Nokia E-Cu Concept Phone – Charge Your Phone By Keeping It In Pocket

Imagine a mobile phone that you can charge simply by supplying heat to it. You can put it next to a hot source or simply let it stay in your pocket and get warm – and as a result, it will recharge. While the concept seems futuristic, it is quite possible and has been presented by designer Patrick Hyland. The concept phone has a copper-coated back-case which enables heat to be conducted more effectively to the device.

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Nokia Loses The Top Spot In Finland

Nokia has once been the leader of the mobile industry and a company that raked in 110 billion euros. However, the luck and value of the company has plummeted fast ever since Apple’s iOS devices and Android platform have bagged huge successes. The company has tried hard to get back in the game but so far, this doesn’t seem to be happening. In wake of all this, Nokia has lost the top spot in Finland and is no longer the most valuable company in the country.

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Leaked Screenshots Of Nokia Carla OS Surface

Nokia’s Symbian platform is very widely-used despite the fact that the company is already shipping out Lumia smartphones and has plans of replacing Symbian with later releases. Naturally, Nokia keeps shipping out updates and support for the Symbian platform. Nokia released Nokia Belle a while ago and now, images of Nokia Carla, apparently the next update for Symbian, have now surfaced. Interestingly, these images depict a number of new features that may come to the Symbian platform soon.

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Microsoft And Nokia Launch $24 Million Program To Educate Developers

Microsoft and Nokia, in their Windows Phone alliance, are seriously gearing up to make the Windows-Nokia smartphone a success. While we are still to see some flagship release on the Lumia front, the two companies are busy meanwhile in expanding the supporting ecosystem. Now, both have pooled $24 million to initiate an apps development program at Aalto University, Finland.

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A Thousand Jobs Have Been Cut Short In Finland By Nokia

Job cuts are really unpleasant. Nokia had recently been a part of that process of downsizing its man-power in Finland. It has cut out 1,000 jobs in Finland in order to keep its promise of making 4,000 job cuts. Although Nokia is indeed one of the leading mobile cell phones manufacturers in the world, but yet they are thinking of shifting to a position of employing less manpower. The economic effects of financial crisis, both global, regional and in some cases national, have led manpower being cut in a lot of the places and Nokia has now become a part of that downsizing too.

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Nokia Music App Updated To Version 2.0

Following the changes of Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive the Music app of Nokia has been promoted to a new level. It has been updated to version 2. But the release note did not mention about that significant changes except the UI and audio improvements.

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Nokia N9 Gets Android 4.0.3 As A Result Of Project Mayhem

Last month, a video did rounds on the web in which Android 4.0 was being shown to run on Nokia N9. It seems that this is actually happening now. There is an unofficial alpha version of Android 4.0.3 for Nokia N9 that is now publicly available for download. The direct download link is provided below.

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Nokia Patents Vibrating Stickers And Tattoos That Can Alert You When You Get A Call

Imagine you are wearing a tattoo somewhere on your body. The tattoo vibrates whenever you receive a call on your smartphone. Also, it vibrates differently when different people are calling so that you are able to tell who is calling from the pattern of vibration. This is precisely what Nokia probably hopes to see in the future, or so a patent by the company suggests.

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