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Samsung sold slightly more smartphones in 2011 than Apple
Apple this past quarter shipped a whopping 37 million iPhones, setting a new quarterly record as iPhone sales grew 128% year over year. The achievement was enough for Apple to slightly edge out Samsung with respect to smartphone sales during the recent holiday quarter. A few days ago, Samsung reported shipping 36 million smartphones as [...]
Continue reading...Nokia shares fall on weak sales of Windows Phone 7 devices
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: To say the iPhone disrupted the smartphone industry would be an understatement of the highest order. While consumers lined up in droves to get Apple’s revolutionary smartphone, companies like Microsoft and Nokia were quick to scoff at Apple’s allegedly feeble attempt to get into the phone business. Not surprisingly, Microsoft and Nokia’s [...]
Continue reading...Nokia asks users to vote for Windows Phone 7 smartphone name
Saturday, September 3, 2011
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Last weekend, Nokia executive of developer marketing Chanse Arrington went on Twitter to ask for some crowd-sourcing help in naming the upcoming flagship Windows 7-based Nokia smartphone.
Continue reading...Apple now sells more iPhones than Nokia does smartphones
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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Nokia this week released their earnings for the second quarter of 2011 and things aren’t looking too good for the Finnish handset maker. During the quarter gone by, Nokia reported losses of 368 million euros (approximately $521 million), a figure far greater than the losses anticipated by analysts. And the scary thing is that Nokia’s [...]
Continue reading...Apple signs patent licensing agreement with Nokia; Settles all litigation
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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Nokia yesterday announced that Apple has signed a patent licensing agreement for Nokia technologies, effectively ending all pending litigation between the two companies. Nokia’s press release reads as follows: Apple payments to Nokia settle all litigation and have positive financial impact Nokia Corporation Stock exchange release June 14, 2011 at 08:05 (CET +1) Espoo, Finland [...]
Continue reading...Nokia gets a new font, “Nokia Pure”
Sunday, April 3, 2011
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Stop the presses! Nokia took some time out of their busy litigation schedule to design a new font.
Continue reading...Nokia takes on Apple’s entire product line in new ITC complaint
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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After losing an ITC decision to Apple last week with respect to 5 patents, Nokia regrouped and came back at Apple with a new ITC complaint, this time alleging that nearly every Apple product infringes on Nokia patents. From the iPhone to the iPod to the iPad and the Mac, Nokia alleges that these products [...]
Continue reading...Breaking down app store market share and revenue
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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Whether or not you believe Apple app store success is rooted in dumb luck or foresight, there’s no denying that Apple’s been on the vanguard of a mobile app industry that has quickly become a multi-billion dollar business. Following in Apple’s footsteps, competitors like Google, Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft have all released competing app stores [...]
Continue reading...What Google’s VIc Gundotra thinks about the Nokia/Microsoft partnership
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Here’s what Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra thinks about Nokia’s decision to hitch its wagon to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS. Two turkeys do not make an Eagle. Nice.
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt: Google would have loved Nokia to adopt Android
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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Microsoft and Nokia’s recent partnership created huge waves across the smartphone industry last week. With both Nokia and Microsoft struggling to hang onto whatever vestiges of relevancy they once boasted in the smartphone marketplace, the marriage between Redmond and Finland was one of necessity and we’ll see soon enough how the relationship pans out. But [...]
Continue reading...Nokia, Microsoft’s “puppet government”
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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With former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop in place as Nokia CEO and former Microsoft veteran Chris Weber recently christened as the President of Nokia US, Matt Drance hits the nail on the head. I have absolutely no qualms about calling this new regime at Nokia a puppet government. This is far and away the most [...]
Continue reading...Nokia uses iMovie audio loop to announce Microsoft partnership
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
You know what they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Hell, Apple fans have been saying that about Windows since back in the day. In the most recent incarnation of “flattery”, the audio loop in the video where Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced their strategic partnership is the [...]
Continue reading...Concept photos of a Nokia Windows Phone 7 device
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Nokia’s decision to abandon Symbian and strike up a partnership with Microsoft was a huge move that brings with it the potential to shakeup the entire smartphone industry. Of course, there’s also the possibility that the Nokia/Microsoft partnership will create more of a wimper than a bang, but hey, that’s the inherent joy in watching [...]
Continue reading...Backed into a corner, Nokia chooses Windows Phone 7
Friday, February 11, 2011
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Hot on the heels of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s lengthy letter detailing Nokia’s failed attempts to keep up with the staggering pace of smartphone innovation comes a huge coup for Microsoft. Abandoning Symbian and relegating MeeGoo to lord knows what, Nokia has thrown it’s full weight behind Microsoft’s next-gen mobile OS, Windows Phone 7. The [...]
Continue reading...Nokia CEO says company finds itself on a “burning platform”
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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There’s no denying that Nokia is in turmoil. Over the past few months, the Finnish handset maker has laid off hundreds of employees as the company continues to lose significant market share to the likes of Apple and an assortment of Android handsets. The root of Nokia’s woes, of course, is the simple fact that [...]
Continue reading...Android overtakes Nokia as the most popular smartphone platform in Q4 2010
Monday, January 31, 2011
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The research firm Canalys is reporting that Google’s Android platform is now more popular than Nokia’s Symbian platform, earning it the spot as the top smartphone platform on the market during the fourth quarter of 2010. During Q4 of 2010, Android handset sales came in at 33.3 million units while Nokia handset sales checked in [...]
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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