Ok, I'll admit it. I'm biased against the current crop of Nokia smartphones. I just think they're crap -- and maybe that's because I'm a "power user" (although sometimes I think my levels of frustration exceed the everyday consumer). Or maybe it's ju...
Blackberry, or officially RIM, has been on a rather downward spiral since the rapid growth of Android and the steady market share of iOS. You have to still consider that they are a good manufacturer and in many ways could actually leap back from the ...
Nokia is looking to position itself strategically for smartphone growth in SA. It’s signed an agreement with Microsoft to get the Windows operating system onto Nokia handsets and smartphones, like the N8, available on some seriously cheap contracts...
I so badly wanted to like this phone. In my world, Nokia just hasn't cracked it since the E71. That phone rocked my world. Nothing has since, and it seems that until Symbian has been rudely shoved aside, this situation will remain.
Here's a quick ...
Nokia was kind enough to send me some rad bluetooth headphones, and more importantly, a R200 gift voucher for the Nokia Ovi Store (the artist formerly known as The Nokia Music Store). I did a quick interview with Jake Larsen when the store launched a...
On Wednesday morning I headed over to the Nokia The Way We Live Next event in Cape Town. Richard Mulholland did an excellent (and very objective) job of explaining the current mobile landscape. During the presentation a few things were highlighted th...
Fleishman South Africa were kind enough to lend me a Nokia N97 for a couple of weeks. This phone was coming into focus for me as an upgrade competitor to the iPhone 3GS. Add to that, a fairly nifty digital marketing campaign and my interest was pique...
I had the opportunity recently to have a text exchange (read: questions by email -- the interview style of the time-pressed blogger) with Jake Larsen, head of the Nokia Music Store (Middle East and Africa). I was interested in how the Music Store has...
Nokia's Teach the Technophobe: Eight brave Nokia fans have signed up to help some close friends and family join the messaging generation using the E75. Their technophobes will negotiate various hurdles and challenges. The one who finishes this traini...
Inspired by Rudoph Van Den Burg's riff on Jeremy Clarkson's TopGear Cool Wall I thought a Cool Wall for the South African telecommunications and Internet community might be fun to do. For those who haven't seen it, the TopGear Cool Wall ranks automo...
