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Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company’s history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.
Rumor: Is Nokia Planning To Come Up With A Windows 7 Tablet?
04/06/2010, This is still very much a rumor, but according to Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman Renshaw, Nokia is busy working with suppliers and design manufacturers on a touchscreen tablet, which might be available as early as this fall. While [...]
Nokia E71 and E66 get free navigation with Ovi Maps
04/06/2010, If you happen to own either the Nokia E71 or E66, then you will be pleased to know that the Finnish cellphone manufacturer has made available free navigation with Ovi Maps to both smartphones, after first appearing on the Nokia [...]
Nokia N8 Video Ad On Its Way?
04/05/2010, Do you remember the Nokia N8 (or N8-00) that we spotted a week or so back? According to a tweet by TV camera operator Danny Gagatt, Nokia is planning to release a viral ad video for the device, nicknamed Vasco. [...]
Nokia N900 Overclocked To 1GHz
04/05/2010, Nokia’s N900 might not be the newest smartphone on the block, but it seems that owners of the N900 don’t want to see it left behind, as they’ve managed to boost the clock speed of the processor from its stock [...]
MMS Bomber Virus Affecting Many Phones In China
04/02/2010, A particularly nasty cell phone virus is making rounds in China, and has apparently affected over a million cell phones. This “MMS Bomber” virus currently affects phones that are powered by Symbian S60 3rd Edition, thus affecting many Samsung and [...]
FCC approves Nokia C3
03/31/2010, The Nokia C5 and FCC-approved C6 have already been spotted, making the last (for the moment anyways) of the C Series handsets, the C3, waiting and ready to be seen. We do know that the C3 comes with the model [...]
Nokia Denies Rumors That Comes With Music Has Been Rebranded
03/26/2010, After a recent change in Nokia’s Indian website that showed its music offering branded as Ovi Music Unlimited, instead of the usual Comes With Music, speculation started that the cell phone giant was rebranding its Comes With Music service. Now [...]
Nokia Buys Novarra To Improve Web Experience On Its Phones
03/26/2010, Nokia has just announced its acquisition of Novarra, a Chicago-based company that focuses on mobile browsing technologies. Novarra came up with the mobile browser, dubbed the Vision Mobile Browser, which has been used on smartphones and featurephones since 2002. There [...]
Vertu Offers 4 Golden Cell Phones In Japan
03/26/2010, Nokia might be using its Vertu brand to try and conquer the Japanese luxury cell phone market, and the announcement of its Kinko, Kikusui, Nanten and Daigo models in Tokyo will certainly be a good way to establish its brand [...]
Nokia Comes With Music Branded As Ovi Music Unlimited In India
03/26/2010, Considering that Nokia recently dubbed its music store Ovi Music, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to see the cell phone giant name its “Comes with Music” service as “Ovi Music Unlimited” in India, which does seem [...]
Mobile Carrier 3 To Offer The Nokia E72
03/24/2010, UK Carrier 3 has confirmed that it will be offering the Nokia E72 sometime soon, and it seems that subscribers played a big part in the carrier picking up the device. According to the blog, the carrier does admit that [...]
Silverlight Beta For Symbian S60 5th Edition
03/21/2010, It’s been slightly over 2-years since Nokia initially announced that Silverlight would be ported to Symbian, and now Microsoft has finally announced that the Beta of Silverlight for Symbian is available. Microsoft dubs Silverlight as a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of [...]
Nokia E72 now comes in purple
03/19/2010, Nokia’s E72 business messaging phone is one sleek handset which is definitely fun and easy to use, but up till now it only came in business optimized colors of black, silver and topaz brown. Good thing that the folks at [...]
