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Hey welcome and thank you for reading my post. Well I am a student based in the UK, and try to blog about Nokia as much as I can in my spare time. I am also on twitter where you can follow me @jwf90 or also the site @mynokiablog. You can also contact us with juicy tips or suggestions at tips(@)mynokiablog.com

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Nokia is promising more influence in Windows Phone Apollo

Nokia is promising more influence in Windows Phone Apollo

| October 26, 2011 | 67 Replies

Its fair to say that most pundits bloggers and journalists (us included) where pretty impressed with Nokia first offerings running Windows Phone but came away a little disappointed with the news that there aren’t that many Nokia exclusives apart from Nokia Drive, Nokia Music and an ESPN app (hardly anything to shout about). Techradar got [...]

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Nokia Sabre spotted somewhere in the wild

Nokia Sabre spotted somewhere in the wild

| October 20, 2011 | 113 Replies

Oh my !!!…….. what do we have here then Pocketnow which have been on sort of a roll in recent Nokia leaks have post a picture of what seem like the rumoured Nokia Sabre.   Form the picture here you can see a predominately white device. Pocketnow are also saying this device will come with [...]

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Windows Phone Mango apps showed off in style

Windows Phone Mango apps showed off in style

| September 15, 2011 | 24 Replies

There have been a ton of promo videos showing off Mango but this one caught our eyes and in our opinion shows off Windows Phone in a much better way in terms of the message Microsoft and eventually Nokia are trying to tell people. The message “put people first” is a great message. Overall a [...]

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Nokia “plans” to learn from HP’s WebOS failure

Nokia “plans” to learn from HP’s WebOS failure

| September 7, 2011 | 62 Replies

  Nokia plans to “learn” lessons from HP’s spectacular mishaps with WebOS when it comes to trying to make their Windows Phone strategy a success. Gary Chan, head of ecosystem and developer experience at Nokia Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, said that the decision by HP to discontinue its WebOS based hardware business is proof of how [...]

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Nokia Ovi store apps downloaded 160% more than iOS apps

Nokia Ovi store apps downloaded 160% more than iOS apps

| September 7, 2011 | 46 Replies

Even though Apple might have the most propular App store on the planet it doesn’t necessarily guarantee amazing download numbers for developers according to market research firm  research2guidance based in Germany. According to them an average app in the Ovi store generates more downloads than an average app on Apple’s app store. Now we have been [...]

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What if Nokia’s time……… is just over ?

What if Nokia’s time……… is just over ?

| July 25, 2011 | 90 Replies

Life is an endless mystery we constantly debate why we are here and we are constantly debating our future. One thing in life is for sure; though we all die or go away in some sort of way or we come back in another way. Anyway same happens in business companies come and go. Products [...]

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Press shots of Nokia 700/Zeta leaked (and tiny rant) #Symbian Belle

Press shots of Nokia 700/Zeta leaked (and tiny rant) #Symbian Belle

| July 5, 2011 | 77 Replies

      Snap, what do we have hear then, it looks like Elop might be a master in leaking a device on purpose but he sure isnt one in keeping a device  under wraps. What we have here is the first ina group of devices that will run the next version of Symbian called [...]

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First Nokia Windows phone possibly shown off briefly at D9 conference

First Nokia Windows phone possibly shown off briefly at D9 conference

| June 2, 2011 | 16 Replies

During Stephen Elop’s interview at the D9 conference that Andre nicely highlighted the most important points here, Walt Mossberg asked  Stephen, when Nokia will be releasing their first Wp7 device and as usual Elop replayed with the Q4 time realm which seems to be the settled time frame for the first Mango device running the software from Redmond. More [...]

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New Beta labs app: “Nokia play To”

New Beta labs app: “Nokia play To”

| June 1, 2011 | 74 Replies

Have you ever wanted to to stream your content such as pictures, video’s or music from your Nokia device to your DNLA enabled high def telly? Well then you are in luck today my friends. The clever guys at Nokia Beta labs have been hard at work again and have created another delightful app to [...]

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Nokia Trailers app out now in the Ovi store…..and boy does its look pretty

Nokia Trailers app out now in the Ovi store…..and boy does its look pretty

| May 3, 2011 | 15 Replies

If you are a regular user of the Ovi store you will notice that trailers of new movies often appear there but downloading them is not that of a great experience. If you remember Nokia also made a big deal of Web TV when the Nokia N8 was first announced and promised new “channels” would appear [...]

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Microsoft struggling to attract developers according to recent study

Microsoft struggling to attract developers according to recent study

| April 27, 2011 | 50 Replies

A recent study from the guys over at Appcelerator indicate that WP7 is still not attracting the developers it needs to compete with Android and iOS despite Microsofts new tag line of Developers , Developers , Developers !!!!!!! Apparently developers are becoming less interested in developing for Wp7, a drop from last quater. Now it should [...]

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Nokia and Microsoft WP7 deal signed, one step closer to WP7 powered device

Nokia and Microsoft WP7 deal signed, one step closer to WP7 powered device

| April 21, 2011 | 42 Replies

Nokia’s official blog have just announced that Nokia and Microsoft have signed a deal that will kick start the “global alliance” that was announced on the 11th of February, they have also said that the deal is ahead of schedule so the chances of seeing a WP7 device at the end of the year is a [...]

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Video: PR 2.0 Web browser demoed on Nokia C7

Video: PR 2.0 Web browser demoed on Nokia C7

| March 17, 2011 | 68 Replies

A new video has surfaced on youtube of the PR 2.0 update with the browser being showed off on a Nokia C7. The video shows a much improved browser, I still feel some more improvements can be made. The qwerty keyboard also seems to be much better from earlier video’s we have seen via Symbian Tweet via vgplabs [...]

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Video: Windows Phone 7- Connect with your world

Video: Windows Phone 7- Connect with your world

| March 16, 2011 | 16 Replies

A nice ad showing off Windows Phone 7 in its beauty if you dig its UI. What I love about the video is the fluidity of the interface its so nice and fresh and unique too to be honest I have seen it twice and the more I see it the more I want it [...]

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Winners and Losers of the Nokia-Microsoft “alliance”

Winners and Losers of the Nokia-Microsoft “alliance”

| February 11, 2011 | 82 Replies

So a lot has been made about this ‘alliance” (I hate that word) a lot of negative comments mainly from the Nokia enthusiasts side and also employees and developers that work on Symbian. Nokia and Microsoft make this sound like the best thing since sliced bread but the markets don’t seem to agree, because of [...]

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Advantages to Nokia adopting Windows Phone 7

Advantages to Nokia adopting Windows Phone 7

| February 10, 2011 | 57 Replies

There have been a ton of negative comments from Nokia fanatics, me, enthusiasts or some general tech writers on the news and rumours that Nokia might announce a WIndows Phone 7 powered device to conquer the decreasing market share that Nokia is experiencing right now. So thought I might post up some advantages to Nokia [...]

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Microsoft and Nokia in talks about a partnership

Microsoft and Nokia in talks about a partnership

| February 10, 2011 | 73 Replies

Day 203948 in the continued tragic Saga that involves Nokia, this time Bloomberg and the Wall street Journal are both reporting that Nokia are in talks with Microsoft concerning a software deal, I would imagine Windows Phone 7 powered Nokia devices *excuse me while I quickly go to the toilet and throw up on the [...]

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Leaked image of Nokia branded MeeGo device ???

Leaked image of Nokia branded MeeGo device ???

| January 23, 2011 | 115 Replies

Oh look what we have here; at closer inspection you should see a Nokia device running a stock version (I think) of MeeGo by the looks of it. Now we can rule out that it is the Nokia N900 because in this picture the bezel of the device is very thin which is actually rather [...]

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New Multitasking UI for Symbian 3 leaked ???

New Multitasking UI for Symbian 3 leaked ???

| January 21, 2011 | 29 Replies

At first glance you might be looking at a pretty picture of these beatiful looking Nokia E7 with Qt quick demo apps, but after closer inspection the silver E7 in the left might be sporting a new UI for multitasking, now remember the E7 runs Symbian 3 and multitasking is definitely not like it is [...]

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MeeGo tablet UI v Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” UI

MeeGo tablet UI v Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” UI

| January 8, 2011 | 25 Replies

You must be living under the rock to not to have noticed something called CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is happening in Las Vegas right now and something that has the bloggers sphere excited about is Android 3.0 aka “honeycomb” the tablet version of Android. It certainly is impressive from the videos we have seen. We [...]

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Nokia unlikely to ship Windows Phone 7 powered device… because they are too controlling ???

Nokia unlikely to ship Windows Phone 7 powered device… because they are too controlling ???

| December 30, 2010 | 8 Replies

An ex Nokia employee has given his voice to Eldar’s and BGR’s ridiculous comments regarding Nokia using Windows Phone 7 in future Nokia phone’s. According to him its not possible and he has written a blog post about it and makes claims that are usually not associated with Nokia, he also says that Windows Phone [...]

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