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Recent rumors of a Nokia and Microsoft partnership had some fans drooling for a Windows Phone 7 handset from Finland, but it doesn’t look like it really will happen. Of course, we have our very own Nokia alumni who already called shenanigans on the rumor, but now a Nokia employee – who is soon to…
Oxygen Software updated two of its popular PC applications, Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian smartphones and Symbian SMS Manager, to make them compatible with the latest Nokia smartphones running Symbian^3. Yup, this includes the highly-acclaimed Nokia N8, as well as other models like the C6-01, C7-00 and the upcoming (and delayed) E7-00. In addition,…
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, former Nokia CEO, has been living quite the mundane life these days as Stephen Elop, former Microsoft exec, has taken over the show in Espoo. So what does a man do after 30 years of service to a company and then getting shafted for poor performance? Relaxing, apparently. OPK, as he’s often referred…
If there is one social network that came out of nowhere during the past few years to become one of the most talked about services this side of the moon it’s most definitely Twitter. Thanks to the way the service was built anyone could build a client to interact with their backend, freeing you from…
Nokia Beta Labs, which we think of as the Finnish company’s software R&D department, has recently updated two of its apps – Wellness Diary and Nokia Bots. The first of the two now includes a faster UI, stability and improved sharing amongst other things. Moreover, this release also includes tips on how to use and…
It has been a wild ride in the mobile world this year, as the pace of innovation has been going along at blistering speeds. Just think, at the beginning of the year, we were still drooling over the Motorola Droid, Microsoft was dead in the water with Windows Mobile, Palm was still puttering along as…
One of the reasons we prefer the Symbian and Android smartphone operating systems to something like Apple’s iOS is that it’s totally possible to replace the homescreen, otherwise known as the first thing you see when you unlock your device. Hiplogic recently went public with a Symbian homescreen alternative called *Spark, and if you’re one…
Although we haven’t talked about Nokia Diagnostics when it was initially released, we decided to give it some space now when it’s updated. The application is now in version 1.74 and comes with “more extensive set of tests” to help Symbian S60 5.0 smartphone owners figure out what’s the problem with their device. In addition…
Although it sells a dedicated ebook reading device, Amazon also offers Kindle mobile apps for Android and iOS-powered devices. What about other platforms? I guess they’ll support webOS the minute HP launches some new device (a tablet perhaps?), but what’s happening with Symbian? There is a big army of users out there, readily waiting for…
Things aren’t looking terribly bright for Nokia in the coming months as executives are either on their way out, or their absence is already being felt by those missing the long-time Nokia heads. Now there is word that the Finnish mobile manufacturer is planning to cut 800 jobs in Finland, where Nokia has its home.…