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I keep reading about this, people ask me about it and I’ve even asked myself the question a few times.  The answer is NO, Nokia is nowhere near dead.  They sell a bazillion phones a day and are still the leader in smart phones with [...]

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Ok, I have the absolute greatest wife ever, she got me a white Nokia E72 as a fathers day gift.  I am the luckiest guy ever.  Well here’s my review, I love it for the most part.
The Nokia E72 has a great number of benefits [...]

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Our good friends at WOMWorld/Nokia (part of 1000 Heads) recently completed a campaign to promote their new Nokia CarKit CK-200. It entailed 5 very high power sports cars driving all around England doing all kinds of tasks.  Then 5 bicyclists’ finding their way to a park [...]

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I’m getting frustrated with mobile these days.  I am really tired of the popular formats of phones and nothing is really changing.  I know touchscreen only handsets are popular but I’m personally bored to bits of seeing them everywhere.  Everyone and their mother has a touchscreen [...]

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I don’t know why but I’m in a “Tell it as it should be” mood, so I’m going to voice my opinion once again.  And as usual it’s directed at Nokia, don’t take it personally Nokia, I really like you and want you to succeed [...]

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So I’ve been a big user of the Ovi Store lately.  It has come a long way in the last few months and I’m very keen on it.  But while I was in Barcelona a few months back I had a meetings about the Ovi [...]

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Hello Nokia, are you there?  Are you listening?
Ok now that I have your attention I have something to tell you.  Come close so I can tell you in your ear.  A little closer.  IT’S TIME.  It’s time to start pushing apps like never before.  It’s [...]

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I had a great chat with Di-Ann Eisnor of Waze back at Mobile World Congress over a month ago then we got to hang at CTIA and I’m just now getting around to putting up my content from the trip.  I really like what Waze [...]

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Spending time in the Nokia suite at MWC in Barcelona I got to chatting with the maps guys and I learned something interesting thanks to Rita alerting me to the data usage issue.  Ovi Maps can be used out in the field entirely without a [...]

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I may be late to the game but I think Nokia is doing what Nokia does best, make phones people want and buy.  Isn’t that what it’s all about.  I know Nokia has been playing catchup for a while now and they will continue to [...]

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