Think the N8 is Nokia’s only weapon in the modern smartphone fight? We all know Nokia loves to pump out hardware left and right. While that isn’t necessarily the best approach, I can admire their spirit. With that said, the N8 is a pretty interesting device on paper and when first held in the hand. It’s just the OS still feels a bit antiquated. Can the N9 solve that? On the OS front, not so much. It’ll still rock the same Symbian OS...

UK readers looking towards a Nokia N8 release date can finally be at peace. Pocket-Linet has scored some official confirmation from Nokia Mobile with the good news — August 25th. While it’s a bit further into the future than Germany’s August 24th release date, I’m sure one more day isn’t going to kill you. Now all that’s left to see is how well Symbian s^3 really is since the hardware side of things looks like it’s covered. Stay...

Nokia fans, your future isn’t looking too great. At least, that’s the gist I get after reading Mobile-Review’s review of Symbian S^3, the next generation in the Symbian OS platform. Countless Symbian die-hards are hoping for something revolutionary and truly innovative to challenge the likes of Android, Apple, RIM, and Microsoft. Unfortunately from what I’m seeing, it’s nothing more than some lipstick and a few other minor tweaks here and...

The GPS industry has already had a handful in recent months with Google’s completely free and generally completely awesome mobile navigation/turn-by-turn mobile app that debuted on the Android platform. But the Goog’s has plenty more to dish out as they are planning on releasing Google Navigation for iPhone “and plenty of other mobile platforms“, they announced today at a London Tech conference. Yowsa! Can we say woot (or hellz ya if that’s...

It’s always fun to look back in time to the world in which it was even only a few short years ago. (Besides, a few short years ago is like a decade or two in tech years). So what was the mobile app scene like? Handango and PocketGear wear “the” mobile app stores. The big draw was that their respective app libraries were massive, in part because of the countless mobile platforms all supported under one roof. That multi-platform, app goodness has just...