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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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Video demo after the cut

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Symbian Foundation roadmap, NFC, social networking hooks discussed

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 10th 2009 No Comments

Remember the BeagleBoard prototyping platform, which was put to such cost-effective use in the DIY Beagle MID earlier this year? Expect to see plenty more of the $149 OMAP3 device in future, now that Symbian Foundation have released their latest build for the platform. Speaking at Nokia’s The Way We Live Next 3.0 conference today, Symbian Foundation’s Shaun Puckrin discussed the roadmap for Symbian^3 and Symbian^4, the next-shipping versions of the platform, together with some of the functionality that will be hard-baked into the OS.

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Maemo “Contagious Content” concept promises geo-linked collaborative media

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 10th 2009 2 Comments

Nokia’s various open-source teams are well on their way to being the flirting teases of the mobile OS world; after last week’s Symbian Foundation demo video, showing a nifty amalgam of augmented reality, geo-location services and combined social network streams, head of Maemo marketing Peter Schneider took to the stage at Nokia’s The Way We Live Next 3.0 event to discuss his team’s vision of “contagious content”. According to Schneider, one day our mobile devices will be able to spot hot topics of information – whether they be Twitter messages, photos or something else – nearby to us, and flag them up to better involve us.

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Phones 4U offers exclusive white Nokia N97 Mini

By Shane McGlaun on Tuesday, Nov 10th 2009 No Comments

We already know all there is to know about the new Nokia N97 Mini that went on sale a while back. As is common after a phone has been on the market for a while, the N97 Mini is now coming in a different color to woo new buyers to the device.

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Nokia N900 ships today; Maemo enhancements get video demo

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 10th 2009 1 Comment

SlashGear is at Nokia’s The Way We Live Next 3.0 conference in Helsinki, Finland this week, and the company has just confirmed that the much-anticipated Nokia N900 Maemo smartphone will be shipping today. We’ve been told that the handset – which has a 3.5-inch resistive touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard – went out from Nokia’s production facilities over the weekend, with shipments of the handset beginning in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and North America.

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Video demo of N900 Maemo 5 enhancements after the cut

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Nokia recalls 14M AC-3E, AC-4U, and AC-3U mobile phone chargers

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Nov 9th 2009 No Comments

The last time Nokia issued a massive recall on its mobile devices it was for faulty battery packs. Nokia today issued a recall that covers about 14 million mobile phone chargers that the company says were built by a third party.

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HTC HD2 vs Nokia N900 keyboard comparison

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 3rd 2009 2 Comments

One of the most common questions we’re being asked in the aftermath of our HTC HD2 unboxing is how its on-screen QWERTY keyboard compares to one of the other eye-catching smartphones of the quarter, the Nokia N900. We’ve staged a quick size and keyboard comparison, and you can find the gallery – and read our early opinions on both devices – after the cut.

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Nokia and AT&T collaborating on Symbian cellphone?

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 30th 2009 No Comments

nokia n900 hands on slashgear 151 540x351 Nokia’s trouble breaking into the US market has become a cliché over the years, so it’s good to hear that the Finnish firm may be turning their fortunes around. According to a VentureBeat report, Nokia and AT&T are working together to launch a Symbian handset that will be based on a Qualcomm chipset; definitive specifications are unknown, as is launch date, but Nokia are reportedly being more accommodating of US carriers’ desire to customize individual devices.

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Nokia N97 mini goes on sale; N97 OS 2.0 released

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No Comments

It’s all go in Nokia N97 land this week, with the double news that not only have the Finnish company released the much-anticipated 2.0 firmware update for the original N97, but that the Nokia N97 mini would be arriving on shelves. The N97 mini – officially announced at Nokia World back in September – has a smaller chassis than the N97, but uses the same touchscreen-friendly S60 5th Edition OS.

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Nokia Booklet 3G gets video unboxing, reviewed

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No Comments

Having gone in sale in Europe this week, the initial reviews of the Nokia Booklet 3G netbook are beginning to show up. The Wall Street Journal have shared their impressions of the 3G and GPS toting ultraportable, praising its battery life but immediately dampening their enthusiasm over what they describe as a “tiny keyboard”. Meanwhile Engadget Spanish are yet to review the Booklet 3G, but they have taken the time to unbox it.

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