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Author Archive: Andre

So you've read something I've written. yay!!
As you already know, my name is Andre and I'm currently a student based in Atlanta. Much like Jay, I pretty much blog here in my free time.

Follow me on twitter @andre1989 or contact me directly at Andre(at)mynokiablog(dot)com.
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Quick Poll: Android or Windows Phone 7- Which option would you have preferred Nokia go with

Quick Poll: Android or Windows Phone 7- Which option would you have preferred Nokia go with

| March 16, 2011 | 71 Replies

Advertisements I know a lot of you have your own opinions on Nokia’s recent announcements and would have much rather them choose the alternative of sticking with Symbian & MeeGo. Given that the entire executive board was of the opinion that a switch was mandatory, I must ask which of the two available alternatives do […]

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The case for a tablet

The case for a tablet

| March 15, 2011 | 15 Replies

A lot of people responded rather negatively to my last post questioning whether Nokia had a tablet strategy and decrying the entire idea of the tablet market as little more than a gimmick – Too large to be a phone and marginally more functional but smaller than an even a netbook and significantly less productive. […]

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Zune or Comes with Music – Music services for Nokia’s upcoming devices.

Zune or Comes with Music – Music services for Nokia’s upcoming devices.

| March 15, 2011 | 6 Replies

We all know the story of Nokia Comes with Music. You buy a participating device with a somewhat higher cost than the norm and Nokia gives you unlimited access and downloads to their DRM laced music catalog. Of course, the presence of DRM was somewhat necessary due to the unlimited nature of the service and […]

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Nokia’s tablet strategy – Or lack thereof

Nokia’s tablet strategy – Or lack thereof

| March 14, 2011 | 17 Replies

In August last year, Nokia’s Nicklas Savander sat down with the fine folks at Engadget to discuss a number of issue regarding Nokia’s future and their upcoming products. One of the more pointed questions asked was whether Nokia had any plans to enter the tablet space in the near future. The choice quotes from his […]

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Nokia Ideas Project site goes  live.

Nokia Ideas Project site goes live.

| March 14, 2011 | 11 Replies

Remember back when the Symbian Foundation was responsible for the development of the Symbian platform before development went back under Nokia’s complete control? Well before all of that went down there was this nifty little site maintained by the foundation that allowed regular old users and innovators to contribute their ideas to the platform in […]

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Windows Phone 7 hits 10,000 apps- Faster growth than iOS AND Android

Windows Phone 7 hits 10,000 apps- Faster growth than iOS AND Android

| March 12, 2011 | 13 Replies

The folks at Windows Phone Applist curate a list of pretty much every single Windows Phone 7 app released to the Windows Phone Marketplace. In the 177 days since the final version of the Windows Phone SDK went live and 142 days since the first devices went on sale, developers have flocked to the platform […]

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How do you use your smartphone?

How do you use your smartphone?

| March 4, 2011 | 29 Replies

A lot has been made in the blogosphere about Symbian smartphones occupying a different category of devices than the Android and iOS powered superphones. In a sense, there seems to be a lot pointing towards this being true, with many Symbian users buying and using their devices much as they would dumbphones. Not because the devices […]

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More features from Nokia, Symbian and Ovi Suite coming to Windows Phone 7

More features from Nokia, Symbian and Ovi Suite coming to Windows Phone 7

| March 2, 2011 | 55 Replies

  I know a lot of you don’t want to hear about Windows Phone 7 because it sucks, has nothing on Symbian, blah blah blah. In any case quite a few of the features that a lot of you have been complaining are missing from the platform are seemingly being solved either by the Windows […]

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What Symbian features could you not live without?

What Symbian features could you not live without?

| March 1, 2011 | 49 Replies

A lot has been made of Nokia’s recent decision to eschew their current smartphone ecosystem strategy in favor of a Microsoft based approach. Having done a detailed impressions post and published a list of my gripes with the current state of the Windows Phone software and ecosystem, I felt it’d be important to gauge the […]

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