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Nokia is giving many Facebook users out there the chance to win themselves a Lumia 900. This should come to no ones surprise as both Nokia and Microsoft has pushed the hell out of this phone to gain mind share from consumers. The new competition is open from June 15 to June 29, and all…
Nokia has teamed up with The Dark Knight Rises movie to deliver a special edition back cover for the Lumia 710 Windows Phone handset with the movie logo on the back. It comes in the standard cyan, magenta, yellow, black, or white colors available with the regular Lumia 710. If you drop by a T-Mobile store,…
The Nokia 808 PureView smartphone is coming to the United States. It’s famous for having a 41MP camera sensor that snaps amazingly high quality photos and is sure to make photographers drool. Later this week, buyers will be able to pre-order the device on Amazon. It won’t be tied with any carrier or contracts so…
Finland is, without a question in my mind, one of the safest places in the world. When people told me to avoid the Kallio district of Helsinki because it was “rough”, the first thing I did was visit it to see what all the fuss was about. Sure, there were drunk people running around, and…
Ratings agency Moody dropped Nokia’s credit rating to junk, citing slow sales of Windows Phone and the company’s quickly-disapperaing cash reserves. Moody joins S&P and Fitch, both of which dropped their ratings on Nokia earlier this year. This low rating means institutional investors are less likely to buy Nokia bonds and reflects the company’s dismal financial…
Nokia released a few teaser images on its US Facebook page that contain the date, Monday, June 18th. This is the same day Microsoft is holding a tablet event and people started speculating that Nokia’s announcement is related to the Microsoft event. According to AllThingsD, the two announcements are not related. Sources told the blog…
The Symbian-based Nokia PureView 808 has been getting a lot of attention because Nokia touts that it has a 41MP camera. There was a lot of skepticism about this and whether it’s truely 41 megapixels, but now CNET Asia has a photo shootout between the PureView 808, Apple iPhone 4S, and HTC One X and we…
While we in the United States tend to think of Android in terms of the Galaxy S III and HTC One X superphones, the battle being fought in several other countries is over the low-end devices. In China, arguably the biggest mobile battleground in the world, low-end Android devices rule the roost, propelling Android to…
Nokia has just issued what’s quite possibly the most depressing press release we’ve ever seen from them. There’s a lot to digest, so let’s go slowly. Starting with the job cuts, Nokia says they plan on eliminating 10,000 positions by the end of 2013. The factory that’s in Salo, Finland will be shut down, that’s…
Those holding out a glimmer of hope that Nokia will hang on to Vertu should probably go ahead and give up. Nokia has been looking to offload its luxury phone unit since at least December, and Reuters confirms again this morning that Nokia is in talks with private equity group EQT to offload Vertu for around…