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Nokia: Symbian death in 2012 on Nseries speculation is “completely premature”

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

nokia n900 hands on slashgear 33 540x414 Oh dear, it looks like someone in the Maemo marketing team had a few too many drinks last night and said something they shouldn’t have. Having heard earlier on today that Nokia were planning to ditch Symbian on their Nseries devices by 2012, the Finnish company has now issued a statement calling any such speculation “completely premature”. Symbian, they say, is about “bringing smartphones to the masses”, while Maemo is targeted at “devices based on technology that you’d typically find inside a desktop computer”.

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Nokia N900 finally shipping in US today

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

We’re not sure what we’ll do with our time now that Nokia have officially announced that their N900 is available in the US. It seemed like we spent half our day fielding rumors about its release – either dates or postponements – that’s when we weren’t playing with the device itself, of course.

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Nokia Nseries to all run Maemo not Symbian by 2012

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

Maemo – as on the Nokia N900 – is still more of a geek’s paradise than a consumer-ready platform, so we hope the development team responsible for it will be working hard over the next couple of years. That’s because the Maemo marketing team have let slip that, as of 2012, Maemo will replace Symbian as the OS for Nokia’s entire Nseries range of handsets.

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Nokia E72 now shipping [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

Nokia’s E72 has finally begun shipping, having been announced all the way back in June. The much-anticipated follow-up to the Nokia E71, the E72 is an unashamedly email-centric smartphone, with a full QWERTY keyboard and optical trackpad; running S60, Nokia have added in IM support from the homescreen together with a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash.

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Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition packs DVB-H tuner

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

While we may continue to blast Qualcomm’s FLO TV standalone streaming TV handheld, we have no problem with manufacturers integrating mobile TV into their cellphones. Nokia’s latest, the 5330 Mobile TV Edition, does exactly as its name suggests: packs a DVB-H digital TV tuner into a media-centric handset, complete with hardware music control keys, a 2.4-inch QVGA display and a 3.5mm headphones jack.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 45 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

Here we go with another week in review. Monday IDC released their data on the number of CPUs shipped for Q3 2009. The number of CPUS shipped grew 23% for the quarter compared to the previous year. ZiiLABS unveiled its new ZMS-08 Blu-ray quality media processor this week. The processor promises to be full 1080p HD video support and more for portable devices like tablets.

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Nokia N97 mini and E72 video unboxings

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 No Comments

Nokia’s Booklet 3G isn’t the only new device from the company on our test bench today; two of the Finn’s newest smartphones have also arrived, in the shape of the N97 mini and the E72. Announced back in September and June, respectively, each offers a full QWERTY keyboard and S60 OS, but in strikingly different ways. Check out our unboxing videos, live galleries and some first impressions after the cut.

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Nokia Booklet 3G video unboxing & first-impressions

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 12th 2009 No Comments

Nokia’s The Way We Live Next 3.0 event wasn’t intended to launch any hardware, but we’ve arrived back today to find quite a few Finnish goodies waiting to be played with. First up is the Nokia Booklet 3G, the company’s first netbook and a distinctive one at that: as well as the MacBook-style design there’s integrated 3G WWAN and GPS as standard. After the cut, check out our video unboxing and initial gallery.

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Apple was most profitable handset vendor in Q3 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Nov 11th 2009 No Comments

We all know that the Apple iPhone is doing very well in the market. When you stop to think that the device is only available on one network, the success is even more impressive. The new numbers are out for the mobile handset industry in Q3 2009 and Apple was tops for profitability.

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Nokia Vision of 2015 concept video

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 11th 2009 No Comments

Nokia’s The Way We Live Next 3.0 event isn’t intended to launch new hardware – they had Nokia World a few months back for that – but they couldn’t let the day pass without revealing a few details as to how they envisage devices and services of the future functioning. Heikki Norta, SVP of corporate strategy, took to the stage to show a demo video of possible mobile life in 2015, complete with location sharing, face recognition and that old mainstay of futurology concepts, projection keyboards. There’s also a pretty impressive dual-display netbook and a modular system which can easily switch your “passport data” between a full-sized handset and a smaller unit more suited to exercise-wear.

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