Tag archive: Nokia

There's good news and bad news on the software update front today, with the positive aspects coming from HTC and the negatives from T-Mobile in the USA. First up, here's the good news: HTC has finally got around to providing a more accurate time frame for its initial round of Ice Cream Sandwich updates, plus announcing which devices will be first to sample its delights. Having announced in November last year its intention to upgrade… Read More

Nokia has announced that its latest update to the Symbian operating system, Nokia Belle, is now available for download. Announced in December last year, Nokia Belle caused controversy at the time due to its long gestation period, as well as for dropping the Symbian name. Previous updates always used the Symbian name in the title — Symbian Anna for example — but not so with Nokia Belle, a move that at the time came without… Read More

Yesterday, Nokia made a lot of noise about the impending release of a white Lumia 800 Windows Phone handset, trumpeting its arrival on its Conversations blog and on its official Facebook page. We covered the news here and included a series of images from Nokia, however a subsequent snap of the virginal phone posted to Facebook has revealed something the previous pictures did not. It's a forward facing video-call camera, and as we all know,… Read More

Europeans, the Lumia 800 will be available in white starting later this month, according to Nokia. If you don't know much about the Lumia 800, that's understandable because you can't really buy it in the US. Nokia claims it will release an unlocked model intended for US carriers soon. The only way you can get it is through Nokia's Web site or other online means. The Lumia 800 was first unveiled back in October. Along… Read More

If you'd like a true demonstration of how far phones have evolved in 15 years, look no further than this new Windows Phone game. Pocket-lint found the game, which was developed by Willem Middelkoop. It lifts the entire interface of a classic 1997 Nokia phone and transports it onto a modern phone. Snake '97 plays like the original, meaning yo uhave to press number keys to move your snake around. The goal is to come close, but not… Read More

In just over one month's time, the doors will open at Mobile World Congress 2012, one of the largest mobile industry trade shows in the world. Held in Barcelona, Spain, the exhibition center will play host to more than 1400 exhibitors and last year attracted 60,000 visitors. The reason Mobile World Congress is so eagerly anticipated by mobile fans around the world is that traditionally, manufacturers use it to unveil their very latest… Read More

When you're a phone geek it's easy to get tied up with thoughts of 4-inch-plus touchscreens, big megapixel cameras and multi-core processsors; effectively forgetting the low-end of the market entirely. The truth is though, feature phones are still out there and they're selling at an astonishing rate. This morning, Nokia announced the sale of its 1.5 billionth Series 40 feature phone, and that it's still selling 12 similar… Read More

Nokia is seeing some good initial success from its transition to exclusively supporting Windows Phone for its high-end handsets. Initial sales of the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, Nokia's first two Windows Phones, are likely hovering around 1.3 million units, according to Bloomberg. This is, of course, unverified data, but for two handsets that only launched in November, that's not bad. Add in the fact that Windows Phone is not a well… Read More

In preparation for Mobile World Congress at the end of next month, the organizing body – the GSMA – has announced the 2012 shortlist of nominees for their prestigious Global Mobile Awards. That's right, it's not just those in with a chance of an Oscar nod on tenterhooks today. What makes the GSMA's awards worthy of attention is that they're voted on by 170 independent industry players — from chief… Read More

This isn't exactly news since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop did hint at it during the manufacturer's press conference at CES last week, but Stephen Elop has been repeating it pretty consistently. The Lumia 710 may be out on T-Mobile and the Lumia 900 is bound for AT&T, but Nokia has more Windows Phones planned and they're coming fairly soon.  “We have not announced the 900 in other countries,” Elop told Pocket-lint in… Read More

First reported by Want China Times earlier today, chairman Terry Gou was meeting with senior managers and stated “”Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn, the company responsible for creating the majority of iPhones and iPads for Apple. Gou also stated that he would like to learn… Read More

The Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone. Though there were few revolutionary new products at the show this year, in the smartphone space, we saw a number of promising new devices, many from companies that haven't been performing well in the United States in recent years, including Nokia and Sony. Huawei and Fujitsu also had impressive showings, but overall, Windows Phone may be the winner at CES 2012. While it still has a tiny… Read More

Number-four U.S. mobile operator might have be able to offer the iPhone, but it does have a bit of a feather in its cap today: it's offering the first Nokia Windows Phone device available in the United States, the Nokia Lumia 710. But instead of being a high-end device intended to appeal to the cutting edge of the mobile universe, the Lumia 710 is really intended as a starter smartphone—and its $49.99 price (after rebate)… Read More

Nokia hasn't had much of a presence in the United States and Canada for a few years now, but it's about to mount its comeback, and its platform of choice is Microsoft's Windows Phone. At its pre-CES conference yesterday, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 900, its new smartphone designed specifically for the North American market. What does that mean? Well, it's mostly a Lumia 800 with a larger screen. Fortunately, the Lumia 800… Read More

For the last 14 years, Finland's Nokia has been the world's largest maker of mobile phones, at least in terms of the number of units it has shipped. However, as Nokia continues its years-long struggle to make a dent in the smartphone market and South Korea's Samsung surges, Samsung overtook Nokia in revenue terms during its most recent financial quarter. Now Reuters reports Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sung told reporters at this… Read More