As a self-confessed phone addict I was one of those who got up early on 26 May to be among the first to experience Nokia’s new Ovi Store. As it turned out I needn’t have bothered, as the launch gremlins conspired to create a series of problems for the service. Nokia’s PR company distributed the [...]

I’m off to a wedding this weekend, and it’s prompted me to think about hitching hardware and software.

Let’s rewind back to 1998. The Nokia 5110, shown on the right, had just been launched. It married great hardware — the groundbreaking Navi key, solid battery life and changeable covers — with fantastic software — a user [...]

Earlier this morning, Nokia announced it would buy the 52.1 percent of Symbian shares it doesn’t already hold, merge the company with its own S60 organisation and create the Symbian Foundation. This new entity will introduce an open-source licence model for the Symbian operating system and the S60, UIQ and MOAP platforms. The move’s a [...]