Battle Vid: Nokia N9 vs. Lumia 800

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Despite retaining its position as the largest handset maker in the world, Nokia’s market share has dropped significantly in the past few years, with increasing numbers of people dropping Symbian in favor of the iPhone or Android. When CEO Stephen Elop announced in February that Nokia would be adopting Windows Phone as its new primary [...]

Nokia N9 Review

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Overall: stunning hardware, fresh software The design of the N9 was a major hit with reviewers, offering a sleek unibody exterior with no joins or seams to be found anywhere. The screen is slightly convex, providing improved viewing angles, and the Clear Back Display displays colours brilliantly even in direct sunlight. The N9 is slightly [...]

Nokia N9 Unboxing & First Impressions

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Nokia N9 is Nokia’s first and last MeeGo capable device. It is from here a lot of the design features found in the Lumia 800 are derived. This is what I call a well crafted device. First off it, its Sports a 3.6-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, Gorilla Glass [...]

Why Nokia World 2011 excites me

I’ve been a Nokia user for almost as long as I’ve used mobile phones – with only three exceptions. My first ever phone was a Motorola, and when I first got a Nokia, the 3210 I believe, it was like another world of phones. Sleek, elegant, built for the user. Nokia hasn’t changed, its built [...]

Apps, Apps, Apps

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A lot of smartphone talk these days seems to center around apps – the iPhone is the best phone because it has the largest app store, the N9 is dead in the water because it doesn’t have many apps yet, BlackBerry is a waste of time because it has a small app store, and so on. But [...]