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Rajiv Suri speaks to the Class of 2016, Manipal University: Choose Curiosity over clarity, Diversity vs uniformity, Passion vs discipline, Honour vs success and Humanity over technology

Rajiv Suri speaks to the Class of 2016, Manipal University: Choose Curiosity over clarity, Diversity vs uniformity, Passion vs discipline, Honour vs success and Humanity over technology

| December 9, 2016 | Reply

Advertisements   . President and CEO of Nokia, Rajeev Suri, addresses the graduating class at his alma mater, Manipal University in India. Rajeev shared a nostalgic view of his experience at Manipal, but also the lessons he learnt that made him who he is today. Although he’s based in Finland, as CEO he spends 200 days […]

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Video: Sailfish Watch Demo on LG Watch Urbane

Video: Sailfish Watch Demo on LG Watch Urbane

| December 7, 2016 | 1 Reply

You’ve seen Sailfish on phones and tablets, but what about that other small screen? The watch? It looks like that gesture driven N9 like swiping works quite well on the LG Watch Urbane (V1). Some visual aspects of the N9-Sailfish UI fit naturally like the clock and alarm settings. Other parts, like calendar/date picker, less […]

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Back to reality: More than mobile phones; some pitfalls to consider for the Revered Nokia brand

Back to reality: More than mobile phones; some pitfalls to consider for the Revered Nokia brand

| December 7, 2016 | 9 Replies

Excitement and nostalgia for a Nokia revival is all well and good. But for this to work to make Nokia ‘great again’, it’s important to look at the challenges too. Of course there are the usuals of learning mistakes that Old Nokia came across. But there are also new obstacles for HMD/Nokia which Vlad from […]

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Nokia OZO update: official release for Windows, new innovations and advanced VR

Nokia OZO update: official release for Windows, new innovations and advanced VR

| December 7, 2016 | Reply

I’m totally sold on VR. Before Nokia ‘s step in the VR direction, I was already overwhelmed by the realism and potential experience that VR applications, games and videos can provide. It could be the next big thing and in November 2015, Nokia announced that they built something to ride that wave. Since then, Ozo, Nokia’s […]

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Classic mobile phones getting antique sales values; most affectionate memories for the Nokia 3310

Classic mobile phones getting antique sales values; most affectionate memories for the Nokia 3310

| December 7, 2016 | Reply

Do you have an old Nokia gathering dust somewhere? Well, just keep it stored well for a bit longer as it’ll probably be worth something even more one day. Not that you’d ever sell it of course. The bastion of facts that is the UK’s ‘Mirror‘ reports that some old phones might be worth a […]

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Whatsapp extends support for Series 40 Symbian S60 till June 30, 2017

Whatsapp extends support for Series 40 Symbian S60 till June 30, 2017

| December 6, 2016 | 1 Reply

Whatsapp reports that they’re extending support on Nokia platforms, Series 40 and Symbian S60 until June 30th, 2017. The original axe date was by the end of 2016. Those that don’t get the extension date? Windows Phone 7, Android 2.1 and Android 2.2, iPhone 3GS/iOS 6. Source: Whatsapp Via: Neowin

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Nokia smartphones on sale by June 2017, Premium Quality and Design, global availability, India key.

Nokia smartphones on sale by June 2017, Premium Quality and Design, global availability, India key.

| December 5, 2016 | 3 Replies

According to an interview by The Economic Times India, Nokia smartphones would be on sale by June 2017. Now there’s no actual specific mention of actual dates by the HMD CEO, Arto Nummela OR HMD President, Florian Seiche. It’s mentioned in the first paragraph. We can only guess that after MWC, last day being March […]

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Telstra invites Nokia 3315 user to make final call and shut down their 2G network

Telstra invites Nokia 3315 user to make final call and shut down their 2G network

| December 3, 2016 | 3 Replies

For the past 13 years, Gordon from Perth has been using his Nokia 3315. The battery lasts him 3 days (used to last over a week!) and it has outlasted 4 different SIM cards (remember those old fat ones) over a GSM 2G network. Gordon posted on Facebook that he was upset that the network, […]

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Nokia.com/phones – Be the first to know – sign up for official Android Nokia smartphone info

Nokia.com/phones – Be the first to know – sign up for official Android Nokia smartphone info

| December 2, 2016 | 4 Replies

Sign up for official Nokia Android updates directly from Nokia over at Nokia.com/phones. As shown by the cookie warning, the website is operated by HMD Global Oy. “Elegant simplicity. Trusted reliability. Lasting quality. We are unlocking new and extraordinary possibilities for billions of people. And we’re just getting started, with new smartphones coming in 2017.” Reliability […]

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