Nokia News
Nokia is the largest handset vendor in the world, but has been losing market share as it is squeezed at one end by smartphone specialists like Apple, and at the other by ultra-low cost cellphone makers, especially from China. The Finnish firm has adopted some radical moves in 2011 to try to reverse the decline in its share, which had peaked around 40%. These included sidelining its own operating systems, Symbian and MeeGo, and embracing Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 instead. Its first WP7 devices will appear in late 2011 but in the meantime the firm has a difficult transition period to endure. It has embarked on a cost cutting program, and is relying on its strengths in emerging markets to see it through, with phones running Symbian or Series 40, the low end platform. Nokia has been divesting non-handset businesses, notably its wireless infrastructure arm, which it placed in a joint venture with Siemens, and its modem unit, sold to Renesas. It has moved away from its traditional Finnish executive profile and appointed a North American CEO, Stephen Elop, from Microsoft.
Nokia debuts new 'smart featurephone' platform
Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop recently faced shareholder calls to reverse the firm's operating system strategy and abandon Windows Phone. He refused, but Nokia's other mobile software platform is far less ...
- Nokia in services deal with Bharti
- Nokia suffers second Indian sales drop in a row
- Nokia packs new memory chips into Asha
- Nearby brings Nokia's maps power to featurephones
- Nokia's featurephone gets touch and new browser
Microsoft and Nokia converge in screen size
19 April, 2013
Windows giant's CFO almost confirms rumors of a 7-inch Surface, while Nokia said to be readying a WP8 phablet
Nokia aims to bring PureView to WP8
16 April, 2013
Finnish firm's upcoming flagship, Eos, reported to include its 41-megapixel camera technology and four-core processor
Nokia in services deal with Bharti
4 April, 2013
Indian giant will sell Nokia web services and browser in its African territories to boost services revenues
Nokia risks missing large-screen boat
2 April, 2013
Having spotted clamshells and touchscreens too late, Finnish firm's latest problem lies in devices of 5-inches or above
Nokia transfers memory patents to holding firm
26 March, 2013
Finnish giant places 125 patents, 81 of them claiming to be standards-essential, in new unit of Helsinki-based Pendrell
Nokia shows Instagram some love
8 March, 2013
Steps up the efforts to get the app onto Windows Phone
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