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Dreams of a gold-plated Lumia 900 with sapphire accents running Windows Phone 8 are gone for good. Reports from The Financial Times this morning show that the Finnish handset maker is selling its luxury Vertu unit, which handmade some of the world’s most expensive phones at around €250,000 a piece. Unnamed sources suggest that Nokia is…
The short-term outlook for Nokia is getting dimmer by the minute. Nearly two months after downgrading Nokia’s stock to BBB-, Standard and Poor’s has cut the stock outlook again, this time all the way down to junk status. S&P is the second firm to rate Nokia’s stock to junk status, with Fitch giving Nokia the…
The bean counters at Strategy Analytics have done their due diligence, poured their data into a spreadsheet, and have come to the unsurprising conclusion that Nokia simply isn’t what it used to be. Having shipped just 82.7 million handsets in Q1 2012, Samsung’s estimated 93+ million handsets mean that the South Korean handset vendor has,…
Lee Williams was the Senior Vice President of S60 Software between August 2006 and January 2009. During that 30 month time span we saw what was arguably Nokia’s greatest creation, the N95, and on the other side of the coin the company’s worst smartphone to ever be sold, the N97. So what does Lee think…
Nokia and Samsung has been hard at work capturing the minds of consumers with its cutting edge design. Well, both companies just grabbed themselves an award for its attention to detail. An organization named Technical Image Press Association (TIPA), who’s main forte is photography and imaging, handed out two awards to the OEMs. The first…
Nokia apparently can’t make the Lumia 900 fast enough. What does that mean? We’re going to have to wait until July, when the Finnish handset maker posts their Q2 2012 financial results, to know how many units they actually sold. Anyway, the question on everyone’s mind after the Lumia 900 started shipping in the United…
Fitch Ratings, one of the handful of companies that people pay attention to when it comes to investment advice, has downgraded Nokia’s credit rating to junk status. What does this mean? When Nokia wants to borrow money to do things like build a factory or make a large order from a component supplier, the interest…
Jamie Townsend, an analyst with Town Hall Investment Research, has issued a report that says the Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T is selling at a run rate of about 1 million units for Q2 2012. What exactly does that mean? Jamie is basically saying that if the Lumia 900 keeps on selling at the same…
Just about every iPhone and every Android device currently on the market supports a nifty little feature whereby the phone will act as a wireless hotspot that any normal WiFi enabled device can use to access the internet. Need to check something out on your iPad, download a new book on your Kindle, upload a…
YouTube user foxfire235 posted a unique video online pitting the iPhone 4S, HTC One X, and Nokia Lumia 900 against each other to determine which phone has the best display. You might expect the iPhone’s retina display or even the One X’s large high-res display to take the cake, but you’d be wrong. The Nokia…