Nokia disclosed recently its newest smartphone models and innovations at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Special highlights were Nokia Lumia 720, Nokia Lumia 520, Nokia 105, and Nokia 301, plus new feature innovations on HERE maps, imaging, navigation, and entertainment. Together with Microsoft, Nokia refocuses marketing efforts to draw more of its business clientele [...]

Nokia’s first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, was announced 3 months ago yet it still hasn’t made its way to the Philippine soil officially. Well, CTB actually got a word from a valued source at Nokia Philippines that it will land in the country sometime in Q2 this year – which I’m thinking could be [...]

I’m personally not surprised. The Philippines was once named as the “Social Networking Capital of the World”, and the country being a “Nokia nation” – that would explain why social networking and messenger apps topped the list of popular applications downloaded from the Nokia Store in 2011. In addition to that, not only for a [...]

Nokia Philippines announced earlier today that it has partnered with Globe Telecom to make premium mobile phone apps available for purchase even without the need for credit card or direct cash payments. The presser that went through our inbox says the service is “currently” exclusive to Globe subscribers, which makes me think – as far [...]

In collaboration with De La Salle University, Nokia Philippines will hold again another competition, this time for college-level students with coding skills in Java environment. Dubbed as “Xtreme Java: National Inter-School Mobile App Development Challenge”, this competition is set to kick-off comes Saturday, January 14th, at DLSU campus in Manila. If you miss the Kick-Off, [...]

Nokia Philippines has officially announced the availability of the newest addition to the company’s dual-SIM phones line-up. Announced in October last year, the Nokia Asha 200 is now available in Nokia Stores nationwide with a suggested retail price of Php 3,500. Inspired by the Nokia C3 external design, the Nokia Asha 200 also features a [...]

The Finnish phone maker Nokia extends its support to UNICEF by inviting everyone to send a Christmas e-card to friends and loved ones. Doing this is really as easy as pie. Just go to www.nokia.com/ecard, type in the name of the recipient, write your Christmas greeting and press send. So how exactly does Nokia help [...]

Nokia has already started rolling out the first update to MeeGo (also called Harmattan), the software that powers one of its latest smartphones today – the Nokia N9. Named as MeeGo PR 1.1 (version 20.2011.40-4), the update brings an improved standby screen together with several features for Nokia N9 including support for Chinese language, more [...]

What a surprise we got here Nokia fans! CTB just learned Nokia Philippines earlier today has officially announced the availability of Nokia N9 in the country. I’m pretty sure you’d be happy to hear the handset actually got what could be a fair price tag. And when I say fair, that means it’s really a [...]

If you guys are looking for an affordable dual-SIM phone with dual-standby functionality, perhaps you should be looking for Nokia C2-00. Read on CTB’s review of this candy-bar handset and see for yourself if it’s a perfect match! Overview The Nokia C2-00 is one of the two dual-SIM phones introduced here in the Philippines back [...]

Nokia fans who have been waiting for the official launch of Nokia N9 here in the Philippines, rejoice! CTB received an update moment ago and due to excitement, I really can’t help myself from typing as long as my fingers permit to do so — just to let you know what our friends at Nokia [...]

Nokia took the wraps of its first Windows Phone devices, the Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. The Nokia Lumia 800 is exactly the same handset we’ve seen in a pair of leaked video few months ago, codenamed “Sea Ray”. It looks identical to the Meego-powered Nokia N9 in the outside, but it’s actually [...]