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Nokia Launches NFC enabled 600, 700 & 701 Handsets in India; Promotes Shahrukh’s Ra-One

September 29, 2011 0 Rahul S

Along with the launch of Nokia’s recently announced Symbian Belle powered handsets, the 700, 701 and the 600, Nokia also seems to be betting big time on the future of NFC Technology here in India. In an industry first, at…

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NFC: The Ecosystem Challenge

September 25, 2011 0 Annkur

Cellphones over the years have grown beyond wireless telephone devices. Back in the early days, it was conceived as a communications device, but did we truly expect to pack in so much power? Today a mobile phone has rendered your…

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Quick Review: Nokia 101 (Dual SIM)

September 24, 2011 0 Tassavur

Nokia has set its sight on recovering the market share it has lost in the low cost budget phone segment to the local players. Hence Nokia has upped the ante and rapidly released a number of low cost dual SIM…

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Review: Nokia C2-03, Touch & Type Dual SIM Phone

September 21, 2011 0 Tassavur

With Nokia struggling in the smartphone market and not expected to make any major inroads till they get out their WP7 offerings phone out, it seems they have decided to concentrate on the low cost phone segment for now where…

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Nokia Goes Low End; Intros Nokia 100, 101

August 25, 2011 0 Rahul S

After announcing a slew of midrange, Symbian handsets yesterday, Nokia has now announced the addition of two new low end handsets to its portfolio. The two new handsets are the Nokia 100 and the Nokia 101. Both the handsets are…

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Nokia Announces Three New Symbian Belle Handsets

August 25, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia may have thrown in the towel when it comes to Symbian, but the company doesn’t seem to have any plans to stop producing Symbian based handsets any time soon. While the company is expected to come out with its…

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OG Review: Nokia E6

August 18, 2011 0 Annkur

Authors Note: It’s been long since I have handled a new Nokia device and yet as I hold the touch and type E6-00 in my hand, it feels very familiar to begin with. Until last year, the Nokia E63 was…

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MeeGo Fight: After US, Nokia Avoiding N9 Launch In UK

August 11, 2011 0 Tassavur

We just heard a couple of days back that the US market wont be seeing anymore of Symbian and the Nokia N9 wont be officially released either. Well as it turns out the US market is not the only one…

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Why Nokia Wont Launch Anymore Symbian Phones In US

August 9, 2011 0 Annkur

To it comes as no surprise that Nokia won’t sell any more Symbian devices in US. Nokia’s US head Chris Weber in an interview with AllthingsD confirmed that they would not ship any S40 or Symbian devices in US after…

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First Impressions of Nokia E6-00: Good old days are back?

June 22, 2011 0 Nitish

This is a guest post by Nitish Kumar (@nkumar_). Nitish is a long time Nokia user and famous for writing with a layman’s perspective on his blog. Its not been long when QWERTY devices were a craze (there are still…

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Nokia Announces the MeeGo Laden N9

June 21, 2011 3 Rahul S

At the Nokia Connection event underway at Singapore, Nokia has finally taken covers off its newest N-Series handset, the Nokia N9. Unlike most of its predecessors (barring the Maemo laden N900 of course) this one runs MeeGo, an OS that…

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Nokia Launches Symbian Anna Laden X7 Smartphone in Taiwan

June 15, 2011 4 Rahul S

It’s a busy day for folks over at Nokia it seems. After bringing out the Symbian Anna based E6 business handset to India on preorder, the company has announced the launch of its latest multimedia smartphone, the X7 in Taiwan.…

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Nokia – Apple End Litigation, Apple To Pay Royalties

June 14, 2011 0 Annkur

Mobile manufacturers have been fighting it out in court rooms across the globe and just when we started to lose track of all the suits and counter suits, there is a settlement. Apple and Nokia have settled all their litigation bringing…

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Race For The 3rd Spot, HP’s WebOS vs Windows Phone

June 3, 2011 1 Annkur

If you watched Stephen Elop (Nokia) and Apotheker (HP) at the D9 conference, you can clearly see that these are the two companies who are fighting for the no 3 spot in mobile platforms. iOS / Android are fighting for the number…

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Why Microsoft Buying Nokia Makes Sense, And Why It Doesn’t!

May 17, 2011 0 Annkur

Now before I even begin, we know that this is a rumor and it sure sounds like a wild one. Just months after announcing a deal where Nokia would use Windows Phone as its primary smartphone OS, it looks odd…

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Nokia To “Kill” Ovi Brand; Will Be Known As Nokia Services

May 16, 2011 0 Rahul S

In yet another “disruption” by Nokia ( I love that word now!) the company has decided to do away with the “Ovi” branding it has been so proudly promoting over the past few years. The name “Ovi” would be phased…

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Nokia Shelves Tablet Plans; Smartphones Primary Focus

April 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has been undergoing lots of changes  in terms of its organizational structure, future plans and products of late. The last one to occur was just days ago when it revealed its plans to shelve off the entire Symbian team…

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Nokia “Gives Away” Symbian To Accenture, Cuts Jobs

April 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

In a rather important development pertaining to Symbian, Nokia has announced that it has decided to “transfer” its entire Symbian operations along with the 3000 odd employees in that division to Accenture. Once the deal goes through, Accenture will provide…

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Nokia E6 Arrives, Aims To Replace Your Ageing E71, E72

April 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Along with the X7, Nokia also took covers off its latest E-Series handset, the E6 earlier today. The E6 can be considered an update to the highly popular E7x series of handsets and is a direct upgrade to the Nokia…

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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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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…

Android

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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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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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, 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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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…

Apps

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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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…

eReaders & Tablets

Nokia MeeGo Tablet Z500 Resurfaces on Ovi / Twitter

November 1, 2010 1 Annkur

Nokia working on a tablet isn’t a new rumor. They have already tried their hands on a netbook (god knows why) and ever since then we are suspecting a table from them. Before MeeGo started to buzz, it was speculated…

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Nokia sneaks X5 into India – price: Rs 10,000-10,500

October 31, 2010 13 Nimish

Nokia seems to be in launch overdrive these days. Only, without making any official announcements. Just a day after we spotted a Nokia C7 at a Nokia showroom, we clapped eyes on the X5 – Nokia’s social networking QWERTY slider.…

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Nokia C7 available for Rs 20,500: initial impressions

October 30, 2010 7 Nimish

We were told emphatically by Nokia during the N8 launch a few weeks ago that the N8 would be the only Symbian ^3 device launched in India this year. Our correspondent Mr. Spock had however reported that thanks to dealer…

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Review: Nokia C6 – good phone, bad timing?

October 25, 2010 10 Nimish

There are times in your life when you come across devices that seem undone by just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. And this is exactly the feeling we got about the recently launched Nokia C6, or…