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Nokia’s PureView camera technology captured the hearts of the tech bloggers at Mobile World Congress last week. The camera technology featured in Nokia PureView results in images far better than we’ve ever seen in a camera phone, especially in the standard 5 to 8 megapixel output modes that occur when PureView mode is engaged. Interestingly,…
The number of employees bringing their own devices (BYOD) to the workplace has grown exponentially in recent years; a full 80% of employed adults use some kind of personal device (smartphones, tablets, or PCs) for work-related functions. While a large proportion of this 80% is likely attributed to personal computers, the ushering in of the…
Up until this moment Nokia N8 was the best camera phone on the planet. No more; a new device, also made by the Finnish company, took that crown from the N8 – Nokia 808 PureView. It comes with a 41-megapixel sensor, Nokia (Symbian) Belle OS, HSPA, Wi-Fi, etc. – you can read the specs in…
Nokia just announced a new Symbian device called the 808 PureView. The specification that immediately stands out is the camera, which comes in at 41 megapixels. How exactly is that possible and is that number real or the result of a marketing department gone batshit insane? Luckily for us Nokia has a dedicated website for…
Good news for Microsoft Office addicts with Nokia Belle smartphones. Just before the Mobile World Congress, the Finnish company released the first instalment of productivity apps from Microsoft. Christened Microsoft Apps, these are available for free, bringing six home screens, new widgets and more, including: Microsoft OneNote – those of you preferring the Redmond giant’s…
Nokia’s just uploaded a 22 second video to YouTube that’s basically a series of images paired up with text that confirms what we’ve been reporting for a few weeks now, that Nokia is going to launch a camera focused flagship device at Mobile World Congress next week. According to the rumors currently floating around the…
Mobile World Congress, the largest wireless exhibition on the fact of the planet, is set to kick off in just two weeks. We’ll be there trying to cover the glut of smartphone and tablet announcements, of course, but thanks to Pocketnow our job may have just gotten a whole lot easier. Apparently they just got…
Back in September 2010 Nokia announced a Symbian^3 smartphone called the C7. It can best be thought of as a Nokia N8, but without the fancy high end camera, and in a body that’s much more fashionable. Half a year later (April 2011) it hit American shores courtesy of T-Mobile for just $80 with a…
Rumor has it that Nokia is going to announce just one more Symbian device before finally kicking the platform to the curb. That device is said to be the long awaited successor to the Nokia N8, which launched in October 2010 with a 12 megapixel camera and Xenon flash. During the 15 months that thing…
Yesterday evening Nokia announced that users of Symbian Anna devices can now update to the newest version of the operating system, Symbian Nokia Belle (see video below). Seeing as how I got my girlfriend a pink Nokia N8 for her birthday last autumn, I told her to rush over to my place with her smartphone…