What makes a logo? For some companies, a good logo can define their brand for decades; while other companies who haven’t had the same luck, find themselves needing a re-design every few years to, well, keep things fresh - and in Microsoft’s case, they’re doing just that. Over the course of the past week an interesting occurrence [...]

  For a company riding the wave of the recent announcement of their Windows Phone 7 implementation, I don’t quite understand the point of still producing Symbian based handsets - regardless of how new the Symbian version is. Regardless, the phone pictured above is the 700 Zeta in all its Symbian Belle powered glory. Other [...]

  Even though the N9 was recently announced and runs MeeGo (Nokia’s native operating system) some are speculating that Meego’s days were numbered when it was announced that Nokia would be making phones running the Windows Phone 7 operating system. The CEO of Nokia, Stephen Elop, said that one of the flaws of MeeGo is [...]

Stephen Elop has been under fire by the media lately for outlandish statements and questionable decisions but it all feels like a set up and Elop may be getting the last laugh. At Nokia Connection 2011, the first MeeGo (Nokia’s native mobile operating system) products of this year were announced with the unveiling of the [...]

  Finally, one wireless cat fight is over: Apple and Nokia have reached an agreement that “will result in settlement of all patent litigation between the companies,” thus giving the momentum for both firms to withdraw all complaints against one another from the U.S. International Trade Commission. Nokia said Tuesday that the agreement “consists of a one-time payment [...]

In the past few months, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has denied rumors that the company was to be acquired by Microsoft and Samsung. Well, he’s put in plain words: “Nokia is not for sale.” Recently, Elop clarified why Nokia is going with the Windows mobile OS rather than Android OS by stating his uncertainty of [...]

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has been sparking some controversy lately. Recently Richard Green, Nokia’s Chief Technology Officer, announced that he’s taking a leave of absence due to personal reasons but Reuters believes it has more to do with a disagreement with Elop’s strategy. In the controversial move of Nokia choosing the Windows Phone 7 operating [...]

Here’s a story to talk about today at the water cooler: wireless industry insider Eldar Murtazin is claiming that Microsoft has struck a deal with Nokia to purchase their mobile arm for $19 billion dollars - wow. Word has it that the deal could close as soon as the end of the year. What makes this [...]

  Despite having a flailing OS (Symbian), one thing Nokia has developed a solid reputation for are the superb camera’s installed in their devices; whether high-end or low-end, the resolution generally starts at 5MP on newer devices (C6) and goes up to 12MP (N8). This benchmark has also set Nokia ahead, because no other manufacturer [...]

Ovi by Nokia, the brand for Nokia’s Internet services, announced in August 2007 and released a year later in August 2008 is to be phased out as a brand starting this summer. The announcement came via the Official Nokia Blog “Conversations” (link below) this morning. The post detailed how the phase out will begin in [...]