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Today Microsoft and Nokia announced their strategic partnership which will put the Windows Phone 7 operating system onto NOKIA devices. I’ve been waiting for this for a while now – NOKIA has had multiple chances to fix things in-house (renovating Symbian, Maemo, Meego, adopting Android like virtually every other OEM) but this deal needed to … Continue reading “NOKIA just became SGI. But it’s not all bad.”
Mikael Ricknäs of Infoworld has an opinion on what Nokia must do to remain relevant in mobile. Nokia was getting complacent and its first mistake was not taking the iPhone and Android seriously early on, says Nick Jones, a vice president at Gartner. … Two years later, the move to open source has proved to … Continue reading “Nokia: the plan before 2012”
With the release of the iPhone 4, the web is abuzz with people talking about how it’s the phone which “doesn’t work” or the one with the “antenna problems”. At the moment I’ve seen about 8 iPhone 4s (though I do not own one yet) and none of the owners have described the problem as … Continue reading “When I hold the Nokia phone, service drops off…”
Robin Wauters of Techcrunch writes: At the Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has unveiled its initiative to try and repeat the runaway succes of Apple’s App Store with its own mobile storefront dubbed Ovi Store. This was an expected move… …because we can’t expect Nokia to innovate, only copy. Developers of the apps will … Continue reading “Nokia to launch Ovi Store. Bored Now.”
[From SMSTextNews] I didn’t see this one coming Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of … Continue reading “Nokia open sourcing Symbian?”
ENN’s Ciara O’Brien writes: “Nokia is challenging Apple in the digital music market with a new online music store aimed at Irish customers. … Tracks from the Nokia Music Store are compatible with any device that plays Windows Media Audio files (wma), which are embedded with Microsoft’s digital rights management technology. However, iPods and iPhones … Continue reading “Nokia Ireland parties like it’s 1999. Or 2001.”
Tom Raftery rips Nokia a new one with his review of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Last summer there was a huge amount of interest in the Nokia tablets after the 770 was available for a knockdown price. I was about to go on holiday for a week and couldn’t wait for the 770 to … Continue reading “Tom Raftery on the Nokia N810”
Let’s face it, with a title like that you kinda hope there’s going to be a winner and a loser. I bought my Nokia N800 during the summer this year because I was spending a week away from the laptop and because I wanted to familiarise myself with the whole experience of a modern palmtop. … Continue reading “Nokia N800 versus iPod touch”
It’s been a while since I was a true gadgeteer. I shelved my trusty Newton MessagePad 2000 (upgraded) about 18 months after Newton Inc closed it’s doors and was re-absorbed into the Mothership. For a while I used a very functional Palm Vx which gave me a lot of joy and I spent the next … Continue reading “Nokia n800 – the anti-iPhone”
iPhone 5 was announced last night. It’s twice as fast for both CPU and graphic, shifts to a larger (4″) 16.9 screen ratio, has an even better camera, new WiFi chips for faster transfers, new 4G wireless with global support, better battery life and managing all of this while being lighter than ever and thinner … Continue reading “incremental”