January 22nd, 2009
Nokia (NYSE:NOK) Thursday lowered its forecast for mobile phone demand in 2009 after posting a 69 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit.According to Nokia, the world’s largest handset maker, it expects a 10 percent slip in industry sales this year compared with last, prompting it to lower its forecast for the first time in seven years. [...]
January 21st, 2009
The mobile-phone market is moving away from mid-tier handsets as the global economic slump prompts some consumers to trade down to cheaper devices and operators feed demand for high-end phones by promoting them with subsidies.
Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest mobile-phone maker, is selling entry-level devices costing less than $50 and advanced phones with satellite navigation [...]
December 3rd, 2008
In a side interview at the Nokia World Conference, Ukko Lappalainen, vice president of Nokia’s markets unit, told Reuters, “In the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones.” He further elaborated upon Nokia’s endorsement of Linux by saying “I don’t see anything in Android which would make it better than [...]
November 24th, 2008
The cell phone manufacturing giant is hoping to boost its miniscule market share in Japan with a high-end mobile phone service.
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is the world’s largest handset maker, but it holds less than 1% of the Japanese market. In order to address this, the cell phone manufacturing giant is planning to launch its [...]
November 24th, 2008
Nokia has officially released in Hong Kong an action-ready Nokia N96 Bruce Lee edition, which will knock you off with exclusive accessories and back panel imprint of the legendary martial arts master Bruce Lee.
While the specifications of the Nokia N96 remain the same, the bundle includes several stylish accessories as a Bruce Lee doll, a [...]
November 13th, 2008
PORTLAND, Ore.—In 2004, Nokia Corp. created a concept design for a smart phone dominated by a touch screen which looks today uncannily like Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
In 2008, Nokia (Helsinki, Finland) repeated the exercise, presenting a concept design of the “morph” mobile phone of 2012. If the predictions ring as true as they did in 2004, [...]
November 7th, 2008
UC Berkeley has been working on using cellphones to track traffic for some time now, first under the the decidedly less expansive Mobile Century project, and now under its new Mobile Millennium project, which has the backing of Nokia, NAVTEQ, and others. It actually first kicked off earlier this year, but it looks like it’s [...]