Archive for May, 2009

Flash Lite 3.1 update comes to Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

Typically, you expect Flash Lite updates (or updates to pretty much any module that comes bundled with the phone, for that matter) to be delivered via firmware bump — a long, slow, frustrating process that can take weeks or months across all regions and product codes for a given Nokia model… Continue reading

Nokia Messaging graduates to S60 5th Edition

Filed under: Handsets, Messaging, Software, Nokia

Well, if you’re the proud owner of a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic — which runs S60 5th edition, in case you don’t keep up with that jazz — you can now join the mobile pioneers using this free — at least for now, for some — service

Nokia’s N97 unboxed on video — somehow, someway

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA

We always heard that where there is a will, there is a way. Said mantra has never been more exemplified than in the video past the break, as someone halfway across this great planet has seemingly procured what could be the very first shipping… Continue reading

Nokia’s support pages for the N97 go live

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian

What’s better than taking delivery of a shiny new N97 right about now? If you answered “reading through the phone’s support site,” you’re a sick puppy — but we’ll admit, we like the way you think. It’s for those most bizarre individuals that we happily point out that Nokia’s support pages for… Continue reading

Nokia 5800 Coming Soon to Rogers in Canada

Canadian wireless provider Rogers will soon offer the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handset, if we believe the billboard advertising displayed below. The ad, located at a ‘The Source’ retail store in Ottawa, is reported to be one of many placed across the provider’s locations throughout Canada.

Nokia 5800 has been available in Europe, North American and other markets for a little while… Continue reading

N97 disassembled on video… sort of

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

Are you dying to see Nokia’s latest, the N97 ripped to shreds in glorious moving pictures? Well, that’s too bad: we don’t have that. What we do have, however, is a series of photographs of said shred-ripping, turned into a video. A creepy, silent film, if you will, complete with subtitles. Lack of movement

Nokia 6730 Classic is a Vodafone exclusive

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Vodafone, Symbian, GSM, EDGE

Like this thing? We hope you don’t — or if you do, we hope you’re on Vodafone, because that’s the only way you’re going to get it, it seems. The Nokia 6730 Classic candybar is an interesting device in that Voda intends… Continue reading

Nokia N97 shipping from Amazon on June 25

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

We’re not sure how closely we can correlate this to shipments through Nokia’s other retail partners and fulfillment of the direct preorders, but for what it’s worth, Amazon is now declaring on no uncertain terms that the N97 will… Continue reading

WIN a Nokia 5800 by Just Taking the Nimbuzz Survey

Nimbuzz, a popular chat client and social messenger recently got updated for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Now the good folks at Nimbuzz are giving away 3 brand new Nokia 5800s if you take an online survey with them.

Nimbuzz says about the survey, “With this survey we would like to find out more about you, the hyper-connected and super… Continue reading

Nokia’s Ovi Store overwhelmed at launch, apology issued

Filed under: Games, Multimedia, Software, Nokia, Misc

Where’s the fail whale when you need it, right? Early yesterday morning, Nokia flipped the switch on its Ovi Store, claiming that it’s app market would potentially reach some 50 million users around the world. Unfortunately for Nokia, it seems as if all 50… Continue reading