Ecosystems

Things happen. And when they’re less than favourable, you either work hard and fast to ensure you’re competitive, or you fall back, exhibiting your inability to prevent the fact that you’re the market leader has got to your head. Every leader is susceptible to the latter, but good leaders work hard and maintain their lead. It’s one thing to become a leader, another to retain your leadership.

Smartphones excite me….

If The N9 Were A Girl, I’d Propose Her Right Away

I finally got my hands on the Nokia N9 – a phone which runs MeeGo Harmattan Operating System. Yes yes, probably very late, seeing it was launched more than a year back, but well, better late than never. It was something I always lusted after, from the day of its launch, and given a choice,…

The Last Of The MeeGo Developers Leave Nokia, Join Hands To Build Their Own MeeGo-based Smartphones

A bunch of Nokia’s MeeGo team members had left the Finnish company, a couple of days back. They’ve now come together and will be helping Jolla Mobile in making new MeeGo-based smartphones. However, before you get excited, no, there won’t be any updates for your Nokia N9 or the developers-only N950. That’s understandable – those phones are Nokia’s products,…

Nokia N9 Receiving PR1.3 Update, PR1.4 Still Possible

Fire up the updaters, Nokia N9 owners! There’s a software update for you, from Nokia. Probably prepared by the few people at Nokia in the MeeGo department. And there are rumors about a PR1.4 update as well, but it seems like a distant dream now. And if you get the update, you should…

Behind The Screens: How Nokia Manages Superior Call Quality In Its Phones

Nokia’s phones – both dumb and smart – are known for the great call quality. We’ve all come to love this aspect of owning a Nokia phone – the phones don’t lose signal as quickly as the competitor’s phones do, and the in-call voice call is second to none. But how do they do it?…

[Download] Wazzap Is A Port Of WhatsApp, For Your Nokia N9

Users of Nokia N9 have been missing one app that has become essential these days – WhatsApp. They have even resorted to posting requests and petitions to the makers of WhatsApp, but understandably, all in vain.

Fret not though, as some developers have been working for quite some time now, trying to port over…

Rumor: Nokia Has Two New MeeGo Devices. Could Be Meltemi

Here’s a totally unexpected piece of news – Nokia might be working on two new MeeGo devices. Confused? Perhaps you remember Nokia said there wouldn’t be any MeeGo device, after the N9. Sure, we do too. And there are no prizes for guessing, we are as confused as you are.

Nokia also launched the Asha series of feature-phones last year,…

Nokia N9 Review: The Hero That Wasn’t To Be

We have often seen and heard about people, who stand out of crowd, who are different, who are one in million or in fact in billion. Such, persons curve their own path, achieve their own goals, excel in their own genre and leave their own mark of elegance in this world. They are immortal and…

Canalys: 1.2 Million Nokia Lumias Shipped, 0.6 Million N9s Too

Always wondered how many Lumia devices and N9s were actually shipped? You sure did. Nokia hadn’t made the shipment figures official when it released its earnings report, but here’s a report by analyst house Canalys that suggests Nokia could ship twice as many Lumias as the Nokia N9.

Canalys…

This N9 runs 7 different operating systems including Android and Windows Phone 7

Nokia N9 might be the most critically acclaimed phone ever made. It was the officially declared “dead on arrival” device and most probably the last member of the iconic N series. But someone in China was not happy with the N9 dying with Meego.  So he made a N9 lookalike that runs 7 different OS!!! Apart from the usual Meego affair this N9 offers iOS 5.0, HTC Sense, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, Samsung’s TouchWiz and Symbian Anna operating…

Exclusive: First Sighting Of Nokia N9 On Prepaid In South Africa, From 8TA At R6398 ($830)

Okay. This is probably second time we, at Androsym, have used that word. I for one, was itching to use it! Well, here it is.

Nokia N9 will be coming to South Africe on Prepaid, courtesy 8TA. The device will be off contract (duh, prepaid), and the price is supposedly around 6,398 Rands. That’s…

Nokia N9 Gets An Update, Also, Now In White

Nokia all the way, today, it seems. Earlier in the day, the Finns unveiled their first Windows Phones – the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. Also shown off was