So last month I got Ali to post about getting an interview with Jolla, and asked you, the readers, if there were things you wanted to know. Well now we have the answers, and reading through them, I am bloody excited about what may come out of the ex-Nokia staff start-up. Their answers remind me [...]
Michael sent this link over to something called smartphonebetatest.com The video style looks like Nokia’s older viral marketing campaigns, but then don’t you remember being duped by this style in the silly TabCo thing that turned out to be the world’s quickest forgotten product when revealed to be the Grid10? Apparently it seems to [...]
Agora – a Greek term for congregation. Video by nokia Here’s something interesting from last week. Nokia understands the impact of Social Media on their marketing organization. They have some of the best bunch of guys on twitter, facebook and various blogs for communicating and organizing events in the community and with Agora, have a way to [...]
Remember that odd Nokia dual Sim ads of two guys duelling each other, making the other instantly change clothes. The campaign of “swap” is much more apparent now with these two videos that Mark found. The first one is just like the ad from Nokia Brasil. The second one is slightly different but the same [...]
I saw @ChanseArrington, (Head of Developer Marketing – North America – Nokia.) ask on twitter: “New Names or Submit your own idea! -> Poll: What should Nokia call their series of Windows Phones in the US?http://bit.ly/ou3QSW“ Wow, does this mean that in addition to the new numbers convention, as begged, Nokia may also award their [...]
OK read title: Put Belle on your N8 at your own risk. Last week was pretty exciting in tech (MotoGoog, HP kills webOS and exits PC business, and the reveal of, sadly, TabCo). The Nokia scene was busy too, with Belle leaked and Anna update finally released (wow). We’ve seen plenty of Belle screenshots [...]
Oh wow, what an anticlimax. “Introducing the Grid 10! Pursuing our launch and learn to know our product http://t.co/R8mixoB”. Whilst we speculated early on of the possibilities of Nokia/MeeGo relations, TabCo as it turns out (and correctly by a few of our readers) is introducing to the world the Grid 10. It’s still not officially launched and we haven’t seen how incredible they [...]
I remember reading Staska’s (Unwired View) posts suggesting Google should buy Motorola as a quick and easy fix for all their patent problems. And apparently they’ve done just that. Well that blows out any possibility of Motorola ever making a Windows Phone handset. No wonder they kept flaunting their IP portfolio. Quite a bargain [...]
So for us, the secretive TabCo story has been intriguing us for 6 weeks now. Mostly grasping at the tiny straws of hope that it could some how be Nokia related. Of the later posts, we’ve resigned to accepting it’s anyone else but Nokia. However, since we’ve been dragged along the journey, I think we’d all like to know [...]
We got tipped the other day by Sezer who notified us of a Nokia N9 event happening in Turkey (and the teknoblog folks have an invite), which is not (yet) one of the official (by Nokia) or unofficial (by retailer) regions for Nokia N9 availability. This event takes place on Monday, the same day as [...]
On our post regarding the TabCo event registration, Oho commented about the possibility of TabCo being Fusion Garage. I’ve done some digging and he may be on to something. The JooJoo has a back design similiar to the one we have seen in TabCo videos. Image Source: Endgadget & TabCo Fusion Garage’s new tablet “Grid 10″ [...]
TabCo promised us a sneak peek of their UI earlier in the week. Luckily they did deliver. Now we have news to bring you regarding their event on Monday 15th August. Registration has now opened. (It went live yesterday actually). It appears you simply fill out the form and TabCo will send you all the [...]
The TabCo campaign and mystery will be over this time next week, but they’re making sure the hype doesn’t die down. Today they’ve got themselves again a promoted tweet (sitting on top of the usually stupid trending topics) to confuse yet more of the twitterverse. There’s something a little extra though in that apparently, they’ll [...]
Yesterday morning in the tabco post, our readers noticed that Wieden+Kennedy, Nokia’s global advertising agency since 2007 as headlines have parted ways. (Note, you’re seeing this on Saturday as I have to even out the loads on the server ) Nokia was W+K’s largest client amongst the likes of Nike, Honda, Aiwa, Cravendale, Lurpak, Yakult, [...]
Another TabCo story. @UGN999 tweeted me that he asked Tabco’s twitter one of the questions they specifically forbid being asked in one of their Q&A sessions, “Are You Nokia?”. TabCo instead of ignoring the tweet (as they cannot say yes or no) said “Maybe ” further fueling the straw clutching abilities of Nokia [...]
We’ve been following the TabCo story for a while, initially convinced it had something to do with Nokia. Now, I’m not so sure. Today they tweeted: The SuperBowl has some of the best commercials– remember this one? Change is coming as we #ReinventTheWheel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYP1Tjgt1Ao The video links to an Apple advert about lemmings. A video from 1985 [...]
The more we look into the whole TabCo thing, the more I’m led to think it’s anyone other than Nokia. See all the TabCo posts for the history. Some things to look at: 1) http://www.whoistabco.com/blog/?p=51 TabCo apparently has made tablets before that have ‘failed’ 7. If at first thy tablet fails, innovate, innovate, innovate again. What [...]
We’ve been following the Tabco Story closely, clutching at straws for the possibility of it being Nokia/MeeGo related. Bharadwaj posted something recently yesterday as well as these two other posts that puts together information that suggests it could be from Nokia here and here. Mark from TheNokiaBlog has noticed that on TabCo’s facebook page they say they LIKE [...]
I am sure you may have repeatedly heard about this TabCo company from Jay here and here I got an interesting tip from @camb078 to a post from the talk.maemo.org forums, the post goes like : casper27 Today , 06:12 AM Posts: 804 | Thanked: 458 times | Joined on Jan 2009 @ UK southampton #2228 Hey guys further to the N9 [...]
If you check out the promoted trending tweets, you’ll notice that TabCo has taken to the stage. That’s got to take some dough huh? Part of that 80 Million pound advertising budget to reposition the Nokia Brand? When we first heard of TabCo, we thought things pointed to Nokia. The “WeAreMaemo” account being deleted from [...]
Someone tipped us info that will be presented in this post yesterday, but since twitter wouldn’t find the account they mentioned, I just dismissed it. We got the tip again, this time via crisscross who points us to a VERY interesting video. Lots of techy-geek references there. Now do you remember the disappearance of the [...]
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