Nokia Fever

Say you’re Nokia. Well, you can’t be Nokia since Nokia’s an inanimate concept; say you’re Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. What’d be a good show to use as a backdrop for a new low-end line of smartphones, none of which are likely to generate a ton of buzz? Why, the monstrous fairgrounds of CeBIT, of course! There’s a bit of creative wording in… Continue reading

Following on the closed heels of the update from Fring, VoIP/IM client Nimbuzz has updated its client for the symbian fifth edition to v2.2 and no they still haven’t added video calls over VoIP but instead they have integrated twitter into their client now, thereby making it the most comprehensive VoIP/IM client on our 5800s.

While we have… Continue reading

Filed under: Culture, Handsets, Nokia, Linux

Nokia has been handing out the N900 for selective “artsy” uses lately through its “Push” program, and the folks at Tinker it now! sure seem to have put their model to good use. They’ve paired the device with all matter of nostalgia, including a Rolodex, FM radio and a… Continue reading

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Announcements

Nokia’s Ovi Store launched in late May — and then promptly crashed. The company has long-since gotten everything working smoothly and so is now so confident about its stability that it’s letting other developers in on the party. Coders proficient… Continue reading

Have you ever been caught on a wrong foot by your loved ones? Sometimes your partner (gf/bf) may not approve of your staying in touch with your ex or you just prefer not to reveal your conversations with a certain someone be it for business or personal reasons. Hidden Contacts by Tektronic is exactly the application for covering your… Continue reading

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

There’s no shortage of complaints — some minor, some not-so-minor — about the shipping firmware in the N97s that are already out in the field (our wonky backlight comes immediately to mind), but fortunately, it seems that Nokia’s looking to tackle the issues perhaps more proactively than it’s ever done before… Continue reading

Filed under: Nokia

Turn your portable telephony nostalgia up to 11 and join us on a journey down Nokia memory lane. Nokia Conversations have filmed a collection of 100 phones charting the progression through the last 20 years of the Finnish manufacturer’s history. Sadly, this Nokia retrospective doesn’t stretch so far back as to include galoshes and bike tires, but

Nokia’s eagerly awaited ‘Ovi Store‘ launched today with a start from Australia, followed by few other countries. Those who have no clue what the Ovi Store is, its an on-device mobile application marketplace for applications, themes, ringtones, widgets, and other content for Nokia cell phones. In short, it’s Nokia’s very own version of Apple’s App Store.

Initial reports came from Australia few hours… Continue reading

Filed under: Software, Nokia

With that May launch window closing fast, it looks like Nokia might get Ovi Store in under the proverbial wire: it just went live on Vodafone in Australia, which was soon followed by other carriers, and then Ireland and Singapore. According to a post that was subsequently pulled from Nokia’s Conversations blog, Nokia… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

We’re not sure why giant phones are suddenly all the rage, but it seems to be a trend — Nokia just put up this four-foot 5800 XpressMusic in Antwerp. Unlike the giant Samsung Messager that recently invaded Chicago, it’s not actually a working phone, but the custom Flash interface designed by Create Multimedia is… Continue reading