As I hinted about on our Twitter account recently, I got a new toy yesterday – the Nokia E73 Mode for T-Mobile. I like reviewing the carrier-branded phones because it’s interesting to see how much progress Nokia has made with each carrier, specifically when comparing the phone to a similar unbranded device. Nokia normally releases [...]
Probably the only thing that really caught my eye during the WWDC keynote yesterday was the new video editing app, iMovie, for the iPhone 4 that Apple is charging $4 for. I remembered the video editing I used to do on my Nokia N95, and it was really nice. Today, Nokia released part 2 of [...]
Nearly 12 hours ago, Nokia officially unveiled its latest masterpiece, the Nokia N8. This smartphone is the first Symbian^3 device to be officially unveiled, and it brings Nokia up to par with the hardware capabilities of every other smartphone manufacturer on the planet. The Nokia N8 features a 3.5-inch nHD (360×640 pixels) resolution capacitive OLED [...]
Nokia announced the N97 Mini Gold Edition quite a while ago, so I was surprised it took this long for an unboxing video to pop up. Aside from the exterior and in-box accessories, the N97 Mini Gold Edition is the same as the non-gold edition – tilt-up display with full QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen, 8GB of [...]
This morning, at a time far too early for this American blogger to be awake, Nokia unveiled the latest Eseries, the E5. The Nokia E5 is modeled after the hugely popular E71 and E63 (which, in turn, were modeled after the RIM BlackBerry form factor, by the way). The Nokia E5 might look a bit [...]
After the Nokia N97 and N97 Mini, no other touchscreen smartphones from Nokia have supported the same homescreen widgets, which honestly had me worried that these would be single-use-case devices. Fortunately, that’s not the case – today, Nokia announced the C6, its next generation of hybrid touchscreen smartphone with a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The [...]
Nokia Bots was just released on the Nokia Beta Labs, and I have to say, this is the first step towards something I have wanted for a long, long time. Basically, Nokia Bots monitors the way you use your Symbian-powered smartphone and starts doing things based on this behavior. There are four bots currently available: [...]
The Sony Ericsson Vivaz (and Vivaz Pro) really intrigue me. Aside from an official blog, the company has had little fanfare around these Symbian-powered smartphones, despite their awesome spec sheets. Don’t worry, though – we’re not a Nokia blog, we’re a Symbian blog, and as such, we’ll definitely be covering these handsets as much as [...]
The Nokia N97, according to Nokia, has been selling like crazy – and rightfully so, it’s a powerful device. However, there’s no hiding the fact that for the first 6 or 7 months of the device’s life, it was a complete disaster from a consumer perspective. Rafe Blandford and Ewan McLeod (and a small guest [...]
