Alastair Curtis is Nokia’s Chief Designer, which means he pretty much oversees every phone that gets created. Forbes recently did an interview with the guy, and it’s a great, short read. Or, for the lazy, here’s the main highlights: Alastair and his team just finished working on the product portfolio for 2010 “We’ll see touch coming to the [...]

The Boy Genius Report has word of a new Nokia phone (code name: WAHOO) that’s slated to hit AT&T some time in the future. It looks just like the ill-fated N76, Nokia’s answer to the ridiculousness that was the RAZR. Specs are fairly sparse right now, but it looks like the flip is a quad-band connected [...]

There’s two semi-new firmware updates for the Nokia E66 and E71 smartphones, as well as a general update to the Nokia Software Updater app. Changes include “performance improvements” for the camera (viewfinder orientation), Mail for Exchange synchonization, and browsing. You also get the latest versions of Mail for Exchange and Nokia Maps. Herre’s hoping Nokia fixed [...]

Nokia’s uber-expensive Vertu line of non-smartphones now has an uber-expensive name attached to it: Ferrari. And Nero, Rosso, and Giallo. The Nero is a limited-edition Vertu, and besides being obscenely priced, it’s the only one of the three with an overlaid red sapphire crystal earpiece. There will be a mere 2,009 Ferrari Nero Vertu phones sold, [...]

Nokia N-gage and Lucasarts are currently running two contests for The Force Unleashed Mobile. Unfortunately for the lazy, both require some kind of actual work. First up is a video contest: show how you would “N-Gage the Force” (seriously) with a 20 second video, and you could win one of two Stormtrooper helmets monthly. It gets [...]

Ouch: Nokia reported Friday that fourth quarter industry mobile phone sales would be far lower than expected - 20 million phones lower, to be exact. The company also painted a pretty bleak picture for the future, thanks to a certain global recession. Nokia didn’t give any hard numbers for 2009, other than to say that phone [...]

Say hello to the recession with a refurb Nokia 2610, now $6.99 at AT&T’s GoPhone prepaid site. As usual, a few things to consider: For current AT&T users, you don’t have to worry about unlocking it. For non-AT&T users, you’ll need to unlock it, this page may help. This phone is refurbished. It looks pretty darn new though. Comes [...]

Today Nokia dropped an E-bomb on the world with the (completely random) announcement of the E63 smartphone. Essentially it’s a budget E71, with the exception of a couple nice features aimed towards the consumer market. Since it’s an Eseries device, it still retains business-y features such as the ability to switch work/personal modes. More details [...]

*with participation. Sometime in February, Nokia and the University of California at Berkeley conducted a real-world traffic experiment using cars outfitted with Nokia N95s to see if GPS-enabled mobile phones could gather location data and pinpoint trafficky areas. While the test was a success, little was heard about the project until this past week, when the Mobile [...]

Nokia is seriously gung-ho about location-based software, and the recently released Friend View is a pretty good example of that. Friend View is a social location app that lets you “microblog” aka Twitter short messages for your friends to read. You can also share your current position via your phone’s GPS to simplify meetups and [...]