has finally gotten around to charging its customers this week with the announcement of Qik Premium, a new service that employs both a new phone client and some tweaked back-end stuff to offer users a handful of new features. The biggies appear to be MPEG-4 video downloads straight from the uploaded segments on Qik’s site and some sort of higher-quality transcoding… Continue reading
Even though it’s lived a long, fruitful (some might even say wildly successful) life as Nokia’s one and only high-end feature phone platform, is suffering from a bit of an identity crisis now that pushing deeper than ever into categories traditionally considered dumbphone strongholds — one needs to look no further than the to see that… Continue reading
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 , of course! There’s a bit of creative wording in… Continue reading
We’ve got enough rumor momentum going now so that we don’t really doubt the existence of the Nokia for T-Mobile — but if you’re the particularly skeptical type, you might like to take a glance at Cell Phone Signal’s new press shots of the handset. As you can clearly see, this is a dead ringer for the it’s… Continue reading
If you were waiting for a mild refresh of Nokia’s before taking the plunge on a new handset… well, you’re a strange character, but the good news is that your time has come at long last. The 2.2-inch QVGA display and 3.2 megapixel camera are both carried over; otherwise, you’ve got a micro-USB connector, 3.5mm headphone jack (good for the… Continue reading
First, a disclaimer: we don’t really know what’s going on here. That said, there’s a video accompanying the images posted on the forum Maxpda that have us believing some really, really smart dude with considerably too much time on his hands has managed to shove the BlackBerry Pearl 8220’s build of OS 4.6 onto a Nokia . Why you’d want to… Continue reading
It’s been a little while since Nokia , and it looks like they’re finally putting it to good use here following the a few months back — but don’t break out your party pants just yet, because it looks like this could be Nokia’s new catch-all bucket for the low-end Symbian gear. The so-called C5… Continue reading
The company notes that this is nothing more than a regularly-scheduled adjustment, but for what it’s worth, Nokia has quietly lowered prices across its entire range, in some cases by as much as 10 percent — nothing to sneeze at. Notably, the -based is now selling for €170 (about $239) in Finland, making it considerably cheaper than… Continue reading
Nokia’s just posted its literally-named Custom Dictionary utility to hallowed halls of experimental wares, finally bringing what appears to be a thorough predictive text solution to devices so that you can use (in Nokia’s own words) friends’ names and nicknames, places, and “slang” (read: every four-letter word you know) with aplomb in the course of normal textual conversation. What… Continue reading
You may recall that Nokia’s first Push contest resulted in an of an and a Speak ‘n Spell (although we always hate to see a vintage Speak ‘n Spell bite the dust). Problem is, Americans weren’t really represented among the finalists, so the company has decided to do a second round with a distinctly American flair –… Continue reading
