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 [...]
Nokia holds a junkload of competitions around their new devices and services. In fact, at any given moment, there’s probably at least 2 or 3 fun competitions you can enter to win cool Nokia devices and other stuff. One such competition that started not too long ago is centered around the recently-announced Nokia E73 Mode [...]
We caught wind of the Nokia E73 Mode for T-Mobile USA a few weeks ago, and today Nokia and T-Mobile made the QWERTY device official. The E73 is, as we assumed, essentially a Nokia E72 that has been slightly customized for T-Mobile USA. The front design has been tweaked slightly, and the E73 Mode supports [...]
Yesterday, news came over at Engadget that an unannounced Eseries, the E73, is apparently coming to T-Mobile USA on June 16th. The phone will also go by the name ‘Mode’, which is kinda lame, in my opinion, but other than that, it looks basically like the E72, with a few cosmetic changes. While the E73 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve always said that unbranded is always better than branded, when talking about phones, and I stand by that. However, there’s also something to be said for phone manufacturers getting carriers to pick up and subsidize their phones – and usually, unfortunately, that means the phone will be branded to the carrier. European carriers, with [...]
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 [...]
Episode 21 – Facebooking from Ricky Cadden on Vimeo. For Episode 21, I’m shooting outside the Facebook office, in light of this week’s news that Nokia and Facebook have been poking each other about some integration, and also Skyfire has integrated Facebook into its homescreen and browser. I’ve also got a sneak preview of the [...]
