Nokia knows how to party , in the Fifties , and never grew out of it , that’s what the scene at the Nokia Party at Mobile World Congress Barcelona . The party featured the ‘hottest’ and most downloaded downloaded band frm Nokia OVI Music Store Finland - The Baseballs Ok they must be big [...]
February 2010
Symbian Foundation has released the first look video of the upcoming Symbian ^4 platform expected to be launched Q4 2010 or Q1 2011 . A brief overview of these videos shows the rendered Symbian ^4 device which looks very much like the N97 with exception of dedicated Home and Back Keys along with call send [...]
Serving the underserved is the new frontier for mobiles , Nokia is doing it with their Life Tools providing market information , entertainment and education to the rural farmers in India and Indonesia at $1.00 a day , they are even working with OBOPay to launch Nokia Money in India in collaboration with Yes Bank [...]
At the Mobile World Congress in Nokia’s Experience Lounge at ONCE , I had a chance to meet and discuss about Nokia Money with Mr Gerhard Romen – Director Financial Services Nokia and also Vice Chairman of Nokia NFC Forum . According to Nokia in the 1st half 2010 , Nokia Money will be launched [...]
Mr Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President Markets admits in an interview given to All About Symbian and Mobile Industry Review that N97 was a big disappointment . According to him N97 sold well and was a success in shipment and making money but where actual user experience is concerned it was “disappointment” . Anssi [...]
At the Mobile World Congress Barcelona , there were a lot of unique phones , Puma Phones powered by Solar Cell , INQ Messaging phones but none were as unique as those phones and concepts at NTT Docomo stall . One of the phones which caught my attention was the Splitting / Separable Phone made [...]
Earlier we talked about Nokia’s Calling all Innovators Global contest in which Nokia announced the contest for world wide developers , to encourage the local talent to come and compete Nokia Pakistan has started a local contest for all Pakistani Developers to come and join Nokia in developing local apps for Pakistan and the best [...]
At Mobile World Congress Nokia was all about Service offerings from MeeGo to OVI Suite of services , not once even in my interviews with Jo Harlow and Dieter May none talked about a new device . Jo Harlow did answered some questions about Symbian ^3 and Symbian ^ 4 but again they were generic [...]
As you all know I’m the only blogger from Pakistan at the Mobile World Congress 2010 , courtesy Nokia MEA and Nokia Pakistan . When I walked around the fair and talked to people and informed them that I’m from Pakistan , surprisingly many of the software vendors especially those offering Social Networking softwares were [...]
Samsung came huge this Mobile World Congress , with ads covering the whole front facade of Avenues de Barcelona , a former Bull Fighting Arena at Espanya right in front of the Fira Barcelona . If that was not enough , everywhere we went there were huge Samsung Bada / Samsung Wave . Intrigued [...]
