Nokia’s latest triband phone is aimed squarely at the VoIP crowd. At 175 euros, the Nokia 6300i is a pretty affordable budget phone with WLAN, Nokia Maps, and a 2 megapixel camera wrapped up in a Series 40 interface. What, you were expecting Symbian?
Here’s a really short history lesson: Fidel Castro, one-time dictator of Cuba, left his throne a couple of months ago due to failing health, leaving the country in the hands of his brother Raul.
Talk about ridiculousness. Mobile-Review managed to get hold of a prototype Nokia N96 (due out in Q3 2008) a couple of months early.
There’s a war going on, and it’s between “activist investor” Carl Icahn and his buddies at Motorola.
Gizmodo just published an open letter from Numair Faraz, the “personal assistant” to the former Chief Marketing Officer at Motorola - aimed at current CEO Greg Brown. And, wow, this guy manages to lambast Brown, Ed Zander, and all the “incompetent senior executives” working for the #3 phone maker.
Nokia’s N-Gage platform beta test, code-named First Access, will officially end tomorrow, March 27. This of course means that all your account information, N-Gage points, saved games and other fun stuff will be completely wiped.
A small company (to the tune of 275 employees) called InterDigital announced today that it is currently in talks with Nokia over licensing several patents related to 3G technology. Normally, this wouldn’t really be news except for the fact that last year, InterDigital got mean ‘n nasty and tried to get the International Trade Commission to ban imports of the infringing Nokia phones.
A couple of days ago, Texas Instruments warned investors that one of its customers was cutting back on its orders. While there was some speculation as to whether cell phone sales were starting to slump, most agreed that Nokia was probably just shifting orders to several new chip suppliers.
Check out Nokia’s UK web store “Best for Imaging” cell phones. The answers may surprise you!
Nokia’s latest phone release is actually a re-release of its signature candy bar, the N82. Available in a new black color, the N82 is still the same rootin’-tootin’, straight-shootin’ 5 megapixeler with Xenon flash, 30 fps video recording, integrated GPS with built-in geotagging, and wi-fi. And on the side it makes phone calls, too.
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