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Smartphones are ubiquitous in the U.S. and most of the world, but for the majority of cellphone users across the globe, a feature phone with no data access is the norm. In fact, 8 out of 10 people in emerging markets do not have any data access for their mobile device. The lack of a…
Nokia Store will stop accepting apps for Symbian and MeeGo devices from January 1, 2014. The unfortunate part — which has something to do with the Microsoft deal — is that the Finnish company previously said it will support Symbian until 2016. Guess the new ownership structure changes many things… Meanwhile, Nokia will keep supporting…
We’ve seen a number of different surveillance apps in the past. The problem with most of them is that they’re made to work with newer devices making the whole setup expensive. That’s not the case with Gotya – it can sing along your old Windows Phone and Symbian gear. Simply download the application from gotyapp.com…
Nokia will finally stop production of Symbian smartphones this summer as the company migrates over to the Windows Phone platform. According to The Financial Times, Nokia won’t issue any sort of notice about the final date, as it would still have units in the delivery chain waiting to be sold. The same article says that…
Nokia has started rolling out updates for its range of Symbian/Belle-based smartphones which were released in 2011 and 2012, though we’re hearing that some older devices (like the E7, C7, C6-01 and X6) may also get their share of new features. In other words, the software targets owners of the Nokia PureView 808, Nokia 700,…
Google’s Quickoffice app has made the leap from the iPad to iPhone and Android devices today, allowing users to quickly edit and modify Microsoft Office files on their mobile devices. The Quickoffice app, which debuted on the iPad last December, also allows users easy access to their word documents by syncing with Google Drive. Quickoffice…
Nokia announced its quarterly earnings for the last three months of FY2012. In its earnings report, the Finnish company confirmed that it is done producing Symbian phones. As many people suspected, the PureView 808, with its groundbreaking camera technology, is the last Symbian phone that Nokia will produce. “During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship…
Nokia is rolling out an update for its powerful camera-phone, Nokia 808 PureView. We don’t have all the details, but we’re hearing that the software version 113.010.1508 brings improved performance and new features to the table. The 420MB heavy download certainly sounds promising as that much data should include a ton of changes and software…
A graphic from Geekologie shows the evolution of handset design from the early brick phones that weighed two pounds to the current crop of stylish black slabs. The two most striking changes I see are touchscreens, which revolutionized how we interact with our phones, and internal antenna technology which let designers get rid of that…
Nokia has finally released a refresher to its Belle update for suffering Symbian fans out there. The mobile operating system hasn’t gotten any real press since Nokia effectively killed the Symbian name and rebrand the OS to Nokia Belle. Yup, the Finnish company basically threw a mobile platform that it was once so firmly behind…