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07/19/2008 - Earnings Report: Nokia Q2 2008 - After a lackluster Q1 report, Nokia's second quarter earnings wowed investors, who boosted shares of the company's stock by 8% today. How good were the earnings? Good enough that Nokia actually increased sales for the USA by 10%, something we... |
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07/19/2008 - Software: Nokia Multimedia Transfer 1.3 Beta - And Mac users get a little love today: Nokia just released version 1.3 (Beta) of its Multimedia Transfer app. It's similar to PC Suite, minus the PC, and the Suite. What's left is just simple Mac-to-phone file transfers for your... |
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07/19/2008 - Firmware: New Update for the Nokia N78 - There's some v12.046 firmware goodness at Nokia Europe for the Nokia N78 - but only if you've got the international version. Otherwise, if you're holding an N78-3, consider yourself shafted. Updates include some improvements dealing with "softkey selection, Bluetooth, video... |
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07/19/2008 - Preview: Nokia 1508/1508i Phones - If the leaked Nokia 8208 wasn't enough to whet your CDMA appetite, here's another one for ya: the 1508/1508i. 8208 to 1508.... |
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07/19/2008 - Nokia Chat Hits Beta Labs, Possibly Awesome - I'm still trying to figure out whether this new app at Beta Labs, Nokia Chat, is a forward-thinking, revolutionary piece of software or a complete waste of time. Nokia Chat: It's Got Potential. Maybe... |
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07/19/2008 - The World Series of Texting - Think you're hot stuff when it comes to sending SMS'es? If you send anything like a thousand text messages per month, then you just might be headed to New York City. For LG's Texting Championship, that is. Texting could bring... |
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07/19/2008 - Beta Labs: A-GPS Now Available for Nokia N810 Tablet - Mosey on over to Nokia Beta Labs for a little taste of A-GPS on your N810 internet tablet. The beta app should shorten GPS lock-on times and "provide improved performance," using either a wi-fi/WLAN connection or your cell phone data... |
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07/19/2008 - Leak: Nokia 8208 CDMA Slider - ...and what a leak it is: Nokia posted a product page for a forthcoming device called the 8208, with some very Nseries-ish styling (aka anything that looks like an N81). Which would be nothing new, considering that said Nseries-ish styling... |
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07/19/2008 - Lots of Software Updates at Nokia Europe - Nokia's software programmers have been busy lately. The latest updates on Nokia Europe (but nowhere else) include some new apps and upgraded functionality on some older ones. Hit up Nokia Europe for some software updates.... |
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07/19/2008 - Nokia's "Open At Own Risk" Site Hits New Low - Early last week Nokia opened up openatownrisk.com, a teaser site that promised "the weirdest clip ever made" sometime on the 7th. Or was that the 8th? Either way, the site has been updated with a Notice of Immediate Termination letter... |
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07/19/2008 - Preview: The Rest of the Supernova Line (7210, 7310, 7510) - Four phones were released by Nokia on in the last few days of June - among them the 7610 Supernova, 7510, 7310, and 7210. The best of the bunch is without a doubt the 7610, but it seems that there's... |
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07/19/2008 - Nokia Gets Ok on NAVTEQ Acquisition, Snags Warner for Comes With Music - And here's some random bits of Nokia-related news posted in the past couple of days... Warner Music Group joins Nokia Comes With Music.... |
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07/19/2008 - Yet Another Weird Nokia Countdown Site Emerges - Forget Nokia's Open to Anything slogan. It's now "Open at Own Risk," Nokia's latest oddball website that opens with a story about unlocking a box containing the "weirdest clip ever made." Uh...right. The important thing to grasp from all this... |
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07/19/2008 - Preview: Nokia 7610 Supernova - Four new phones. All part of a new Supernova line that had only been mentioned in hushed rumors. These are not exactly groundbreaking handsets by any means - the focus of Supernova is more on fashion than function. But they're... |
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07/19/2008 - The End of Helio: Sold For $39 Mil - Helio, one of America's last great MVNOs, was swept up by Virgin on Friday for the bargain-bin price of $39 million bucks (in stock). Unfortunately, SK Telecom invested something like $500 mil into the troubled operator, so why'd they sell... |
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07/19/2008 - Guess Whose Picture - Nokia E71 vs Nokia N95 8GB vs iPhone - I took a picture with the Nokia E71, Nokia N95 8GB, and the iPhone for comparison. They all have different megapixels, but I resized them to all 450 pixels width to even the competition. You can compare how each one handles color. Take a look and let me know which phone corresponds to the photo.
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07/18/2008 - Nokia N810 Now Only $299 At TigerDirect, CompUSA, and Amazon - Heads up! The Nokia N810 is now available at Compusa, Tigerdirect, and Amazon at $299. If you weren’t interested in the N810 before, perhaps the latest OS update might interest you. Advanced users might also want to tinker with Android or Debian Linux on the Internet tablet.
The usual price have been around just less than [...] |
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07/18/2008 - Go Green With Nokia By Reducing Travel Clutter - This past year I’ve had the opportunity to travel a bit more than I had in recent years, giving me a real opportunity to change the way I’ve travelled in the past. By reducing travel clutter, I’m talking about all that paper your wasting printing travel itineraries, rental car or hotel confirmations and endless other [...] |
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07/17/2008 - Nokia E71 Manual Gives Bad Shortcuts For Nokia Maps - I was confused with what button shortcuts to press on the Nokia E71 to center in my location and zooming. On phones with numeric keypads like the Nokia N95 8GB or the Nokia N82, 0 is for centering, while * (asterisk) and # (pound sign) are for zooming. The Nokia E71 manual also says the [...] |
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07/16/2008 - Video: Open To Anything Q&A Session With Nokia Product Manager - Nokia Product Manager Chanse Arrington answers some questions sent in during the Open To Anything LA. He talks about S60 feature packs, Nokia Download, OTA updates, iPhone price, and more. Check it out.
Highlights
He talks about Merlin on S60 feature pack 2 on 0:42. What’s Merlin?
Go to S60 feature wishes to recommend features on S60.
Go [...] |
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07/16/2008 - How To: Send Google Earth Location From Computer To Nokia Maps On Phone - I’ll show you how to get info from Google Earth to Nokia Maps. Part of the reason I needed to do this was finding tickets hidden by Nine Inch Nails around Los Angeles. Read more for the guide and backstory.
Backstory
One of my favorite bands is Nine Inch Nails. Later this summer they start the [...] |
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07/15/2008 - Face The Task Limited Edition Nokia N96 - The Nokia Blog Style - Remember the limited edition Nokia N96 I told you about to help red pandas? Well I was just told that I have a customized page on the Face The Task site. LOL a lady’s voice greets me by what my old college buddies called me, Mackarus. The Nokia N96 then rises from the special box [...] |
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07/15/2008 - Video: Two-Hand Texting and No-Hands Riding a Motorcycle - You just have to see this clip. A guy was found texting on his cell phone while lying down on his motorcycle and maneuvering through the streets. I thought I’ve seen it all when a woman was swerving on the highway because she was putting make-up on, but this guy definitely takes the trophy.
I’m not [...] |
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07/12/2008 - How To: Send Locations From Google Maps on Computer To Nokia Maps On Phone - Before I travel to an unfamiliar place, I usually look up the address on Google Maps on my computer. With Map 2 Nokia created by Justin Hourigan, I can send the location of that place to my Nokia phone that have Nokia Maps. I’ll show you how simple it is.
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07/12/2008 - How To: Use Nokia Maps To Send Current Location To Your Friends - You can show your friends where you are on Nokia Maps if they also have Maps on their Nokia phone. The interface is not as pretty as it should be, but it gets it done. Have a lot of friends nearby with the latest Nokia phones? Meeting up is easy. Read the how to.
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07/11/2008 - Vlog: Nokia E71 Video Sample Asks Why People Are Lining Up At The NY 5th Ave Apple Store - To show you a Nokia E71 video sample, I went to the Apple Store and asked the first guy on line the iPhone 3G why he has been waiting almost a week. He’s there with a group with good cause and also break a Guinness World Record. Check it out.
Video formats: Maximum resolution, Mobile, Youtube
The [...] |
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07/10/2008 - Face The Task Of Getting The Special Edition Nokia N96 - A new site for the Nokia N96 surfaced yesterday. Face The Task is going to release 96 individually numbered, special edition Nokia N96 on Friday 11am, CET. The bad: $759 euros. The good: proceeds from all sales of the Nokia N96 bought this way will also be donated to charity. If you can’t afford it, [...] |
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07/09/2008 - How To: Hack S60 Nokia Phones - This guide will be referenced to many times in the future, so I am posting the instructions to hacking your S60 Nokia phones now. Hacking your S60 phone will let you install unsigned applications without a hassle and even apply some patches if you like. It’s much easier than I thought!
Steps To Hack Nokia S60 [...] |
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07/07/2008 - How To: Change Back To Smoother Fonts On The North American Nokia N95 8GB Using FontRouter LT - After the upgrading to the latest firmware v20.2.005 for the North American Nokia N95 8GB, you probably noticed the rougher fonts due to anti-aliasing getting tuned off. There’s no option or settings in our phone for us to change it back, but I’ll show you how to turn it back on by simply installing FontRouter [...] |
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07/07/2008 - I Entered The Nokia Free Hands Challenge To Win A Nokia N82 and BH-902 - Nokia just launched the Free Hands Challenge where you can win a Nokia N82 and the Nokia BH-902 bluetooth headset each week. I am not passing on this opportunity, so I’ve already uploaded my video. The challenge itself is to find out what people can do with their hands. My first video is during a [...] |
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07/04/2008 - Hacked My S60 Nokia Phone and Removed the Useless Search On The Main Screen… Sort Of - A topic I haven’t talked about here on the Nokia blog is about hacking S60. I never really understood it or saw the point, but I tried it today to remove that useless search tool on the main display of the Nokia N95 8GB. In essence, hacking your S60-powered phones like the Nokia Nseries and [...] |
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07/03/2008 - Vlog: Nokia E71 vs Nokia N95 8GB Video Playback Comparison - Yes, the Nokia E71 is targeted for business, but that can’t stop us from watching videos on it! Using my video conversion guide, I converted the trailer of Hancock and sent the same file to both the Nokia E71 and Nokia N95 8GB for a video playback comparison. Let’s see how they look.
Video Formats: Web [...] |
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07/02/2008 - The Mapsters Take Over My Printer and Fridge - I’m a little irritated finding out I had a brown envelope on our dining table for who knows how long and none of my roommates told me it was mail for me. I just opened it, and it’s got stuff from those Mapsters creatures I previously told you about that gives us guides on the [...] |
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07/02/2008 - Nokia E71 vs Nokia N95 8GB vs Nokia N82 Screen Size Comparison - Let’s take a look at the screen sizes of the Nokia E71 with the Nokia N95 8GB and the Nokia N82 using side-to-side photos. We all know they use the same resolution size, 240×320 (or 320×240), but the actual screen size on the Nokia E71 is 2.36 inches compared to 2.8 on the Nokia N95 [...] |
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07/01/2008 - Unboxing: Nokia E71 Package Contents - Fresh from the mail today, I took pictures while unboxing the Nokia E71 (E71-1 model for Europe) to show you the package contents. Right away I noticed the box was significantly smaller than the one that came with the Nokia N95 8GB. Let’s take a look at what’s inside.
The box is covered by an additional [...] |
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06/30/2008 - Video: White Nokia E71 Hands On By GearLog - One of the concerns I have with the Nokia E71 is which color to get. The press release photos looks marvelous, while photos I’ve seen make the white keyboard contrasting from the rest of the body make it ugly in my eyes. Thanks to a Nokia E71 video hands-on review by Sascha Segan from Gearlog, [...] |
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06/30/2008 - Review: Nokia 8600 Luna - My New Favorite Dumbphone - About 3 weeks ago i took the plunge and bought a Nokia 8600 Luna. I wasn’t keen on spending 900-1200 dollars on a Nokia 8800 Arte or Sapphire, and I got a really good deal on the Luna, so here I am really satisfied with my purchase. Read the Nokia 8600 Luna review after the [...] |
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06/29/2008 - Vlog: Demo of SkyeQuikey on Nokia N95 8GB - On my latest videolog, I’m giving a demo of SkyeQuiKey on the Nokia N95 8GB. It lets you have access to contacts, applications, and bookmarks by typing in the first few letters at the main screen. I found out about this application through Zach Epstein from SIM and BGR. Take a look at how fast [...] |
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06/28/2008 - Nokia N95 8GB Pictures At Pick-Your-Own Cherries Farm - Take a look at some Nokia N95 8GB photos I took today at Lawrence Farms Orchards for “pick your own” cherries. We saw a little drizzle and some clouds, but the N95 8GB still managed to take great photos.
Cherries…. weeeeee!
Lawrence Farms Orchards was about an hour drive from New York City. I missed the cherry [...] |
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06/27/2008 - Nokia E71, Which Color Do You Like Better? White or Grey? - I’m interested in finding out from those who are getting the Nokia E71 what color are you picking? The release is coming really soon and it seems that both are going to come out around the same time (although a major distributor tells me the white one is coming sooner than the black one).
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06/26/2008 - Nokia E71 Reviews Collection - The Nokia E71 is really popular right now, so let’s take a look at what others have been saying so far. I am listing down the recent reviews available from reputable sources and a brief summary of each one.
Nokia E71 in white or grey
Paul Miller from Engadget Mobile wrote on his Nokia E71 review that [...] |
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06/24/2008 - Featured Site: Nokia Daily News By Matthew Bennett - Tired of reading news? Then check out the Nokia Daily News, a blog by Matthew Bennett, who makes daily videos on the what’s currently buzzing around Nokia. It is refreshing to watch Nokia news instead of reading them. Here’s the podcast link for itunes.
Want to know what else is cool about his videos? They are [...] |
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06/24/2008 - Open To Anything Goody Bag - I received an Open To Anything goody bag in the mail today. Open To Anything is a humorous site that features the Nokia N95 8GB. There’s a key chain, mints, pen marker, and a USB stick. Read on for the USB contents.
Open To Anything Goody Bag
The USB stick included a couple of videos from the [...] |
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06/23/2008 - Vlog: Priceless at Montego Bay, Jamaica - Yet another video taken with the Nokia N95 8GB from my vacation last week. This time is from Montego Bay, Jamaica. Yeah Man! Hope you enjoy it.
Video Formats: Web high quality, Mobile, Youtube
As the cruise ported Montego Bay, there were really only a few places to tell the taxi drivers where to go: food at [...] |
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06/22/2008 - Contest Winner of Handango $50 Gift Card - Congratulations to Marco from El Blog De Marco as the winner of the $50 Handango Gift Card. There were 31 people who entered the contest. Eight were email subscribers that were counted twice for a total of 39 entries. The winner was selected using the RANDBETWEEN function on Microsoft Excel. An email was sent to [...] |
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