Nokia Fever

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Linux, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA

We’ve already given you a glimpse at the N900, but as of today, you Yanks in the crowd can wrap your own limber paws around Nokia’s hero device. Admittedly tailored for enthusiasts and developers to use while the company maneuvers Maemo into… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, Nokia, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

It’s not often that you see an existing handset remixed with entirely different kinds of radios built in, so color us a bit surprised this week to see Nokia announce a new version of the 5330 slider this week sporting… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Features, Nokia, Linux, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

We’ve finally had a chance to play around at length with a very late pre-production version of Nokia’s N900 (retail units are already shipping, but not to our neck of the woods just yet) and we wanted to… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, T-Mobile, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

With the N900 getting AWS support, there’s every reason to believe that T-Mobile USA and Nokia want to make beautiful music together — but in order to do that, they’re going to need some quality hardware in… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, GSM, EDGE

We spend most of our time talking about Espoo’s Maemo- and Symbian-based lineup, which makes it easy to forget that the company has a vibrant business taking care of the very lowest rungs of the wireless industry — devices that shatter price barriers and take service to entire new market… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Say “AWS-compliant Nokia” and the first thing many folks are going to be thinking about right now is the mighty N900, but yeah, that’s not what T-Mobile’s getting around to launching today. Instead, it’s the 3711 that we first… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

We’re not sure why the color pink tends to spawn special editions with greater frequency than other colors, but for pink lovers, it works out pretty nicely because you end up getting all sorts of free crap bundled with your phone simply… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE

Right on cue, the smaller-but-just-barely N97 mini is now ready for public consumption over in Europe. Granted, we’re certainly at the tail end of October, but we can’t say that we caught Nokia in a lie or anything based on what was said last… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, GSM

Though Nokia’s well-known for its midrange and high-end handsets, the meat and potatoes operation might be the low end — take the venerable 1100, for example, which is kind of a big deal seeing how it’s the best-selling phone in history. That’s why phones like this rumored 2220 here are important, even… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Linux, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

So it seems like the new thing for manufacturers is to gather a bunch of platform champions (read: developers and bloggers) in a room, wax poetic for an hour or two about strategy, and — here’s where it gets awesome –… Continue reading