Nokia, the world’s most ubiquitous cell phone company, is showing off the new 6208c phone in China, which sports a pen for easy input of Chinese characters.
The touch screen on the 6208c is optimized to write Chinese characters and messages in the most natural way, with a pen. The design of the stylus, attached to [...]
Nokia’s maps caused a big stir in Jabalpur city, India, because they show Kashmir as being part of Pakistan. Led by members of the youth wing of BJP, India’s largest political party, an angry mob seized Nokia handsets from a local store and set them on fire. Take that, Nokia!
The local BJP legislator claimed Nokia’s [...]
We’ve seen plenty of firmware updates hit plenty of devices in our time, but the newest N79 update puts them all to shame. Seriously - it’s fourteen pages long, by print preview’s count.
Besides new versions of N-Gage and Mail for Exchange, the rest of the list is made up of bug fixes and tweaks. [...]
Earlier this morning, Nokia released a public beta version of its Mail on Ovi service, which enables users to sign up for a free e-mail account directly from their Series 40 handsets. The new service is available worldwide and available in a dozen languages, after a test period of one month during which users in [...]
The Nokia E63 has surfaced on Amazon.com for a pre-order price of $499, unlocked. You’ll remember the E63 as the tie-loosened, top-button-unbuttoned little brother to the more polished, business-oriented Nokia E71.
The E63 on Amazon is listed as the “International Version with No U.S. Warranty" while there’s an E71 being sold unlocked for $375.99 that’s [...]
Nokia’s latest USPTO application for a “Pivot Display” provides possible insight into a future mobile form-factor. Manufacturers, on a never-ending quest in search of the mobile holy grail (i.e. combining maximum screen real-estate and a tactile QWERTY keypad in a pocket-size device), continue to push the (patent) boundaries.
As best exemplified in Fig. 5 (above), Nokia’s [...]
Mobile technology juggernaut Nokia has renewed a multi-year patent license agreement with Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry line. In return for an undisclosed up-front payment and on-going royalties, Nokia has granted RIM worldwide use of standards essential mobile network patents, specifically relating to GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000 technologies.
For a minute [...]
The ever-escalating smartphone arms race has flared up again with the latest challenger to the iPhone superpower coming by way of Nokia. Nokia has unveiled its N97 handset that offers some interesting features that iPhone owners may be jealous over.
One of the features that the N97 offers that I wish my iPhone had is a [...]
I’m not too sure what I think about this one just yet - so I’ll let the above demo video and Scott’s hands on photos do most of the talking until I get a chance to prod at it myself. From what I can tell from pictures and specs alone, however, I’m a bit disappointed [...]
Introducing the Nokia N97, the next generation high-end mobile phone from Nokia. Described by Nokia folks as a “handheld computer” this device is a pretty comfortable high-end phone. It has a tilting (resistive) touch-screen display, and is the first N-series phone with a QWERTY keyboard. It has 32 gigabytes of memory, expandable to 42 GB [...]