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With the E7 comes a change in Nokia’s Enterprise Strategy

With the imminent launch of the E7 Nokia have switched their focus to business leaders, especially CIOs and senior executives who were the main audience at the Gartner ITxpo recently. Speaking at the event Ilari Nurmi, the man responsible for all things E-series, was clear – Nokia are targeting RIM’s BlackBerry with their business devices an they think they [...]

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The E75: Very (very) first impressions

The E75: Very (very) first impressions

After only a few hours of playing these are my first impressions for those hungry for news of this device. If you have any questions or comments please leave them below… we’ll post a longer, more complete review in a week or so. The good: Call quality is excellent. Speaker sound from device is crisp [...]

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The Nokia E75 is in the house!

The Nokia E75 is in the house!

Mobile Industry Review is among a small (but exclusive) group of bloggers to recieve a new E75 to test today!  In fact we’ve got two – Ben Smith and Jonathan Jensen will be reporting in on the devices.  What would you like to know about this new form factor from Nokia?  Put your questions in [...]

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World Exclusive: N86 extended test in Prague

World Exclusive: N86 extended test in Prague

There’s plenty of video upcoming from our trip to Prague this weekend including an exclusive first-look at the N86 in real-world conditions – as you can see above it’s a tough life, this international playboy-blogger thing we’ve got going on right now… But, Hi-Def video takes some time to edit and publish (see the MWC [...]

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O2 Launches £5m ‘Surprises’ Campaign with Buongiorno

O2 Launches £5m ‘Surprises’ Campaign with Buongiorno

In a bid to retain UK customers in the pre-pay market – something notoriously difficult to do – O2 have launched their ‘Surprises’ campaign this week.  Customers topping up are given a code which guarantees a prize when entered at the campaign’s online ‘hook a duck’ fairground-game themed site – prizes range from free texts [...]

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Nokia Maps, the N86 and getting ready for Prague

Nokia Maps, the N86 and getting ready for Prague

Nokia Maps, the N86 and getting ready for Prague from Ben Smith on Vimeo. In advance of our trip to Prague tomorrow I met up with James Whatley and we talked Nokia Maps and whether Rafe Blandford’s comments about side-loading map data and pre-planning points of interest could be right.  We also waved a pre-release [...]

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MWC: An emerging theme?

It really is all about the app stores this year.  Android, Windows, Nokia, Blackberry, Orange – the handset manufacturers and the operators are slowly focusing their attention in this direction, with various flavours of developer support to match. It will, they are confidently asserting, help developers and consumers – with just one place to publish [...]

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MIR Show – Nokia N86 8MP – First look & opinion

MIR Show – Nokia N86 8MP – First look & opinion

We were invited to the launch of the new N86 8MP yesterday and were amongst a small group of blogs given first access to it. N86 First Look At The Launch Event from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo. During filming we noted the handset was labelled as ‘N85 8MP’ and speculated whether that was a [...]

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INQ win ‘best handset’ at Global Mobile Awards 2009

INQ win ‘best handset’ at Global Mobile Awards 2009

Hutchison handset spin-off INQ – makers of the low cost INQ1 ‘social mobile’ won the award for ‘Best Handset’ at the Global Mobile Awards at Mobile World Congress last night. They beat giants such as Nokia and T-Mobile to the prize. This is a huge endorsement for their strategy and device and comes at an [...]

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Listening to the UK Trade & Investment Minister

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MWC: Day 1 Roundup

MWC: Day 1 Roundup

It’s been a day of big press conferences today as some of the big players laid out their big announcements in the hope of dominating the news: Nokia have launched the E55 and E75 business handsets – Like so much of their recent announcements the hardware of these devices really impresses.  I challenge anyone not [...]

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MWC: What we have learned today

MWC: What we have learned today

Despite being an ‘exhibition’, Mobile World Congress is a terrible place for firms to actually do any real communicating – to customers, partners or media.  It’s even worse if you hope to actually gather any information.  As a venue Fira is nothing short of incredible – perched on the hill-side overlooking Barcelona a small mobile [...]

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