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Nokia N95 Ads Portray Laptops as Crazed, Jealous, Violent Exes

What better way to portray your so-called laptop-replacing smartphone than to make fake videos and images detailing how laptops are attacking people who use it? Take this ad, showing a new college student being bitten by an unnamed laptop as she’s making a movie with her parents with the Nokia N95. Then there are the…

Nokia just cut the time it takes for a N95 to get a GPS fix from 3 min to 1 min, making navigation and location-based services more viable. [

Unconfirmed: Nokia N93i Transformers Edition

This is still unconfirmed, but intomobile is claiming that the Nokia N93 will get a Transformers edition coming some time in Q3 ’07. It’ll be essentially the same as the regular N93, but include a Transformers game, some background images, and Transformers-ish ringtones. For those of you who actually saw the movie, there’s a scene…

More Pictures of the Prism, Aka the Nokia 7500

I can’t make up my mind about the Prism. First up, I HATED it. Now I’m not so sure. Perhaps the phone, also known as the Nokia 7500, looks better in white. I’m not sure whether the lay-dee with the duck-egg blue shadow round one eye (did she slip over in the bathroom and give…

Nokia is rumored to be working on an N95 smartphone with 8GB instead of 160MB. All I gotta say is, Why not 12GB? [Electronista]

Nokia Bringing Tactile Feedback To Touchscreen Phones

The technology that makes phones like the LG Prada wiggle is now coming to Nokia phones. A new partnership with developer Immersion opens the doors for Nokia phones to get tactile feedback from touchscreen interfaces using VibeTonz software, so typing on the virtual keyboard feels more like using the real thing. Other applications include user…

Is That Skype on a Nokia N800?

There’s no news yet, but N800 owners who aren’t super-psyched about Google Talk or that open-source voice chat software can soon celebrate the arrival the mother of all voice chat, and yeah, I’m talkin’ ’bout Skype. Our apologies to Kevin Tofel, whom we forgot to credit for the photo. Thanks to Dan from tabletblog.com for…

Some Nokia Able to Run iPhone Safari Webapps

The Nokia N95 and N75, among a few other Symbian 60 phones, use a Safari-based browser, and it appears that some apps built for the iPhone work on it. I don’t know if this is cool or rare, but the Nokia nerds sure think so. [ifono]

Nokia’s E65 slider and E61i QWERTY/WiFi business phones official in the US [Nokia]

Unconfirmed: Leaked Nokia 7900 Shots and Specs

Those sneaky Germans over at NokiaPort just got their hands on what looks to be a Nokia 7900 shot, complete with specs. If you can get past the weird triangular dialpad (a result of Nokia letting their second string designers have at it?) there’s a 1.3-megapixel camera, 1GB internal memory, QVGA display, quad-band GSM and…

Nokia Releases Three Mid-Range Phones: 6267, 3500 Classic, and 6121 Classic

Nokia fans who can’t quite afford the extravagance of the N95 or the N75, will appreciate the company’s latest mid-range handsets. The three, in from left to right order above: the 6121 Classic, the 3500 Classic (two candybars) and the 6267 (the clamshell). The 6267 clamshell has dedicated music keys, a 2-megapixel camera, 3G, expansion…

Nokia’s Wibree Brings Bluetooth to Low-Powered Devices

Nokia’s Wibree spec got the official OK from the Bluetooth SIG today, making Wibree part of the Bluetooth standard. Wibree basically lets low-powered gadgets like heart rate monitors and watches in on the wireless fun since Wibree radios use less power than today’s Bluetooth radios. The first Wibree products are expected to roll out by…

The Nokia N76’s Steel Chassis

I’ve got one of the first N76 review units here. The 2MP, clamshell phone running the smartphone symbian 60 OS, isn’t that different from the N75 we looked at two months ago in depth, so here’s a short list of what makes it different. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n75-review-and-gallery-hands-on-the-first-offici-257594 First of all, it’s the hardware is much sturdier in…

Nokia 6500 Comes In Sexy Classic and Slide Flavors, Still No Jesus Phone

Nokia keeps launching phones that nobody will really give a damn about until June 29th, when everyone realizes that they will have to wait for three more months before actually getting a Messiah-Phone. This is the 6500 classic, which comes with 3G support in a 0.37-inch aluminum “loop” structure. We will have to wait to…

Nokia’s 8600 Luna has Smoked Glass, Hefty Pricetag

Nokia has just unveiled their latest phone, the 8600 Luna. It’s unique in that its defining feature is glass … it’s got a transparent smoked glass sliding mechanism that keeps the keypad visible when the phone is closed, with sexy results. As for the inside (it’s what counts, after all), it’s a quad-band GSM phone…

Video: Nokia 8600 Hands-On

The lads over at T3 got their sticky hands on the Nokia 8600 Luna and got to see exactly how it feels. In case you don’t remember, there’s a 2-megapixel camera, 1GB internal storage, an OLED screen and a sliding body. The stainless steel black back might make it look like something that belongs in…

Nokia’s 8600 Luna Imminent

The Nokia 8600 appeared on Carphone Warehouse back in April, only to disappear. Now it’s back and available for preorder. And Nokia still hasn’t made an announcement for the shiny handset. But the more we see of the 8600, the more it looks like a midrange phone I’d rather pass over than review. Nothing much…

Nokia Phones to Detect Lightning Using FM, GPS Frequencies

Just when you thought you had to carry around a tacky pager in order to tell when lightning’s coming, Nokia goes and files a patent to integrate lightning detection into their phones. https://gizmodo.com/strikealert-personal-lightning-detector-256121 Not at all useful to bloggers, these lightning detectors (which use FM and GPS receivers to detect EM waves emitted from lightning)…

Nokia’s Dual Screen Handheld Concept Comes with Removable Keyboard

Nokia’s known for breaking out of the box from time to time, and their latest patent proves that. It describes a UMPC-like handheld with two touchscreens and a detachable keyboard. The keyboard can be slid on top of one of the screens should you need to text or browse the Web. Removing the keyboard would…

Series 60 Phones Get Their First Trojan

If you’re using a S60 phone from Nokia, watch out. Kaspersky Labs has just discovered the first trojan, Troja-SMS.Symb.OS.Viver, that will affect the S60 OS. If you mistakenly download this from the internet and install this on your phone—which is easy to do, since it’s mislabeled and disguised as a useful photo editor or video…