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Retaking lead from Google and Apple is an obsession for Nokia executive

Published on: 7th July, 2010

Anssi Vanjoki, the new head of Nokia’s Mobile Solutions, is committed to renew efforts to improve the standing of the company in smartphones. He admitted that Nokia had lost the technical lead but also that he was preoccupied to bring the company to the top place again. He mentioned some directions like higher quality, to [...]

Nokia intends to change Ovi Store application rules to resuscitate interest

Published on: 27th June, 2010

Nokia has reformulated some of the rules and software in order to revive developer interest for the Ovi Store. The Finnish company is finally reacting with a long awaited move and now lets individuals, besides companies, to register as Ovi Publishers. It is also possible now for developers to have their applications signed for free, [...]

The iPhone hurts Nokia and grows to 18 percent of the European market of smartphones

Published on: 27th June, 2010

Recent data from comScore show Apple ranked second in the European market of smartphones in a period shorter than three years. The company has grown to 18 percent of the core European countries, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain, starting from scratch. It has maintained Microsoft at 13 percent, Research in Motion at [...]

Nokia’s rating to be downgraded by Standard & Poor?

Published on: 25th June, 2010

Standard & Poor has dropped its outlook regarding Nokia’s credit rating to “negative” instead of “stable”, considering the expected poor results the Finnish company would have. S&P warned that the core phone business had to remake its profitability over the incoming six months to avoid its credit rating to be downgraded for the next twelve [...]

Nokia N8 – the last Symbian-powered Nseries

Published on: 25th June, 2010

Nokia has recently presented the company’s new flagship N8 smartphone, at an Australian event which took place on June 23. Nokia’s spokespeople seem to have declared that this will be the last Nseries smartphone based on the company’s platform, Symbian. They also said that MeeGo will be the platform to accompany all future Nokia [...]

Nokia to make a 9-inch tablet ARM-based and with MeeGo OS

Published on: 25th June, 2010

The rumoured table of Nokia are revealed by an analyst note. The tablet is supposed to use MeeGo, the mobile operating system designed in collaboration with Intel. It will be equipped with an ARM processor instead of the Atom Z600 which is preferred by Intel. According to Digitimes Research mentioned in the note, it would [...]

Companies from Korea overtake Motorola on the United States market

Published on: 11th June, 2010

Samsung and LG have ended Motorola’s reign as a top-selling brand on the US phone market. Motorola’s loss is slight, but big enough to place it third with 21.6 percent. Meanwhile, Samsung grew enough to reach the first place with 22.1 percent. LG is ranked second at 21.8 percent.
The influence of Research in Motion has [...]

Nokia and Yahoo allied to fight Apple and Google

Published on: 29th May, 2010

An expected alliance was formed including Nokia and Yahoo to allow them completing each other’s services. Thus, as a part of this deal, Nokia will provide all mapping and navigating services needed by Yahoo through Ovi Maps, while Yahoo will power both Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat.
The two companies are also planning to unify their [...]

Very few of phone users download music from stores on their phones

Published on: 22nd May, 2010

Direct downloads are only a small part of the music loaded on phones, according to a comScore study. Although around 24 percent of all phones are used by their owners to play music, but only two percent of them obtained the music from stores found on the respective phones. The other 22 percent of the [...]

Harman and Nokia to develop a standard for phone-to-car connections

Published on: 19th May, 2010

Harman and Nokia have announced they were developing a standard for data transmission between a smartphone and an info or entertainment system of a car. Data, media and GPS information would be sent to the car and the car system would in turn send information back. For example, a phone could search and find the [...]

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