Nokia unveiled the largest order in its history on Friday (May 11) to supply handsets in China in a deal worth $2.5 billion. Analysts say the order represents more than 20 million phones to be delivered to China Postel, China’s largest mobile phone wholesaler. “It is a very important market for us. It was our largest market in 2006 by turnover,” said a Nokia spokeswoman, Eija-Riitta Huovinen. Nokia intends to deepen it’s relations with China Postel which distributed more than 37 million Nokia mobile phones across China since 1998. Read the rest of this entry »

Twibble is an experimental Twitter client application for the Nokia N95. In addition to some basic twitter functionality it can make use of the built-in GPS of the N95 to add your current position to a tweet. The position can be processed by twittervision and twittermaps. Twibble does not use SMS or WAP. Read the rest of this entry »

Google updated their popular Google Mobile Maps (GMM) application and now supports the N95. It also features landscape mode. Get it here.

Neil at Nechbi.com wrote an excellent post on how you can watch TV on your Nokia N80 or N95 using streaming technique (3G or WiFi). The handsets don’t actually support broadcast streams (DVB-H) but you can watch a limited number of TV channels for free using Vimio Live TV. Read the rest of this entry »

Nokia N81 (the black one) The N81 is a 8GB slider-followup to the N91 8GB ME running S60 v3 FP1.The full specs sheet and pic of the upcoming N81 8GB Slider. It features quad-band EDGE with 2100 HSDPA, WiFi, BT 2.0 with A2DP, and a 3.5mm slot and is set to be launched 4Q 2007. Read the rest of this entry »