Nokia and Microsoft have announced a partnership wherein Nokia will build handsets running Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system.
There aren’t any hard-and-fast dates for when the first Nokia-branded Windows phones will hit the market, but some of the highlights of the partnership are as follows:
- Nokia will use the …
Former head of Microsoft’s business division, Stephen Elop is now the CEO of Finnish cellphone maker Nokia. While he’s been in place since late last fall, Elop’s latest company-wide memo portrays a hard, cold, long look in the mirror at a company that once dominated the cell phone industry but is now “not even fighting with the right …
Tech research firm, Canalys, has crowned Android the new king of smartphones, with fourth quarter shipments estimated at 33.3 million handsets—a whopping 615% increase over Q4 of 2009. Smartphone shipments, in general, grew 80% in 2010 versus 2009.
In the fourth quarter, Nokia’s Symbian platform fell to second place with 31 million …
Has DRM killed Nokia’s international music download plan? Digital Rights Management software is just one of multiple reasons the mobile producer is putting forward for the end of its bundling of free music downloads with cellphone purchases in 27 countries.
The cellphone company launched the program in Asian, African and European …
Back in the good old days, there were no color graphics on cell phones. There were no awesome sound effects or interactive features. There was only Snake.
Nokia first put this as one of the standard games on all their cell phones in 1998, but the original video game has been traced back to 1977. And even though it consisted of a line …
Nokia’s got a few new handsets lined up for the end of the year. Perhaps most impressive of the bunch is the E7 (shown above), which vaguely resembles a buttoned-down, business-centric Sidekick.
The E7′s 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen slides up into an angled position to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, yet remains relatively thin at just over
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Even though Comic-Con 2010 is still hours away from officially opening, news has started to come from the event with the announcement that IDW Publishing is extending its digital reach by being the first comics publisher to offer titles through Nokia’s Ovi Store.
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Tablets like Apple’s iPad will soon be all the rage, but netbooks are still holding strong and demand doesn’t appear to have dropped off drastically from last year. So we’ve compiled eight of the best and brightest available today. Each netbook on the list has a screen larger than 1024×600 because anything smaller just wouldn’t …
Wow. That’s some riveting stuff, but I feel like I’ve seen this before. If everyone would stop with the iPhone-like UI that’d be great. Here’s another one to bore you this fine morning.
On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger fell from 20 miles (102,800 feet) above the Earth’s surface setting the free fall record. In 2010, Felix Baumgartner plans to break Joe’s record by falling back down to Earth from 120,000 (~23 miles) feet high. Think about that for a second, folks.
Man will free fall from Earth’s stratosphere with …
Reuters is reporting that Nokia only has plans for one Maemo device next year. Maemo is a Linux-based OS, in case you didn’t know. It’s currently only available on the N900, which is ridiculously expensive, but it’s actually not a bad device. Aside from being a huge brick, the OS is a legitimate contender to the current crop of …
Nokia’s Linux-based Maemo N900 is available starting today in the US. It’s not a bad offering considering it comes with 32GB of memory, a 3.5-inch touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard. The Carl Zeiss 5-megapixel camera is nothing to scoff at either. Too bad it costs $650.
