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I received the above invite from Nokia last night. Nokia is getting ready to announce something major. Stay tuned.
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 4/12/2010 10:20:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Nokia had 46.9 percent of the market with about 80.9 million sales, and Research in Motion had 19.9 percent with 34.3 million sales.
Cupertino-based Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) had about 14.4 percent of sales in the total mobile operating system market, Gartner said.
In 2008 Apple had 8.2 percent of the market with about 11.4 million units.
Apple sold a record 8.7 million iPhones in the last quarter alone, a growth rate of 100 percent over the year-ago quarter.
Another big gainer was Mountain View-based Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). Its Android moved up to 3.9 percent in 2009 from less than a 1 percent share in 2008.
Sunnyvale-based Palm Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) Web OS had 0.7 percent of the global market with about 1.2 million units sold."
Labels: blackberry, iphone, nokia, palm
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/23/2010 03:25:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Nokia continues to sell more smartphones than any of its rivals, but has lost ground as competition grows.
"We see ... really fierce competition certainly in the high end, but we also see it in the mid to low end of smartphones increasing," Jo Harlow, the new chief of Nokia's smartphone unit, said in a webcast on Thursday.
"We will defend our position, but we believe we also have tools to play offense as well as defense," said Harlow."
Labels: nokia, smartphone
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/04/2009 09:16:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
As a leading innovator in wireless communications, Nokia has created one of the strongest and broadest patent portfolios in the industry, investing more than EUR 40 billion in R&D during the last two decades. Much of this intellectual property, including the patents in suit, has been declared essential to industry standards. Nokia has already successfully entered into license agreements including these patents with approximately 40 companies, including virtually all the leading mobile device vendors, allowing the industry to benefit from Nokia's innovation.
The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.
"The basic principle in the mobile industry is that those companies who contribute in technology development to establish standards create intellectual property, which others then need to compensate for," said Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, Legal & Intellectual Property at Nokia. "Apple is also expected to follow this principle. By refusing to agree appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual property, Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's innovation."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/22/2009 12:02:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Shares of the Sunnyvale mobile device maker (NASDAQ:PALM) rose almost 14 percent on Monday to close at $15.95 a share. Palm rose strongly earlier this year after it introduced its Pre smart phone, hitting $16.80 a share on July 1 after drifting as low as $1.14 in December.
But its shares fell below $14 this month based on reports of sluggish sales of the Pre and a disappointing earnings report on Sept. 17.
The shares closed at $17.07 on Tuesday, up about 7 percent from Monday's close.
The rumor that Nokia might want to buy Palm sent its shares up 13 percent in Frankfurt before the U.S. market opened, despite skepticism from analysts there about such a deal." Via Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal .
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/22/2009 07:07:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Nokia has officially announced the Nokia N900. Nokia has promised "PC-like experience on a handset-sized device". The N900 will be available in October run on T-Mobile's network in the US. The N900 comes with some pretty impressive specs:
3.5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen
sliding QWERTY keyboard
32GB internal storage
GPS
TV out
Bluetooth
WiFi
5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
ARM Cortex-A8 processor
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/27/2009 09:31:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
The deal will be announced on a conference call tomorrow, said the person, who declined to be identified because the details are confidential. Intel scheduled the call for an “important announcement” with Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president of the company’s ultra-mobility group."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/23/2009 10:11:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
The kind folks @ Nokia sent me an AT&T Nokia E71X for review. This smartphone is available from AT&T for $99 when signing a new 2 year contract.
Inside the box you'll find:
Nokia E71X
1500 mAh battery
Wall charger
Data Cable
User Guide
Quick Start Guide
Stay tuned for a review.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/17/2009 10:13:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
I got invited to attend a Nokia E Series Event tonight at the Nokia Flagship Store in NYC. I met a bunch of really cool people in the tech world as well as some Nokia Corporate Employees who wanted to show off the Nokia E Series devices and get our input on them and future Nokia devices. Nokia also allowed us to break up into groups and design the ultimate Nokia phone and give a presentation on what it would be. It was great to work and feed off of great ideas to create the phone we wanted, what was even cooler is that Hugo Hernandez, Director of E Series Marketing for Nokia, and Chanse Arrington, Nokia Product Manager actually listened and took notes on our ideas. I have to give Nokia huge props to open themselves up, listen to our ideas, and let us constructively criticize some of their smartphones. It's very clear that Nokia is serious about getting more involved in the US market and they're listening to us.
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/16/2009 11:09:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/15/2009 10:22:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Nokia E72 builds on successful formula with slim dimensions and comprehensive messaging solutions
Swift, slim and resourceful are three words that accurately describe the new Nokia E72, which was unveiled at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today. Nokia's latest full QWERTY smartphone brings a rich mobile email and instant messaging experience right out of the box, making it the ideal device for people that want to be productive in both their personal and professional lives.
Building on the formula from the hugely successful Nokia E71, Nokia's best selling QWERTY device to date, this latest arrival in Nokia's Eseries family maintains essential elements of its predecessor, whilst still improving its capabilities in a number of areas. "Despite the outstanding market performance of the Nokia E71, we still continually look for ways to enhance the device," said Ilari Nurmi, Vice President at Nokia. "So we included the desktop like email experience from the Nokia E75 and gave it a new optical navigation key for more intuitive scrolling through menus, emails and fast panning of images. We also upgraded the camera to 5 megapixels and added a standard 3.5 mm audio jack."
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic touches all the right notes for music lovers
Nokia today introduced the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, a compact XpressMusic device that uses a touch interface for accessing people and content on the brilliantly clear homescreen. The 'scrolling' Contacts Bar provides direct access to 20 people and their latest conversations and media updates. The homescreen also features one touch shortcuts to content and popular social networks, like Facebook and MySpace. The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic follows in the footsteps of the top-rated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, expanding the touch XpressMusic phone range with a youthful device that has a solid stainless steel frame finish and comes in five vivid colors.
At the core of the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is the music and entertainment experience. It is an ideal device for those who wish to quickly and easily access, share and mix a huge selection of media. In true XpressMusic form, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is a great music player with 27 hours of playback time, excellent audio quality and a 4 GB memory card for storing music and other media. Videos, either self made or from social media sites such as Youtube and Facebook can be enjoyed on the brilliantly clear 2.9 inch widescreen display. New music can be purchased through the Nokia Music Store, either directly on the phone or through a PC. The music collection is easily managed and can be synchronized with the PC using the Nokia Music for PC application. Calls and music can be conveniently managed and listened to with the Nokia Stereo Headset WH-205 with tangle-free cable.
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/15/2009 08:41:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: blackberry, iphone, nokia
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 4/17/2009 12:00:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
I was wrong. WAY WAY WAY wrong.
Palm just did what Nokia and Microsoft and RIM couldn’t do: deliver a better experience than Steve Jobs did.
Anyway, the bottom line is Palm has a real winner here. It shows that you can never count a company out. Even one that looks like it’s already out of the game."
Labels: apple, blackberry, microsoft, nokia, palm, palm webos, pre
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 1/09/2009 10:34:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen - a true mobile computer
Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world's most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an 'always open' window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia's flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology - including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds - for people to create a personal Internet and share their 'social location.'
"From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence," said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. "Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet".
Sensing your 'So-Lo'
The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of 'social location'. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their 'status' and share their 'social location' as well as related pictures or videos.
Widescreen - Internet and entertainment
The home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing.
The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more. This is complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.
The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 12/02/2008 03:41:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
A picture is worth a thousand words, in this case "420" comes to mind in Britney Spears' "Womanizer" video...
Nokia announced their first touchscreen smartphone, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
* Three versions: Quad-band GSM with 850/1900 WCDMA, Quad-band GSM with 900/2100 WCDMA and Quad-band GSM with no 3G
* WiFi and GPS
* 3.2-inch touchscreen display, 640 x 360 pixels, 16 million colors, tactile feedback
* 1320 mAh battery (!)
* 3.2 megapixel camera with Zeiss optics, dual LED flash, 30 fps video capture
* Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0 (microUSB port)
* Stereo speakers
* Finger and stylus UI control
* New media bar interface, always accessible via a touch-sensitive button above the display
* Proximity sensor to save battery life and avoid inadvertent touches
* 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm, 109 g
* Available in black, red and blue
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will ship this quarter and cost about $392.00. Very nice price for an unlocked touchscreen smartphone.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/03/2008 07:15:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/03/2008 07:00:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Aude Lagorce reports for MarketWatch, "Nokia, which currently owns a 47.9% stake in the company, is buying out the shareholdings of Panasonic, Siemens AG and Ericsson. Nokia also expects Samsung to accept the offer."
"In recent years Symbian has faced rising competition from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile, Research in Motion and Apple, Inc., who are all making operating systems for complex phones that also work as organizers, e-mail devices and music players," Lagorce reports."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/24/2008 02:44:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
However, reports of Nokia using Windows Mobile are currently false, company chief Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said during the event. While not willing to rule out the prospect entirely, the executive had no announcements of the sort for Mobile World Congress and stated that the company "[doesn't] have plans to do Windows in mobile at the moment." Kallasvuo did not acknowledge Microsoft claims that the two firms were in talks for a partial switch in the future to the pocket Windows OS." Via Electronista .
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/11/2008 10:23:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
TabletBlog has posted a video walk through of the Garnet VM Beta running on a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/13/2007 11:05:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
It looks like the Nokia Internet Tablets will become more useful with the addition of being able to run the thousands of Palm OS applications available. ACCESS has released the Garnet VM Beta .
"Garnet VM enables Nokia Nseries users to run thousands of Garnet OS (formerly Palm OS®) applications. Garnet VM supports some of the most popular applications in the mobile market including, Google Maps™, Snappermail®, DateBk5 and perennially popular games like Bejeweled®, PacMan and Sudoku. Choose from a wide variety of application types including, document processors, database managers, messaging, enhanced PIMs, life management tools, and more."
This is a very cool development!
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/13/2007 10:56:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Even though Apple’s goal is to sell 10 million iPhone’s by the end of 2008, Nokia said the significance of the iPhone should not be underestimated.
Kallasvuo went on to say that Nokia will spend more on research to combat the threat from Apple and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry product line." Via Macworld .
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/18/2007 02:09:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Nokia is going full force with their "Open to Anything" campaign and it's clear who the message is aimed at. I wonder if we'll see "I'm a Nokia" ad similar to Apple's "I'm a Mac" touting Nokia's openness compared to Apple's iPhone;)
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/01/2007 10:58:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Nokia's "Open to anything" ad is a clear rip on Apple's closed iPhone. You can't blame Nokia for trying to capitalize on the iPhone's biggest shortcoming. Maybe this ad coupled with the slack Apple is taking for blocking 3rd party apps from the iPhone will make the Cupertino crew "open" up a little more. We can only hope...
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/30/2007 08:17:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: cell phones, culture, nokia
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/27/2007 10:47:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
According to Just Another Mobile Phone Blog , Sprint will offer a Nokia N800 with a WiMAX radio in it in 2008.
"Sprint will offer a Mobile WiMAX-enabled version of Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet to North American customers next year, LinuxDevices has learned. The new device will support Sprint's grand scheme of making WiMAX-based 4G wireless services available to over 100 million people during 2008."
"At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco this week, LinuxDevices spoke with Dr. Ari Jaaksi (photo at right), Nokia's director of open source. Asked if the combination of VoIP and Mobile WiMAX might cannibalize Nokia's mobile phone business, Jaaksi replied, "WiMAX could change the cellular landscape; however, it's a question of the maturity of the technology, and how it will be priced."
He added that he thought it important for Nokia to investigate new technologies, noting that "Linux is ideal for that."
Jaaksi said the WiMAX-enabled N800 would "most probably" include WiFi and Bluetooth as well. He felt that interference problems could be minimized, noting, "We had the same interference with Bluetooth and WiFi initially, but we solved that."
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/09/2007 05:37:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
The Boy Genius has posted an unboxing of the Nokia 8600.
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/23/2007 01:39:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
I saw this over @ The Boy Genius . It looks like Nokia will be releasing a special Godfather Edition N73 cell phone in honor of the 35th anniversary of the film. The phone will come with a 256 MB memory card that will have the original full-length movie on it. Do you really want to watch the Godfather on a phone?? If you're answer is yes, thank Nokia for making it happen:)
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¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 4/12/2007 10:09:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
"Citing unnamed sources, Unstrung is reporting that the bidding process of Palm has already begun, with Nokia up against at least one private equity firm."
This story is nothing new. It seems that Palm is being bought out on a weekly basis and nothing ever transpires. I doubt there's any truth to this, but stranger things have happened. Treos running Windows?? Stay tuned:)
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 3/01/2007 03:41:00 PM 0 comments links to this post
Labels: cell phones, nokia
¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/25/2007 12:46:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
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