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Nokia N8 Review

Chris Davies, Oct 10th 2010 Discuss [65]

It feels like we’ve been talking about the Nokia N8 for a long time. February 2010 saw the first murmurings, followed by a string of leaks, rumors, semi-accurate previews and finally, around seven months later, a commercial release. In the meantime there’s been no shortage of speculation over whether Symbian^3 still has a place among the smartphone elite, how the North American market will take to the N8, and indeed whether Nokia is still relevant in a world of Android, iOS and other successful platforms. That’s a whole lot resting on a single device, so can the Nokia N8 shoulder the strain? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Apple: “We constantly refresh the content on Apple.com”

Vincent Nguyen, Aug 1st 2010 Discuss [2]

You might have seen speculation earlier today over Apple's removal of its antenna testing videos from the company's attenuation page, including rumors of legal action from rivals or even backtracking on their stance over the iPhone 4. Apple reached out to us this afternoon to dismiss the hearsay, telling us that the update is merely part of their drive to "constantly refresh" their content. Read The Full Story

Apple yanks “antennagate” testing reports

Chris Davies, Aug 1st 2010 Discuss [1]

Has Apple decided the iPhone 4 antenna issue is all cleared up? The company's antenna information page, which previously showed various test videos of rival smartphones - like the HTC Droid Eris, Motorola DROID X, Nokia N97 mini and BlackBerry Bold 9700 - displaying attenuation issues when held in certain ways, has been pared down to just a brief blurb on the Apple antenna design and test labs. Read The Full Story

iPhone 4 antenna drops signal 90% on contact versus 25% of rivals claim German testers

Chris Davies, Jul 24th 2010 Discuss [3]

Once you start talking about scientific testing, you can't really be too surprised when other scientists step in and try to replicate your results. Apple has been steadily working through their smartphone rivals, showing how grip-issues plague all antennas rather than solely that of the iPhone 4 (most recently the Motorola DROID X and Nokia N97 mini, and now independent German consumer organization Stiftung Warentest has stepped in to take a look themselves. Roughly the German equivalent of Consumer Reports, Stiftung Warentest claim that in their testing the iPhone 4 signal dropped by up to 90-percent when touched in the lower left-hand corner, whereas rivals saw significantly less of a change when their antenna was touched. Read The Full Story

Nokia N97 mini gets Apple “antennagate” testing

Chris Davies, Jul 21st 2010 Discuss [3]

Nokia may rue the day they jumped on the Antennagate bandwagon and pointed out that they'd always prioritize signal performance over aesthetics. The company's N97 mini has joined the BlackBerry Bold 9700, Samsung Omnia II, HTC Droid Eris and iPhone 3GS on Apple's antenna testing page of shame. Read The Full Story

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Nokia, Apple and a whole heap of hyperbole

Chris Davies, Jul 4th 2010 Discuss [2]

Nokia’s new head of Mobile Solutions (the division of the Finnish company dedicated to smartphones and mobile computers) Anssi Vanjoki has come out fighting this week, promising “killer smartphones”, “game-changing products” and the sort of “battle” that fanboys have been crying out for over the past couple of years. You could well argue that his counterpart at Nokia’s Mobile Phones division has an easier job of it, taking on the more mundane grist of what’s still the biggest cellphone company worldwide (and getting handset-hungry developing markets to cater to). Vanjoki gets a tired portfolio of devices with only the N8 a glimmer on the horizon (and that, a crueller person might add, runs an already tired OS) and the challenge of rivalling the best in Android, iOS and webOS in what has become perhaps the fastest changing segment in consumer electronics. That’s a pretty hefty to-do list, so what should be his plan of attack, where does the N8 fit into it, and – in a week of iPhone 4 contention – what lessons could Apple be learning from the Finns’ fall from grace?

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Nokia and Yahoo! deal for mobile services imminent?

Chris Davies, May 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

Nokia are going full-steam ahead with their own package of services - the feature-toting update to Ovi Maps earlier this week is proof of that - but are they also planning a deal with Yahoo! which will see the latter company's email, search and other applications and services built into certain Nokia models? That's what AllThingsD are reporting, having been invited to Yahoo!'s "Project Nike" launch next week with the promise of "an exciting announcement about providing global consumers with rich online and mobile experiences". They dug around and came up not only with the Nokia connection but some particularly snide comments about both firms. Read The Full Story

Nokia Bots promises autonomous smartphone learning [Video]

Chris Davies, Mar 30th 2010 Discuss [0]

Last year I bemoaned the state of social networking on mobile devices, and suggested that smartphone software should focus more on intelligently offering up contextually-appropriate information than merely replicating the desktop experience. At the time, I pointed to some ongoing research at Nokia Research called the Linked Internet UI Concept, which promised to learn from your use and attention and thus better serve up news on your friends and colleagues. We're yet to see any public release of that concept, but Nokia Research have pushed out what could be the first step toward it: Nokia Bots. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia C6 touchscreen QWERTY slider leaks

Chris Davies, Mar 15th 2010 Discuss [2]

We made no bones about our general displeasure with the Nokia N97 and N97 mini QWERTY keyboards, the lack of tactile feedback of which (and general bumpy rubberiness) let to a sluggish typing experience, so we're hoping this leaked shot of the purported Nokia C6 turns out to be authentic. Ostensibly a 5800 with a slide-out QWERTY, the keys look more in line with those of the N900. Read The Full Story

Skype for Symbian S60 slides into Nokia’s Ovi Store

Chris Davies, Mar 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

The latest version of Skype's mobile VoIP app for Symbian S60 devices (aka Symbian^1) has been added to the Nokia Ovi Store, making free calls over WiFi or 3G a slightly easier possibility for the millions of handset owners out there. In fact, there are over 200 million Nokia phones worldwide, and with the Skype app they'll be able to send SMS messages, share images and other files, use IM and of course make free or low-cost Skype calls. Read The Full Story

Nokia N98 QWERTY-style slider leaked?

Chris Davies, Feb 11th 2010 Discuss [3]

Being completely upfront, we can't quite bring ourselves to believe that this is actually Nokia's next smartphone, the N98. However we're suckers for a good render and BeGeek reckon they've "confirmed internally" that this is in fact a 4-inch smartphone that Nokia intend to launch in time for the holiday 2010 season. Read The Full Story

1.4m Nokia Ovi Maps downloads: people like free stuff

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia have announced that, in just under two weeks, its free Ovi Maps Navigation app has been downloaded 1.4m times. In fact, the company broke the 1m barrier at the end of last week. Unveiled in its new, subscription-free form on January 21st, this latest version of Ovi Maps includes spoken turn-by-turn directions together with formerly-premium content such as Lonely Planet guides. Read The Full Story