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Nokia announced that it is appointing Chris Weber to President of Nokia Inc. (US) and Head of Markets, North America. Chris Weber is a former Microsoft Executive who spent 16 years with the Redmond company heading up US enterprise sales and marketing. He will bring his sales and marketing experience as well as his Microsoft…
Nokia and Microsoft announced a partnership that would bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia handsets. The two companies would collaborate to build the third major mobile platform, bringing the best of Nokia’s services to Microsoft’s mobile platform and establishing Windows Phone as the platform of choice for Nokia’s smartphone lineup. The deal has major repercussions…
Gartner released their findings on the 2010 mobile market recently, following up on those from IDC and Strategy Analytics. Most of the data is pretty much in agreement: Nokia, Samsung, and LG still rule global mobile shipments, followed by RIM, Apple, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola. In terms of smartphone OS market share, Android had a…
Thanks to Twitter user @Sheridan01 I just got about 20 minutes of hands on time with Nokia’s latest superphone, the E7. I’ve never seen the device in person before, so with that in mind here are some first impressions: for a device with a 4 inch screen, it’s surprisingly small. It fits in the hand…
Two images of Nokia’s yet to be announced E6-00 have just been leaked to Engadget via an anonymous tipster. Moments later the leak was confirmed by Eldar Murtazin from Mobile-Review as legitimate. What we’re looking at is a rounder version of the device that started it all, the E71. The rear of the device features…
Things haven’t been looking up for Nokia the past few months, and so rumors of an alliance with Google for Android or Microsoft for Windows Phone 7 have been cropping up everywhere. The latter really took off when Nokia picked up ex-Microsoft exec Stephen Elop as its new CEO. We’ve given plenty of takes on…
Nokia is hurting in the smartphone department but that doesn’t mean that it is still not trying to innovate. Today, we’re seeing the Nokia Bubbles application out of its labs and this enables users to quickly switch between apps in a visually-pleasing way. According to the company’s labs blog, when you phone is in sleep…
Nokia’s Symbian platform, which has dominated the smartphone scene for as long as any of us can remember, has finally, for the first time in history, been outsold on a global basis by a competing operating system. Windows Phone 7 really is that good. All kidding aside, this is obviously the work of Android, Google’s…
HTC has been working on its user interface for quite some time now. First they launched TouchFLO, then TouchFLO2 and then Sense, which is still hot these days. The latest version of the Sense UI runs on the Desire Z and Desire HD and even has its web-based component from where users can easily customize…
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is the addictive technology that feeds that urge inside of you to check up on what’s new in the world. There are many RSS clients out there, both offline and online, with many news junkies heralding Google Reader as the best one, and now Nokia has written their own. It’s…