Posted by Zach Epstein on Nov 20, 2008 12:47 pm
Filed in Handsets, Nokia, Symbian
For those who have managed to remain completely unaffected by the current state of the global economy - and who really dig Kung Fu - this may be the best thing to happen to you since your money. Nokia China has just made a special edition N96 available and it packs all kinds of punch [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Nov 19, 2008 6:01 pm
Filed in Handsets, Nokia, Symbian
We’re not sure if anxious Spaniards will be more or less upset by this news, but we now have an explanation of the massive 54% premium found on Nokia Spain’s pre-order page for the 5800 XpressMusic. Like it or not, the extra €150 can be accounted for as follows: a mandatory €100 Nokia Music Store [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Nov 19, 2008 2:06 pm
Filed in AT&T, Exclusives, Handsets, Nokia
There it is people, looking sexy as ever - we can only hope that the “X” doesn’t stand for “Xtra crippled”. It looks like we’re now pretty close to seeing AT&T formally announce the E71, rebranded as the E71x, as a welcome addition to its smartphone line. The 6650 made it through the AT&T branding [...]
It took a third-party developer to bring push HTML email support to the world’s most popular smartphone OS. We’re not sure how to feel about that but the bottom line is Dataviz has done what no one else could do to this point with the latest version of its widely-acclaimed Roadsync solution. Roadsync is not [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Nov 15, 2008 8:52 am
Filed in Handsets, Nokia, Symbian
European countries seem to be getting all the little surprises these days. First Germany gets its hands on the BlackBerry Curve 8900 with no warning and now Spain gets a little treat of its own - kind of. Here’s the good news: Nokia’s Spanish site has just unexpectedly made the 5800 XpressMusic available for pre-order. [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Nov 13, 2008 3:03 pm
Filed in AT&T, Handsets, Nokia
No, the Nokia 6650 is most certainly not the most capable S60 smartphone out there. Truth be told, it’s probably not even in the top 20. Today’s announcement from AT&T that the 6650 is now official and available nation-wide is still huge news for Symbian fanatics here in the US because it represents what will [...]
Posted by Michael Bettiol on Nov 12, 2008 9:09 am
Filed in Handsets, Nokia, Press Release, Symbian
Yes, it was shown at the Symbian Smartphone Show a few weeks ago but as we all know no press release means nothing is official just as much as shipping trial devices doesn’t make a device official. Thankfully today the boys and girls of Espoo announced the “successor” to the E71. Expected to retail at [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Nov 11, 2008 10:32 am
Filed in Handsets, Nokia, Symbian
One thing we can give the folks over at Nokia - they never cease to surprise us. In a very uncharacteristic and peculiar move, Nokia has begun shipping trials of the upcoming E63 even before the handset is formally announced. In fact, the devices being shipped aren’t even being delivered in retail packaging. We first [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Nov 10, 2008 4:28 pm
Filed in Nokia, Services, Software, Symbian
Sorry S60 gamers, it looks like Nokia tried to pull a fast one on you. Back in May it was learned that despite initial claims made by Nokia reps, N-Gage purchases were tied to device IMEIs and transfers would not be allowed. Woh there, Nokia! After an eruption in the S60 blogosphere, Nokia responded by [...]
Posted by Zach Epstein on Nov 10, 2008 12:50 pm
Filed in Handsets, Nokia, Rumors
Well hello there - Nothing quite like a leaked internal roadmap to cure even the most dire case of the Mondays. This table is chocked-full-o-goodies but don’t get too excited just yet. What we have here is reportedly an internal prototype roadmap of sorts. Several of the handsets on the list have likely been scrapped, [...]
The mobile browser wars are on. The competition is between Opera, Mobile IE, Safari, Chrome, and the Blackberry Browser. So far, even iPhone haters would agree, Safari has yet to be touched. It only makes sense that one of the most popular browsers out there, Firefox, and their creator, Mozilla, would want to jump in [...]
Posted by Marc Flores on Nov 7, 2008 5:11 pm
Filed in Apple, BlackBerry, Handsets, News, Nokia, RIM, Symbian
The results are in and news now hitting the smartphone world is that Nokia is slipping down from the peak of the mountain while Apple and RIM work their way to the top. With only the iPhone and iPhone 3G, Apple has managed to step over RIM’s shoulders to take the number two spot in [...]
Posted by Marc Flores on Nov 3, 2008 4:50 pm
Filed in LG, News, Services, Windows Mobile
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer recently took a little trip to the land of cell phones and kimchi to ink a deal that will ensure future collaboration between LG Electronics and MS. Right now it’s just a preliminary agreement so it will likely be a while (well, funnier and faster things have happened) before LG starts putting [...]