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Nokia Launches The X7 With Symbian “Anna”, Clear Black Display And New Ovi Maps

April 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Just a day after a leaked video of the phone appeared, Nokia decided to finally make its much rumored handset, the X7’s existence public. The X7 runs the tried and tested Symbian OS – but a new version of it…

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New Symbian UI Appears In Leaked Video

April 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

We all know that Nokia is planning to update its beleaguered Symbian OS with a fresh new update in the weeks to come. The new update was thought to mostly concentrate on the UI part of the OS which has…

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Apple Wins Trade Ruling Over Nokia Patents

March 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

Apple has drawn first blood in the battle against Nokia’s patent infringement suit against them that was lodged back in 2009 when the iOS vs Symbian war was at it peak. Back the Nokia had filed suits against Apple claiming…

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Nokia Intros New, Slimmed Down Logo, Font

March 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

The times they are a changin’. After revealing its Windows Phone 7 strategy for the year 2011, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop seems to be on a mission to change the brand perception and image of his company. The good old…

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The Seven Deadly Sins of the Nokia E7

March 21, 2011 6 Mr Spock

Having used the Nokia E7 for more than a week now, I find myself more and more in agreement with Nokia’s decision to go for a tie-up with Microsoft. Because far from being on par with previous Communicator series devices,…

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Strategy Analytics Paints Rosy Future For Nokia, Samsung

March 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Research firm Strategy Analytics in their latest report has said that the next few years would turn out to be good ones for phone makers Samsung and Nokia. The report states that Samsung would cement its position as the worlds second largest…

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Nokia Releases Software Updater For Macs

March 16, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has finally given in to the demands of a horde of Nokia users and has launched a Beta version of a software updater for the Mac platform. The tool is a basic one that can be used to update…

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Nokia Brings The E7 To India

March 15, 2011 1 Rahul S

After going on pre order sale last week, the Nokia E7 has landed in India officially. The price of the handset is down from 35k to 29,999. The E7 is the latest E-Series device from Nokia and is touted to…

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Nokia Issues Ovi Store Update For Symbian Phones

March 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has issued a minor update to the Ovi Store client for Nokia’s Symbian smartphones. The update is aimed at fixing compatibility issues with Nokia’s back end services. Of course, there are also some improvements in terms of the speed…

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Nokia E7 Pre-Booking Starts In India. Costs Rs. 29,999 [Updated]

March 8, 2011 2 Rahul S

Nokia has announced that it has started pre booking of its latest Symbian smartphone – the E7 in India. To pre book your E7, all you need to do is to log on to http://www.nokia.co.in/E7 and fill up an online…

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Inexpensive Nokia X1-00 announced

March 8, 2011 0 c0rex

Finnish handset maker Nokia has announced new low-end handset aimed at the music enthusiasts – Nokia X1-00. Appearing to be younger brother of X2, the new Nokia X1-00 runs Symbian 30 mobile operating system (yes, it exists). Rated with 106phon…

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Mozilla Releases Firefox beta 4 for Mobile, Android Plugin for Mac OS X

February 26, 2011 0 Monis

Mozilla has released the Firefox beta 4 for Mobile which can run smoothly on Android, Maemo, PC/Mac OS X and Linux. You must have already heard of the on-the go version, if not then you can grab this newly build…

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Foursquare Arrives On Nokia Series 40

February 18, 2011 1 Rahul S

Until now, if you wanted to use location bases services like Foursquare, the basic requirement was to be in possession of a smartphone with an official app or a supporting client app installed. A vast majority of people who use…

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Nokia E7: First Hands On, Early Impressions, Pictures

February 18, 2011 1 Team OG

Even though Nokia might have made it clear that Windows Phone Would be their smartphone OS of choice going forward, the fact is that Symbian still happens to be one of the most used smartphone platforms out there. In fact, Nokia will continue to…

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Nimbuzz Launches Ad Free, Paid Version of Nimbuzz For Symbian

February 16, 2011 0 Rahul S

Symbian might have been sentenced to death but that doesn’t mean people will stop development of applications for the platform any time soon. Especially, with over 150 million Symbian devices still expected to be sold, the apps scenario at least…

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Is This The First Microsoft – Nokia Device?

February 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Hardly a day after the announcement of the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft where it was revealed that Nokia would make Windows Phone 7 devices, we have what according to Engadget are the first concept images of an upcoming Windows…

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Will Nokia’s Microsoft Alliance Pay Off?

February 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

We all knew this was coming. In the wake of rising competition from newer, younger and nimbler adversaries like iOS and Android Nokia has announced a “strategic alliance” with Microsoft that would see the transition of Nokia’s high end devices…

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Did Stephen Elop Force Nokia-WP7 Deal?

February 11, 2011 2 Annkur

Nokia is marrying Microsoft and the world isn’t happy. A huge backlash is expected over the blogosphere, editorials over editorials telling whats wrong with Nokia would be the flavor for days to come and we are still to digest what…

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Nokia adds to platform confusion, adopts Microsofts Windows Phone 7

February 11, 2011 3 Annkur

Nokia is all set to go the Windows Phone 7 route with rumors of a partnership with Microsoft turning out to be true. Not much details are available at the moment but the trend is clear. Last year at MWC…

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Nokia X2-01 Lands In India: Oficially

February 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has officially launched its newest low end, QWERTY laden S40 handset, the X2-01 in India. The phone, first seen back in November 2010 was announced along with another low end handset, the C2-01. The X2-01 features a largish 2.4…

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Nokia, RIM lose ground as Samsung, HTC advance: IDC Q4 2010 report

February 7, 2011 0 Nimish

In what seems to be yet another sign of the old order changing and giving way to new players in the mobile phone market,  IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker’s round-up of the fourth quarter of 2010, has shown Nokia…

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Nokia’s E7 Goes On Sale

February 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia’s upcoming flagship business phone, the E7 would be soon arriving on select markets across the globe – Nokia revealed today. The first shipments will start later this week and the device would be available in more markets in the…

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Intel’s Secret Pact With Nokia

February 4, 2011 0 Annkur

Last year at MWC, Nokia and Intel came together to merge their mobile OS projects Maemo and Moblin. Thus MeeGo was born. A year down the line, we are yet to see any commercial release for MeeGo powered device, but…

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Optimized Nokia Internet Radio Arrives For Symbian^3

February 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia’s Internet Radio application was undoubtedly one of the most popular Symbian apps. It’s been around since the S60 V3 days. However, it was much maligned for being not optimized for Symbian^1 devices that arrived later. It was also compatible…

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Will Nokia Opt For Android?

January 31, 2011 2 Rahul S

It’s been just a few days since Nokia announced its not so inspiring Q4 2010 results and people are already talking about the possibility of the company opting for Android sometime in the near future. The latest reason for this…

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Nokia Quarterly Reports Out: Paints a Dismal Picture

January 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has announced its Q4 2010 results and to say that they do not look good would be an understatement. The last quarter was when Nokia undertook several new initiatives on its senior management front. The erstwhile CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo…

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Twitter Discussion: What’s Wrong With Nokia?

January 18, 2011 3 Annkur

Twitter is know for open debates and extreme opinions. And we ran into a conversation yesterday, with over 100 tweets flying around from the tech community (includes our team). And where did all this start from? Well as we trace…

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Has Nokia pulled the plug on Ovi Music Unlimited?

January 17, 2011 0 Nimish

Nokia might have been having a relatively rough time in the smartphone market (it remains the leader, though), but one thing that really worked in its favour was the Ovi Music Unlimited service. It lets users download an unlimited number…

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Nokia C7: Brief Review

January 8, 2011 0 Anupama

The C7 has been seen by many as an attempt by Nokia to offer a watered down and more affordable version of the high-profile N8. Although Nokia officials had claimed that the N8 would be the only Symbian ^3 handset…

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4 Million Nokia N8?s Sold So Far

December 30, 2010 2 Rahul S

Soon after its launch in October, Nokia had announced that the N8 has received the highest amount of consumer pre-orders” in the company’s history. Back then, the news was treated with suspicion because the phone was launched amidst quite a bit of negative publicity regarding…

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Trill: Symbian Twitter Client Reviewed

December 16, 2010 0 Rahul S

If you are (still) a Symbian user like me, you sure know that there is a dearth of decent free Twitter clients for the platform. Yes there is Snaptu and TweetS60 but both leave a lot to be desired in terms…

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Skype For Symbian Updated With Support For N8, C7 and E5

December 13, 2010 0 Rahul S

Skype has just announced the launch of a new version of its app for Symbian devices. The new version apart from adding a few features also adds support for new Symbian^3 devices including the Nokia N8, C7 and E5. According to the entry…

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More Nokia X7-00 Details Leak

December 8, 2010 2 Rahul S

It was just days ago that we first heard of Nokia’s soon to arrive X-Series device, the X7-00. It was accompanied with a video that showcased the phone running Need For Speed Shift. A week or so down the line, we have…

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Symbian Foundation websites to shutdown from Dec. 17

November 28, 2010 0 c0rex

Symbian Foundation is shattering faster than we anticipated. The entity announced that all Symbian Foundations websites and platform source code will be taken down offline after Dec 17. That’s just sad. Earlier this month Nokia announced to take over the…

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Nokia’s Latest X-Series Phone X7-00 Caught On Video

November 26, 2010 0 Rahul S

Folks over at BGR have come across a video that’s purportedly showing off Nokia’s next X Series handset, the X7-00. Going by naming scheme, this looks to be an upgrade to the existing X6. The sleek handset is shown in…

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Nokia Brings The X5 To India For Rs. 10,499

November 24, 2010 0 Rahul S

Nokia has bought its latest X Series handset, the rather weird looking X5 to India. This has happened a good five months after the phone was first seen in July. The X5 is a series 60 music oriented handset that…

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Nokia Announces Two New Series 40 Handsets; X2-01 and C2-01

November 23, 2010 0 Rahul S

Nokia has announced the launch of two new Series 40 devices with the announcement of the C2-01 and the X2 -01. As mentioned, both are based on Nokia’s mid range Series 40 platform. Lets now see what these phones have…

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Nokia N8 Facing Power Management Issues

November 19, 2010 0 Rahul S

Nokia’s flagship N-Series handset, the N8 has been in the news mostly for its recent launch related news. Now that the phone has started arriving in the hands of consumers, they are reporting a peculiar problem with some of the phones wherein…

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Intel pushing MeeGo app development with Nokia

November 11, 2010 0 Annkur

Intel is pushing their apps market for Atom based devices (called the AppUp) which targets netbooks and now developers have been approached to push development on the new SDK for MeeGo app development for mobiles that Intel has outed. The Intel SDK…

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Nokia E7 Launching December 2010?

November 9, 2010 0 Rahul S

Nokia might start shipping the Nokia E7 starting December 10 2010, if we are to go by a tweet by Nokia’s official Twitter account.  The tweet was subsequently deleted and was announced that it was inadvertently sent and they actually meant that…