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Nokia’s Ovi Store now has more than 50,000 apps in the catalog, with more than 6.5 million downloads per day taking place. That’s up from the previous count of 48,000 apps and 6 million daily downloads. Despite the solid growth, the Finnish company has a lot of catching up to do to reach the heights…
Remember the leaked Nokia 700 Zeta? Well it has been caught at the FCC which usually means the U.S. launch will come at some point in the future. However, it’s not that straightforward, especially with Nokia’s Symbian phones that more often than not just get the FCC’s seal approval and none of the major U.S.…
I’ve been using the Nokia E7 for the last few weeks, as you may’ve noticed from my top 5 things I like and 5 things don’t like posts. During that period I tried using the Finnish company’s flagship product as my primary device and have found several apps particularly useful. As a matter of fact,…
Yesterday I talked about 5 things I like about the Nokia E7, and today I’ll be criticizing. It’s a common sense that no mobile device is perfect, despite Apple and Nokia fanboys claiming the opposite. Quite the contrary, I have some serious problems with the E7 and here I’ll present you my list of top…
If you’re looking to grab a bite to eat or find a bar to wash away your misery, odds are that you have several applications at your disposable that all do the same thing, which is to display a list of places, ordered by distance, that you can visit. One of the more popular applications…
Nokia E7 is arguably the best Symbian smartphone ever made. Some folks may prefer the N8 for its superior camera, but even they would like E7’s bigger screen and maybe the physical keyboard. That said I had some time to play with Nokia’s flagship device and there are 5 things I like about. 1. Keyboard…
Being green is all the rage these days. Buy organic food, recycle the beer cans left over from your house party last night, switch to LED lightbulbs, all in the name of showing your friends that you care about something other than your favorite reality television show. Nokia’s looking to ride the eco-friendly phenomenon by…
In November 2010 at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition, Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President of Smart Devices at Nokia, said that in early 2011 Symbian would be getting an improved user experience, new browser, and split screen text entry. We’d find out 5 months later that this update has a name, Anna. It’s the latest…
Rumor has it that Nokia will soon adopt a 3 digit naming scheme, replacing what the system they currently have in place of a letter followed by a number, and more confusingly a dash followed by said number with an added 2 digits if there are several variants of a product. One of the handsets…
Nokia’s mad scientists working at Beta Labs have released a new application called “Nokia 3D World Gaze”. Like many augmented reality applications that have come before it, most of which are absolutely pointless and serve no other function than being a technology demo to wow a crowd at a conference, you point your mobile phone…