Posts Tagged ‘Nokia’

Question: can you file a patent for something that’s existed for a long time? I guess the question is of implementation. While self-winding watches and shake-to-charge flashlights already harvest kinetic energy to store and later discharge, I suppose they do it in a different way than this proposed system from [...]Read the whole story [...]

Pretty huge news in our book: Skype has published a free mobile application for Symbian in the Ovi Store, basically enabling over 200 million Nokia handset users to easily download the program and start making free Skype-to-Skype calls from their phones.
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So you’re looking for a Nokia smartphone that’s not too smart. Why not try the $183 C5, a candybar S60 phone with 2.2-inch display. It has Ovi Maps built-in and some messaging apps, but seriously, this is a meh-phone. Sorry, Nokia. Next?
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The Nokia E72 is a true competitor to the BlackBerry Bold 9700. With full support for push email, attachment editing and web browsing, Nokia offers a real alternative. The E72 also features a 5 megapixel camera, video calling, a media player, FM radio and GPS with Ovi Maps. Ultra-fast data [...]Read the whole story [...]

The Nokia X3 is an inexpensive slide-design music phone. It has a good music player, FM radio, memory card slot, 3.5mm headphone jack and stereo speakers. It also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera and has good battery life, but is let down by a poor quality keypad. [...]Read the whole story @ [...]

We had Todd test out the new Nokia E72, a really smart looking business smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard and a decent 5 megapixel autofocus camera. Read on to see what he thinks of it, and check it out yourself in the included videos.
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Quake 3 has been ported to Android. It looks slick, too (see video demo below). The project is called “kwaak3” and is based on Quake 3 ports to the iPhone and Nokia N900. The developer got everything up and running on a Motorola Milestone (a GSM Motorola Droid with multi-touch, [...]Read the whole story [...]

Last year, Apple’s iPhone nearly doubled its worldwide market share of smartphone sales to 14.4 percent, up 6.2 points from the year before, according to the latest market share figures put out by Gartner. The iPhone still trails behind Nokia’s Symbian-powered smartphones (No. 1), which saw their share decline 5.5 [...]Read the whole story [...]

The United States International Trade Commission will begin investigating Apple’s claims that Nokia has infringed on its patents.
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Intel’s had their Moblin mobile Linux distribution for some time. Nokia’s had their Maemo Linux distribution for awhile, too. Neither one really gained much traction in the development community. Along comes Google and everyone’s like “OMG Android!!1″ which must’ve really ticked off Intel and Nokia. In an effort to create [...]Read the whole story [...]
