Helsinki: Nokia struck back at Google on Friday over its accusation that the cellphone maker was colluding with Microsoft to make money out of their patents. "Though we have not yet seen the complaint, Google's suggestion that Nokia and Microsoft are colluding on intellectual property rights is wrong," Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant said on Friday. "Both companies have their own intellectual property rights portfolios and strategies and operate independently." He...
10:12 AM, Jun 02, 2012
San Francisco: Google lashed out at Microsoft and Nokia in a regulatory complaint, accusing them of illegally feeding mobile patents to a technology troll scavenging for billions of dollars in licensing fees that threaten to drive up the prices of cellphones and other wireless devices. The claims were spelled out Thursday in a complaint filed with the European Commission, the chief regulator on that continent. Google Inc. also shared the...
12:42 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Nokia will soon be announcing its new range of Pureview and Lumia series of handsets but that's not all Nokia is working on at the moment. The Finnish handset giant is working on the implementation of the Superhydrophobic technology that is known to repel water with its handsets. With the use of this technology, Nokia aims at making the future handsets including Lumia and Pureview smartphones waterproof. While...
12:59 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Recently, there were reports floating in the market that the Nokia 808 PureView would be priced at Rs 29,999, which were later snubbed by Nokia calling it to be a dummy price, and not the actual price. But now, we have the price. An online retailer "buytheprice.com" has started taking pre-orders for the Nokia 808 Pureview for Rs 32,000 (Rs 33,999 being the MRP). However, it is not...
03:06 PM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: Samsung's mobile phone sales have reached 86.6 million units, a 25.9 per cent increase from last year, as it took back the world's number one smartphone position from Apple, selling 38 million units worldwide, research firm Gartner announced on Wednesday. The Korean major dethrew Nokia which could sell only 83.2 million units in the first quarter, a 22.7 per cent drop. "Smartphone sales are becoming of paramount importance at...
09:07 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Apple has tweaked the Siri application of iPhone 4S, after facing an embarrassing moment when the virtual assistant app reportedly termed the Nokia Lumia 900 as the best smartphone in the world. Last week, The Next Web reported Apple's Siri terming Nokia Lumia 900 as an answer to the question - What is the best smartphone ever? But now if the users ask same question, Siri responds -...
03:18 PM, May 16, 2012
Helsinki: Nokia launched two low-end cellphones on Tuesday, aiming to regain its footing in emerging markets. The Nokia 110 model will be sold for 35 euros and will start shipping in the second quarter. The 112 model will be sold for 38 euros from the third quarter, the Finnish phone maker said. The company has been losing market share not just in high-end smartphones but also in cheaper, basic phones...
04:42 PM, May 15, 2012
Helsinki: Google's Android smartphone software stretched its market lead in early 2012, helped by new models from handset makers like Samsung and HTC and piling the pressure on rivals like Research In Motion and Nokia. Research from Kantar WorldPanel on Tuesday showed Android gaining share strongly in most of seven major markets - Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States - in the 12 weeks to mid...
04:21 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Of late, numerous reports, pointing to the price mentioned in the "source code" of Nokia's 808 PureView page, are doing the rounds, which speculate that the soon to be launched 41-megapixel Nokia 808 PureView smartphone will be priced at Rs 29,999 in India. But, the company rebuffs such reports, and claims it to be a dummy price, and not the actual price. "We outsource certain chores, and for...
09:13 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung has just announced its entry level Windows Phone operating system based smartphone. The phone is likely to compete with soon to be launched Nokia Lumia 610 with same pricing of close to Rs 11,000. However, Omnia M is better than in Nokia Lumia 610 in terms of specification. While Nokia 610 has an 800 MHz processor coupled with 256 MB RAM and a 3.7-inch screen, Omnia M...
10:32 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Siri, Siri on the wall, Which smartphone is the best ever? Wait for it... Nokia Lumia 900! That's right, if you ask Apple's speech recognition software, Siri, which is the best smartphone ever made, the software betrays its maker Apple and answers Nokia Lumia 900, the Windows Phone device. Siri's answers are based on search results from Wolfram Alpha, which gets its own information from user reviews. The...
11:00 AM, May 13, 2012
The Nokia Asha 303 is a budget range mobile phone that comes with a touchscreen and a Qwerty keyboard. This smartphone is currently available in the retail market at various Nokia Priority partners, third party resellers and online retailers. Here's our comprehensive account of the Nokia Asha 303: Design and feel At first instance, Asha 303 appears to be a kin of the X2-01. Nokia has given the best of...
10:45 AM, May 13, 2012
Mumbai: Nokia India announced partnerships with Bharti Airtel and Vodafone to offer solutions from Nokia Store to customers of these two telecom operators. "This will enable purchase of Nokia Store applications through an operator billing process. This would also offer significant monetisation opportunities to developers and galvanise local content development," Vodafone India's chief commercial officer Sanjoy Mukerji said. Vodafone and Airtel consumers can now download local and global paid content...
11:44 AM, May 10, 2012
London: Addressing Nokia Oyj employees in January 2011, Chief Executive Stephen Elop - at that point only four months into the job - dramatised the company's predicament by comparing it to standing on a burning platform. Nearly a year and a half on, and with Nokia's Lumia mobile phone range failing so far to revive sales, its position still looks frail. Its shares have lost 90 percent in five years...
04:22 PM, May 06, 2012
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