Category: Press Release

Bridgestone Australia use Nokia Lumia 800 as company’s smartphone

Bridgestone Australia use Nokia Lumia 800 as company’s smartphone

| May 18, 2012 | 5 Replies

Part of the goodies bag I got from Lumia Lounge, included a Press Release from Nokia and Bridgestone Australia, one of the nations largest tyre brands. This release was to say that as of yesterday, the company “upgraded its smartphone fleet to 140 Nokia Lumia 800s”. Apparently, the devices had been trialled extensively by the [...]

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Nokia Press: Patent Infringements and Carl Zeiss

Nokia Press: Patent Infringements and Carl Zeiss

Two things that have gone up recently at Nokia Press relate to patent infringements, and also the Carl Zeiss-Nokia partnership. First up, let’s look at the patent infringements. Nokia are claiming that HTC and Viewsonic have infringed on their patents in the US, and that HTC and RIM have infringed patents in Dusseldorf, Germany, with [...]

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Mega Q&A session: Lumia/WP Production/Design, Maps, Entertainment & More

Mega Q&A session: Lumia/WP Production/Design, Maps, Entertainment & More

| March 3, 2012 | 36 Replies

Now that MWC is over (unfortunately) I had a chance to organize all the Q&A sessions we had with all the awesome Nokia guys; we had four in total, one with Damien Dinning about the 808 and it’s camera which I posted seperately, here we have 3 more Q&As about the Luima design, Nokia Maps/Transport and Nokia Entertainment. [...]

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Video: Nokia Lumia 610 Commercial – Surprisingly Good

Video: Nokia Lumia 610 Commercial – Surprisingly Good

| March 1, 2012 | 13 Replies

Here is the latest TVC for the Nokia Lumia 610 which was just announced at MWC on Monday. Compared to other Nokia ads, it is pretty good. You do actually see the phone and what it has to offer, unlike some that you watch and think “so where was the phone and what does it [...]

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Nokia Respond to Eldars Rumors (Also reminds Engadget that they’ll be at CES)

Nokia Respond to Eldars Rumors (Also reminds Engadget that they’ll be at CES)

| January 5, 2012 | 28 Replies

“We’ve put these rumours to rest a long time ago. The focus for Nokia is on executing on our partnership around Windows Phone and growing the ecosystem, and each company has the tools they need to do so” Basically Eldar knows nothing please focus on the awesomeness of our phones, seriously though; Nokia UK responded to slashgears post about [...]

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T-Mobile Lumia 710 Press Release Leaked; Still Not Real LTE!

T-Mobile Lumia 710 Press Release Leaked; Still Not Real LTE!

| December 14, 2011 | 43 Replies

I guess the people at Nokia U.S. were a bit over-excited about the news they were supposed to release later on today, about what most of us had probably guessed; the Nokia 710 entering the US market (Via T-Mobile). According to the leak the 710 is set to hit stores on Jan 11th with a [...]

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Nokia Lumia 800 & 710 specs and comparison

Nokia Lumia 800 & 710 specs and comparison

| October 26, 2011 | 47 Replies

Over at Nokia Developer, the list of specs for the two new Nokia Windows Phones, 800 and 710, have been uploaded. Side by side, they provide an easy comparison. Take a look for yourself. http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/Comparison.xhtml?dev=Lumia_800,Lumia_710 Like Jay posted, the 800 is to be shipped around Europe next month, with most other markets coming end of [...]

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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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Symbian Foundation websites closed

Symbian Foundation websites closed

| December 17, 2010 | 7 Replies

As mentioned in Jay’s previous post in November, today marks the official close of the Symbian foundation websites. While most of our readers likely never had much experience with or exposure to these websites, they posed a major resource for a lot of curious cats like myself who wanted to keep track of progress on [...]

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Nokia turning the screw:  Adds 13 new patents to suits against Apple

Nokia turning the screw: Adds 13 new patents to suits against Apple

| December 16, 2010 | Reply

Well color me shocked (not) but it seems like Nokia has dug up another round of patents to assert against Apple in their ongoing patent litigation suits. Funnily enough these patents cover things that have traditionally been thought to be Apple’s backyard with on-device app stores and touch user interface and gestures being mentioned. It’s [...]

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Nokia taking Symbian development back in house, Foundation remains to control licensing and patents

Nokia taking Symbian development back in house, Foundation remains to control licensing and patents

| November 8, 2010 | Reply

  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 [...]

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SYMBEOSE: EU and major European corporations invest in Symbian

SYMBEOSE: EU and major European corporations invest in Symbian

| November 2, 2010 | Reply

  SYMBEOSE: Symbian the Embedded Operation System for Europe is a new initiative led by the EU and a number of major European corporations such as Nokia, ST-Ericsson and a host of others, including academic organisations with the major objective of improving the Symbian OS in order to take it above and beyond it’s current [...]

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Nokia N8 excitement and lines around the world

Nokia N8 excitement and lines around the world

| October 1, 2010 | 47 Replies

No your are not looking at another iPad line this is the lines of people from around the world hoping to pick up the new Nokia N8 pretty impressive I say for a company that allegedly cannot compete with the guys over at cupertino……

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The Nokia N8 is shipping !!!

The Nokia N8 is shipping !!!

| September 30, 2010 | Reply

Yes folks Nokia early this morning (why on earth I am up this early 6.30 am !!!) announced that the Nokia n8 is shipping just before the Q3 cut off date, so technically they did manage to release it on time. Devices have left China and Finland to be flown around the world to people [...]

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Nokia N8 apparently not delayed (Updated)

Nokia N8 apparently not delayed (Updated)

| September 21, 2010 | 89 Replies

Nokia today denied that the N8 has been delayed, they expect the N8 to start shipping at the end of the third quarter and that hasn’t changed, Nokia’s explanation is that customer pre ordering from Nokia directly will get the N8 at a slightly different time then to people getting the N8 from their choosen [...]

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Nokia N8 delayed AGAIN !!!!!

Nokia N8 delayed AGAIN !!!!!

| September 20, 2010 | Reply

Yeah you read the headline right the N8 has been delayed again. I thought it was some sick joke, cue all the articles and the blogposts explaining why Nokia is dead. Anyway the folks at Engadget confirmed the horrible news with a statement from Nokia “The amount of preorders has exceeded our expectations and we [...]

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Swype for Symbian^1

Swype for Symbian^1

| September 2, 2010 | Reply

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 [...]

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Nokia acquires Motally

Nokia acquires Motally

| August 20, 2010 | Reply

Nokia today announced that they acquired Motally a San Francisco based analytics company. Motally offers in app application tracking and reporting to be able for developers to understand their customers better in a better way. Interestingly Nokia has said it plans to incorporate Motally into Qt, Meego, Symbian and Java and also kepp its exsisting [...]

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Nokia Touch and Type press pictures

Nokia Touch and Type press pictures

| August 17, 2010 | Reply

This is seriously cool device its without doubt a very capable phone for people that are sick and tired of the whole Smartphone malarky and for us geeks a perfect complimentary device.

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Nokia X3 Touch and Type

Nokia X3 Touch and Type

| August 17, 2010 | Reply

Wooo, a bit of a shocker Nokia have released today, the X3-01 was leaked a while ago but no one expected it to be touch screen button tag team combo. It has caused a bit of a stir on the internets. Key features traditional 12 button keypad 2.4 inch screen 5 megapixel camera with 4 [...]

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Nokia Ovi browser is real !!! part 2

Nokia Ovi browser is real !!! part 2

| July 28, 2010 | Reply

Seriously what is Eldar’s problem with Nokia or maybe Google translate needs some work on its Russian. Anyway Nokia have taken the wraps of it newest beta labs creation and all it is a browser is a new web browser for S40 phones thats its, no desktop browser (alright maybe later on). Although I do [...]

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