Fresh in from Nokia World, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are joined by Ben Kelly to discuss Nokia’s new device line-up, Sony buying out Sony Ericsson, Motorola’s new RAZR Android device, bendy-screen gadgets, Ubuntu on smartphones and tablets, and much more
Finland’s Nokia wants us to believe it’s set to stage an Apple-sized comeback with its newly announced range of Asha feature phones and Lumia smartphones. That won’t be easy. But what it has done is take the first vital step: it’s started executing on a plan to win back
Though there was much to be excited about from Nokia World in London this week, including the announcement of six new handsets, including two based on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, it was rather the omissions that got many analysts
Nokia wants to become the default location services provider for Microsoft products and expects eventually to combine all of its new location-based services into one, unified experience. The Finnish company’s new location services include a check-in service called Pulse
Nokia won’t be introducing a tablet until it has one that is good enough, if at all, and it won’t get devices running Windows Phone into the hands of the lower end of the mobile handset market until the price of hardware falls further. It will, however, continue to support MeeGo and Symbian
Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia is adding a check-in service, additional traffic and public transportation information and a route-recording facility to its location services. It is also integrating an augmented reality application into its new range of handsets
Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia unveiled six new handsets at its annual Nokia World event in London on Wednesday. The devices include the Lumia 800 and 710, smartphones running the Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” operating system, and four feature
Nokia has finally taken the wraps off its first two Windows Phone 7.5-powered smartphones, the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. At the Nokia World conference in London, CEO Stephen Elop heralded a “new dawn for Nokia”. Pictures of the Lumia 800 and 701, as well as the
Considering how many iconic handsets Nokia has in its back catalogue, it’s disconcerting how long it’s been since the Finnish manufacturer last had a must-have device than turned heads. The Nokia N9 could have been that phone, but it won’t be. The biggest problem with the
In episode 52 of the TalkCentral podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson ruminate on the untimely death of Steve Jobs, one of the greatest CEOs of modern times. We look back on his achievements but also talk about the “cult of personality” that
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