Nokia-Siemens is reported to have sold monitoring equipment to the Iranian regime. The join venture between the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, and Germany’s Siemens sold a ‘monitor centre’ to Irantelecom, the state telecommunications provider. The technology allows Irantelecom to tap phone lines, read emails and track other electronic communications.

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Nokia’s Get Out and Play campaign is an implementation of classic Nokia games (Snake, Breakout) with real people - 1000 of them moving in the street - frame by frame and step by step.

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The much anticipated N97 smartphone, Nokia’s big hitter for the summer, looks set to be released in 75 countries around the world. What’s more Nokia is releasing the handset in those 75 countries simultaneously! That means that it won’t just be a lucky few in select markets who get first dibs on the N97, but [...]

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Rounding out the AT&T leaks is this batch from Nokia. Two are actually interesting: The odd-in-a-good-way Mako side-slider, which is an S60 phone with full QWERTY and somewhat snoozy specs. And the Thresher, which is probably the shiniest slider Nokia’s ever pooped out.

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Nokia announced an updated version of the 6600, now called the 6600i slide, which upgrades the camera to 5 megapixels with autofocus and adds a dual LED flash. The 6600i has quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, as well as support for 850/2100 3G bands. It has an accelerometer for tap controls, support for 16GB microSD cards, Bluetooth [...]

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ABI’s Kevin Burden has stepped forward to count down the market’s Tier 2 cell phone players according to market share. Starting at No. 11 and counting up to No. 6, Burden discusses the sales strategies that have dropped these companies among the world’s top cell phone manufacturers.

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Documents became public today on the FCC web site that detail an unannounced Nokia phone for AT&T. The Nokia 6750 “Mural” is a clamshell phone with dedicated music keys and an outer display hidden behind a mirrored shell. Documents confirm 3G in the 850/1900 bands that AT&T uses. Also confirmed are a memory card slot, [...]

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The hot-selling Nokia E71 is reportedly getting yet another new variant, E71i, equipped with some minor upgrades that include a 5-megapixel camera, up from the current models’ 3.2-megapixel shooter. Otherwise, the new handset will also get a slightly new operating system, the Symbian S60 FP2, which was already seen on the Nokia E71x running on [...]

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Nokia have launched a new mini-site for the forthcoming N97 ahead of its expected June launch. The site features the usual options of viewing pictures and videos of the handset as well as seeing it in different colours. There is also an interactive tour so that you can ‘try out’ the handset before you buy [...]

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The N97 will soon be upon us and many people are itching to find out all they can about it. Well the good news is that details of the processor have become available, the bad news is that it may disappoint some. For the N97 Nokia have decided to use a single ARM 11 processor [...]

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The latest edition of Nokia Messaging, for Symbian S60 5th Edition, is due to be released next month, but it seems the developers have pre-released the client to get feedback. The release version, according to Nokia Beta Labs, won’t see any radical changes from the pre-release version, this is primarly to get feedback rather than [...]

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Today Nokia announced the 6216 Classic, a bar-style phone that has Near Field Communications technology built directly into the SIM card rather than in a separate module. By including the NFC technology on the SIM card, it allows network operators to custom tailor services to the NFC capabilities of the handset. The 6216 Classic also [...]

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The Nokia 5800 has proven a popular handset with great sales figures, but you may not have realized just how great those figures actually are. Nokia’s first touchscreen handset made up around 20% of all touch screen handsets sold in Q1 2009. The figures come from Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo himself, Nokia’s CEO.
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Documents seen on the FCC provide some information about an Nokia device that is a dual-slider. The phone has design language similar to Nokia’s N Series multimedia devices and has similar features, according to the draft user manual. The FCC confirms that it has CDMA EVDO Rev. A and Bluetooth. The draft user manual says [...]

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The V21 firmware update for the Nokia 5800 looks to be finding its way into the world at large. The main improvements in the update apparently revolve around the handset’s camera and in general performance upgrades.

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