Nokia chief Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said his company has "over invested" in R&D in the U.S. market, and instead will pursue an incremental strategy of expanding its portfolio in the market rather than looking for the silver bullet in the mid-priced handset range. The U.S. market represents less than 10 percent of Nokia’s annual global shipments,…
Archives for November 2006
Nokia predicts amount of mobile users in China to rise over to over half a billion in 07
Nokia is estimating mobile phone user numbers in China will pass the 500 mln mark in 2007. The Finnish-based firm said in a statement that it also sees the ratio of replacement buyers growing from around 60 pct of the total handset device market, to over 80 pct, by 2010. China is the world’s largest…
Q&A with Craig Coffey, VP, Marketing, Nokia
First question, is the best question: q: your business is both to market your brand and market others’ brands – talk a little about that a: not just communication vehicles, but useful for messaging word of mouth is a form of new media; magic happens when people talk about your brand to others. we identified…
Audio Interview: Nokia’s David Williams Unveils Key Components Of Music Services In The Pipeline
In William’s view, the device should be the entry-point to the user’s preferred music store and overall music experience. It’s all about on-device capacity. “So whether you want to search via artist, create playlists, or search by genre (and) also then connect to your selected music service -whether that be the operator’s (portal) or third…
Nokia says patent row to determine wireless future
Great article to get your blood boil, and I recommend you check it out, but this one liner really got my waving my fist in the air: It all adds up, and the result is that 3G W-CDMA mobile phones are more expensive than they could be. Estimates vary, but operators, vendors and analysts reckon…
Sun Microsystems Teams With Ericsson and Nokia to Form the ‘Telecommunications Platform Initiative’
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced a new global cooperation with Ericsson and Nokia that aims to unite the Network Equipment Provider (NEP) community and assist telecommunications operators and service providers. Coming together as the Telecommunications Platform Initiative, members are jointly developing the requirements for a standardized, integrated telecommunications technology platform to simplify technology integration by…
Nokia Shorts 06 Winning Video: ‘What’s the point?’
Katie Taylor trained as a dancer & choreographer at both Bretton Hall & The Laban Centre. Apart from running her own dance company – XS, she has choreographed plays at the RSC, Watermill, & Royal Exchange, Manchester Theatres (where she is about to return to choreograph dance numbers in their forthcoming production of The Vortex…
Canola videos straight from the developers; What the Nokia 770 should have been
I love videos like this. In the first video you have a simple demonstration of the theme system and what happens when you swap media. The second video really is a show off of the audio playback features of Canola. The last, and most important video, is a developer just walking around and introducing the…
How To: Use your Nokia E61 as a bluetooth modem with T-Mobile in Windows XP
I can’t thank my Nona Maas enough. Earlier today I posted a request for some assistance. I couldn’t get my bluetooth enabled laptop to use my Nokia E61 as a modem. Well low and behold I finally cracked it! I’m posting this guide so that anyone in the future can figure it out.
Canola media player for Nokia 770 released
The Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia in Brazil today released the first beta of the Canola media player for Nokia’s Linux-based 770 and forthcoming "870" Internet tablets. Canola can index and render local and network-based music, video, and photos; play Internet radio; and deliver podcasts and photocasts. Source: Linux Devices While I would have to play…