I’m not sure whether we should thank the iPhone 3G launch or it’s just a natural thing to see the pricing going down, but boy, Nokia N810 is now available for $299 at CompUSA! That amount will buy the full QWERTY-keyboard equipped, Linux-powered portable computer which you can bring with you, wherever you go. Plus,…
Nokia posts Q2 2008 profit increase, takes 40% market share
There’s no doubt that Nokia is the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. Even in the face of an uncertain financial sector and declining global handset demand, Nokia has managed to increase their net profits in Q2 2008 compared to the year-ago period. With €1.474 billion in second quarter net profits, compared to €1.393…
Nokia completes acquisition of Plazes
This was fast. About three weeks ago we wrote about it and now it’s completed. I’m talking about Nokia acquiring Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. According to the official release, by acquiring Plazes, Nokia will be able to “extend its context-based service offering with social presence…
Nokia Q2 2008 Results: 122 million devices shipped, 10 million of those are Nseries
Nokia’s Q2 2007 results are out in this PDF for you to comb over, here are some highlights: “Our mobile device average selling price (ASP) in the second quarter 2008 was EUR 74, down from EUR 90 in the second quarter 2007 and down from EUR 79 in the first quarter 2008. The lower year…
Symbian extends collaboration offer to Google, possibly Android
Symbian’s buy-out by Nokia, by far the largest handset manufacturer to rely on the Symbian smartphone mobile operating system, paves the way for an open-source Symbian environment that will hopefully spark a new wave of Symbian-based mobile platforms. With Symbian’s code destined to be opened up by the Symbian Foundation for all to use, the…
China Mobile spends big with NSN
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has said it won network infrastructure orders worth $865m from China Mobile in the first half of this year. Interestingly, this announcement comes not long after Alcaltel-Lucent (AlcaLu) announced a $1bn win from the same Operator! Of course, the market for the infrastructure vendors now is quite hard, with falling…
Nokia N78 get some more update love
That is, as long as you’re not using the Nokia N78-3. The Nokia N78 has just been hit with another firmware update from Espoo. While those of us with the North American (NAM) version of Nokia’s candybar (monoblock) N-series will just have wait and hope that Nokia sees fit to bless us with an update,…
Nokia Chat ushers Nokia users in to location-based social networking
With the iPhone and iPhone 3G already rocking more than a handful of location-based mobile social networking applications and services, it makes sense that Nokia is looking to throw their hat in to the ring and offer their own location-aware social network. Nokia Chat opens up a world of mobile social networking that incorporates positional-data…
Goldstriker does the Nokia E71
Don’t know about you but I love the Nokia E71. As a matter of fact I think it’s the best Symbian S60 device. That QWERTY keyboard is ultra-useful and if you don’t need a 5 megapixel camera on your mobile phone, the E71 is the way to go. Otherwise, if you need a better camera…
Video (really long): Nokia’s CTO Bob Iannucci on Open Innovation, Nokia’s Philosophy and the future of mobile
Open innovation and Nokia Philosophy, Dr. Bob Iannucci, CTO of Nokia and Head of Nokia Research Center. from DevilsRejection on Vimeo. If you’ve seen Bob talk before you know his famous “I’ve seen this movie before” story that he tells about how any industry starts as one giant cluster fuck, slowly the number of players…