Nokia officially confirmed that its imaging behemoth, the Pureview 808 will be hitting retail stores in May in Russia and India. The device boasts of a large, high-resolution 41 megapixel sensor with Carl Zeiss optics. The Nokia 808 PureView also includes full HD 1080p video recording and playback with 4X lossless zoom. The Finnish vendor claims … Continue reading
Though it may seem to be a move out of desperation, it may just be the right one especially taking corporate situations at both Nokia and Siemens into consideration. There JV-tale started back in 2007 and has since hit rough waters. It was further jolted by the recession which witnessed stalling of most of the … Continue reading
Threatened by competitors gobbling up the market share in India, Nokia is planning to aggressively launch 40 cell phone models — 12 of them smartphones — in 2011. “We will be launching 40 models in 2011 of which at least 30% would be smartphones,” a Nokia executive close to the development told. It is learnt … Continue reading
Microsoft will pay Nokia more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the terms. Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used in its phones, costs that will be offset as Nokia curtails its own … Continue reading
Predictably, many of the speeches at Mobile World Congress have been a response to the Nokia-Microsoft alliance. Intel and Google CEOs were disappointed, for obvious reasons, though putting on a gracious front; almost every firm that is threatened by Google and Apple welcomed the news, while Nokia itself talked of its adoption of WP7 being … Continue reading
It’s happened. Former Microsoft exec and current Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has married his future and his past in the holy matrimony of a “strategic alliance.” Windows Phone is becoming Nokia’s “principal smartphone strategy,” but there’s a lot more to this hookup — scope out the official press release just after the break. Microsoft’s Bing … Continue reading
Telecom equipment vendor Nokia Siemens Networks announced the launch of its Smart WLAN Connectivity Solution that can offload mobile broadband traffic to Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) without any break in service. The new solution can provide faster data connections and preserve the mobile network capacity. Smart WLAN Connectivity eliminates the need to manually switch a device’s data … Continue reading
Malware targeting mobile devices rose 46% in 2010, according to the latest quarterly threat report from security firm McAfee. The key finding of the report is that the significant increase in mobile malware throughout the last quarter of 2010 is expected to continue throughout 2011. Researchers found that while Nokia’s Symbian operating system is still the … Continue reading
