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Opera launches ‘more social’ mobile web browser

Opera doesn’t really feature in the web browser landscape. Its mobile browser Opera Mini, on the other hand, is among the most popular. Hardly…

A (not so) great comeback: The Nokia N9

This might be the most polarising review of a gadget I have ever written. The Nokia N9 is a beautiful phone, cool to the…

Nokia launches N9 — Its only Meego smartphone

Marko Ahtisaari is the head of Nokia’s design unit and the man tasked with presenting the new Nokia N9 to a captivated audience at…

FNB app has processed more than R160m since launch

When FNB launched its banking app in July it was a South African first. Since then, the app has gone from strength to strength,…

Review: Nokia E6 nips and tucks and botoxes

The Nokia E6 business-oriented smartphone sports Symbian Anna, the latest (and probably one of the last) iterations of Nokia’s storied Symbian mobile phone operating…

Symbian and MeeGo axed in UK and US

Symbian is officially dead, in North America and the UK at least. Here lies a mobile OS which paved the way for the smartphones…

Nokia’s technology chief ‘quits over strategy’

Nokia has watched its global market share dwindle in recent years, and another nail hovered over the mobile giant’s coffin on Thursday. Finland’s leading…

App options outside the mainstream

With Nokia announcing the death of its unique Ovi services recently, the smartphone app world seems to be getting a little smaller. The Finnish…

Nokia partners with Microsoft to retake mobile market?

Any list of the handsets that created the mobile phone industry will undoubtedly be filled with mobiles from Finnish mobile phone company, Nokia. However,…

Sweeping changes afoot at Nokia as CEO warns of ‘burning platform’

Something major is brewing in the boardrooms of Finnish mobile giant, Nokia. The rumours were confirmed by a leaked internal memo from dynamic new…

Android finally makes it to number 1, surpassing Nokia’s Symbian

Google’s smartphone operating system Android has passed Nokia’s Symbian and become the global smartphone market leader, market research company Canalys said Monday. In the…

Africa’s mobile numbers, and where to find them

It’s not a big surprise to see Nokia’s Symbian operating system is the most popular in Africa. We all knew that, but it’s by…

Are you looking for the best smartphone in the country?

According to Gartner, smartphone sales increased by 96 percent in the third quarter of 2010. Over 80-million of more than 400-million handsets sold over…

N8: Nokia almost delivers a really great phone

Let’s get right to the question you’re begging to have answered. Because if you’re not asking it, you’re probably already into iPhones or Blackberries…

Android now second biggest smartphone platform after Nokia, says Gartner

Google’s Android mobile operating system surged past Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry in the third quarter to become the second biggest smartphone platform after…

Nokia shifts further away from Symbian as company reports big profits, job cuts

The world’s top mobile phone maker Nokia on Thursday said it would cut 1 800 jobs after announcing stellar third-quarter results one month into…

Nimbuzz planning African mobile launch

Nimbuzz, the mobile social messaging service, may not be particularly well-known in Africa, but all that is about to change. This is according to…

Smartphones to rule by 2014, predicts Gartner

By the year 2014 the mobile environment will be dominated by smartphones. This is one of the many bold predictions by technology analyst Nick…

The app boom: iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian or Windows Mobile?

The mobile app market is booming, with businesses of all shapes and sizes eager to get their brand out in the form of an…

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