CTO Bob Iannucci announced that he’s stepping down from Nokia effective immediately for undisclosed “personal reasons”. He will not entirely be leaving and will continue on with an advisory role while Nokia decides whether they even need a CTO. He steps down just before the anticipated October 2nd launch of the Tube
According to website Pocket-lint, Nokia will be releasing their touchscreen device that is currently known as the “Tube” on October 2nd. This will be a global launch and will likely fall under the XpressMusic sub-brand, and will be announced with the introduction of Nokia’s Comes With Music service. In July, Anssi Vanjoki, Senior Vice President [...]
We waited so long for the Nokia XpressMusic to come to Canada … after a few months of steady sales, it has now shown up at Primus for $39.95 on a 3-year plan. In addition, you can score this for $89.95 on a 2-year contract, $159.95 in a 1-year. If you are feeling like going [...]
We posted an article that Rogers and Nokia officially launched Nokia Maps in Canada. We decided to see what the hype was about and went to the Nokia site to read more, not sure if this is an error in the Nokia Maps page, however, on the Canadian site is states that you can download [...]
Back-to-School season is upon us and Nokia has stepped up with another contest that ensures we keep our country filled with A.D.D. students. The contest is called “Back to School in Red or Blue: Show your Colours” and you have the chance to win a Rogers Wireless Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone in either in red [...]
Our Nokia insider said the Nokia E71 is finally coming to Canada, targeted for a November launch. No word on price yet, however, it will not be coming to Rogers. It will be a Fido only launch. More to come soon. (Thanks The Beanch)
Everyone loves to jump on the back-to-school bus and offer new ways to promote products… With buying $100 in airtime, 7Eleven Speak Out Wireless is offering a free Nokia 1208 or 1600 until September 30th, 2008. Or if you don’t like either of those phones, they have thrown in another offer for $74 off any [...]
Nokia and Lonely Planet have agreed to distribute Lonely Planet content via Nokia Maps. If you’re not feeling too spontaneous on your trip you might want to give this a shot, but it will cost you about $12.50 Canadian You can now download over 100 city guide destinations that give you area maps, restaurants, popular [...]
Nokia Growth Partners will get an additional $150 million to create and “innovative mobile applications and services that encourage rapid adoption of mobile solutions, such as context and location based services, mobile payments, mobile advertising, music and entertainment and other mobile services and software.” This brings the total investment from Nokia to $250 million since [...]
Nokia is sponsoring a contest called “Nokia Simple Plan Contest”. If you are into Simple Plan and would like to party with them you now have a chance to do so… and you could also walk away with a spanking brand new N95 8GB. The contest is on now and closes 11:59pm September 5th, 2008. [...]