Rogers launches Nokia Surge, prepares Nokia N86, LG Eve
Rogers Wireless, Canada’s largest mobile carrier, has launched the Nokia Surge – a QWERTY S60 phone that’s already available in the US from AT&T.
The features of Nokia Surge include a 2.4 inch QVGA display, HSDPA, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, GPS, Bluetooth, 2.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera and MicroSD card support.
Rogers sells the Surge for as low [...]
Nokia 6788 announced – Nokia’s first TD-SCDMA phone
Nokia’s plans to bring a TD-SCDMA handset to the Chinese market have finally come to fruition today, with the announcement of Nokia 6788, which is obviously the company’s first TD-SCDMA phone.
Made for China Mobile, the Nokia 6788 uses Symbian S60 and has a design “inspired by traditional Chinese furniture and architecture.”
The known features of Nokia [...]
Nokia’s Here and Now updated, includes movies and restaurants
Nokia Here and Now, the beta application announced back in April, has just been updated.
Designed to provide instant access to various info directly on your phone, the application now adds nearby movie listings, as well as nearby restaurants.
The new release also fixes some bugs and solves a “nasty wrong location problem that had” the app’s [...]
Nokia sues Apple, claims iPhone infringes 10 of its patents
In a surprising announcement, today Nokia said that it has sued Apple for infringing no less than ten patents “for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.”
The patents cover speech coding, wireless data, encryption and security, and Nokia claims that they’re infringed by all of Apple’s iPhones – starting with the 2.5G model launched in [...]
Nokia investigating Carphone for unauthorized sales of its 5530 inventory
Nokia UK is apparently investigating Carphone Warehouse for selling tens of thousands of 5530 XpressMusic phones on the grey market.
Carphone launched the Nokia 5530 in the UK on August 11, after it ordered about 130,000 units from the Finnish phone maker.
According to MobileNewsCWP, more than half of the units were “offered to the UK trade [...]
Nokia N900 delayed a bit, will start shipping in November
If you’ve been eagerly waiting for the Nokia N900 to become available, it looks like you’ll have to wait a bit longer.
Nokia initially announced that the new Maemo 5 handset would be on sale starting October, but this won’t happen.
According to Peter Schneider (Head of Marketing, Maemo Devices), the Nokia N900 will start shipping “during [...]
Nokia is exploring 3D multi-touch interface
By now, almost everyone has figured what a good touch interface on a mobile device should look like. Also, almost everyone is dabbling with at least some sort of multi-touch features on mobile devices.
Nokia is no exception here.
While Symbian based Nokia touch handsets might still be lagging behind the competition, their Maemo [...]
Nokia Sports Tracker becomes a startup – Sports Tracking Technologies
The creators of Sports Tracker, one of Nokia’s most successful mobile applications, have decided to form a company of their own, called Sports Tracking Technologies Ltd.
Sports Tracking Technologies Ltd was announced as part of the Nokia Technopolis Innovation program, which has the purpose of converting “Nokia’s unused ideas and innovations into growth businesses through both [...]
Nokia 2220 Slide in new photos, should be released this quarter
Although it’s not officially announced, the Nokia 2220 Slide has appeared once again, this time in live photos.
As its name suggests, the 2220 Slide (or 2220s) is a new Nokia slider phone. Most of its features are on the entry-level side, which means that its retail price will be quite low, possibly around $100.
The Nokia [...]
Fun stuff with Nokia N900: P2P/ Bittorent downloads and Xvid/AVI movie playback
Before I checked this out, I thought that P2P/BitTorrent clients on smartphones was one of the things the people just did not do.
I guess, I was wrong. It seems that every major mobile platform has one.
On the other hand, since I use Bittorent mainly to catch up with the U.S. shows, like Lost, FlashForward, Mentalist, [...]