Posts Tagged ‘Nokia’

Intel and Samsung Present Tizen 1.0

May 3rd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

Intel and Samsung have launched version 1.0 of the new Tizen operating system for smartphones. Tizen is a combination of MeeGo (once developed by Intel and Nokia) and Bada OS from Samsung. The whole system is based on the Linux kernel. Developers can start downloading the Tizen SDK’s, but have to realize there isn’t any Tizen hardware… yet.

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First Windows Phone with NFC Hits Orange France

April 11th, 2012 by Roelof Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia has started selling their first smartphone based on Windows Phone with support for NFC. It is the all new, budget friendly Nokia Lumia 610. Nokia has released many NFC phones over the past couple of years, but Windows Phone didn’t allow it till now.

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Nokia Releases Free Microsoft Office for Symbian

April 10th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Back in 2009, Nokia announced that it, together with Microsoft, would start the development of Microsoft Office for Symbian Devices. Following up on the EOL status for Symbian, Nokia finally released Microsoft Office for the OS.

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Nokia Launches the First CDMA Lumia in China

March 29th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia has announced the launch of their new Lumia 800C in China. Needless to say, the 800C is the Chinese version of the Lumia 800 we all know since late last year. It is the first CDMA phone in the Chinese market running Windows Phone as well.

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Nokia Pushes out Long-awaited Lumia 800 Update

March 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia has announced the availability of the latest software update for the Lumia 800. Though the company made some minor adjustments to the OS, the majority of work went into improving batterylife.

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€18 Million Available for App Development

March 26th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: J2me, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia and Microsoft have put together a new fund that will assist developers in getting their work onto Nokia phones including Series 40, Symbian and Windows Phone. The new fund is called AppCampus.

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Rovio Confirms Angry Birds Space for Windows Phone

March 25th, 2012 by Roelof Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

With the second releasewave of the iPad, Rovio also released their highly anticipated Angry Birds Space game. This fourth instalment brings a lot of change to the catapult game as gamers will have to defy gravity now.

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The Nokia Tablet Rumours

March 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Though Nokia has been stating it is not developing tablet devices, Marko Ahtisaar (the Nokia design chief) has said in an interview with a Finnish magazine the company is looking at the tablet market.

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Free Lumia 710’s for Dutch Developers

March 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Phone | No Comments »

Nokia and Microsoft have announced a new deal for Windows Phone developers in The Netherlands. Developers that are able to push out three new apps on Windows Marketplace before the end of June get a free Lumia 710.

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Nokia to Terminate its Wallet Services

March 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Nokia Money was first announced in 2009 to serve as the first digital form of money in many countries where consumers don’t have bank accounts. The service was launched late last year.