While analysts have originally predicted that Windows Phone 7 will be the leading smartphone OS, beating out Android, by 2015, recent research from Pyramid is predicting that the Microsoft mobile operating system will beat the original date by two years thanks in large part to the partnership with Nokia. While Android will continue to grow [...]
The lack of interest in the MeeGo operating system, created as a joint venture between Intel and Nokia, was probably due to the fact that other phone-makers viewed Nokia had too much of an influence in the mobile operating system prior to its announcement that it would focus its efforts on Windows Phone 7 at [...]
The Nokia N8 is by far one of my favorite phones for its excellent camera and sleek design, but the handset is not without fault, which is a reason why I am looking forward to when Nokia will release its Anna update for the device’s Symbian^3 operating system. Currently, the Nokia N8, even on its [...]
As a press invitation was leaked online for a May 17th event hosted in Greece by Nokia, there isn’t much more information that is known about how Nokia will leverage this event. The Finnish phone-maker has been quiet thus far about its Windows Phone 7 plans since the announcement from Mobile World Congress, and has [...]
IDC Research has concluded that the smartphone market is growing nearly 20% in the first quarter of this year and that Nokia may be ceding market share as the world’s largest phone maker by volume is transitioning its smartphone line to Windows Phone 7, leading to a shakeup among the top phone and smartphone makers. [...]
Nokia is running a national TV commercial promoting the Astound phone. It’s certainly one of the more creative smartphone ads I’ve seen recently and I think it’ll draw a lot of people in to learn more about the Nokia Astound, a device that’s available from T-Mobile. The Nokia ad is set to a modern rendition [...]
How important is it to turn in your old cellular phone for recycling? How does your mobile phone usage and behavior impact the world at large? And are you aware that you are in fact carrying hazardous waste everyday in your pocket, purse, or bag? These were some of the questions that were asked, answered, [...]
Ever since the discovery of the hidden file on iPhones and iPhone backups prompted an uproar from those concerned about privacy issues, the story seems to keep building. Google and Apple have both been summoned to give answers to Congress, and if you’ve been following the news, you also know that Google and Apple aren’t [...]
After having launched its 3D mapping campaign through Ovi Maps at the Where 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA, Nokia may be looking at an even larger re-organization campaign to deliver value to users through location services an apps. Nokia will be bridging its mobile phone business together with Navteq, which it had acquired, and [...]
According to Nielsen more consumers are planning to purchase or want an Android phone over an iPhone or Blackberry. During the first three months of 2011 the company most noted for their TV ratings surveys asked mobile users which mobile OS they would rather use. Thirty-one percent desire an Android device while 30 percent long [...]
Nokia and Rovio, makers of the Angry Birds franchise, are hard at work to ready an NFC-compatible version of Angry Birds to create a social aspect of game play that mixes the social, real-life experience with the digital game playing experience. The game is being developed and will launch in the Nokia Ovi Store to [...]
At the Intel Developer Forum, a reference hardware tablet running the MeeGo operating system, which was originally intended as a joint effort between Nokia and Intel until the former pulled out in favor of Windows Phone 7. In China, as part of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel and partner Tencents are looking to position MeeGo [...]
Nokia has just unveiled its latest Symbian-powered BlackBerry challenger with a front-facing full QWERTY keyboard in the form of the E6, which continues the tradition of the beloved E71, E72, and E73 (T-Mobile Mode in the U.S.) of solid, excellent hardware. I was a big fan of the E71 when it first debuted–the handset became [...]
Nokia is now offloading the hosting of its Ovi Mail services from its own servers to Yahoo!’s servers and platform. The move is being positioned by Nokia as being more beneficial to consumers of the free Ovi Mail services as it delivers a faster, richer mail experiences, integration with Chat, and also access to other [...]
One of the features–other than the amazing camera–that I love about my Nokia N8 is the ability to quickly glance at the time and date even when the phone is in idle without having to turn on the display thanks to the beautiful analog or digital clock on the Symbian^3 standby screen. It’s like carrying [...]
Nokia iscontinuing its legal battle with Apple as the Finnish phone-maker has filed another patent dispute against the iPhone-maker over intellectual property. On the consumer-facing fronts, companies may appear to best each other on features, experiences, interfaces, number of apps, and developer support for their respective mobile platforms, but behind the scenes there is a [...]
New images of the Nokia T7 have emerged showing a device that resembles the flagship Nokia N8, which I love, but with slight differences made for the huge Chinese market. The Nokia T7 will eschew Nokia’s Carl Zeiss autofocus 12-megapixel camera with mechanical shutter in favor of an 8-megapixel camera, similar to that found on [...]
Despite having announced that it will be adopting Microsoft’s mobile Windows Phone 7 operating system on Nokia-made smartphones, the world’s largest phone maker still has not concluded talks with Microsoft on the full terms and agreement for switching from Symbian to Windows Phone. According to Nokia, talks are on schedule and are continuing between Nokia [...]
Windows Phone 7 is about to take a leap in market share by 2014 according to the latest predictions by IDC in large part due to Microsoft’s partnership with Nokia, the world’s largest phone maker by volume. In the past, Nokia has primarily relied on Symbian for its smartphone strategy, but the company had announced [...]
Yesterday at CTIA, Nokia and T-Mobile announced the United States version of the Finnish companies C7 handset, a device called the Nokia Astound, which offers great price points both at the hardware and data plan levels. T-Mobile is going to be offering up the device for a mere $80 when it hits shelves on April [...]
Just a few days ago we heard that the Nokia Astound might be coming to T-Mobile at some point during the month of April. Sure enough, Nokia has confirmed that handset will be hitting the shores of the United States on April 6th. The Astound is indeed going to be T-Mobile’s version of the C7. It’s [...]
As part of the Nokia-Microsoft partnership for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft had stated previously that it would allow Nokia un-restricted access and alterations to the OS as necessary. The result of that collaboration and Nokia’s customizations to Windows Phone 7 may materialize as early as 2012. Smart House reports: “The OS will include “several new software [...]
The T-Mobile Astound, which is widely believed to the the Nokia C7 model re-badged for the U.S. carrier, will be coming April 6th for a mere $80 on contract. As a more budget-conscious smartphone that features some nice high-end features, the Astound will only be a 3G smartphone and won’t support T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ network. [...]
It looks like the tablet designs that Nokia had patented back in 2010 could be for a Maemo 6 device that straddles the space between smartphone–like the Nokia N8–and tablet. It’s unclear how Maemo 6 will shape up to be or what form factor the OS will appear on, but it’s interesting to hear Nokia [...]
Nokia may soon be launching its Nokia C7 smartphone as the Nokia Astound on T-Mobile USA according to a leak obtained by TmoNews. The C7 smartphone was previously rumored to be coming to the nation’s fourth largest network as the Nokia Tiger, but Tiger may be an internal codename. I’ve had some hands-on time with [...]
Now that Nokia, led by new CEO Stephen Elop who’s a Microsoft alum, has committed itself to Windows Phone 7 moving forward, it is unlikely that we’ll see an extensive spread of tablet devices from Nokia since Microsoft has stated in the past that Windows Phone 7, as the platform name suggests, is for phones [...]
In Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, Nokia has announced IdeaProject, which is an Internet portal that will help connect entrepreneurs, idea-generators, developers, and other partners to help spur innovation and creativity in the mobile space. The idea behind IdeaProject, like Nokia’s motto, is to connect people. If you’ve got a great [...]
Nokia has had several popular and affordable BlackBerry-style phones with front-facing keyboards over the years, including the E71 series–which also was subsidized on AT&T as the E71x, the E72, and the E73 Mode available through T-Mobile USA. The latest one, the E6, will bring subtle refinements to this popular form factor that offers business and [...]
While Nokia has had trouble making headway in the highly competitive U.S. smartphone market, the company may be set to launch its latest Symbian smartphone prior to a Windows Phone 7 device in the States. T-Mobile USA may be slated to pick up the Nokia C7, a consumer-centric edition of a phone that’s similar to [...]
Last month when Nokia and Microsoft had jointly announced a new partnership that will result in Nokia’s adoption of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform on the phone-maker’s hardware, there were speculations that Nokia’s love affair was created due to money, and a lot of money at that being thrown from Microsoft to the world’s largest [...]
In spite of its newfound partnership with Microsoft for upcoming Nokia-branded Windows Phone 7 smartphones, the Finnish phone-maker isn’t abandoning its Symbian platform and had shown off an updated user interface to its Symbian^3-powered Nokia N8 flagship smartphone at MWC. As part of the UI overhaul, Nokia will be adding a thin drop down status [...]
Now that Verizon Wireless is carrying the CDMA iPhone 4 for its 3G network, the carrier’s CEO revealed that additional 4G LTE Apple products are forthcoming on its nascent but growing next-generation faster mobile broadband network. Comments about 4G LTE Apple products were reported by the Wall Street Journal in relation to Verizon’s comments about [...]
Myriad’s Alien Dalvik is a Java virtual machine that allows Android apps to run on a foreign platform. Similar to virtualization technology that doesn’t require the native environment, like Wine which allows Windows programs to run on Linux and OS X sans a virtualized copy of the Windows operating system, Alien Dalvik will allow Android [...]
Thanks in part to Microsoft and Nokia reaching an agreement to have the former’s mobile operating system powering the latter’s hardware design, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop is saying that low-cost smartphones with the Windows Phone 7 operating system will be coming to the market very soon. In response to questions surrounding a low-cost handset from [...]
Now that Nokia has signed up with Microsoft to utilize the Windows Phone 7 operating system, Intel is still pushing ahead with the MeeGo operating system. According to the latest report from Reuters, Intel is blaming the decision for Nokia to shy away from its joint MeeGo collaboration due to financial incentives being offered by [...]
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