Last week, Nokia updated the firmware on a handful of its most popular models – though annoyingly leaving the Nokia N97 out in the cold – and this week, they’ve kicked things off again with new firmwares for the Nokia E75 and the Nokia 5230. The Nokia E75 has what I always imagined to be [...]
The Nokia Nuron is the first touchscreen Symbian-powered smartphone to be launched on a major U.S. carrier – ever. Thus, it’s quite a big deal, and I’m personally anxious to find out exactly what T-Mobile has and hasn’t changed on the phone. This is also T-Mobile USA’s first Symbian-powered smartphone in quite some time. We [...]
When the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic launched, it was easy to see that the price point and feature set would have made it an awesome phone for Nokia to make some moves in the U.S. market. The full touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, built-in GPS, and standard 3.5mm headphone jack all add up to trump most of [...]
While Nokia has always done decently in the U.S. market with its boring S40-powered featurephones, it has struggled to get the major carriers to carry its Symbian-powered smartphones. There are currently 3 Symbian-powered smartphones available from AT&T, which is a good improvement, but T-Mobile is the other GSM carrier, and there’s not much of anything [...]
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 [...]
If you thought the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was affordable – think again. Nokia just unveiled its latest touchscreen smartphone, the 5230 XpressMusic. Modeled after the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, this slender Symbian-powered smartphone features a 3.2-inch nHD (640×360 pixels) resolution touchscreen display and a 2 megapixel camera. The phone is powered by Symbian^1 (also known as [...]
