With just a few days away, things are really about to get real for flagship , especially in . For instance, Vodafone’s UK arm has just updated the “Coming Soon” page for this Symbian^3 device. What’s new? Just the fact that the carrier will be offering the phone in two colors: black and green, with the latter… Continue reading
It already kicked off this process in India , but it looks like Nokia is finally ready to bring its faltering brand and service under the reign of the mothership on a more global scale — or in markets where Comes with Music has launched, anyhow — now that UK customers have started getting… Continue reading
Sure seems like it to us. What you’re looking at here is the leaked image of the front (top) compared to the label diagram of a model code RM-718 that just got FCC approval, featuring quadband EDGE, HSPA 850 / AWS / 1900 / 2100, Bluetooth, and WiFi — and if you ask us, the similarities are a little too plentiful… Continue reading
For whatever reason, Nokia’s Dutch outpost is showing off a variant that’s been up-spec’d to 8 megapixels with dual flash, a 3 megapixel bonus over the existing model — a phone that still isn’t widely available in all markets. This kind of has a whiff of something Nokia would do; they’ve done it in the past by gently massaging the… Continue reading
It’s still kind of freaking us out that Nokia by putting the battery out of the user’s reach — but is it really? The Nokia Blog has scored a customer service manual showing the step-by-step process for replacing the battery, and as long as you’ve got access to a size 4 Torx+ screwdriver and a… Continue reading
The latest Engadget Mobile Podcast, finally available as a hi-fi download, finds Chris and Myriam deep in the throes of discriminating phone fandom (e.g., Phandom). Hear the pair wallow through oceans of new handsets from Nokia, Samsung, and HTC as they make sense of this week’s mobile hardware landscape and answer your questions about how and when to buy your next… Continue reading
It looks like Nokia’s conversion from the time-tested four-digit naming scheme to the one-letter, one-number strategy may be nearing completion now that the company has announced a new series of ultra-low end candybars that all have homes within the . The C1 is actually a three-pack of phones — the C1-00, C1-01, and C1-02 — all of which feature Nokia’s longest standby… Continue reading
Like Japan, South Korea has a wireless industry that’s typically leaps and bounds ahead of just about everywhere else in the world — but the country has never been a Symbian or Android stronghold, so it’s actually not much of a surprise that two big recent releases are just now heading over there this Summer. From Nokia, the will be hitting… Continue reading
The already features one of the best pocket browsing experiences we’ve ever seen, but it looks to be getting a whole lot better today with the beta release of Firefox 1.1. Major new features include portrait browsing (awesome), form auto-complete, a context menu, volume key zoom, and — this is pretty neat — the capability to save pages straight to PDF… Continue reading
A number of devices were branded with Nokia’s label back in the day, so why not Xseries, too? Well, Nokia must be on the same page, because it has just announced the X2 candybar without a trace of smartphone DNA to its name. The relatively low-end phone clocks in with a 5 megapixel cam with flash, 2.2-inch QVGA… Continue reading
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