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Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company’s history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.
Nokia 701 Helen arrives at the FCC
08/09/2011, The Nokia RM-744, or as some might call it the Nokia 701 Helen, is actually the final handset from the new bunch of Symbian handsets to arrive at the FCC and pick up its approval in the process. This model [...]
Nokia To Terminate U.S Symbian Phone Business
08/09/2011, In an interview with AllthingsD, Chris Weber (President of Nokia USA) has said that Nokia will effectively end its Symbian line of products in the United States, to focus primarily on Windows Phone 7 (WP7) handset. For Nokia, this is [...]
Nokia N9 won’t be available in America at launch
08/09/2011, For those of you in the US waiting to get your hands on Nokia’s first (and last) MeeGo phone, the N9 – we’ve got some bad news for you. The folks over at Engadget recently got in touch with Nokia [...]
Angry Birds on Nokia N9 demonstration video
08/08/2011, If you were wondering whether you’d get to play with your favorite feathered friends and slingshot on Nokia’s upcoming MeeGo phone, you don’t have to worry anymore. The folks over at MeeGo Experts have shot a video showing Angry Birds [...]
Nokia N9 is eco friendly
08/07/2011, Nokia is known as for making the world’s greenest phones and is consistently making an effort to encourage recycling and environmental-friendly behavior, with publicity stints like the mobile phone man. Well, the Eco profile for its upcoming phone, the N9, [...]
Bounce It brings hours of bouncing fun to your Nokia phone
08/05/2011, Looking for a fresh new game to play on your Nokia Symbian phone? If you’re tired of playing complicated, story-driven games on and you’re looking for an alternative, simple minded game that you can pick up any time just to [...]
Android owns over 40% of US smartphone share
08/04/2011, Despite all the ongoing patent infringement litigations and lawsuits that are being served to Android OEMs recently, it looks like nothing can halt the sales of devices running the operating system. comScore has reported that Android is now on 40.1% [...]
Nokia N9 arrives in 49 days
08/04/2011, The Nokia N9 is being released in 49 days. Yes, it’s true. And if you’re wondering how I found out, a quick visit to the Nokia N9 Swedish website will tell you. In fact, at the time of writing, we [...]
Nokia suing Huaqin Telecom Technology over camera lens cover patent
08/04/2011, While patent infringement lawsuits aren’t new, the intensity and frequency seems to have increased in the past couple of years. Now it appears that Nokia is suing a Shanghai-based company, Huaqin Telecom Technology Co. Ltd, for apparently infringing upon on [...]
Nokia 500 not as fast as it seems to be on paper
08/01/2011, You know the ridiculous MHz race back in the early 1990s with all the 386 and 486 processors? Well, the same can also be said of cell phone processors, although not up to the extent of the 80×86 processor era. [...]
New Symbian Belle screenshots leaked
08/01/2011, Can’t wait to get your hands on Symbian Belle? We can’t help you in that department, but what we can do is whet your appetite for the operating system even more by showing you more pictures of it. The folks [...]
Nokia 500 launched
08/01/2011, Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia has not thrown in the towel just yet even though they are on the ropes, having lost their position in the worldwide smartphone hierarchy to Apple recently. Well, the latest device to roll out from their [...]
Apple is now officially the world’s number one smartphone manufacturer
07/29/2011, It is official – according to Electronista, who in turn got their report from Strategy Analytics (requires a subscription fee), Apple is the leading smartphone vendor in the world with 18.5% market share which was followed closely by Samsung who [...]