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Nokia’s newest version of Symbian, dubbed Anna, has been many months in the making. At the 2010 Symbian Exchange & Exposition held in November 2010, Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President of Smart Devices at Nokia, said: “In early 2011, there will be things like split-screen text entry, portrait Qwerty and Swype integrated into the UI,…
According to Reuters, silicon chip giant Intel is set to open a research and development facility in an as yet to be named city in Finland. If we’d have to guess we’d say either Oulu or Tampere, where the bulk of Nokia’s R&D staff reside. It’s assumed that by the end of this month Nokia…
Nokia’s just announced two new devices and their latest version of Symbian. The first device, the E6, is one we’ve seen leaked countless times over the past few weeks so hardcore IntoMobile readers should be well familiar with the specs. Here’s a recap: 2.46 inch 640 x 480 pixel screen, yes, it’s touch, quadband GSM/EDGE,…
Nokia is scheduled to update the public on their latest developments in the Symbian space at 10:00 Finnish time tomorrow. That’s roughly 22 hours from now. In order to prepare for such an event most corporate communications departments upload all necessary press documentation to the internet, but they double, even triple check, that said media…
Symbian is no longer open source, according to Nokia, and the source code is only going to be available to a number of select collaborators. Apparently, Nokia has received more than a few inquiries as to what it means by “open” and “open source,” so it decided to clarify that today. Nokia says on it…
The Nokia N8 is already available in five colors – dark grey, silver white, green, blue and orange. Like that’s not enough, the Finnish company is seemingly preparing to launch another version of the device, most likely red. In a post over at the Nokia Conversation blog, users were asked to vote for the color…
In terms of market capitalization, which is defined the share price of your company multiplied by the number of issued shares, HTC has just overtaken Nokia. This is significant because it points to both Nokia’s failures at making the transition to a company known for attractive high end smartphones as well as…
Back in May of 2010 Nokia announced that it would team up with Yahoo! to provide email and chat services to current Ovi subscribers. It’s taken nearly a year for anything to come of that announcement, but it’s now official. Nokia has declared, via their official Ovi Blog, that the transition to Yahoo!’s platform for…
It’s happened to all of us. You’ll be reading an interesting article on your laptop or looking at an image that you want to send to your device, but instead of hooking up your smartphone to your computer or setting up a Bluetooth connection you either send yourself an email or in most cases just…
Take your mobile phone out of your pocket and put it on the desk you’re sitting at right now. Kind of useless, isn’t it? It’s an all black screen with no useful information such as time, date, message notifications, you get the idea. Nokia is looking to change that with what they’re dubbing “Nokia Sleeping…