When we first copped the Nokia E7 QWERTY smartphone back in September, we were blown away. It’s one of the most beautiful, astoundingly designed phones we’ve ever seen. You’d have thought then, that today’s news that it’s up for pre-order in the UK at long last would be cause for celebration. The thing is, with Nokia dumping Symbian for Windows Phone 7, is there any point investing in it any more? You tell us, right here.


Ilari Nurmi is Vice President of Nokia Eseries. He’s a powerful man in the mobile world, selling business phones by the million every year. But he’s not impressed by recent moves to foist tablets on employees. Are slate computers the future of mobile business? Are they ‘eck, he told us this week.
Happy Friday to you all! We’re about to kick off another round of breaking tech news today, but before we do, catch up with everything you missed overnight, here in our techie breakie news roundup.


