July 16th, 2008
So I dropped my phone (yet again) square on the pavement yesterday. I had barely noticed the small chip on the front plate of my Nokia N82’s real estate due to several phone calls that came in. The calls were a huge distraction to the apparent sinking of the lower 1/3 of my phone’s keypad. […]
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June 26th, 2008
Ever wonder how phones get their names? There are two schools of thought in product marketing. The first is to come up with simple “consumer names” for products such as “Tiger” or “Leopard” or “LG Shine” or “BlackBerry Pearl.” But beneath these names are product codes that all brand managers have to memorize. For huge […]
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June 16th, 2008
Hey this guy, Keith Liu funny. He’s the head of Games and Communities Services for Nokia. This is an update on what Nokia has been doing with Ovi, about a year after it was announced. Should be interesting as well.
Timeline follows. Latest entry is at the top.
## Lunch time!
## For pornography and other “questionable items” […]
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June 16th, 2008
Today is day 2 of Nokia Connection 2008. and the media workshops begin now. I’m going to be doing a running account of the show. The latest updates are posted at the top.
Timeline:
## Discussion of Ovi. Ovi Share included for all Ovi services including N-Gage, music, photos. Q&A follows. Differences between the E66 and […]
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June 16th, 2008
Today, Nokia announced their top of the line enterprise model, the E71. Though it hails from the previous oh-so-thin E61 design, the new E71 looks more elegant and is a tad thinner and sharper on the edges. The Nokia E71 also comes with a dual home screen feature which gives the user easy access to […]
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May 17th, 2008
Stop Motion Human Snake Video:
Behind the Scenes:
In one of the biggest squares in Lisbon, Portugal we have the making of the world’s first human snake video. This is a tribute to the world’s most iconic mobile game - Snake. If you’ve ever owned a Nokia in the past 15 years, you know what we mean. […]
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January 11th, 2008
Some consumers are the perfect target for things like this. Nokia sent over an email a few days ago exposing how owners of NOKLA phones are sending them to NOKIA service centers for repairs. Because of the inferior design quality, these phones tend to break. The problem with consumers is that they tend to mistake […]
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December 23rd, 2007
Textually reports how some villagers in India have to walk over 20 km just to charge a mobile phone. In villages where there is no power, mobile phones become the centerpiece attraction of people’s lives as this is how high tech they can get. Some manufacturers like Nokia have included flashlights in their really cheap […]
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December 19th, 2007
When Nokia leaked their “iPhone concept” during the Go Play event a few months ago, the Internet quoted the phone manufacturer for replicating technology that works. Today they have gone another step and are replicating the magsafe technology of Apple chargers used for the MacBook portables. The demand was brought about by a seeming confusion […]
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December 13th, 2007
A few days ago I released a survey on your cellphone wish list for the holidays. As of today, December 13 2007 we have had 60 votes divided among 8 phones. The Apple iPhone is ranked at number one followed by - now this is a surprise - a three way tie with the Nokia […]
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