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Nokia and Microsoft announced a massive partnership today that would put the Windows Phone operating system into the hands of the world’s biggest handset manufacturer. This is big news with ramifications for both tech giants, as well as the cellular ecosystem as a whole, and leaves a lot of questions. Is Windows Phone mature enough…
Nokia announced that it is appointing Chris Weber to President of Nokia Inc. (US) and Head of Markets, North America. Chris Weber is a former Microsoft Executive who spent 16 years with the Redmond company heading up US enterprise sales and marketing. He will bring his sales and marketing experience as well as his Microsoft…
Nokia India used Twitter to announce that the Nokia C3-01 will be available for purchase later this quarter. In other words, it should hit Nokia dealers across the country by March. Announced in September 2010, the Nokia C3-01 is a slim (11mm thin) touchscreen-equipped Series 40 feature phone with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, 3G and…
Texting is a phenomenon that for one reason or another took a while for Americans to adopt, but once they did … man, you’ve got teenage girls sending and receiving over 100 texts a day on average and no one says a thing because that’s considered normal. People who do type that many short sentences…
Several days ago it was reported that Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, published an internal memo that summarized Nokia’s current position in the market and how the Finnish firm was “standing on a platform”. The platform Elop was alluding to was the story of a man who worked on an oil rig and how we…
We’re barely two months into 2011 and Ukko Lappalainen, Vice President at Nokia, is saying that the recently available E7 “will have the biggest impact on our sales of any handset in 2011”. Let that soak in for a moment. Nokia is essentially saying that a device they announced back in September 2010, 5 months…
It was back in November 2010 when Nokia officially announced the X2-01 alongside the C2-01. At that point it was pretty obvious that baby will sell like hot cupcakes in the emerging markets of the world, where people rely heavily on SMS and would appreciate X2-01’s QWERTY keyboard. And it has just hit India, where…
Regardless of which OS has been taking the lead within the smartphone sales, be it Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Symbian, or webOS, a recent study by IDC has shown that the smartphone market is booming. Global smartphone saless over the course of 2010 rose 74% from 2009, totaling 302.6 million. In Q4 2010 alone,…
Thanks to Twitter user @Sheridan01 I just got about 20 minutes of hands on time with Nokia’s latest superphone, the E7. I’ve never seen the device in person before, so with that in mind here are some first impressions: for a device with a 4 inch screen, it’s surprisingly small. It fits in the hand…
Rumors are circulating around the internet that Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, who has been on the job since September 2010 is going to fire four of the Finnish firm’s high level executives in a bid to get rid of dead weight and put the company back on track. The executives in question are: Mary…