Nokia Fever

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Misc

The Wireless Power Consortium has already managed to attract some pretty big players in the industry (including Philips, Sanyo and Duracell), but it’s now bolstered its roster with one of its biggest heavyweights yet by announcing that Nokia has signed on as a full member. Of course, Nokia isn’t making any… Continue reading

Filed under: Features, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

We’ve got to give Nokia credit: they managed, against all odds, to come up with a truly unique form factor in creating the Twist for Verizon — a combination of shape, design, and mechanism that had never quite been seen before. Thing is, it’s the year… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless

Not that there was any doubt, but Nokia’s gone official with its Verizon-bound 7705 Twist, just shy of one month after its KIRF counterpart hit the market. Espoo’s released a handful of glamor shots to celebrate, and although the hardware is still crazy enough to thoroughly pique our interests… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

The Keepin’ It Real Fake industry has become so good, so fast, so well-tuned to market trends that we knew it was just a matter of time before it’d be consistently beating the real phones to market. What we didn’t expect, necessarily, was for Nokia to… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, CDMA

It’s no Twist, but the latest Verizon-branded Nokia leak suggests that the newfound love between the two companies is showing no signs of slowing down — good news for a carrier shunned by some manufacturers for its CDMA ways. The alleged 2705 “Shade” would replace the 2605… Continue reading

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

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that leaked lineup documents suggest Rogers has an eye on Nokia’s Surge; Rogers has a pretty good relationship with Nokia, after all, and the Surge is the kind of… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Rogers Wireless, GSM, EDGE

In North America, Rogers has a reputation for getting the most cool GSM handsets the quickest (that’s not the only reputation it has, but we won’t go there right this second) — but this is one case where T-Mobile USA beat ‘em to the punch… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

Here’s what we know: a Nokia RM-526 (all Nokia handsets receive internal RM codes in addition to their consumer-friendly marketing model numbers) just passed the FCC, and the outline of the device pictured in the FCC ID label documentation makes it look a little… shall… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

This rumor’s got more holes than swiss, but stranger things have happened, so it’ll be an interesting scoop to keep an eye on nonetheless. A tipster to Boy Genius Report claims that Nokia is working on a “swiveling E71-type handset” for — get this –… Continue reading

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

This rumor’s got more holes than swiss, but stranger things have happened, so it’ll be an interesting scoop to keep an eye on nonetheless. A tipster to Boy Genius Report claims that Nokia is working on a “swiveling E71-type handset” for — get this –… Continue reading