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Yesterday one of my friends posted an image on Facebook of one of Nokia’s offices here in Finland. What made said image striking was that the Nokia logo that was once on the building had been removed. The Ruoholahti office, from what I remember back in my Nokia days, was where the Linux people worked.…
It seems some Lumia 900 devices have been infected with a case of the Wonkas. As you probably recall from the movie, Violet Beauregarde chewed a piece of experimental blueberry gum, then whimsically ballooned into a bright blue blueberry balloon. Some Lumia 900 devices must have been given the tour of the chocolate factory as…
Jorma Ollila (pictured above, orange tie) isn’t a name that’s familiar to most folks, but it should be. He was Nokia’s CEO between 1992 and 2006, otherwise known as the years when a small Finnish company known for making cables transformed itself into the world’s largest mobile phone maker. Over the weekend he gave an…
Nokia is under scrutiny from its investors who are concerned that the Finnish company is not turning things around fast enough with Windows Phone. One investor, Robert Chmielinski, is so fed up that he filed a class action lawsuit against the company in US District Court in New York. Not surprisingly, Nokia denies the allegations that it misled investors with Windows Phone and…
Nokia’s decision to go with Windows Phone has resulted in the company’s stock price tanking, their cash on hand to dwindle, their market share to collapse, and investors have frankly had enough of putting up with Stephen Elop’s bullshit. Yesterday a class action lawsuit was filed in New York that … well, just read what…
Jorma Ollila (pictured above, right) has been with Nokia for 27 years and many Finnish people say he’s the guy that put the country on the map. His decision to transition the company from making cables to making mobile phones made Nokia into the world’s largest handset company. They lost that title in Q1 2012…
Nokia has just announced via a press release that it is taking multiple legal actions to protect patents it feels are violated by HTC, RIM, and Viewsonic. In the US, the Finnish handset maker has filed a complaint to the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against HTC, as well as patent infringement lawsuits against HTC…
Nokia has officially announced that its super-powerful camera phone 808 PureView will start rolling out in select markets later this month. Among the first markets to get this amazing piece of technology are Russia and India, with Europe and parts of Asia most likely getting it next. Since its launch in February, the Nokia 808…
Nokia Lumia 710 is already available in Canada through Rogers Wireless, which is selling the Windows Phone for $29.99 on a three-year contract. Now two additional carriers are planning to join the party – WIND Mobile and Mobilicity. The first of the two lists Nokia’s baby at its “hottest phones” page saying that it’s coming…
We have three data points regarding Nokia’s Windows Phone sales. One, the Lumia 800 went on sale on November 15, 2011. Two, on January 26, 2012, the Finnish handset maker said it has sold “over a million Lumia units to date.” Three, Nokia announced that they sold over 2 million Lumia devices in Q1 2012.…