Bluetooth Earpiece

A great little stocking stuffer here - Nokia’s new Bluetooth earpiece, the BH-101. It boasts eight hours of talktime, 180 hours of standby, Bluetooth 2.0 (with EDR, Handsfree v.1.5, and Headset v.1.1), and best of all, it is affordable at only $40. Ho- Ho - Ho

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Nokia Renault

Slapping a Nokia brand on a car makes it what - a cellphone with wheels?
Renault has teamed up with Nokia on this new Twingo Nokia special edition. Basically it just offers music connectivity options through an audio connection box in the glove compartment that accepts USB, a 3.5 mm cable and a DIN connector for [...]

Exploding Battery Injures Woman

Nokia and Matsushita are already dealing with a 46 million handset battery recall and now a battery NOT on the recall list exploded injuring a pregnant woman in India.
The 30-year old victim will supposedly be compensated.

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The New Nokia N76 Gets Smart

I’ve always loved Nokia and its simplicity.  It pretty much jump-started the cell phone industry with its candy bar style phones that seem hard to part with.  When Nokia came out with their flip phones, it wasn’t that impressive or even nice to look at.  Now, Nokia is fighting back and getting smart with their [...]

China Covers Its Bases

After reports of a man dying in China as a cause of his cellphone batteries exploding, China has been cracking down on safety regulations, starting at the core of the problem: Motorola and Nokia.
Motorola and Nokia phone batteries were shown to have failed any safety tests administered on them and were prone to explosion [...]

Skype Support

Nokia just released an update to their Internet Tablet OS 2007 Edition which brings Skype client support, Flash 9 browser support, 8GB memory card support, and longer battery performance when surfing bits over wireless.

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Nokia N-Gage Coming To The PC

For all five of the players that used Nokia’s N-Gage without irony, Nokia has good news for you. In order to boost possible sales, there are now plans to bring the N-Gage to your home computers. One product in the works is entitled "Project White Rock," which promises to take the level of N-Gage gaming [...]

The Nokia 7500 Prism

While America releases one of the most sought-after phone since the Razr, China debuts with its own nifty looking gadget phones. The 7500 Prism from Nokia sports a unique interface, with buttons laid out as if you were looking through an actual prism. The features are so far nothing out of the ordinary, including a [...]

T-Mobile’s GSM / WiFi @Home

T-Mobile has launched its hybrid GSM / WiFi with the "HotSpot @Home" . @Home relies on traditional cell airwaves out in the field but switches seamlessly to WiFi when it gets within range of a T-Mobile hotspot or any other wireless router you’ve configured to work with your phone. The cool part is that [...]

DIY Google Earth

Got a cell phone? Like RC airplanes? Put them together and you get your own personal Google Earth.
Materials needed: 1. Nokia N95 2. radio-controlled model airplane.3. Pict’Earth software.
Now, if you don’t crash it…

Take Pict’Earth anywhere with you as it fits in your car trunk and is ready to use in less than 10 minutes….Pict-Earth Live [...]