Nokia 9 and its five rear cameras appear in new video leak

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It appears that Nokia really is making a phone with five rear cameras. 

The Nokia 9 PureView, as it’s allegedly called, got leaked twice on Monday: as a promotional video, courtesy of MySmartPrice, and as a still (possibly from the same video), posted by reliable leaker of all things mobile, @evleaks

Nokia 9 PureView “Beholder.” HNY pic.twitter.com/x4Kh3anP46

— Evan Blass (@evleaks) December 31, 2018

We’ve seen allegedly leaked pictures of the Nokia 9 before, but the video (below) reveals several of the phone’s features.  Read more…

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The top smartphone trends to watch in 2019

This was a bad year for the smartphone. For the first time, its seemingly unstoppable growth began to slow. Things started off on a bad note in February, when Gartner recorded its first year-over-year decline since it began tracking the category. Not even the mighty Apple was immune from the trend. Last week, stocks took […]

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Withings returns from the dead with Steel HR Sport watch

Any time a smaller company is gobbled up by a larger one, you assume the worse. In the case of Nokia buying Withings, that’s more or less what happened. First Nokia launched a handful of products under its own name and ultimately dropped the French health hardware company altogether. Four months ago, one of Withings’ […]

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What every startup founder should know about exits

The dream of a startup founder can often be summarized by the following well-intentioned, and mostly delusional, quote: “We’ll raise a few rounds and in a few years we’ll IPO on Nasdaq.”

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Get the unlocked Nokia 2 smartphone on sale for $20 off thanks to Amazon Prime Day

If you find yourself in need of a new phone, you don’t have to spend $800 on a new Galaxy or iPhone for something reliable. Nokia have plenty of options available on Amazon if you want to buy a smartphone without needing to mortgage your house first….

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Celebrate the Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin summit with this beautiful gold engraved Nokia phone

Oh, glorious day. Our Planet Earth’s two most supreme leaders, the honorable Vladimir Putin and “strong like ox” Donald J. Trump, will meet in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. It is day sure to go down in history, and now, YOU can celebrate it with gold No…

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Light is building a smartphone with five to nine cameras

Light, the company behind the wild L16 camera, is building a smartphone equipped with multiple cameras. According to The Washington Post, the company is prototyping a smartphone with five to nine cameras that’s capable of capturing a 64 megapixel shot. The entire package is not much thicker than an iPhone X, the Post reports. The additional […]

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HMD raises $100 million to bring even more Nokia phones to market

HMD Global has been one of the mobile world’s biggest surprise hits in recent years. Founded by former Nokia execs, the Finnish company has made a name for itself reviving the dearly departed brand on Android smartphones to great effect. And it just managed to raise another $100 million, led by Ginko Ventures’ Alpha Ginko […]

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All the cool phones I wanted from 2000s rap videos

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This post is part of Mashable’s You’re Old Week. Break through the haze of nostalgia with us and see what holds up, what disappoints, and what got better with time.

It feels like ages ago, but there was a time when some phones carried a certain cachet.

Now with the plethora of barely indistinguishable iPhones and Android devices, there isn’t much novelty in phones anymore — aside from the recent spate of Nokia throwbacks and that weird curved screen phase.

But during the 2000’s, phones like the Sidekick were essentially a fashion accessory, akin to rocking a nice pair of sneakers or a swish new bag, and sneakily embedded into popular hip-hop videos of that era. Read more…

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