Not sure how we missed it, but Nokia has apparently showcased a brand new Symbian UI during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. From the image above, we clearly see the improvements that include a smaller status bar, better widgets which are no longer confined to their small rectangular enclosure and new buttons at the…
Nokia C7 available for €299 at Amazon Germany, £299 at Amazon UK
Although it’s a mid-range smartphone by today’s standards, Nokia C7 is quite an expensive device with above 300 EUR/USD price tag. The price has finally dropped and interested users can now grab it for 299 EUR from Amazon Germany or for 299 GBP from Amazon UK. The latter still keeps the Symbian touchscreen smartphone in…
Android Market YoY Growth Hits 861%, iPhone App Store Still Tops
IHS has just published some research on much revenue was made through the Android Market, iPhone App Store, Nokia Ovi Store, and BlackBerry App World in 2010. Predictably, the iPhone App Store is still the king of the hill with $1.7 billion in revenue, but they’ve lost some market share since 2009 (82% vs. 92%).…
RBS Analyst: Nokia will own 6.4% of the smartphone market in 2013, stock price will be 53% lower [Sell]
RBS analyst Didier Scemama is recommending that people with Nokia stock should just get rid of it. Now. He says that at one point he thought the stock price would hit 10 Euros, but now it’s more likely to reach 5.80 Euros. In a “base case” scenario the Nokia of 2013 will have 11% of…
Nokia’s new CEO finally owns some actual Nokia stock [1 million EUR worth]
Typically when one is the head of a multi national multi billion dollar corporation, one owns shares in said firm. Stephen Elop, until just last week, didn’t own any Nokia shares. Legally he wasn’t allowed to since the deal with Microsoft to make Windows Phone Nokia’s main smartphone operating system, a deal he orchestrated, had…
Nokia: Our dumb phones can now do Foursquare … if you’re into that sort of stuff
Of all the social networks that have come and gone since I first dialed into the internet during the early 1990s, the one that makes the least sense to me is Foursquare. The premise is simple enough. You go to a location, whip out your mobile phone, and then it uses either GPS or cell…
Nokia to push out cheap Windows Phone handsets quickly
Speaking during a meeting with Finnish business journalists, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the handset maker would produce inexpensive Windows Phone handsets quickly. The ability to produce smartphones with a very low price point was reportedly on of the key factors in selecting Microsoft as a partner for the future of the Finnish company’s mobile…
T-Mobile USA launches Nokia X2-01 QWERTY feature phone
Just as we expected, T-Mobile USA has picked up the Nokia X2-01 and is offering it to its prepay customers for $79.99. That money buys you a lot, requiring no contract signing from potential customers. Aside from boasting a full QWERTY keyboard, the X2-01 also comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, Nokia’s Series 40 UI,…
Some Nokia C7 and N8 units come with defective screens?
It’s no secret Nokia has seen better days. Not only it is rapidly losing share in the higher-end of the market, but now some of their better phones, namely C7 and N8, are having problems with a growing number of users reporting appearance of a red-purple color tint in the darker areas of the screen.…
Nokia enticing developers with free E7 and Windows Phone 7 device
Ever since Nokia announced that it would be adopting the Windows Phone 7 platform, questions, speculation and comments on the news have flooded the web. Rumors that employees were upset enough to walk out the day of the announcement was shocking – though some say Nokia employees were given the rest of the day off…