Nokia 770 Tablet critisism

Nokia 770 got terrible review from Rob Pegoraro of Washington Post. According to him, everything is wrong all the time. Some miraclous moments he came across with and during those moments, Nokia 770 was almost OK to surf the web. Seems like Nokia has some tough challenges in fixing up the flaws.

Posted on: 7 May 2006 | 3:06 pm

ATI, Nokia and Bitboys

Bitboys has always been a strange bird on graphics frontier. Tiny company in the middle of nowhere, but their products have been ahead of their time. Bitboys was never able to capitalize their expertise in personal computer graphics segment. However, mobile graphics has meant booming times for the company and growth has been rapid. Nokia is the important key in this capitalization as a big and

Posted on: 4 May 2006 | 4:10 pm

Nokia also ties with Visa

Came up with this interesting piece of news. Nokia and Visa are working together in order to bring out mobile paying system in Malaysia. Hot (literally) markets of Asia are just drooling to get such system.

Posted on: 2 May 2006 | 2:13 pm

Nokia ties with Adobe

Nokia will start to ship their N93 with Adobe’s Premiere Elements 2.0. This means that N93 owners can edit the video clips that they have shot with their handset. This is very cool news, especially if it doesn’t affect pricing. My guess is that with this sort of announcements, Nokia is trying to prevent N93 price from eroding. Technology is hard to change in millions of units sold, but software

Posted on: 2 May 2006 | 2:10 pm

Nokia rises from ashes

Business world has been full of analysis and news about Nokia’s new rise. Their higher end mobile phones have gotten buyers attention and everything is well again. Nokia’s features are the key that attracts buyers. It still isn’t the innovative and sexy design, but I am so much hoping for that day to come again. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> Anyhow, now Nokia has grasped

Posted on: 27 April 2006 | 3:33 pm

Nokia's mobile TV projections

Nokia estimates that mobile TV will be part of our everyday life by year 2008. Only two years, do you believe that? I still use voice and text services only, and I consider myself as relatively technology friendly. Looks quite optimistic projection to me. Reuters run the original story.

Posted on: 5 March 2006 | 8:16 am

Frank Nuovo leaves Nokia

Various media has been commenting Nuovo's leave from Nokia as some sort of disaster. Just think of it, the guy who raised the company to design greatness, is leaving the company. Jorma Ollila is also leaving, so are other managers. What is going on?Luckily Nokia has very stable protocols on place. Old managers breed old ideas, it is about time to get new blood into the company and steer away from

Posted on: 5 March 2006 | 6:01 am

Mad Dog Player for Nokia phones

Mad Dog Mobile is a mobile community, where youngsters can interact with each others. Mad Dog Player is the core of the community, it changes your phone into community gateway - chat, play, listen, message, talk... Fun and it can be free if you mange to get your friends using it too.For now Mad Dog is only running on Nokia mobile phones, but expect it to take on the world like a virus.

Posted on: 5 March 2006 | 5:58 am

Nokia Flagship Stores

Nokia has plans for opening several sales points at world’s shopping capitals. What is interesting in these stores is that they will be located in high-profile locations in world’s major shopping destinations. Complete Nokia products portfolio and access to N-Gage Arena will be showcased at these locations. Today they opened the first Nokia Flagship Store in Moscow, Russia.WHAT'S UP WITH NOKIA?To

Posted on: 8 December 2005 | 4:40 pm

Forum Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge

Nokia’s purpose is to encourage development on fields like – enterprise, music, location-based and Flash applications for the Series 60 platform. Competition has some neat prices (sadly just for the winners) – money, fame and memberships. If you can create something stunning with C++ or Flash, you must act now because the registration is open until 15th of December. Read details over here.

Posted on: 8 December 2005 | 4:10 pm

Is Nokia leaving India?

Just as I posted about Nokia’s “We move not” assurances for China, it seems that it is India that really needs those assurances. Nokia is planning an investment in India that would benefit from special tax brakes for example in a form of toll free imports. All is well on planning board, but now Indian governmental bureaucracy is taking its toll and licenses are still in the making. Nokia is

Posted on: 6 December 2005 | 1:39 pm

Nokia and Foxconn

Now I spotted news that supports my previous comment. Nokia’s supply agreement with BenQ is about to run over the finish line. This Forbes article is not able to verify any information but points to the possibility that jump to Foxconn might be ahead. Read more here.

Posted on: 6 December 2005 | 1:17 pm

Nokia in global politics

India is growing as a mobile market area. In size it will be similar to China. Nokia has been investing heavily on China and now Chinese are wondering whether India’s growth will draw Nokia’s investments, especially research and development, from China to India.To ease this tense situation in international politics, Jorma Ollila has been assuring that Nokia will not do any drastic relocation

Posted on: 6 December 2005 | 12:58 pm

Nokia aims for stronger channel and customer relationship

I just posted a brief rant comment about Nokia handling their US distribution channel with remarkable stupidity. Now I noticed a piece of news saying that next year Nokia will focus on channel and customer relationships. Finally! If you want to read more about Nokia’s future plans (they pointed five separate goals) then follow this link.

Posted on: 6 December 2005 | 12:46 pm

Nokia brings video tone

Nokia has introduced a new consumer service product – video tone. It works so that whenever call comes phone will play chosen music video or animation. Service will run on Series 60 platform mobile phones.Personally I think that animations and demos will be very popular. This will also be good market crack for companies. They can offer short mobile video advertising clips for free. Consumer would

Posted on: 6 December 2005 | 11:06 am

Nokia's Kallasvuo talks stock price up

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo from Nokia said in New York investor relations meeting that Nokia’s mobile phone sales would see continued growth while profit margins would remain stable. This and other improvements that Nokia has been able to pull through this year resulted into hefty stock price increase. Nokia stock price is now on its highest level in almost two years.It was very interesting to notice

Posted on: 6 December 2005 | 10:59 am

Nokia live TV

Anssi Vanjoki, an Executive Vice President and General Manager of Nokia Multimedia, was just a moment ago in live TV here in Finland. He was asked various questions concerning Nokia. Most dominating issue was Nokia’s TV endeavors.According to Mr. Vanjoki, TV often creates a rhythm for our day, whether it is news or other programs that we watch. Therefore TV becomes important part of our lives.

Posted on: 4 December 2005 | 4:04 pm

Nokia goes Wi-Fi

All Nokia handsets that use Symbian Series 80 OS will have wireless local area network capability. Not only Series 80 phones have the capability also growing number of Series 60 phones incorporate wireless Lan. Read more about the story.

Posted on: 3 December 2005 | 1:32 pm

Nokia stops developing N-Gage

Finally it came! Nokia announced that they are not continuing the development of N-Gage. They will sell it though – now there is soothing declaration for first time N-Gage purchasers. We see N-Gage to die after this announcement. Nokia will focus on music and mobile TV for couple of coming years that is the official reason, why we see N-Gage to go. More.

Posted on: 3 December 2005 | 1:22 pm

Nokia searching direction

Nokia 770 discarded Symbian and embraced Linux. Nokia 6708 discards Symbian Series60 platform and embraces Symbian v7.0 OS. Slight changes but quite sizeable tremors inside Nokia’s streamlined production machinery. This shows that costs are not defining production and design framework anymore, hence, Nokia is going after consumers with new and innovative products. Let’s see what buying public

Posted on: 3 December 2005 | 1:06 pm

Nokia N80 – household wonder

Nokia has unveiled its N80 mobile phone. What’s special in this model is that it has Universal Plug and Play feature. This means that N80 can control other consumer electronics like DVD players and TVs. Find more about Nokia N80 from here.

Posted on: 3 December 2005 | 12:47 pm

Solid growth for Nokia in China

Bloomberg has a short news clip about Nokia’s performance in China. Company’s deliveries in China have risen 77% during the first 9 months of the year. Article.

Posted on: 3 December 2005 | 12:38 pm

Nokia Corporation description

Wikipedia has an article about Nokia. It is a company profile that tells about Nokia’s history and corporate culture. Good briefing, maybe I should put some effort on improving the article.

Posted on: 3 December 2005 | 10:27 am

Nokia mobile phone design decliningm

Harry Choi, the head of Samsung’s design, says that Nokia’s mobile phone design has declined from what it was couple of years ago. Choi says that Samsung’s market share in Europe has started to increase because of their new distinguishable mobile phone line.I must agree with Harry Choi. Recently, I would say, Nokia has been excelling on low-end phones. There you don’t emphasize the design but

Posted on: 3 December 2005 | 9:59 am

Nokia N90 doing well in US

David Watkins, Director, Imaging Business for Nokia North America has commented N90 to sell well and market response having been overwhelming. Phone has been launched but is still in limited supply. Read more about the Nokia N90 over here.

Posted on: 3 December 2005 | 7:41 am