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Nokia N9 “near perfect” yet Nokia MeeGo chief quits

Posted October 6, 2010 by Mike Evans

More woes for Nokia. Their latest flagship phone, the highly anticipated Nokia N9, is, according to Eldar Murtazin, “near perfect” hardware-wise, but the software is “not so good at the moment.”
You’d expect this, of course, as the phone is…

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Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki is still fighting (and peeing!)

Posted September 21, 2010 by Mike Evans

Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki gave a barn-storming presentatrion at last week’s Nokia World, but he hasn’t finished yet. Talkng to the Financial Times, he described the throught of Nokia adopting Android as like a small boy peeing his pants! Which is…

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What to expect from Nokia World 2010

Posted September 14, 2010 by admin

Tomorrow is the start of Nokia World, the Finnish giant’s annual meetup for all the great and the good in the mobile phone world. And this year, I’m happy to say, for me as well, as Nokia invited me along!…

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Nokia’s Elop: “Nokia has great products you have not seen”

Posted September 10, 2010 by Mike Evans

Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, has said that Nokia “has great products you have not seen.” He sees his job as surfacing those products so that the best come to market more quickly. And with with Jorma Ollila, Nokia’s Chairman…

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Nokia hints at a Nokia/Microsoft “Winbian” mobile OS

Posted September 10, 2010 by Mike Evans

Huge news for the industry comes today from Nokia, who’ve just replaced their President and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, with Stephen Elop, the current head of Microsoft’s Business Division.
Earlier today, Bloomberg News quoted Nokia’s Jorma Ollila, Chairman of the Nokia…

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NITDroid: Nokia’s worst nightmare suddenly becomes real

Posted August 28, 2010 by Mike Evans

I love the fact that modern smartphones can be moulded to the whim of the customer, no matter what the manufacturer’s original intentions. Take, for example, the HTC HD2, which was originally released with Windows Mobile 6.5.
It didn’t take…

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Nokia spells out the future of Symbian and MeeGo

Posted July 11, 2010 by admin

The Nokia N8 will be the only Nokia N-Series phone to use Symbian^3 – all future N-Series phones will use Symbian^4, with the company’s new MeeGo OS being reserved for the “computing space.”
That’s the stated aim of Anssi Vanjoki,…

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Microsoft kills the Kin, heads for mobile meltdown

Posted June 30, 2010 by Mike Evans

Microsoft has killed the Kin, its brand new range of socially-oriented mobile phones that were released in the US just a few short months ago. Although the phones that were released for sale in the US will still until stocks…

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From WAP to App – the top phones that defined the decade

Posted January 5, 2010 by Mike Evans

The noughties was a decade of tremendous innovation for mobile phones that saw the total number of phones worldwide reach a staggering 3,973,453,793 (and counting).
Megapixels rose, gizmo upon gizmo was shoe-horned into phones that got ever thinner.
Today, as…

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Ericsson and Motorola to merge?

Posted May 8, 2007 by Mike Evans

Ericsson may be about to bid for Motorola in a giant mega-merger, according to rumours. Details are extremely sketchy, so this should be taken with a pinch of salt at the moment, but there’s huge internal discord within Motorola at…

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Nokia to release 70mbps phones next year

Posted April 21, 2007 by Mike Evans

The worlds of mobile phones and computing are converging rapidly, as both Nokia and Intel announced separately that they’re developing new technologies involving WiMax for 2008. Nokia announced they will be releasing WiMax phones in 2008 (LG and Samsung already…

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T-Mobile’s 20Mbps 3G service aims to destroy landline phones

Posted April 30, 2006 by Mike Evans

The UK’s home broadband market is being shaken up at the moment, with Carphone Warehouse (our leading mobile phone retailer) offering free broadband bundled with its TalkTalk landline phone service. Now, T-Mobile has waded in by threatening to replace the landline altogether – both for voice calls and broadband data services.

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