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Filed under: Handsets, Software, Nokia, Linux

To anyone even remotely familiar with Nokia’s history, this tidbit won’t come as a surprise at all. In fact, we’ve been hearing “Linux” and “Nokia” in the same sentence for years. At Nokia World in Barcelona — the same place where the almighty N97 (pictured) was unveiled — Ukko Lappalainen, vice president at Nokia’s markets unit, informed Reuters that “in the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones.” Potentially more engaging attention was his followup line: “I don’t see anything in Android which would make it better than Linux maemo.” Truly frankly, we’d be entirely more interested if this was some revolutionary epiphany, but it’s basically just more of the same song and dance. at this time, if an N98 pops out next month with a freakishly awesome and nimble mobile variant of Ubuntu, well — that’s a horse of a different color.

[Via LinuxDevices]

Nokia could give Linux a spin in high-end mobiles originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, ASUS, HSDPA

ASUS’ P565 has been pretty much unofficial until at this time, though we did see some alleged photos and specs of the device not terribly long ago. The phone has just been officially listed on the ASUS site, however, and we’ve got a quick rundown of its stats (which are pretty much precisely what we’d seen before). The Glide UI-sporting, HSDPA smartphone — which ASUS claims is the “fastest business PDA phone” in the world — runs Windows Mobile 6.1, has an 800MHz Marvell CPU, a 2.8-inch touchscreen, 256MB flash memory and 128MB of DDR SDRAM, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, and a microSD slot with SDHC support. Like we said, none of this is a big surprise, but it’s the first official look we’ve had at the handset, though we’re still waiting on word about pricing and availability.

[Via wmpoweruser]

800 MHz CPU-packing P565 handset appears on ASUS site originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Games, Software, Nokia

It shouldn’t come as any very big surprise that the handset gaming market isn’t precisely thriving, and with these curious economic times surrounding us, we have all ideas that folks have better things to worry over than what their N-Gage buddies are doing. And so does Nokia. According to Jaakko Kaidesoja, head of Nokia’s gaming operations, he “expects challenging times to continue,” noting that the “overall gaming market is likely not growing.” Predictably, he was fairly bullish on the eventual success of the N-Gage platform and the iPhone, but he did confess that pre-loading the N-Gage software onto mobiles would greatly help adoption (you think?). In related news, EA Mobile’s Peter Parmenter thrashed Nokia by calling N-Gage “not Truly polished yet” and referring to it as a soft launch. It’s okay Nokia — we still have to find something to do on the can, so surely gaming fits in there somewhere.

[Via mocoNews]

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Nokia expects “challenging times” for handset gaming to continue originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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