Category: Convergence
Nokia will “build, catalyse or join a competitive ecosystem…reopen markets such as the US…” – to be outlined on Feb 11.
In the wake of Q4 2010 earnings, Reuters reports hints on Nokia picking up a competitors operating system aka “ecosystem”. Nokia has been adamant on not joining the Android gang and pretty much any other outside OS. Though when Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia VP Design, was asked about WP7 he said it was different to Android [...]
Nokia taking Symbian development back in house, Foundation remains to control licensing and patents
As mentioned before in the press release Jay posted, and has been rumored in the blogosphere for quite a while, it seems that Nokia and the Symbian board have taken a decisive step towards improving the Symbian OS, speeding up time to market, improving developer and OEM relations and at the same time cut [...]
Maemo 1.3 on the horizon?
While I’m currently in the middle of an all-nighter study/HW/project session, (it’s 2 AM where I’m at right now), some interesting news just filtered into our tips section (Thanks Jim). Over at the MeeGo blog, Harri Hakulinen let out that a Maemo 5 PR 1.3 release was incoming!! Jay will be pleased. Also mentioned was the [...]
Ari Jaaksi, VP of MeeGo Devices resigns
Well that’s something none of us expected. Given Nokia’s push for MeeGo as their singular high-end solution to compete with (read: crush) iOS and Android and the amount of buzz that has been generated both within and external to the company about this coming OS, it’s rather surprising that one of the most important men [...]
The joint mobile operating system and rants from MIR
Ewan MacLeod over at Mobile Industry Review in his weekly newsletter (something I think everyone with mobile technology inclinations should find an interesting read) put together a very long winded, though rather valid argument as to what mobile operators in their attempts to avoid becoming “dumb pipes” have done wrong and what HE believes they [...]
Tabula Crypticum
The following blog post was dropped into our comments section not long ago and having read it from end to end, I can sincerely empathize with the author and agree almost whole-heartedly with his views. I think the key takeaway from this article is that Nokia has an image problem and seems not to realize [...]
Swype for Symbian^1
The guys at Nokia Beta labs, responsible for the awesome “Nokia Bots” and ”Nokia Conversations” widgets and the “Photo Browser” application currently available in the Ovi Store have released a beta version of the text input program “Swype”. The Swype apps is available at the following link. Swype aims to significantly speed up text entry [...]
Pixelpipe on the N8
Stumbled across this video on dailymobile showing an upgraded pixelpipe application with the ability to upload not just pictures and videos to a variety of online services such as picasa and facebook but also regular files such as PDF’s to dropbox accounts. Give it a look! P.S. No information on the size of the files [...]
Nokia C7 leaked again
The Nokia C7 has been leaked again in an what looks like a genuine feature in a Hong Kong IT magazine called “Hi-Tech Weekly” issue 615: Looks like the Nokia C7 is very close to launch since they are already making ads for it. As you can see it runs Symbian 3 it has a [...]
More N8 camera samples? (Full 12mp 4000×3000)
Over in the mobile-review forums I stumbled across a post by a user named quagmire (giggity! ) who posted a few links to photos on flickr that were shot with the Nokia N8 (supposedly). Although I’ll remain a skeptic ( ’til I have the N8 in my own hands!!) , the pictures that were linked [...]
Anssi Vanjoki, "getting Nokia back to #1 in high end devices"
Having just read a short excerpt written on Nokia’s official blog by the current head of Nokia’s Mobile Services division Anssi Vanjoki, I felt it necessary to share it with you guys. http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/02/the-fightback-starts-now/ I think it speaks for itself where Nokia regard their position in the market and the situation they currently face. I’ll say [...]
Rant: The death of another Symbian blog and the loss of another one of Nokia's Evangelists
This started out a reply to a comment posted in one of my most recent articles which posted a link to Symbian-Guru’s Ricky Cadden and Dotsisx Rita el Khoury final rants and goodbye to the Symbian-Guru website and blog. A link to the post can be found below. http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2010/07/symbian-guru-com-is-over.html You should definitely give it a [...]
Symbian 3 review
The ever so popular Eldar Murtizan published his frankly ridiculously long review of the Symbian 3 OS that will be powering the Nokia N8 which you can read here. You have to give it to him despite his frankly hatred for Nokia he has written a long review on Symbian 3 which I bet you [...]
"Nokia – connecting people, photographing them and annoying them with a vast range of mindless ringtones"
Jeremy Clarkson, the refreshing loud mouth presenter of BBC’s hit “Top Gear”, is frustrated with the vast choice of high-tech mobile phones as not a single one simply does what he needs: be a phone. You know, one for talking? He does highlight one of my major gripes about convergence device: Battery Life! “What I [...]
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