Nokia’s highly anticipated N8 handset has started shipping and is expected to arrive in East Africa with the next few weeks. However, market availability will vary by country and operator, with broad availability in the coming weeks. Ken Oyolla, General Manager for Nokia East and Southern Africa said “With the

Nokia today announced the launch of a new range of mobile applications and content tailored for Kenyans during the Holy Month of Ramadan set to start next week. The new range of Ramadan applications 2010, an updated set of mobile applications are tailored for the Holy Month, are available on

Starting yesterday, Nokia is increasing the opportunity and lowering barriers to entry by supporting individual developers, reducing investment costs and providing cross-platform app development for Symbian and Maemo devices with the Qt SDK 1.0. Following the new Forum Nokia developer mantra of “Design, Develop and Distribute”, several developer-related announcements are