Advertisements Some interesting numbers comparing the App Stores from Apple, BlackBerry, Nokia and Google. Interestingly, despite having 150,000 less apps than Android Market, Ovi Store is raking it in with 105 Million Dollars in revenue. That’s a 719.4% growth over the previous year Apple grew 131.9% in the same time frame (though with understandably huge […]
According to Flurry who measures the support that developers dedicate to various platforms by tracking new application starts, Windows Phone projects received a 66% increase after the Nokia-Microsoft WP partnership. Note similar relative growth between Windows Phone and Android projects. Flurry notes that in Android’s nascent nasence there were doubts as to whether it could […]
According to the Guardian, Nokia are waiting for Windows Phone Update called “Mango” aka Windows 7.5 which is due October at the earliest. Amongst the updates, this would notably contain IE9, Multitasking, copy and paste (though Engadget says March -_-) Another “NoDo” update is said to be due March, perhaps there was some confusion as […]
Here’s an interesting image making the rounds. Tweeted by @_Ant1_ it shows the Nokia Customers around the world. Every day 1 million series 30 and series 40 phones are bought. And these phones fuel the low end for Nokia,” said the company’s CEO Stephen Elop Quite a high number in the US. Check out how […]
In October it was discovered that the C7 had a secret NFC chip inside. Secret as either Nokia purposely chose not to acknowledge it as a feature or just part of their abysmal marketing of the things they’re good at. The video below from Qt studios (check out the slick QtQuick UI) shows Near Field […]
I’m sure you’re aware of something called Nokia Plan B. It’s already cancelled now. What I find amusing is the alphabet of plans that have also appeared along side it. Nokia Plan A Nokia Plan B Nokia Plan C Nokia Plan D Nokia Plan E Nokia Plan ET Nokia Plan F Nokia Plan G Nokia […]
Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer, Rich Green talks about MeeGo, Symbian and Qt in the videos below: We do plan to ship a device from our MeeGo Programme some time this year. I’ve seen the device running and it is beautiful, elegant and the hardware is “interesting” and the software is powerful Third part of our […]
The video below talks about some of the mobile services with Microsoft. On Sunday, Elop talked a little bit about the future of Ovi Store during the Q&A and Tero Ojanperä and Marko Argenti explain that a little bit more. Ovi Store will run across all our devices, Windows and non windows. Ovi Store is […]
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has a chat with Engadget editor, Chriz Ziegler. A very interesting watch, and some new info appearing. Elop confirms the burning platform memo and noting that the choice of Windows Phone changed over time (they had another solution, it wasn’t always windows phone! It could have been just Symbian and MeeGo, […]
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