Vodafone teases with exclusive green Nokia N8, still mum on prices and availability

With September just a few days away, things are really about to get real for Nokia’s flagship N8, especially in Europe. 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

Nokia now Comes With Music morphing into Ovi Music Unlimited everywhere

It already kicked off this process in India a while back, but it looks like Nokia is finally ready to bring its faltering Comes with Music brand and service under the reign of the Ovi 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

Did the Nokia C7 just get FCC approval?

Sure seems like it to us. What you’re looking at here is the leaked image of the C7’s 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

Nokia C6 already updated with 8 megapixel cam, dual flash?

For whatever reason, Nokia’s Dutch outpost is showing off a C6 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

Nokia N8 battery swap: it can be done (with a Torx+ screwdriver, patience, and white gloves)

It’s still kind of freaking us out that Nokia chose aesthetics over maximum functionality by putting the N8’s 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

Nexus One, Nokia X6 coming to South Korea in June

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 X6 will be hitting… Continue reading

Firefox 1.1 beta for Maemo goes live

The N900 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

Nokia X2 welcomes Series 40 to the Xseries fold

A number of Series 40 devices were branded with Nokia’s “XpressMusic” 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

Nokia E72 ‘White Edition’ pops up in Singapore — in white, obviously

Look, we’ve got nothing against the E72 in Amethyst, Zodium Black, Metal Grey, or Topaz Brown — but we also know that choice is almost always a good thing, which is why it brings us such great joy to learn that there’s an official white version floating around. It’s not mentioned on Nokia’s main site, but a quick visit to a Singapore-based… Continue reading

What is this Nokia with CDMA?

We don’t typically post FCC filings we can’t identify or link to a product we’re expecting, but this odd Nokia filing caught our eye. It’s got a CDMA radio with EV-DO and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, which means it’s likely headed to Verizon considering how chummy those two have gotten over the past couple years — nothing unusual there. What is odd, though… Continue reading