Nokia reveals 2015 vision while struggling with 2009 realities (video)

When Nokia talks about the future it’s generally a good idea to pay attention. After all, even with diminishing market share, a split Maemo and Symbian smartphone strategy, and less than stellar financials, the company remains the world’s leading supplier of handsets with a proven ability to innovate. So take notice when Nokia’s head of corporate strategy, Heikki Norta… Continue reading

Nokia announces the end of its N-Gage gaming platform

Nokia has officially announced that it will put an end to its problem-plagued N-Gage gaming service, integrating it into its Ovi Store. The move isn’t really a shocker, and while Nokia has confirmed that no further games will be published, it’s also said that it will continue to sell currently available games in the Ovi Store (as of today) until the

Maemo 6 UI concept revealed to include portrait mode, capacitive multitouch

Today at the Maemo Summit — which we like to imagine happens in a lavish, remote mountain fortress somewhere in Finland — Nokia dropped some interesting hints about what we can expect from Maemo 6. Look for both portrait and landscape support, multitouch, capacitive touchscreens, an “iconic user experience and integrated internet services in one aesthetic package” (as opposed to a user

Nokia abandoning S60 for Maemo on future N-Series devices?

Filed under: Handsets, Software, Nokia, Linux, Symbian

Confused by Nokia’s dual-platform, Maemo 5 and S60 5th Edition smartphone choices? You’re not alone. Fortunately, things are starting to become a bit more clear thanks to some loose-lipped members of Maemo’s marketing team attending an official N900 meet-up in London last night. According… Continue reading

Opera Mobile 10 features tabbed browsing, disses WinMo

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

Symbian freaks, do we have a treat for you! While all your WinMo-lovin’ friends are out there with Opera Mobile 9.5 (or possibly 9.7), a beta of version 10 has just been announced exclusively for Nokia / Symbian smartphones. As well as being as speedy as ever (fifty percent faster than previous

Symbian Horizon app store launched, dev program detailed

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Mobile World Congress came and went all those months ago without an app store for Symbian freaks, but you know what? That’s OK — Rome wasn’t built in a day, y’know. Besides, all that is changing now that the Symbian Foundation has announced that Horizon, the publishing program / mobile marketplace, is

Nokia N97 firmware 2.0 hits the tubes, is ready for your attention

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Got an N97? Yeah? Reckoned that Nokia has forgotten about your loyalty and moved all of its focus onto the N900? Fret not, dearest early adopter — the engineers in Espoo are making good on a promise to clear out lots of bugs in the aforesaid handset… Continue reading

Maemo 6 UI concept reveled to include portrait mode, capacitive multitouch

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Linux

Today at the Maemo Summit — which we like to imagine happens in a lavish, remote mountain fortress somewhere in Finland — Nokia dropped some interesting hints about what we can expect from Maemo 6. Look for both portrait and landscape support, multitouch, capacitive touchscreens, an “iconic user experience and integrated internet

Nokia makes Qt port to Maemo 5 and N900 official (video)

Filed under: Software, Nokia

Hey developers, Nokia’s got a special treat for you today. It just announced the official port of the community-driven Qt for Maemo project. That means a common framework for writing native applications (and web apps and services thanks to Webkit integration) across Maemo 5 and future Maemo 6 releases, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. That’s a… Continue reading

Nokia N86 firmware v20 brings exciting new features, improvements

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

Something like a year and a half ago, every camera manufacturer in the world suddenly decided that face detection was the Next Big Thing — so naturally, cameraphones were destined to follow down that path. Given that the N86 8MP currently resides as Nokia’s undisputed photographic champion, it makes sense that the… Continue reading