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Topics: Hardware , Software , Apple With all of the furor around the gigantic patent lawsuit that Apple dropped on HTC this week , you might be forgiven for forgetting about the first big patent smackdown of the year, the lawsuit that Nokia laid at Apple’s door . But a judge in Delaware hasn’t — he ordered a suspension to both the case and its countersuit while the International Trade Commission works out the complaints between the two companies. Clearly Nokia and Apple have it out for one another, but apparently they’re going to take it one step at a time. Once the ITC has completed its probe, which was scheduled…

Perhaps the biggest surprise I’ve come across in some time is the Nokia 6350 cell phone.  It doesn’t look like much on the outside, but once you spend a little time with it and discover what’s waiting for you in there, you’ll discover that this thing is like a little solution to most any problem you have that can be solved by a mobile phone. The Nokia 6350 is a flip phone that boasts a two inch display, a battery that yields as much as twenty five hours and twenty minutes of activity depending on what you do with it…

Skype for Symbian has gotten out of beta and appeared in Nokia’s Ovi Store today, enabling users of Nokia’s Symbian-based smartphones to make free voice calls over 3G or WiFi connection. Besides free Skype to Skype voice calls, the app enables you to send and receive instant messages, share pictures, video and other files, receive calls to your online number, and import names and numbers from your phone’s address book. The app works on following Nokia models: Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia 5530 and the following non-touch devices: Nokia E72, Nokia E71, Nokia E90, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E51, Nokia N96, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8Gb, Nokia…

Skype for Symbian . A freely downloadable application that allows you to converse with your Skype-equipped friends over a WiFi or 3G connection. Seriously, why would you ever make another cellular call again? Nokia’s just announced the addition of the online communications client to its Ovi Store , meaning that now more than 200 million users worldwide have access to essentially free calls over their beloved Symbian S60 5th handsets. You knew there was a reason to stay loyal to that stale user experience and here it is. There’s not much else to say here, we’re off to sell whatever stock we have in mobile network operators while you should …

Maybe it’s the lack of a banging soundtrack , but we’re finding ourselves somewhat underwhelmed by these first video appearances by the highly anticipated Symbian^4 user interface. What we’re shown is a now familiar layout for touchscreen devices, with a trio of home screens that can be customized with widgets and live information trinkets such as a clock and a weather app. It is, as promised , very touch-centric, but it is by no means revolutionary. Both videos are titled as mere “first glimpse” offerings, however, so the eternal optimist in us likes to believe that there’ll be plenty more to get excited about as …

It looks like Nokia may have overlooked something as far as the Nokia N900 handsets are concerned with reported charger ports coming loose whenever the charger cable is disconnected. It seems the charger cables are too tight and Nokia UK is acknowledging the issue. The good news is that it only concerns a “limited” number of devices. But to make sure, it would be best to contact the customer care people in case you are experiencing the same issue. The Nokia N900 is distributed in the UK by O2, Vodafone and Orange. Read Related Posts Today on MobileWhack.com Nokia N900 Defective Charger Ports Discovered Palm Pixi Plus Selling for only $80 “24: Jack Baue… Nokia N900 Rover Available for Pre-order in Germany and Italy German and Italian …

Even if the N900 isn’t quite ready for mass market appeal, that doesn’t mean that it’s not the perfect device for many of the Engadget elite. With impressive power and out-of-the-box hackability , this QWERTY handset is a tinkerers dream. In fact, Tomasz Sterna has already recompiled the kernel to add joystick (and mouse) support. He then pieced together enough code to turn the N900 into a portable Sixaxis gaming console that brings SNES gaming to any TV. Fire up the N900’s Bluetooth, then kick back and immerse yourself in a land of 16-bit dinosaurs and chubby Italian plumbers — good times. See the finished product after the break. Continue reading N900 gains PS3 Sixaxis control over SNES gaming (video) N900 gains PS3 Sixaxis control over SNES …

You’ve made a PS3 controller out of a Nokia N900 , but all you really want is to use a Sixaxis controller to play emulated games on the device. Thanks to these instructions, now you finally can. [ Aberration ]

We’re generally reluctant to cover purely promotional stunts like these , but when you decide to jack up a house-sized arrow on a crane and hang it next to London’s Thames river, well, exceptions can be made . Nokia’s big push to inform the world that Ovi Maps is free — now and forever — has culminated in the above sign, whose most appealing feature must be that it allows commoners like you and us to control it. People can send in a missive and coordinates via text or email, and then watch as the giant pointer rotates to the given direction and displays their wisdom to the world. See it in action after the break. Continue reading Nokia mounts huge Ovi Maps signpost on a crane in London (video) Nokia mounts …

Since it looks like GT5’s still another decade or two away from release, racing gamers need everything they can to survive the wait, and this is just about the most creative way we’ve seen to do that. At a glance, Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing looks like a pretty simple, standard 2D racer with an overhead view, but its secret sauce lies in the map: it can turn pretty much any street in the world into a racecourse. The game lets you chart out your heated battle using nothing more than Ovi Maps data and your finger, meaning Manhattan, Prague, or your folks’ quiet, peaceful neighborhood are all potential targets for your high-speed bedlam. Seems like a great…