satellite views, but something that might help the directionally challenged would be 3D modeling to give an even better sense of a location’s area and surroundings.…
A little over a month ago we brought you images of Nokia’s yet to be announced Touch and Type Slider. The “Touch and Type” brand name is what Nokia calls their feature phones that run the S40 operating system and also pack a resistive touch screen. You don’t get things like pinch to zoom, and…
BlackBerry smartphones aren’t the only ones that have to worry about getting keeping access in India. In a communication between home and telecom ministries, it was asked that a hold was placed on the sale of Nokia devices with push e-mail until monitoring systems were in place. This is part of a new standards compliance…