Posted on 28 May 2008 by Chris Davies
With its non U.S siblings all getting the upgrade treatment to the 20.02.011 firmware, just like other N95-1 and N95-2 devices across the seas. N95-3 users are no doubt used to being treated as lower priority N95 owners, so the update finally being made available is a huge relief. Finally, the N95-3 is on track with all the other N95 ...
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Posted on 26 May 2008 by Chris Davies
The upcoming Nokia E71 has just gotten a thorough review. The review is extremely positive for the device, and the whole feel of the review was that the device is one of the best things to come from Nokia in quite some time. According to the review, the design is amazing. The device is very thin, and according to the ...
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Posted on 12 May 2008 by Chris Davies
Nokia has been working on its answer to the iPhone for quite some time now. We saw a preview of the S60 Touch interface in August of 2007, and we have been waiting for more details since. Nokia has been very tight lipped about the device, but we may have some more information now. It seems, that the device could ...
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Posted on 28 April 2008 by Chris Davies
Nokia holds a 40% stranglehold on the global mobile phone market share. Living in North America however, you would have no idea. Partly, it is because many North American carriers want special features, and some want less features. The bottom line is North American carriers tend to be a little finicky. Another disadvantage for North America is it uses different ...
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Posted on 27 April 2008 by Chris Davies
The flagship Nokia N95 will be coming to Rogers on May 2nd. We've discussed the possibility of Rogers picking up this handset before, and it is good to see it happen. The concept of an N95 being sold through a carrier is exciting, and it appears that though it is through Rogers, there will be no subsidized price for the ...
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Posted on 23 April 2008 by Chris Davies
No real surprise here, but the Nokia N82, a flagship Nseries device, has won the TIPA(Technical Image Press Association) award for the best mobile imaging device in Europe. This is quite an accomplishment, as even though living here you would not see it, but there are quite a few 5 megapixel camera phones across the pond. Several are very good ...
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Posted on 09 April 2008 by Chris Davies
Nokia didn't exactly let the cat out of the bag the other day when they mentioned the upcoming touchscreen 'Tube' smartphone - since last year there have been images and talk of the first handset that the new S60 Touch OS will feature on - but it was enough to provoke Symbian Freak into spilling what they know about the device. ...
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Posted on 08 April 2008 by Chris Davies
Nokia has confirmed it is still working on its own iPhone rival, codenamed "Tube" and using the S60 Touch OS that we were so underwhelmed by at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year. Including images of the prototype device as part of a developer conference in California this week, the Tube handset showed graphical displays, including Shrek the Third promo material, ...
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Posted on 01 April 2008 by Chris Davies
Droplet Technology Inc. launched their Personal Mobile Video service [pdf link] at CTIA today, promising an all-software way for cellphone users to edit VGA/30fps video footage on their device, even if it lacks dedicated video processing capabilities. Consisting of handset and server clients, the software is apparently compatible with Windows Mobile, Symbian, BREW and Linux, and will run on the devices from multiple manufacturers (including ...
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Tags: 3G, ATT, Carriers, Cellular phones, CTIA Wireless, Linux Platform, smartphones, software, Symbian S60, Verizon, Windows Mobile
Posted on 31 March 2008 by Chris Davies
Audio processing specialist Dolby Laboratories has announced its membership of the Symbian Platinum Partner program, in a move that will see the surround sound company bring its high-quality audio technology to cellphones based on the Symbian OS. The deal opens up the possibility for handsets to offer either Dolby's true digital surround or one of their "pseudo surround" technologies that ...
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