The Nokia N900 is still on a pre-order basis, but that’s apparently not an issue with Amazon as they’ve further lowered its price to just $479.99. This price is inclusive of a $50 mail-in rebate which previously stood at $560. We’re not sure why they decided to drop the price of the Nokia N900 by [...]
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...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...Sunday, November 8, 2009
It’s no secret that the Nokia Booklet 3G will be available through Best Buy in the US, and now we’ve got a date to look forward to when it will actually hit stores across the nation. November 15th is the big day, but for Reward Zone members, you can already pre-order yours beginning today. As [...]
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...Friday, October 23, 2009
We’re glad that shipments of the Nokia Booklet 3G laptop are blazingly up-to-date now running the recently announced Windows 7. One disappointment is that the laptop spotted on Best Buy runs Windows 7 Starter Edition. For a $599 netbook, we would have expected Home Premium at least. Engadget tells us it’s a demo unit. Windows [...]
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, [...]
Continue reading...
Friday, November 20, 2009
2 Comments