The Nokia N86 which happens to be the first handset the Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia have launched on the market with a 8 megapixel camera apparently comes with some problems as well. The issues have been reported to be hardware issues, and a large number of Nokia N86 units have been brought in for…
Well now it would appear that normally mobile phone rivals are to team up this summer to form the Mobile High Definition Link Consortium (MHL) with a view to delivering to the mobile marketplace a new mobile HD plug reports an article over on gizmodo. Apparently the MHL consists of Samsung, Sony, Nokia, Toshiba and…
Looks like there is some good news here for Nokia fans as it seems in 6 months time in October of this year MeeGo V1.1 is expected to arrive this has been confirmed by Intel. The biggest part of this story is that apparently MeeGo is working in collaboration with Nokia and the details have…
The word is that privately held US mobile browser company, Novarra is to be acquired by Nokia reports an article over on emii by way of Reuters, and although as yet any financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed the deal is expected to be finalised sometime in Q2. Word is Nokia is…
Every wanted to design a mobile phone concept but didn’t know how? Well if you nip on over to Nokia conversations they have a “Design by Community” thing going on whereby they use the thoughts of readers to define the ultimate concept mobile phone. This is achieved by creating a series of steps and every…
Here is some really interesting news posted over on engadget.com in relation to a recent patent from Nokia. In there own words ‘Nokia’s’ what we have here to look at is a piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester. Hmm, I’m as confused by that description as the next person I would have thought however, for those that…
According to research firm Gartner, we should expect to see a strong growth in the cell phone market during 2010 as economies continue to improve. Last year there was an unusual 1% drop in the market, sales are expected to return to a double digit growth. As we know the competition isn’t easing and this…
The battle between Nokia and Apple doesn’t look like its going to go away, as the United States International Trade Commission have now agreed to look into Apple’s patent claims against Nokia. That’s just a month after agreeing to do the same for Nokia’s patent claims against Apple. It would now seem that the ITC…
Last month Nokia the worlds largest mobile phone maker took a leaf out of Google’s book and also decided to offer free satellite navigation on its phones. Initially this raised concern as to how the service unit would be able to reach their 2 billion Euro sales target for 2011. Having that initial concern seems…
Nokia and Intel have joined forces in order to launch the new platform MeeGo, it comes from Maemo the Linux based platform which is used on Nokia’s N900 and Intel’s Moblin operating system. The new OS will co exist alongside Symbian and will open up loads of new devices to application developers. Vice president at…
Launched just recently in January this year, Ovi Maps has already had three million downloads so far. Nokia didn’t have any hardware to be talking about following the Intel and Nokia MeeGo announcement. Having said that though it would seem that their service provisions are getting some truly amazing levels of interest. It has been…
