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Nokia CEO Stephen Elop caused a bit of a stir when he tossed an iPhone during a recent interview on Finnish TV. Elop was talking about Nokia’s upcoming lineup of phones that will land in the company’s home country when the interviewer pulled out his iPhone. Elop took care of that problem with the quick flick of his…
Wild predictions are being made about the future of 4G speed by CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks Hossein Moiin. He thinks that by 2020, significant advancements will be made to the technology that will allow for speeds to become 1,000 times faster than they are today while costing as little as $1 per gigabyte, which…
Windows Phone 8 is going dual-core, according to a report from The Verge. Qualcomm indicated that the Windows Phone development team is currently testing its Snapdragon S4 system on a chip in a device to be released later this year. As you may recall, Windows Phone 8 “Apollo” is rumored to add support for multi-core…
Microsoft has taken to its blog to detail the upcoming Tango update, which is largely believed to be a minor update to the Windows 7.5 Mango platform currently available on Windows Phone devices. Tango is the platform that will be preloaded on Nokia’s recently announced entry-level Lumia 610 and ZTE Orbit devices, which are due…
We held a Lumia 710 giveaway this week with Valentine’s Day as its theme. Whether you were with a loved one this year, or you were forever alone like every other year, we thought we’d highlight some of your best submissions in this follow-up article. The first photo we’re highlighting is the winning submission from…
Nokia announced its partnership with Microsoft way back in February 2011, a move that would let the Finnish handset maker focus exclusively on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. It took a while for Nokia to develop devices for Windows Phone 7; their first Windows Phone handsets hit store shelves during the 4th quarter of 2011.…
[Update: A winner has been chosen and an email has been sent to them. As soon as they reply back, this contest will be over.] [Update: The winner has replied and this contest is officially over. I’ll be working on the follow-up article showcasing some of your submissions today. Keep an eye out for it…
No one doubted the Nokia Lumia 800 would be one of the most popular Windows Phone handsets on the market and recent sales numbers in the Netherlands and France are proving that theory to be correct. KPN, the largest mobile carrier in the Netherlands, is now boasting that the Nokia Lumia 800 is its best…
Last week we reported the devastating news that Nokia Siemens Networks was going to dump 17,000 employees or roughly 23% of the company in order to focus on wireless networks and trying to stay alive. Several days later we found a leaked memo detailing which business units were going to stay, and which were going…
Nokia Siemens Networks has just announced that they plan to fire 17,000 people by the end of 2013; that’s 23% of their workforce according to Bloomberg. “These planned reductions are regrettable but necessary,” says Rajeev Suri, the CEO of NSN. The goal is to cut $1.3 billion in annual expenses and to put a laser…