Articles Tagged Nokia
Symbian: is the End Nigh?
It seems that our days of quietly encouraging Nokia’s Symbian OS while sneaking an insult or two through the back door might finally have been given a used-by date. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has delivered an ominous statement regarding the future of Symbian.
1st Nokia Windows Phone is a Mango
At the recent WP keynote Microsoft announced that the first Nokia Windows Phone handset is on its way and it’ll be running on the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update. This excites us for 2 main reasons: 1) The joint venture between Nokia and Microsoft appears to have been successful, despite some belief that it would fall through before any major release could be made.
Ovi Maps 3D Takes On Google Earth
Nokia has released a beta update for their Ovi Maps navigator. For certain cities around the world users are now given the option to make their way through a 3D representation. It’s pretty different from Google’s street view approach, whereby Google sends vehicles loaded with cameras down every road in the world and offer a pieced-together photo of epic proportions.
Nokia X7 is Great (at First Glance)
Nokia’s recent big Symbian event unveiled some new toys soon to be seen on the smartphone market. The Nokia X7 was certainly among the most eye-catching of the new Symbian ‘Anna’ devices and as such our attention has been immediately drawn to it and its pleasing figure.
Nokia E6 Looks Like a BlackBerry
Nokia’s taken a leaf out of RIM’s book and designed a very familiar-looking handset aimed at business and enterprise users. The Nokia E6 is a business-oriented phone with a 2.46 inch display, portrait QWERTY keypad, touchpad and capacitive touchscreen. You’ll recognise the basic design form the iconic BlackBerry series that was obviously the inspiration behind this handset’s form-factor.
Nokia's Big April 12th Symbian Event
Despite Nokia’s ongoing negotiations with Microsoft regarding the creation of Nokia Windows Phone 7 handsets, Nokia still appears keen on continuing their Symbian line of smartphones. Nokia, once the top-dog in the handset industry, has been having a tough time of it since the release of the iPhone back in 2007. Despite new contenders like Android and WP7 already achieving vast to moderate success in the smartphone market, Nokia has continued to disappoint at almost every turn with its devices always lagging at least one generation behind the competition. This is not because Nokia makes sub-par handsets; far from it. On the contrary, Nokia’s hardware is probably their strongest point.
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