Nokia announced a next-generation version of its Mobile Maps product today. This combination of Nokia Maps plus Ovi allows people to pre-plan their journey at home on their PC and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and destinations. Nokia Maps will also include a number of new features such as aerial images, [...]

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Today Nokia announced a revamped set of email and instant messaging services. The new services, tied to Nokia’s Ovi platform, enable users to access most POP3/IMAP email from their S60 handsets, as well as many of the major instant messaging platforms, including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and Google Talk, and [...]

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Today Nokia announced its flagship smartphone for 2009, the N97. The N97 has a large 3.5-inch screen (640 x 360 pixels, 16:9 wide-screen) for touch-based input, as well as a full physical QWERTY keyboard for messaging. The N97 is the first Nseries device to have a QWERTY keyboard, which slides and tilts when open. The [...]

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Speaking to Reuters, Ukko Lappalainen, vice president at Nokia’s markets unit, said that the company is considering the use of open-source Linux in future handsets. Nokia already uses maemo Linux in its N Series Internet tablet devices, and suggested that it would use maemo rather than Google’s Android platform. Lappalainen said that it would use [...]

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Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully field tested new EDGE technology that doubles downlink speeds compared to today’s EDGE networks. Nokia Siemens Networks’ Dual Carrier EDGE is a software-based solution that can double data speeds to 592Kbps on existing EDGE-capable GSM networks. Dual Carrier EDGE, based on the 3GPP release 7 standard, is the first step [...]

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What comes after the Nokia N96? The N97 of course. And what could Nokia possibly offer to their fans after the rich features of the N96? Definitely a touchscreen feature which the company just did as it unveils the Nokia N97 - Nokia’s official entry into the iPhone-rival Wars. Thus joining RIM, HTC/Google, Samsung and [...]

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Nokia has just announced their latest CDMA mobile handset called the Nokia 2608. This fold phone features high-gloss exterior finish highlighted by a racy stripe down the middle design. It will be available in three color designs including pink stripe, silver with green stripe and black with blue stripe.

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Nokia’s going out on a limb with their latest product, the Home Control Center, which will tie in a variety of home functions including electricity usage monitoring, remote device activation, and security functions with your phone or computer. Conservation is going to be a big part of this project, as German energy provider RWE has [...]

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Nokia talked a bit about competitors today and was generally cool with throwing them a bone, while of course remaining confident in their own progress. For example, they respected RIM’s ability to work into the enterprise back-end while still claiming Nokia would overtake their numbers in the next couple of months thanks to a recent [...]

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Nokia announced a new offering to let advertisers target their mobile campaigns to consumers in 10 major metro areas of the United States on the Nokia Media Network.

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