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To celebrate Christmas this year I have sent out the begging bowl to a numbers of friends in the industry and have come up with a bunch of goodies, I am going to give stuff away most days.
Today its the fantastic Nokia E63

There are lots of reviews around but I love it, this phone is [...]

I have heard from numerous sources over the past few weeks that O2/Telefonica are considering removing all handset subsidies next year.
Would this be a good thing?
If you look at the global market I think the only market for subsidized handsets should be the countries where the carriers are just developing the market other than that [...]

Its been a nutty day so I didn’t get to say much about the fantastic new N97, looks amazing, I love the pop up keyboard and the design is definitely futuristic.
Lots of links on this
Om
Robert
BoyGenius
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This is going to be absolutely huge.
Nokia Build
Nokia now allows it customer to totally personalize their handsets. At present its limited to the 7310 Supernova but I expect it to spread to other models asap.

Nike id has been been an incredible success for Nike and I can guarantee that Nokia will spread this across its [...]

My friend Andy Abramson gets a hat tip for this via Reuters.
I discussed this three times this week during meetings and I think we are going to see much more of it.
Here is the major problem for all manufacturers, They sell a phone and that’s it, they have no further income from it, the carriers [...]

Today was a great day for Blackberry, Firstly qik got out their Blackberry app which is covered extensively elsewhere and works perfectly for me.
This morning Truphone got me over a copy of the new truphone call anywhere for Blackberry, unfortunately I was unable to write about it earlier due to teething problems but my buddy [...]

Iain Dodsworth the super head honcho behind Tweetdeck recently borrowed a Nokia E71 from me for testing, the deal involved Iain doing a completely independent review of the phone for me to post, below is just that
I think he likes it
The Nokia E71 is clearly aimed at the business or enterprise end of [...]

Nokia have launched a beta of their new chat client

“Nokia Chat is more than just messaging. You can share your status and your location, giving you physical presence! Start a Nokia Chat with your friends with instant and voice messaging and finish it face-to-face. Get together with Nokia Chat – it’s where we are now”
A [...]

I am running the new Nokia email client on a number of handsets on test mode at present and it absolutely does what it says on the tin.

Image via Crunchbase
I am using my gmail account and delivery is prompt and definitely as fast as the iPhone on tests and also runs IMAP which syncs with [...]

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