Archive for September, 2009

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXVI: Nokia N900 rip shows no trademark fear

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Others, GSM

It’s pretty typical for serial KIRFers to make minor changes to the names of the brands they’re ripping — take Sany Ericssan, for example — but we’ve never really known why. “Go big or go home” is the KIRF mantra we prefer to live by, and if you’re going to [...]

Ovi Store loosens the leash a bit, allows re-downloads

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

One of the purely theoretical benefits of an on-device app store is that you don’t need to worry about archiving and managing apps you’ve bought in the past — your download and purchase histories are magically managed up in the cloud, and if you need anything again in the future, it’s [...]

Want Kinetic Scrolling on 5800? Lets Sign a Petition

Does Nokia always punish early adopters? Thats the question almost every geek who has ever owned a Nokia device would have asked himself atleast with one of their products. While the saga of Internet tablets from Nokia is a classical example of the Finnish company being hard on early adopters, our very own 5800 hasn’t [...]