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Maybe it’s time to start taking Nokia seriously as a viable smartphone player. Much of the battle comes down to the app infrastructure, and according to Nokia, the Ovi Store now kicks out 3 million downloads a day.
Nokia says the number of daily downlo…
Say what you want about how Nokia’s N8 smartphone stacks up to Apple’s iPhone 4, but at a minimum, the two devices share one trait in common: Bill of Materials (BOM).
According to iSuppli, the N8′s BOM comes out to $187.47. If you want to split hairs o…
Nokia picked a heck of a time to start shipping its C7 smartphone. As the second Symbian 3 device in Nokia’s stable, the C7 is a noteworthy follow-up to the N8, only all the attention is currently being paid to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 devices.
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Samsung is reportedly prepping memory cards based on the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) standard for launch in the first half of 2011. According to Digitimes, the Korean electronics major is working closely with fellow members of the JEDEC Sol…
Samsung’s mobile strategy has always been multifaceted. The company has built phones running on software from Microsoft, Google, and now their own Bada OS. So it’s no surprise that Sammy has finally decided to make some space and give Symbian the boot….
What if you could go back in time and beat Apple to market with an iPhone device. Would you do it? Every smartphone maker on the planet would say ‘yes,’ including Nokia, which would probably like to take a mulligan on saying ‘no’ when it had the chance…
Taking shots at Nokia’s ailing smartphone platform Symbian is almost too easy these days, and it would seem another hardware manufacturer is announcing that it wants off the bandwagon in favor of Android. Sony Ericsson has been developing Android ba…
Linux on a smartphone? That’s just the beginning of the weirdness
In many ways, Nokia’s oddball device matches every other phone in this story, feature for feature. It’s kind of like a Swiss Army Phone made by Finns. Front-facing camera? Check. Rea…