748 readersLast week we were are tingling inside when we heard that Nokia’s outgoing chairman Jorma Ollila announced that the company is preparing non-phone form factors. The mentioned hybrid devices and tablets, but now Nokia says that people read too much into his words and said that “what Mr. Ollia was misconstrued”.
The statement comes from Nokia
1375 readersBy Roger Tagholm
John Mason of Nokia Reading speaks at the London Book Fair 2013It’s not all about the iPhone. Nokia is at the LBF (unlike Apple?), talking up its Nokia Reading initiative, which is due to go live in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Russia next month, with other markets to follow.
John Mason,
1774 readersiOS users are still waiting for Google to launch its fresh Maps app for iOS, or better said for Apple to approve it. Meanwhile there’s a new alternative for Apple Maps, the Nokia Here software, that was announced a week ago. Now it’s available for free in the App Store and you can download it
953 readersA brand new patent application that surfaced online shows images of a mystery Nokia tablet, one that packs a kickstand and apparently was patented even before the Microsoft Surface tablet existed. You can see a sketch of the device below:
It’s clear now that Nokia has been working on a tablet, as confirmed back in December
657 readersNokia hasn’t approached the tablet or phablet segment just yet and we have no indication about that, aside from the rumors about a so called Nokia Juggernaut, that appeared at some point. Now, in an interview with Bloomberg, IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo claims that Nokia must adopt the “trend that can’t be missed”, referring to
1241 readersAfter a Nokia France manager confirmed that we’ll see a Windows 8 tablet made by Finns, now the chairman at Nokia also offers some confirmation about this and more devices. Nokia’s outgoing Chairman Jorma Ollila promised a bunch of new products, but didn’t specify the time frame for their release.
The promise was made ahead of
732 readersThe blogosphere was amused last week when Siri, Apple’s sophisticated virtual assistant, told everyone that the best smartphone was the Lumia 900, which is made by Apple’s rival Nokia.
This was really not much of a story, as funny as it might be. But today it gets a little better. Someone had the bright idea to
1037 readersEveryone’s talking about patent infringements and usually stories like that are related to Apple. Now Nokia is at the center of a new scandal, attacking the Nexus 7 tablet announced last week. The Finnish company claims that Google’s first Nexus tablet infringes on its WiFi patents.
Meanwhile Apple blocked the Galaxy Nexus and wants to also
581 readersWhile everyone is trying to imagine the way that the first Nokia tablet will look like, the device was plain outed during a Lumia launch in Pakistan. It all happened by mistake, a mistake that was caught on camera, as you can see in the pictures below.
I find it hard to believe that Nokia would
1330 readersNokia and Microsoft joined forces today and announced plans to work on Windows Phones together. Nokia says that the deal is still being worked out, but that they did line up some goals on their blog.
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Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as i...