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Now that everyone has published their Q1 2011 financial results it’s time for the experts to step in and run the numbers and feed us with fancy statistics and pie charts that make fanbois all across the internet go mad. Analysts at Canalys say that 101 million smartphones shipped during the first 3 months of…
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 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…
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…
Think that Vertu’s Constellation Quest is cool phone? Sure it’s expensive but it’s not just a fancy feature phone. Rather it also has some brains under the hood, being the first Vertu model to run Symbian OS. Anyway, the luxury QWERTY smartphone will soon be available in another version, with select parts of the device…
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…
Distimo has launched their regular report on app store figures, running down the highest-ranked free and premium apps across iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Ovi, GetJar, webOS, and Windows Phone app stores. In March, the Android Market offered more free apps than than the prestigious iPhone App Store, leading by about 12,500 apps in that category. Last…
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…
Usually we hear about successes of iOS and Android apps. Today our focus is on a Symbian app, eBuddy Mobile Messenger, which has recently surpassed 10 million downloads in Nokia’s Ovi Store. The application dominates the social networking category in more than 15 countries on Ovi Store, and is the first messaging app to reach…