Nokia, hot off the announcement of the N79, has also pubilicized the availablity of the Nokia N85. Like the Nseries devices from the Finnish-handset maker, the Nokia N85 features GPS and Wi-Fi. However, as we all know, these useful yet power-draining capabilities can quickly drain the battery faster than you know it. Which is why…
After much speculation of what features and looks the Nokia N79 would have, Nokia has finally announced the highly anticipated Nseries handset. The candybar N79 has a great array of capabilities including Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) and dual-band WCDMA (900/2100Mhz). Which in normal human terms means we in the United States will not have 3G connectivity.…
On Thursday, I’m going to Gnomedex aboard the Iterasi geek bus. Gnomedex is a gathering of bloggers, social media types, and other techno-geeks. I look forward to showing them some of the geek gear and showing the iPhone-types what open technology is all about, sans Steve Jobs’ DRM. This year, along with me and my…
Changing Direction Nokia has released a new mobile email application for their mobile phones that could mark a huge change in how people view Nokia’s connected handsets. For years now, if you wanted a smartphone that was mainly focused on messaging, you looked to BlackBerry. Research In Motion, the company behind BlackBerry has wisely built…
According to a report referenced on Ars Technica, the United States mobile phone buying population is increasingly looking at smartphones to replace their less expensive basic cell phones. The clear winners in this transition to more fully featured mobile handsets are the handset makers including Research in Motion, Apple, Motorola, and Nokia who all fared…
Thanks to some FCC filings, we now know some more details on the upcoming N85 from Nokia. The Finnish mobile handset maker is set to release the N85 featuring a quad-band HSDPA chip that will support the 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies. Also it will support WCDMA Band I/II(1900)/VIII for an alternative way to access the mobile Internet….
I’m currently in the Toronto airport awaiting my flight home to Portland after my Toronto Nokia adventure. I’m connected to the net via Boingo and I’m astounded at the speed here. For curiosity’s sake, I ran a speedtest.net test and got this result. That’s really fast! 15Mb down and 11.3 up…wow! Thanks Boingo!
I’m currently in Toronto, Ontario to be a part of a new ad campaign Nokia is working on. Twelve short films are being created to highlight 8 areas of innovations the company will roll out both in the near future and coming years. The ubiquitous handset maker is using an interesting approach to the ad…
After posting earlier about AT&T’s discriminatory practice of only giving pre-paid subscribers a subset of the coverage area that their contracted mobile customers get, I thought I’d expand on the topic. As a participant in the Nokia Blogger Relations program, periodically I receive phones to trial and review. Thus, I’ve looked for GSM providers in…
On a recent trip to Central Oregon and specifically Bend, Oregon, I was perplexed as to why my Nokia E71 would not come out of ‘Offline’ mode. Thinking it was an issue with the phone or my account, I looked into when I returned home. After looking at the coverage map for the Bend area…