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A recent study from Gartner is forecasting mobile platform market share up to 2014, and echoes the results of earlier studies regarding Android’s current momentum. Specifically, Gartner says Android will just barely squeak ahead of BlackBerry’s number two spot in 2010, and have a significant lead by 2011. Despite a steady decline, Symbian will still…
For those of you perpetually bitten by the travel bug, jet-setters and business travelers, you might want to check out TripAdvisor Mobile. Not only has the service been offering up reviews and tips on flights, hotels, restaurants and more during your travels, but it also has an app across multiple platforms – iOS, Android and…
London is Nokia’s turf this week, as the Finns hold their annual Nokia World conference in the UK. But, if you were to ask HTC, the “game” of mobile tech one-up-manship is afoot! HTC decided to hold their London-based press event on Day 2 on Nokia World, with the intention of unveiling the HTC Desire…
Nokia launched a couple high-level Symbian^3 smartphones at Nokia World, but the Nokia C6 (C6-01) shows that the Finns haven’t forgotten their entry-level customer base. While the Nokia E7, C7, and N8 rule the upper end of the smartphone spectrum, the Nokia C6 brings Symbian^3 to the lower range. We had a chance to go…
Nokia has released a beta version of their Ovi Maps application that finally brings it somewhat on par with what Google has been offering for some time now. With version 3.06 there’s pinch to zoom support added, sadly only for Symbian^3 devices though, the ability to check-in to various location based services such as Foursquare…
There is a major shift happening at Nokia these days with executives leaving the company, and this time it’s Jorma Ollila who will be leaving his post in 2012. This announcement has been made shortly after the news that CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will be leaving on September 20 to be replaced by Microsoft executive Stephen…
The new Nokia C7 is, by all measures, a lesser smartphone than the Nokia N8 – which is Nokia’s Symbian^3 flagship, due to hit market in the coming weeks. The C7 has a down-rated camera and less onboard storage than the N8, but that doesn’t mean the C7 is a bad phone. Nokia announced today…
Nokia World 2010 is alive and well, and VP Niklas Savander wasted no time in talking up the brand as well as taking unrelenting jabs at Apple and Google. According to Savander, Nokia sold 260,000 phones per day during the summer, and he says that those figures are more than the iPhone and Android handsets…
If you ever thought to yourself that you’d love to see Nokia produce a successor to the brick-sized Nokia 9000 Communicator that Val Kilmer used in The Saint, your wishes have been granted in the just-announced Nokia E7. At the Nokia World 2010 London keynote today, Nokia officially announced the E7, among other phones, as…
While watching Anssi Vanjoki introduce 3 new devices at Nokia World today, I had a Skype chat window open and one of the first things ex-blogger Ricky Cadden said when the C6-01 was revealed was “wtf, isn’t the C6 already out?” That pretty much sums up this device. It’s the C6 that was launched during…