OK, so saying that this particular build of Ice Cream Sandwich running on a Nokia N9 is better than the N9 with MeeGo is a bit of a stretch. That’s only because there is still a lot of work to be done before one could deem Alexey Roslyakov’s Android 4.0 port user friendly. The N9 [...]

So I just woke up to news that Nokia announced several new phones, two of which run Windows Phone 7. I won’t get into the specifics of the hardware and the announcement – I’ll just link to Engadget here and here for their Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 hands-on videos, respectively. But I’m curious… do these [...]

I’m not one to usually lash out at Android’s competitors when they comment on industry happenings, but Nokia’s comment on the Google’s acquisition of Motorola makes no sense to me. It screams “read me, I need my name to be relevant because, as of now, it isn’t.” Here’s the statement in question: “This further reinforces [...]

Well, what do we have here? An image of a Nokia N9 running Android? This image is said to be of a real Nokia prototype actually running Android 2.3, and not just a shoddy port of it. The image comes from the guy who leaked the Nokia SeaRay images you may have seen a while [...]

The amount of gold coming from Nokia’s brand new CEO lately is just staggering. Stephen Elop, at the Open Mobile Summit, stood up in front of hundreds, maybe thousands, of people and went on record to say what Steve Jobs probably really believes: Apple created Android. That’s out of full context, though. Consider the full [...]

Whispers have been circulating that Samsung might be interested in capitalizing on Nokia’s recent market floundering by proposing an offer that would see the Korean mobile manufacturer buying out their Finnish competitor. Neither party would confirm or deny talks, and Samsung went so far as to issue a statement calling the idea nothing more than [...]

The article title is sweet enough, but let’s spell it out anyway. Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop, who was largely behind the manufacturer’s decision to partner up with Microsoft after dissing Intel and Symbian, says Android is killing them in China and Europe. Shocker! For China, he cites “mismanagement” as the reason why Android’s gobbled [...]

Either Nokia and Microsoft really are trying to conspire the demise of Android (as B&N claim) or the Finnish Phenom (Nokia CEO Stephen Elop) is getting played like a fiddle by HTC CEO Peter Chou. The DowJones Newswires say Nokia’s head honcho is happy they didn’t choose Android because Android manufacturers are worried about their [...]

The mobile patent wars continue to escalate and as Barnes & Noble is fighting back against Microsoft and Nokia, only this time, B&N are putting their foot on the ground in the name of the entire Android universe. The Book and Nook seller has responded to a patent infringement suit by Microsoft that aims to [...]

Android does some pretty amazing things. For instance, it can take a large part of the credit for rocketing lowly HTC from the depths of smartphone irrelevancy to a $33.8 billion market capitalization value. At the same time, one company opposed to placing Google’s OS on their hardware has seen a fall. Yep, HTC has [...]

Look, we know that you know that we want Android on Nokia phones. You don’t have to rub it in our faces, alright Orange? And is that iOS in there, too? And just who in the hell is Deezer, anyway? Get it together! [PointGPhone, Thanks Adrian!]

When Nokia chose Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 as the platform for their smartphones moving forward, many cringed and wondered why the company wouldn’t go with Android, an operating system that has proven its worth in the market. Aside from CEO Stephen Elop’s claim that he did not want Nokia’s new handsets to get lost on [...]

We’ve just been informed that as Nokia shopped their hardware to the two premium third-party smartphone OS providers in the United States, Google took initiative and asked them to join powers. The end result? Well, you already know – Microsoft won. Schmidt said Google expressed disappointment when they made that choice. And it wasn’t exactly [...]

Today Nokia CEO and former Microsoft exec Stephen Elop sent out a company-wide memo on the current state of the brand and its future. In the rather long memo (you can read a full version by following the source link at the bottom), Elop calls Nokia “years behind” Android and iOS, and points to the [...]

Recent stirrings within Nokia led us to wonder last week if Nokia might be considering shifting its focus away from their own mobile platform and towards manufacturing hardware running operating systems developed by outside partners. Obviously, we were referring to the possibility of Android ending up on Nokia manufactured handsets, but new rumors are suggesting [...]

In case you haven’t been able to tell, it’s numbers week in the business world. Nokia was one of many manufacturers to hold their Q4 and end-of-year financial conference calls, and we didn’t follow it for obvious reasons. But one single sentence from Nokia’s Stephen Elop has people wondering: is Nokia ready to switch to [...]

Samsung is growing weary of not carrying the title of number one mobile phone manufacturer in the world. This particular title is currently being held by Finnish Nokia, and by Samsung’s measure that will only last another three years. But Samsung isn’t just talking talk, they are also putting their money where their mouth is. [...]

You thought your 21 megabits per second “4G” was fast? Nokia Siemens has submitted new specifications to the 3GPP for a standard called “Long Term HSPA Evolution”: LTHSPAE, affectionately. (But you better believe we won’t be calling it that.) Names aside, the standard defines a network that can reach theoretical speeds in excess of 650Mbps: [...]

This quote completely came out of left field and smacked me in the face this morning. Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki – speaking with Financial Times – states that they aren’t going the Android route because it’s more like being a Finnish boy that pees in his pants to stay warm throughout the winter. It’s easy to [...]

In a question and answer series with Nokia’s Niklas Savander hosted on Twitter, the question of whether or not the manufacturer could be looking towards Android to help their handsets get the upper hand in the smartphone market was again raised. At this point it should come as no surprise what the answer was. A [...]