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So wait…who’s suing who?
If you’re like any of us here at TalkAndroid you’re probably a little confused about who’s suing who. Nokia’s suing Apple, who’s being sued by Kodak, who also sued LG, who was also sued by Nokia, and it’s just a giant mess. Well, if you’re one of those visual learner types have we got the news for you. Matt Brian decided a little while ago that he would make a chart to show you who is suing who. It’s not as messy as you think (he’s pretty good). It’s great if you want a better understanding on what is exactly going on in the Judicial World of Android. Hit the break to see it.
Nokia Oro for that Midas touch look
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Nokia X7 set to rock and roll
Nokia’s market share when it comes to cell phones and smartphones might be declining at an alarming rate (the huge war over the smartphone arena has certainly heated up, with so many players entering the fray, and nobody giving Symbian any love), but that doesn’t mean the Finnish cell phone manufacturer is throwing in the towel. No sir, in fact, they have just announced their every intention of staying till the end with the Nokia X7′s announcement.
Nokia X3 Touch and Type ready to rock the phone scene
Nokia, the Finnish cellphone manufacturer, is back with a new cellphone which will cater to the entry-level range. We’re talking about the super slim Nokia X3 Touch and Type, where it will come with a touchscreen display as well as a traditional 12 button phone keypad. While touchscreen displays tend to make an appearance in the higher end range of handsets, this one is an entry-level model. Touted to be Nokia’s first ‘Touch and Type’ phone, the Nokia X3 enables users to tap quickly on the bright color touchscreen display without losing out on the familiarity of the full keypad for quick fire text messages and phone calls. Expect the Nokia X3 to hit the market sometime in the third quarter of the year, where it will retail for around 125 Euros sans taxes and subsidies.
Nokia 5230′s Successor Leaked: The Budget Busting Nokia 5250
With recent news that Finnish phone manufacturer, Nokia have seen a decline in their overall sales, it was reported that surprisingly their handset sales are still going strong and on the increase.
One of the reasons for Nokia’s increase in handset sales could be down to the fact that they have been releasing a lot of cheap handsets for the more budget-conscious among us. The next in this line of their potentially well priced handsets is looking to be the newly leaked Nokia 5250 (shown … [visit site to read more]
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6 Free Nokia Music Apps From Ovi Store: Shazam, Spotfiy and More
When mobile phone’s became common place 15 years ago, Nokia, was king, everyone was playing Snakes, and everyone had a 5110 with a funky looking cover, ten years later and the Finnish company is still trying to find its feet with new fangled smart phones from America … [visit site to read more]
Apple Removes References to Competitor Smartphones Experiencing the Antenna ‘Grip of Death’ Issue
As we reported recently, after their iPhone 4 press conference Apple dragged other smartphone manufactures such as Research in Motion, HTC, and Samsung into the antenna fiasco when they claimed that ‘grip of death’ issue was an industry wide problem.
Following the press conference, Apple put an antenna performance page on its website to demonstrate how a number of other handsets … [visit site to read more]
Nokia quarterly profits drop 40 percent year-on-year as CEO says speculation must end ‘one way or another’
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was already a man in a hot seat and these latest numbers will do little to lower the temperature. Nokia’s net profit for Q2 2010 was €221 million, which most companies would be happy with were it not for the fact that this company pulled in €380 million in the same quarter last year — and that’s with 2009, as Nokia’s own report indicates, representing an economically tougher environment. Average selling prices for Nokia handsets used to be €64 back then, which dipped to €62 in the first quarter of this year, and is now at €61. Nokia says this has been caused by price pressures, “particularly in certain high-end smartphones,” and though the change may appear small, a Euro’s difference tends to be amplified when you’re shifting upwards of 111 million units each trimester. For his part, OPK has said that the speculation about him being replaced isn’t doing Nokia any good and he’s determined that it “must be brought to an end one way or another.” Guess we better keep an eye on this one then. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple shows Nokia’s N97 Mini can be force choked, too (video)
Nokia claims it always prioritizes antenna performance over physical design, and we’ll take them at their word, but that apparently didn’t exempt one Espoo handset from Apple’s grip of doom. Here’s the Nokia N97 Mini going down for the count, from a full seven bars to two. Of course, Apple doesn’t mention whether calls or data drop when the handset’s held this way. Video after the break.
Nokia looking for new CEO to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, says WSJ
It doesn’t come as a complete surprise, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting (care of “people familiar with the matter”) that the search is on for a new Nokia CEO to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Investor confidence and falling stock prices are to blame as the company has had — and we’re being nice here — great difficulty competing in the smartphone market against the likes of Apple and Google. Espoo isn’t commenting on the matter (yet), but we’ll keep you up to date. Better start updating that resume now, dear reader. Read the rest of this entry »
Nokia Kinetic concept offers some ideas Nokia might want to heed
Nokia: We Prioritize Antenna Over Aesthetics
Steve Jobs had his time on stage today, and in the process, managed to not only clarify Apple’s position on “antennagate,” but also call out the entire smartphone industry at the same time. All in a day’s work, if you ask us. In any event, while we weren’t expecting major manufacturers to actually respond to the Apple press conference today (we probably should have), here we are telling you that Nokia has their own opinion on Jobs’ comments. And, sure enough, they’re full of Nokia innovation.
Nokia: ‘we prioritize antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict’
Nokia’s looking to ride the mojo of any negative fallout from today’s Apple press conference, slipping out a rather fascinating statement this afternoon. The gist of it is that Espoo’s keen on letting everyone know how much blood, sweat, and tears they’ve poured into perfecting their antenna design strategy over the years, going so far as to say that they “prioritize” it over the physical design of the phone if they need to in order to optimize its call performance — an opinion moderately different from the “we want to have our cake and eat it too” philosophy espoused by Jobs today. In closing, Nokia acknowledges that a “tight grip” can mess with the performance, though they say they’ve done a bunch of research on the ways their phones are typically held so that the antennas are placed optimally. Interestingly, there was a stink not long ago about the severe signal degradation some E71 users were seeing when they placed their hands on the lower rear of the phone — but you can’t win ‘em all, we suppose. Follow the break for the full statement. Read the rest of this entry »
Verizon DROID, DEVOUR and Tour 9630 all axed?
A Verizon leak has tipped various smartphones as reaching end-of-life status, including the Motorola DROID and its less-endearing sibling the Motorola DEVOUR. Droid Forums received a screenshot from an internal Verizon message, tipping the two Android handsets as expected to see “limited or no remaining shipments from the vendor”, together with the Nokia 7705 Twist and the BlackBerry Tour 9630.
Nokia C6-01 turns up in Netherlands
Nokia has been peddling the C6 mobile phone for a while now in its white form factor with a 5MP camera. A new updated version of the venerable C6 has surfaced in the Netherlands dubbed the C6-01. The new C6-01 looks very similar in design, but is slightly different and has new features.
VW Passat takes the red pill, jacks into Nokia’s Terminal Mode (video)
We’ve seen flashy concepts of what Nokia’s seamless cellular infotainment initiative might look like, but it took a pair of Germans from Volkswagen to give us our first glimpse of Terminal Mode in action. At MobileBeat 2010, engineers showed off the video after the break, which shows how a prototype VW Passat might be rigged — in this case duplicating the phone’s display in its entirety (plus additional controls) on the auto’s larger touchscreen. Sadly, VW said the tech’s still a couple years away from commercial integration into vehicles, though they expect to see third parties selling Terminal Mode add-on kits and the like a bit sooner.
Gartner: Symbian is ‘re-arranging the deck chairs,’ losing buoyancy fast
We all know that Symbian is still holding the fort as the globe’s most widely used mobile OS, but anyone interested in criticizing it nowadays will have to get into a queue. Nick Jones from Gartner is latest to launch a broadside against the apparently complacent market leader, opining that its user experience has been surpassed by iOS and Android, and arguing that future iterations do not promise enough innovation to make the platform stand out. He underpins these observations with his firm’s latest estimates, which indicate Symbian’s decline in share is accelerating, before positing the idea that the Foundation sets aside some talent for skunkworks projects in order to give itself fallback options should Symbian^4 not be blindingly marvelous. Nick might be going a little overboard with the bleakness of his outlook, but there’s no questioning his “Android iceberg” analogy — if Symbian doesn’t find the right course soon, Google might well end up collecting a big chunk of its exasperated users. Read the rest of this entry »
Symbian Losing Market Share While Competitors Continue to Climb
In today’s world, everyone has their favorite whatever. Whether it’s video game console, beer manufacturer, or mobile Operating System, there’s always reasons why (and why not) you should pick one over the other. For Symbian, the OS made famous by Nokia, it looks like that time in the limelight is starting to decline, and at an accelerated rate. That is, if Nick Jones of Gartner is to be believed.
Nokia accused of “a witch hunt” against Murtazin
The Nokia/mobile-review controversy continues, with Russian journalist Eldar Murtazin making an official statement on what he describes as “a witch hunt” designed to discredit him. After finding last week that Nokia had called in the Russian authorities to retrieve any prototype devices from Murtazin, something which Nokia then claimed was in response to ignored official requests for their return, the mobile-review editor now says that he never actually had an N8 in his possession; in actual fact, he merely spent periodic hands-on time with someone else’s prototype. Therefore, he insists, there’s nothing left to hand over.
Nokia N8 photo skills demonstrated: do they make up for S^3?
While controversy continues over the Nokia N8’s Symbian^3 OS, one thing most people can agree on is that the smartphone’s 12-megapixel camera is possibly the best so-far on a mobile device. We grabbed a couple of test shots in our recent hands-on with the N8, but Nokia Conversations has a full gallery of unedited pictures from the phone.
T-Mobile roadmap leaks out, plenty of Android in store
For starters, there’s no actual way to confirm that the image you’re peering at above is legitimate, but given that the listed Charm just went official, there’s at least a sliver of believability here. So far as we can tell, this is T-Mobile USA’s 2H 2010 handset roadmap, and as you’d expect, it’s chock full of Android. Aside from news of impending Dell netbooks and 16 total phones, we’re paying particular attention to the upcoming Samsung Vibrant (locked for July 21st), the HTC Vanguard (set for September 9th) and an HTC Schubert (pegged for November 17th). We’re guessing that the latter is that 1.5GHz ‘Scorpion’ that we heard about back in June, and we’ll obviously dispose of quite a few tears should that not be the case. In related news, it looks as if the myTouch 3G, Cliq and Cliq XT could be seeing their long-awaited updates to Android 2.1 this August, so there’s that. Hit the links below for more, and feel free to let your imagination run wild in comments below. But not too wild. Read the rest of this entry »
HTC, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Blackberry & Samsung Phone Release Dates for 2nd Half of 2010
So far, 2010 had been a good year for the new product launches and according to tech website Omio, the latter half is also expected to be equally exciting. So, the latest scoop is about a slew of new gizmos hitting the British market later this year. These devices are likely to range from new Nokia phones to snazzy Android devices, with a Windows Phone … [visit site to read more]
Nokia: We asked nicely for the leaked N8 back, but Murtazin refused
Nokia has given us an official comment on the report that they have enlisted the help of Russian authorities to take mobile-review to task, and it seems the Finns weren’t so much upset with what was mentioned in the N8 preview but with the fact that Eldar Murtazin wouldn’t give them the prototype handset back. ”Several weeks back” Nokia told us “we formally requested the return of all unauthorized Nokia property from Mr. Murtazin and he declined to respond.”
Nokia take N8 leaker to task (but “does not send thugs”)
With his track record of leaks and occasionally scathing previews, we can’t imagine mobile-review’s Eldar Murtazin is the most popular guy at Nokia; still, we’re surprised all the same that the Finnish company apparently approached the Russian Interior Ministry hoping to take him to task over allegedly stealing trade secrets. Murtazin says that his Nokia N8 coverage touched a raw nerve; though the ministry official did ask where mobile-review’s servers were physically located, for the moment the site is still online.
HTC Gold with Windows Phone 7 in November, and more from a rumored UK roadmap leak
O, to see what Omio sees. The outlet has obtained what it claims to be “a huge UK mobile phone release schedule for the rest of the year… [from] all the manufacturers” (emphasis its own). So, from where would such an all-encompassing roadmap hail? We don’t know, nor can we corroborate any of this, but the details are numerous so let’s go through it — albeit with cautious optimism and a few grains of salt. The biggest phone we can see of this baker’s dozen of a lineup is the HTC Gold (sound familiar?), due in November and loaded with Microsoft’s mobile OS newcomer Windows Phone 7. Unfortunately, that’s all the information provided, but it’s certainly enough to entice us. Also in November, we’ve got Samsung i8700 and Nokia E7 — the latter being possibly a N8-esque QWERTY slider with AMOLED display and Symbian^3, and the former being a mystery (although Omio takes a gander that its aquatic Greek mythology might suggest a Bada-powered existence).
Nokia E7, Samsung i8700 Cetus, HTC Gold and Ace all dated in UK cellphone roadmap leak
Salt-cellars at the ready, but online phone comparison site Omio reckons they’ve got the scoop on some key UK handsets set to debut in the second half of 2010. Billed as freshly leaked from an unspecified UK retailer, the roadmap contains such gems as the HTC Vision and hitherto-unheard-of HTC Ace arriving alongside the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 in October, while November will see HTC’s first Windows Phone 7 device together with the QWERTY-blessed Nokia E7 and Samsung i8700 Cetus.
Nokia to sell modem business to Renesas Electronics
Nokia has announced that it has sold its modem business to Renesas Electronics. The two companies will also form a strategic alliance for the continued development of modem technology. Renesas will acquire Nokia’s HSPA, GSM and LTE modem business.
Nokia to sell modem business to Renesas Electronics
Nokia has announced that it has sold its modem business to Renesas Electronics. The two companies will also form a strategic alliance for the continued development of modem technology. Renesas will acquire Nokia’s HSPA, GSM and LTE modem business.
Nokia sells wireless modem business to Renesas in bid to refocus
Nokia just announced a $200M-ish deal to sell its wireless modem business to Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corporation. The deal is part of a broader alliance to develop HSPA+ and LTE modem technologies while working together to research future radio technologies. Per the agreement, Nokia will transfer its wireless modem technologies for LTE, HSPA and GSM standards, “certain” related patents (interesting in light of the Apple lawsuits), and about 1,100 Nokia R&D staff to Renesas, the majority of whom are located in Finland, India, the UK, and Denmark — assuming regulatory approval of course, something the two expect to receive by the end of the year. Why now? Well, according to Kai Oistamo, Executive Vice President at Nokia, “The alliance enables us to continue to focus on our own core businesses, connecting people to what matters to them with our mobile products and solutions.” Sounds like somebody’s slimming down in preparation for a fight.
Mystery Nokia slider shows off proto-Symbian^3 one last time, commits cellular suicide (video)
We never did quite get the name of Nokia’s prototype slider — it certainly isn’t the C7, and it’s apparently not the N9 — but regardless of what you call our dearly departed, its journey is over. In what will no doubt be a fairly familiar tale to readers everywhere, TechnoBuffalo saw the phone remotely wiped right before their eyes, and Negri Electronics (our original source) says they’ve got private investigators breathing down their necks for the device. Stalwart to the bitter end, RM-626 gave one last performance before it dropped. See the 4-inch handset play an embedded YouTube video after the break if you must, but be sure to stop at the 5:45 mark. For true phone lovers, the rest is too painful to watch.
