By Mike on 09 September 2008
GLOBAL – We’ve keenly followed Ovi’s gestation in recent months, with new features successively sprouting limb-like into existence. Ovi quietly stepped into the digital world at the tail-end of August, officially earning its public beta wings and opening the door even wider.
By Charlie on 08 September 2008
ESPOO, Finland – Wow. There seems to be a lot going on in the tech world, from gigantic steampunk spiders to thumbs-down for gimmicky ad campaigns to tech dirt being slung around in all directions.
By Charlie on 05 September 2008
ESPOO, Finland – First we had real phones available in real shops spurning real fakes. Then real phones that weren’t available, being faked. Now we have phones that aren’t even real being faked. Go figure. I found out via Unwired View that Mobile Mentalism found some pics of a Chinese phone that is based on nothing more than a Nokia patent.
By Charlie on 03 September 2008
LONDON, UK – Do we really need smartphones? Indeed, why are they called smartphones? Are all other phones dumb?
I’ve been using cutting-edge Internet-connected mobile devices for around ten years and over time pushed the envelope so far, it’s even got ripped in a few places. Lately I’ve come to see that, in the end, it’s connecting to people (where have I heard that line?) that matters most to me and, for the most part, voice and text seem to do the trick.
Therefore, I hereby announce the formation of The 1100 Club (not to be confused with The 1100 Club).
By James on 03 September 2008
LONDON, England - Charlie mentioned it the other day, and International Herald Tribune did a piece here earlier so I figured it must be my turn to have a stab. Ovi. Finnish for “door” dontcha know, is being slowly released into the wild and is, it seems, getting better every day. Does it have everything right now? No. But it does have some very cool features which though excited about, I wasn’t sure how they’d turn out.
By Mike on 03 September 2008
GLOBAL – Floods of Nokia N96 handsets have begun their exodus from factory to shop floor, with shipping beginning today. Hardly in need of introduction, the newest Nseries unquestionably out-muscles the N95 8GB in face-off features stakes – it comes loaded with 16GB of storage coupled with optional microSD card slot that’ll suck up to 24GB of extra memory, supports live TV (if you’re region supports DVB-H), and my personal favourite… the kickstand!
By Charlie on 03 September 2008
LONDON, UK – It seems that even when we have enough versions of some service or product, someone comes along to do the same or try to improve it. The latest two I found come from some big players, Google and Microsoft.
By Charlie on 02 September 2008
LONDON, UK – The whole Nokia Conversations team is in London today banging our heads together as we look at how we’ve done in the past four months, what’s been working and what hasn’t, and planning what to do for the next few months to heat things up here.
By Mike on 02 September 2008
LONDON, England – The concept for Comes with Music was first uttered publicly by Nokia back in December 2007, since triggering a full spectrum of opinions ranging from positive anticipation to fierce gut-felt cynicism. What is undisputed and exciting, however, is that this is a mould-breaking service that is igniting debate, pushing boundaries and perhaps, could fundamentally change the entire landscape of how we going about digesting music, directly or indirectly. Interesting times in tunes-ville.
By Charlie on 01 September 2008
LONDON, UK – I’ve escaped Espoo to visit some folks in London. But that doesn’t necessarily keep me from havering about what’s happening out there.
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