Category: News

Nokia’s high end WP offering on it’s way, WIndows 8 tablet as well?

Nokia’s high end WP offering on it’s way, WIndows 8 tablet as well?

| November 16, 2011 | 31 Replies

The current crop of Windows Phone 7 devices from Nokia is not even widely available yet, but the rumours for the next generation devices are already surfacing. Nokia France’s head might have spoken a little too soon about upcoming products. In a recent interview with the French newspaper Les Echos he said that the current [...]

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New Social Applications for Belle & Updates for X7, E6, 500 before the rest? + Minor Rant

New Social Applications for Belle & Updates for X7, E6, 500 before the rest? + Minor Rant

| November 13, 2011 | 60 Replies

Random screenshot of Belle I found on Nokias official Belle website :http://www.nokia.com/sg-en/products/featured-phones/belle/ as you can see there seems to be two new widgets dedicated to Facebook & Twitter. The Facebook applications seems to have notification support FINALLY!!! how does anyone make a Facebook app that doesn’t even support notifications??? Groups or Pages and Events I might understand but notifications are the core [...]

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Gameloft 50% off Promo at Nokia Store!

Gameloft 50% off Promo at Nokia Store!

| November 10, 2011 | 16 Replies

  Hello fellow Symbian users! I’ve been trying to get around to posting this for the last week or two. Gameloft is currently holding a special 50% off sale of it’s games in the Nokia Store! The total sales price comes to about $.99 USD for basically each of their titles. If you have been holding off [...]

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Nokia Maps Available on Nokia store (for Belle device only)

Nokia Maps Available on Nokia store (for Belle device only)

| November 6, 2011 | 46 Replies

Nokia Maps (previously Ovi Maps) has just been released from the super amazing top secret beta labs over to Nokia store, Except it’s only for Belle devices!? When I tried downloading it over the PC with my phone set to ‘N8′ it said the application wasn’t available; however if you simply change your device to any [...]

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Nokia going Metro: New Conversations website

Nokia going Metro: New Conversations website

| October 24, 2011 | 93 Replies

A few days ago we ran a story about Nokia’s Conversations website being down because of upcoming changes. Those changes have been made and the site is now back up and running in time for Nokia World 2011 on the 26th. One thing immediately becomes clear within seconds of viewing the site; it looks a [...]

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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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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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Nokia UK & USA online store gone forever!

Nokia UK & USA online store gone forever!

| June 30, 2011 | 25 Replies

As you might already know, Nokia have been shutting down their online stores, and it looks like the UK and USA stores are the latests to be shut down following in the footsteps of the French, Finnish and Spanish stores to name a few. If you try to go to the store, you are just [...]

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#NokiaGulp…The World’s Largest Stop-Motion animation, shot on Nokia N8

#NokiaGulp…The World’s Largest Stop-Motion animation, shot on Nokia N8

| June 14, 2011 | 11 Replies

  So I’ve been teasing for a while on twitter about a mysterious Nokia event in UK… Well, here’s what’s really going on.

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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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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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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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Nokia Beta Labs now brings Nokia Software Updater (NSU) 3.0.223 Beta

Nokia Beta Labs now brings Nokia Software Updater (NSU) 3.0.223 Beta

| December 4, 2010 | 4 Replies

Hey all, it’s LLAADD again! It looks like the people over at Nokia Beta Labs are really working hard to get us all some nice things before x-mas as they have just churned out yet another update and this time it is in the form of Nokia Software Updater (aka NSU) 3.0.223 beta which has [...]

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Connectivity Analyzer from Nokia Beta Labs!

Connectivity Analyzer from Nokia Beta Labs!

| November 28, 2010 | Reply

Hey all, it’s been a while since i’v properly blogged on “My Nokia Blog” but as I no longer have time to post as much as i’d like to on my own TheTekBlogger.com, I thought Jay wouldn’t mind me posting here! One of the recent creations from the people over at Nokia Beta Labs yet [...]

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An Interview with the Nokia C7 Lead Designer

An Interview with the Nokia C7 Lead Designer

| October 28, 2010 | 1 Reply

The Nokia C7 is one of the sexiest devices launched this year, actually it might be the best looking device launched this year and It was a hard choice for me between the C7 and the N8, but the N8 won in the end with the you know what mega feature. Anyway the guys over [...]

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