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A year ago or so, I lost my iPhone at a midnight showing of Inglourious Basterds, and at first I felt lost without all of the convenience of an always-on Internet presence… but over time, this frustration changed to a feeling of liberation as I...
If you ever envision a day when your smartphone is capable of serving the same function as your credit card, near field communication technology — or NFC — is what’s going to get that done. Smartphone manufacturers have been teasing the possibility...
Nokia’s pretty much made it clear at this point that they’re giving up on the fantasy that Symbian can make a proper go of it against the likes of iOS and Android in today’s smartphone wars. Heck, they even lured away Palm’s ex...
Nokia and Android smartphone market share rose in Q2. iSuppli has released the latest set of smartphone quarterly statistics, and it’s an interesting read: Nokia and Android models both made significant market share gains in Q2, with HTC taking...
Designer Patrick Hyland has come up with an idea for a new phone that would recharge its battery through the heat our bodies and other devices produce. Patrick has called the phone the Nokia E-CU. The E stands for environment and the Cu for copper. As...
Rewind about five years ago, and Nokia was to the cell phone world then what Apple is now. Their cellphones were a fusion between excellent hardware design and the most intuitive mobile phone operating system out there. Somewhere along the line, though,...
Here’s a must-read for all mobile buffs wondering what the heck went wrong at Nokia. Despite its 40.3 percent lead of the global mobile phone market as of June, Nokia slipped 0.4 percentage points from a year earlier. They recorded a huge drop...
Nokia’s research and development team is experimenting with how the existing functionality offered on a phone can be taken in new directions. One such direction is the ability to add toucscreen capabilities to a standard display simply by using...
Back in 2009, Nokia teamed up with Paramount for a cute little moment in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, in which a young James T. Kirk — driving a stolen car and being chased by the police — is called by his mother mid-pursuit. The ring’s...
Nokia is attempting to compete with Apple’s Retina Display technology with its holiday smartphone lineup consisting of the C6, C7, E7, and N8. Not only do those devices boast impressive hardware specs, a norm for the Finnish cellphone maker, but...
Despite their rather questionable claims to the contrary, Nokia is being soundly trounced by the likes of iOS and Android for the hearts and minds of software users. Nokia makes undeniably good hardware, but it’s pretty clear from the armchair...
In addition to the E7, Nokia’s latest flagship business smartphone, the C6 and C7 were launched at Tuesday’s Nokia World showcase in London. They are being billed as offerings for the social generation. All three phones run a new Symbian^3...
Nokia yesterday updated its holiday lineup with four brand new touch-enabled handsets, the business-oriented E7 and the C6, C7, and N8 consumer smartphones. Equipped with a twelve-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, the N8 stands out as Nokia’s...
Bluster aside, Finnish mobile supergiant Nokia really seems to be getting its act together to counter the threat posed by the likes of iOS and Android. First, they ousted their existing CEO in favor of an ex-Microsoft executive… and now they are...
Nokia launched a new slider smartphone at the Nokia World 2010 conference in London. The Symbian^3-powered E7 is slightly bigger than the N8 and sports a four-inch, non-capacitive touchscreen running at 640 Read More →