One of the first 8 megapixel smartphones was released today in Canada by Nokia on the Rogers Wireless network. The Nokia N86 features a cool 8 megapixel camera with 8 gigabytes of on board memory for you to use for videos, music photos and more.
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Nokia has issued a recall for two types of charges for their cellphones. The plastic cover may come off and pose an electrical shock to the user, no reported incidents have been reported, but Nokia is playing is safe and is offering a free exchange program. The affected AC -3U and AC-3E chargers are manufactured by the company “BYD” between June 15, 2009 and August 9, 2009. AC-4U chargers are also affected, made “BYD” between April 13, 2009 and October 25, 2009.

For more information on how check your Nokia cellphone charger if it affected and to exchange it, visit http://chargerexchange.nokia.com/chargerexchange/en/?cp=BAC-supportcampaignnov&page=wayfinder-global

Nokia and Rogers has sent word that the Nokia Surge has arrived in Canada. You can now easily text, e-mail, IM and surf with the cool slide out keyboard on the Nokia Surge.

Texting-happy Canadians can now rejoice with the arrival of the Nokia Surge, available exclusively at Rogers Wireless. Nokia is pleased to announce the launch of its newest quick messaging phone in Canada, which allows users to keep in touch and in style whether using instant messaging, text or email, sending multimedia messages, OVI Share, or updating their favourite social media networks.

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It’s strange really. Sometimes the best adverts come from the internet. Such as this one from Nokia called The-Unloader.
The basic idea behind it is that you upload a document, then in a Dilbertesque way, the doc gets printed and sent along a production line to be destroyed, ruining the point of printing the document out in the first place. And it’s quite fun, actually.

Why does this advert exist? Because Nokia are trying to sell their office-centric Eseries phones to those that constantly have boring meetings, including the E63, E75 and the E71, which I now own (expect a long-term review of it in a few months).

Does the advert work? Well, yes, except that I only found it by accident whilst looking up information about my new phone, which is a shame as more people should see it. It’s quite a nice bit of Rube Goldberg mechanics, as you can see After The Jump…

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Nokia (They make phones, apparently…) have paid a stupid amount of money (254m Euros, £209m, $410m or 4 Esso Tiger Tokens) for Symbian. They already owned almost half of it already, but they went ahead to get the rest of it. What will they end up doing with the newly bought entity? Why, create an Open Source platform for phones. Where have I heard of that before…

The foundation will bring together Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone in collaboration on a new, royalty-free open software platform for mobile phones.

[From BBC NEWS | Business | Nokia in full buy-out of Symbian]

Open-Source platform? For mobile phones? Supposedly groundbreaking? No matter how you look at it, this looks and smells like an attempt to beat Google’s Android, even if Kai Oistamo (Exec-VP at Nokia) says it isn’t.

OTT comment of the day:

“We’re freeing up innovation – this is epoch-making.”
Nigel Clifford (Symbian)

No it’s not. Interesting? Yes. Epoch-making? Not even close.