Nokia appear to have seen reason and implemented a much needed change in policy in the Ovi Store regarding re-downloading content. Up until now customers’ purchases were tied to the device they used to purchase the content, not their account. That is if a customer bought content on their N97 they couldn’t just download the [...]

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The once rumored Nokia Xseries is now official as Nokia has just announced two devices to spearhead this new range of phones: the Nokia X6 and the X3.
The Nokia X6 is their latest full-touchscreen device that features 3.2-inch display, Carl Zeiss equipped 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, TV-out, on-device video editing tools, [...]

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It’s been a while since the world has been as excited about a Nokia product as they are about the N900. The fact that it runs on the Maemo 5 OS instead of Nokia’s old (lackluster) standby, Symbian, is reason enough alone to be giddy. We know this phone will be hitting the T-Mobile network [...]

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Another video for you today, this time the Nokia 5230 touchscreen. The video goes through the usual stuff i.e. showing the handset off, demonstrating a bit of web surfing, etc. Nothing really to write home about. The handset does come out looking a bit, well ‘incommodious’ and doesn’t really seem to make a splash. Of [...]

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Microsoft and Nokia held a joint teleconference earlier today to announce the deployment of various Microsoft products on Nokia’s Symbian platform. It may not live up to some of the rumours circling before the conference that Nokia was going to work on a WinMo device, but it’s still an important announcement, for Symbian users at [...]

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Nokia’s just announced the upcoming release of its first smartphone with a seriously awesome camera. The N86 has an impressive 8 MP shooter with a wide angle lens. It’s not too scrappy in the hardware department either. A 2.6” AMOLED screen, 8 GB of internal memory, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE plus tri-band UMTS, WiFi, and aGPS make [...]

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Today Nokia announced the Surge, a QWERTY-equipped sideways slider that will be available from AT&T starting July 19. It has quad-band GSM/EDGE, 850/1900 WCDMA/HSDPA, and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and FM radios on board. According to Nokia, the Surge is aimed at users of social networks and it offers most forms of messaging, including AT&T’s [...]

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Today Nokia introduced the 3720 Classic, a rugged monoblock phone that can withstand drops, vibration, and has an IP-54 (ingress protection) rating against moisture and dust. The 900/1800/1900 tri-band GSM/EDGE 3720 also has a 2 megapixel camera with flash, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.1, flashlight, and extended battery life. It will be available in select markets [...]

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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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