An official Nokia press release has just hit the internet and it marks the change of guard at Nokia HQ, Stephen Elop will be the new President and CEO of Nokia as of September 21, one week after Nokia World ends. There have been rumours of a change in the top leadership for quite sometime now, but the timing of this announcement is what’s surprising.
Nokia has also got itself a Canadian CEO, so it will be interesting to see how his way of doing business influences Nokia’s working globally. OPK …

I really like what Nokia is doing with the N8. First the unboxing, and now this ‘‪it’s not technology, it’s what will you do with it‘ advertisement. Its cool, hip and has a great background score that is very hard to forget, it just sticks to you.

You know what else is nice? It just doesn’t show the N8, but some of the other Nokia superhits like the N95 and the E71 and on a sub-conscious level you start equating the N8 to success. At least I do.
I’d love to get …

If you’re using an Android device, there’s some great news from TweetDeck. The TweetDeck for Android application has been updated to version v0.9.8 and with the update come three great looking widgets for your homescreen, improvements to how the columns are handled, bug fixes and performance enhancements.
TweetDeck has quickly become the preferred Twitter client on my Galaxy S and the widgets promise to make the experience even better. There is a large widget which gives you quick access to all your tweets, replies, DM’s and searches right from the homescreen. …

I have already brought you some delicious unboxing pictures of the Nokia N8, but whatever you have seen until now pales in comparison to what Nokia have done here. They’ve made a super interactive N8 unboxing that features Brenda, Suzy (who claims she’s hot! & I don’t disagree at all!) and Ryan to unbox the Blue, Dark Grey and Green N8 in what is a first of its kind video.
You can pick an unboxer of your choice and they then go onto unbox the N8 in their own style and …

For the last two years, the world (?) has been going on about how the Symbian UI is old, clunky and must go. It must be written again from ground up if Symbian has to have any chance. At any rate, these rants have managed to dent Symbian’s brand name by a huge margin and affect Nokia’s fortunes adversely.
So much so that even supporters of the OS, were taken in by the storm and only a very few loyalists remain. The good thing is that even the loyalists are not …

I have just come across five very different ads for the Nokia N8. Not only are they in Chinese, buy the way they are done is very far drawn from what you expect from usual advertisements. I haven’t seen many Chinese ads, so may be this form of marketing is what works there.
The first one is perhaps the most entertaining for non Chinese speaking people and has a ton of effects that make the N8 look incredibly cool.

What sort of marketing campaign are you expecting from Nokia for the N8 …

The Samsung App Store on the Galaxy S line of Android devices packs less than 10 applications and is usually not the place where you would go for all the cool Android apps. Although it does have Asphalt 5, Vlingo and a free fun utility apps like road SMS, but that’s about the extent of it.
Today I was surprised to find a pretty cool addition to the store in the form of Facebook For Samsung or Facebook S! Apparently Samsung’s isn’t too happy with the current iteration of ‘Facebook for …

Samsung today made its 7″ Android 2.2 powered tablet official at IFA 2010 and marked the arrival of the first real iPad rival. The Galaxy Tab has a lot going for it, the flexibility of Android, a powerful Cortex A8 1.0GHz processor, dual cameras, video calls and the ability to be used as a phone.

At 7″ it threatens to be pocket-able but falls slightly short, although you could easily slip it into a coat pocket. With 3G HSPA connectivity, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 3.0 the Galaxy Tab becomes the best …

Swype is an alternate text entry system that makes makes entering words on a touch based device ridiculously easy. You no longer need to be accurate when you hit the screen and all you do is ‘swype’ across the on-screen keyboard with one continuous finger or stylus motion and the software accurately guesses the word you were wanting to enter. I have been using Swype on the Galaxy S, for over a month now and I am incredibly glad to see this application come to Symbian.

The best part about Swype …