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Royal Wedding Phone is pre-pay travesty

Chris Davies, Mar 21st 2011 Discuss [3]

Ah, the Royal Wedding. Look past the romance and the opportunity for expensive dresses and horse-drawn carriages, and it's the perfect chance to cash in with some hideous themed tat. In that vein, may we present the Special Edition Royal Wedding phone, courtesy of the Carphone Warehouse. Read The Full Story

Opera Mobile Store opens: cross-platform apps on the go

Chris Davies, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

Opera has launched its own app store, the Opera Mobile Store, for its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers. Offering titles for Java, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Android devices - though not, yet, iOS - the store is accessed by a new Speed Dial link in the apps and automatically filters by phone, location and currency. Read The Full Story

Elfoid P1 humanoid cellphone is bizarre telepresence attempt

Chris Davies, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [2]

Back when we were initially befreaked by the Telenoid R1 robot midway through 2010, the last thing we wanted was a pocket-sized version of the creepy, fleshy telepresence 'bot that could lurk in our pocket. Unfortunately that's just what Osaka University researchers - along with NTT DoCoMo and Qualcomm - have done, designing the 8-inch long Elfoid P1 cellphone. Read The Full Story

T-Mobile USA losing subscribers: 318,000 contract users jumped in Q4

Chris Davies, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [3]

T-Mobile USA may have the biggest 4G network in the US, and data ARPUs rising faster than any US rival, but the carrier is still losing users. The carrier saw 33.73m subscribers in Q4 2010, according to new figures released today, down from 33.76m in Q3 2010 and 33.79m year-on-year. The biggest shift has been in contract customers, down a massive 318,000 - over 5x greater than in the previous three month period - while although pre-pay customers are up compared to Q3, they're still well behind T-Mobile's figures for 2009. Read The Full Story

Powermat Wireless Car Charger Available Later This Year

Samia Perkins, Feb 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

Powermat is releasing a windshield-mounted, wireless car charger later this year, according to CNET. The charger can adjust to fit any of the phone types that Powermat supports, so it could be great for cars with multiple drivers, or drivers with multiple phones, since people will not need to keep multiple car chargers in the car. [caption id="attachment_133987" align="alignnone" width="580" caption="Credit: Liane Yvkoff/CNET"][/caption] Read The Full Story

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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at MWC 2011

Chris Davies, Feb 14th 2011 Discuss [16]

All eyes have been on Nokia over the past few days, and SlashGear has just finished a sit-down session with CEO Stephen Elop to talk about the decision process the company has made over the past few months in switching to Windows Phone, the impact it sees on developers, users and other OEMs, and what the shift has done to the company’s relationship with MeeGo. It’s obviously an emotive topic; we’ve seen plenty of feedback from Nokia followers unhappy with the move, as well as Android fans who would have preferred to see Nokia hardware running Google’s OS. Check out our interview report after the cut.

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Nokia in talks with Verizon over CDMA possibility; is “considering everything”

Chris Davies, Feb 14th 2011 Discuss [3]

Nokia has been in talks with Verizon Wireless in the US, CEO Stephen Elop has confirmed to us, and while the Finnish company has no plans to announce today, the possibility of CDMA devices is still on the table. Speaking in an interview with SlashGear at MWC 2011 today, Elop denied the long-standing belief that Nokia's relationships with the North American carriers were poor. Read The Full Story

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Why Nokia’s CEO Chose Microsoft

Tim Bajarin, Feb 12th 2011 Discuss [111]

In the end, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop really didn’t have a choice. When he surveyed the competitive landscape, he found that he was boxed into a corner. While Android might have looked attractive as an alternative for their fledgling smartphone business, to back it would make him just another Android licensee. And while he could have tapped into their software ecosystem, it would have been hard for him to differentiate at the hardware level and thus be thrust against the dozens of Android handset vendors chasing the growing smartphone market.

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Nokia: Big Windows Phone push in 2012; Increased R&D in low-end devices

Chris Davies, Feb 11th 2011 Discuss [3]

Nokia has described 2011 and 2012 as "transition years", with Symbian gradually phasing out and the company putting its weight behind Microsoft's platform. According to Stephen Elop, "2012 will be the year when we ship a large number of Windows Phone devices over a variety of price points." However, it's not only smartphones that Nokia is planning to invest in. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone kills Symbian as Nokia strategy shifts

Chris Davies, Feb 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

The writing for Symbian is on the wall - or on the slide, at least. As part of its financial presentation today, Nokia has illustrated the diminishing role Symbian will play as Windows Phone takes over its space in smartphones. The company also expects Windows Phone to eat into Nokia's Mobile Phone business. Read The Full Story

Nokia CEO: “It’s not just differentiation but sustainable differentiation”

Chris Davies, Feb 10th 2011 Discuss [11]

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has insisted that the decision over the company's future platform strategy must enable long-term viability and partnership opportunities, rather than simply a short-term rescue to the company's finances in 2011. "It's not just differentiation but sustainable differentiation" the new chief-exec told AllThingsD in an interview last week, running through the pros and cons of MeeGo, Android and Windows Phone 7 as the potential suitors for Nokia's well-esteemed hardware. Read The Full Story

Google VP snipes at Nokia with turkey trash talk

Chris Davies, Feb 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

Google VP of engineering Vic Gundotra has made what seems to be a dig at Nokia ahead of the company's Capital Markets Day event on Friday, February 11, taking to Twitter to suggest that "#Feb Two turkeys do not make an Eagle". The snub would certainly appear to suggest that any talks between Nokia and Google haven't resulted in the Finnish company adopting Android as its platform salvation. Read The Full Story