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Nokia in battle with Apple over patent of nano-SIM standard

April 17, 2012

Nokia, one of the biggest manufacturers of mobile devices in the world, is about to go into battle with one of its biggest rivals – Apple – over the patent rights to a smaller version of the traditional SIM card, which has been called nano-SIM. Nokia developed its version of the nano-SIM in collaboration with [...]

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Do you Receive Calls through a Tattoo?

April 9, 2012

Confused by the title? Nokia has patented a new Tattoo design that will alert for calls, messages or e-mails. The phrase ‘Technology gets under your skin’ has taken over literally. The goal is to eliminate the odds of missing a call or text message. An impulse is perceived through the tattoo whenever someone is trying [...]

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Three smartphones to look forward to in 2012

February 20, 2012

This might not come as a surprise, but we are probably going to see some interesting phone launches in 2012. Probably not any revolutionary phones, rather evolutionary, but who knows – only time will tell. My personal favorite of anticipated smart phones in 2012 is of course the next iPhone, probably to be called Apple [...]

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The Nokia Lumia 900 squares up to its predecessor, the Lumia 800

February 16, 2012

There is nothing like an upgrade to allow smartphone users to consider how far their favourite manufacturer has come along. The Nokia Lumia 800 was a definite watershed for Nokia. Its first Windows Phone device, representing a shedding of its in-house Symbian technology, the device combined a good build and design with an impressive operating [...]

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What You Need To Know About The Symbian Anna Update For Nokia N8

September 2, 2011

The long wait for the Symbian Anna firmware update for Nokia N8 is over. Nokia has been rolling out the new update for more than a week now. First announced on Nokia’s official blog, the Symbian Anna update targets N8 users in Europe and Asia. Countries where the update was already released include the United [...]

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Apple Makes More Money On Cellphones Than Nokia & I’m Giving Up On My iPhone!

November 19, 2009

Apple has taken over Nokia, when looking at profit by selling cellphones, according to a recent study by Strategy Analytics. With operating profits in the third quarter of $1.6 billion (estimated by Strategy Analytics), they made more money by Nokia with $1.1 billion. Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones during the third quarter (July-September), generating sales [...]

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Nokia N900 – The Journey Starts Here (A Cool Video)

November 13, 2009

I’m not a Nokia fan, I haven’t liked many of their phones for several years, but their new N900 looks like an interesting piece of tech that I wouldn’t mind getting my greasy fingers all over. At least just to try out the Linux Maemo system it’s running. The Journey Starts Here Nokia (or their [...]

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Top 10 Gadgets I Want For Christmas – And Maybe You Would Too?

November 3, 2009

Christmas is closing in on us, but according to the stores and malls it kinda looks like it’s Christmas already. It’s amazing how they manage to make everything look Christmassy sooner and sooner almost every year. Anywho, what’s a Tech blog without a top 10 list of all the greatest gadgets that most of us [...]

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Greenpeace: Nintendo Worst, Nokia Best

October 1, 2009

Once again we find Nintendo at rock bottom in the yearly Top 20 chart from Greenpeace, showing the some of the biggest makers of consumer electronics. Nintendo scores 1.4 points which is 0.4 points more than last year. The reason for Nintendo still being placed last is due to their use of PVC, poor recycling, [...]

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Nokia 7705 Twist: Square’ish Swivel Mobile Phone?

September 14, 2009

By looking at the picture to the right, you’d be forgiven to think that this thing is some fancy trivet, when it’s actually a real cellular mobile phone from Nokia. This new funny looking phone is the 7705 Twist and comes with a QWERTY keyboard and a design that doesn’t look too ergonomic or practical. [...]

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Nokia Announces X3 And X6 – Music Phones

September 2, 2009

Today Nokia announced their X-Series Music phones at Nokia World 2009 event in Stuttgart, Germany. As expected, the new Nokia N900 smartphone were introduced, but other than that, not a lot of breaking news to report. There was however room for a couple of music related news. Nokia X6 and Nokia X3 are the newest [...]

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Nokia 6301 iSync Plugin (6300 iSync)

August 10, 2009

Nokia 6300/6301 is not supported by Apple’s iSync per default, so in order to get 6301 iSync compatibility you will need to install a custom iSync plugin. This 6301 iSync plugin allows you to synchronize using bluetooth. It will synchronize data from your Address Book such as name, addresses, etc. as well as data from [...]

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Congratulations, App Store – 1 Year Birthday

July 13, 2009

It’s been one year already, since App Store was launched along with the iPhone 3G. When App Store was first launched it came with around 500 applications and the next weekend they had already 10 million downloads. Nine months later, Apple’s App Store reached one billion downloads and had over 35,000 applications in place. No [...]

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Grab Energy Out Of The Air And Charge Your Devices

July 13, 2009

You probably have tried it several times already, running low on battery – or maybe even empty – with your mobile device. Specially if you have an iPhone or other similar media-fancy device, thanks to all the power hungry technologies such as 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, big touchscreens etc. Fear no longer, cause Nokia is having [...]

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