If you’ve spent any amount of time talking to me about Nokia, you know that I’m hard convinced there’s a ‘Magical Nokia Closet’ somewhere at the Nokia HQ in Helsinki, Finland. This Magic Nokia Closet is essentially a large warehouse with boxes upon boxes of every Nokia phone ever built. In my vision, you can [...]
We’re big fans of Wikipedia, but unfortunately, the site doesn’t always display properly on our Symbian-powered smartphones, even the updated touchscreen devices like the Nokia N97. Fortunately, someone raised this issue over a the Symbian Ideas site, and the idea was so well-liked, it became reality. Today, the Symbian Foundation pointed out the availability of [...]
Epocware, the developer behind applications such as Handy Shell and Handy Weather have just released a new application dubbed the Handy PhoneGuard. Being a security application, the Handy part plays in when with the help of one user chosen password, it lets you protect several parts of your Symbian-powered handsets. Here you can choose which [...]
With the announcement of the Nokia 5320, X6, and 5530 XpressMusic, it’s clear how Nokia intends to take on the touchscreen market – the same way they ‘took on’ the regular mobile market – with a flood of devices. Unfortunately, there’s a major difference in the touchscreen and non-touchscreen markets, and I think it’s big [...]
I’ve just received word from our friends at the Nokia Flagship Store in Chicago that they have received their first shipment of Nokia N86 8MP NAMs and are ready to sell them to you! They only currently have the Indigo color scheme in stock for now, but it is indeed the NAM variant. If you [...]
Here’s a hot deal from Amazon’s Gold Box feature – the Nokia E71 NAM, in grey, priced at $289, brand new! This is certainly a hot price on a hot phone. The Nokia E71 features a full QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, and is powered by S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack [...]
AllAboutSymbian got the scoop on a new firmware update for the Nokia N82, bringing it up to par with v31.0.016. Apparently, this update adds UDP (User Data Preservation), though you’ll still want to make sure you’ve backed up any critical information before you apply the update. Other details on what’s changed are slim, though Steve [...]
The Nokia N78 was recently updated to v20.149.051.1, with several key enhancements. DailyMobile.se has the full changelog, if you’re interested, but the stand out features include an updated version of Nokia Maps and a general increase in the speed of the UI, including transitions between screens. The N78 should have UDP (User Data Preservation), though [...]
Nokia’s definitely starting 2009 on a good foot. Despite Nokia having promised us magical lights at CES, they’ve updated the firmware for a handful of phones, a list which now includes the E66 and E51 business-centric smartphones. The Nokia E51 is a candybar cell phone from last year, updated to v300.34.56, whereas the E66 was [...]
