Monthly Archives: February 2011

BARCELONA, Spain – While we were at Mobile World Congress, it was great to have the opportunity to speak to Mary McDowell, Nokia’s EVP in charge of mobile phones. In particular, it’s her job to drive Nokia’s “next billion” strategy of making mobile phones and internet services affordable and accessible to people everywhere, especially growth economies. But as Mary points out, these customers have extremely high aspirations for their mobile devices.

Any questions about bringing mobile devices and services to the unconnected? We’d be delighted to hear them, below.

GLOBAL – If there’s one thing the boys at irkafirka love, it’s a comment that has a possibly ambiguous meaning. When Maximilian Hernandez said, “You know what would awesome Nokia? If you guys made like amazing eye awakening gorgeous in all lights screens :D ”, we all knew exactly what he meant. But not our ingenious illustrators. No – they thought he wanted a big eyeball.

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GLOBAL – For people using a Nokia with Series 40 on-board, you’ll be pleased to know that your web browsing experience should now be improved. The latest Ovi Browser Beta from Ovi Store brings a faster, richer and more enjoyable way of searching for content on the Web, right from your mobile phone.
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GLOBAL – We’ve been posting links to reactions from other blogs and publications on a pretty regular basis since the February 11 announcement that Nokia was planning to partner with Microsoft for its smartphone business. But there’s been an important voice missing from the list: that of Rafe Blandford, proprietor and editor-in-chief of All About Symbian. It turns out, though, that there was a good reason for the silence: he was thinking and writing.

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GLOBAL – Phil’s on holiday this week, so prepare yourselves for the dulcet tones of Ray Haddow as he joins Dan for a chat about this week’s news. In this week’s instalment, how will Nokia & Microsoft become ‘The Third Horse’ and win the race? It all starts with developers…and ends with stress relief.

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GLOBAL – Today is Friday, which means it’s time to browse through the World Wide Web and look at what  other blog owners are saying. Seeing as there’s still lots of talk about the big news, we’ll keep on topic and take you through some other sites that are offering their opinion on the matter, find out what’s being said in this week’s Pick and Mix.
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GLOBAL – With a Nokia Windows Phone on the cards, planned devices will come with higher-resolution screens than before – 480 x 800 pixels is a minimum requirement. But why does that matter? What use is a high-res screen? There are a few ways this can improve your mobile usage, so let’s take a poll to find out how you can use these new and improved screens.
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GLOBAL – Last week we took a look at what Windows Phone currently offers and what we’re looking forward to seeing in the future releases. As we often do, we asked you to tick some boxes in our poll to find out what you’re looking forward to, and here are the results.
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