Nokia Asha Series

Nokia also debuted three phones for emerging markets today, the Asha Series. Here are some thoughts on these devices. Asha 303 Of the four Asha phones announced today, the Asha 303 is the top-of-the-line. It comes with the best combination of features and quality that feature phone users have come to expect from Nokia. The 303 is an interesting ...

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Nokia Reveals First Windows Phone

Nokia today announced the first applications that it has designed for Microsoft's Windows Phone platform and the Lumia 800 and 710 in particular. The first is Nokia Drive. This navigation application offers free, voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation to the 800 and 710, and incudes 3D mapping, offline support, and a landscape user interface for safer ...

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Nokia 700 review

The Nokia 700, touted as the world's smallest smartphone, is dropping as part of a trio of Nokia handsets (the 600, 700 and 701) running the new Symbian Belle interface. And it is indeed small. It's slim. It's quite sleek too, and many other 'S' adjectives as well. The thin frame holds a 3.2-inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen, 5MP and VGA cameras, ...

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HTC Looking to Buy More Patents

HTC is highly interested in increasing its patent portfolio, chairman Cher Wang told the Wall Street Journal. The company believes it can adequately defend itself against patent-related litigation, but admits that owning more intellectual property would be helpful. "There's so many innovations out there in Silicon Valley and different places, and that's ...

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Nokia Maps for Android

Nokia has updated the HTML5 web app version of Nokia Maps for the Android and iOS platforms. When accessed from the browser, Android and iOS users can now use Nokia Maps even when offline, though it requires users to plan ahead by downloading and saving maps before the connection is lost. Nokia imagines this will help reduce data roaming charges. Nokia ...

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Samsung Transform Ultra

Sprint today announced that it will sell Samsung's Transform Ultra Android smartphone. The Transform Ultra is already sold by Sprint's Boost Mobile brand. The Transform Ultra is a sideways slider that has a 3.5-inch display, 1GHz processor, and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with Sprint iD. Other features of the Transform Ultra include a 3 megapixel main ...

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Nokia Confirms U.S. Delivery of Symbian Anna

Nokia has confirmed that owners of Symbian-based smartphones in the U.S. now have access to the Anna system update. Anna will be delivered to the Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7. Symbian Anna uses a new set of icons on the home screens, offers a portrait software QWERTY keyboard, and makes usability improvements to the photo gallery. Nokia targeted some ...

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Droid 2 Global Droid Pro

Verizon Wireless today announced that it is offering the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to the Motorola Droid Pro and the MOtorola Droid 2 Global. Both phones will receive the new Gingerbread operating system from Google (not Ice Cream Sandwich), which includes a number of new features as well as bug fixes and tweaks. The update is available for download ...

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