What you’re looking at folks is the Sony Ericsson Kurara, the company’s second Symbian powered handset following the Satio. It doesn’t come with a 12-megapixel camera but surely won’t disappoint with its 8.1-megapixel camera, 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, and 720p video recording and playback. The Kurara also features a Cortex A8 processor (yup, that’s the same type [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Finnish giant is sais to be abandoning the S60 over Maemo for its smartphone. The Nokia N900, which runs Maemo, is now available in Nokia stores in the U.S. Distribution of the N900 will be a little limited but the device will go unlocked. Yes, there aren’t a lot of GSM carriers out there [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
It’s not surprising to see Nokia dominating the global smartphone market scene, but what is interesting to see is how both RIM and Apple posted huge growth this past quarter. Aside from HTC, they are the only two other phone makers who managed to improve on their performance last year and by a significant margin at [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Frankly, I’m surprised this is news at all. The summary from Strategy Analytics: Apple became the world’s most profitable handset vendor in Q3 2009. Fueled by strong volumes, high wholesale prices and tight cost controls, the PC vendor has successfully broken into the mobile phone market in just two years. What can Nokia do to regain [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
We could hardly believe our eyes when an otherwise normal human male, albeit probably needing a new prescription, starts breaking into elastic pieces before our eyes, not peacefully we may add, and end up as a touchscreen handset with slideout QWERTY keyboard. It’s the delayed Nokia N900! No problem, right? Big problem. This Maemo-running smartphone has [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
Nokia has bravely taken the leap from simply being a phone maker to netbook maker as well with the launch of their Booklet 3G mini laptop. While I can’t recall of any other phone manufacturer making such a bold move in recent history, it looks like HTC may join Nokia in the not-so-distant future. Peter [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 7, 2009
Still remember the Nokia X6 phone that was launched back in September? Yeah, most of you have probably forgotten about it already largely thanks to the impressive phones that were unveiled in the last couple of days which include the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 and Motorola Droid, but for those hardcore Nokia fanatics out there, [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 24, 2009
Like us, a lot of you guys out there were probably impressed with the Maemo-powered Nokia N900, and couldn’t wait to get your hands on one. People in the US were a little bit more fortunate than us here in Asian as they’ve gotten word that the Nokia N900 will be available for retail this [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 22, 2009
With regards to suing other people for patent infringement, Apple is usually on the throwing end rather than the receiving end, but today, the tables have turned and Apple is the one being sued this time around by no less than the top dog in the mobile phone biz, Nokia. Citing that Apple Infringed on [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
While the world is holding its breath for the Nokia N900, the Finnish giant is busy designing and building the N900’s replacement: the Nokia N920. The new Nseries phone will have a 4.13-inch capacitive multi-touchscreen, which will be useful for web browsing and map viewing–it certainly is useful on the iPhone. it’s not official yet, [...]
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
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