Dec 21, 2011 5:00 PM
Some pretty damning early statistics out today for Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and the Lumia 800: according to a new survey, in the month of November, the device accounted for only 0.17 percent of smartphone sales in the UK, and looks set to only double that market share…
Posted In: Marketing, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Samsung, Countries, Europe, UK, mobilesplease, symbian
Dec 9, 2011 4:45 AM
Everyone knows that Nokia’s Symbian always had little take-up in the U.S.. But, once upon a time, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) could count on a large user base in China. Those days are over, according to Enfodesk and Analysys International…
Posted In: Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Nokia, Countries, Asia, China, symbian
Nov 22, 2011 5:54 AM
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ…
Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Entertainment, Games, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Browsers, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Google, Android, T-Mobile, Countries, Asia, China, alibaba, app store, baidu, getjar, java, symbian, tencent
Oct 28, 2011 4:40 AM
Samsung’s competitive threat to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the smartphone space—being played out not only among consumers but in the courtrooms, too—looks like it has taken on a new reality. According to new figures from Strategy Analytics, the Korean handset maker in Q3 became the world’s…
Posted In: Legal, Patents, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Samsung, Countries, Asia, Korea, strategy analytics, symbian
Sep 30, 2011 9:12 AM
Another loose end being tied up by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today. The company announced that Accenture has now fully taken over Symbian, the operating system that Nokia had developed, owned and been using as the basis of its smartphones for years—a strategy that changed in February this year when it…
Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, EC, Companies, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, accenture, symbian
Sep 8, 2011 11:26 AM
No, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) have not picked up the pace on releasing the first Nokia/Microsoft smartphone, which is only due towards the end of this year. But in a first for Microsoft, Nokia will be adding Microsoft content to Nokia’s existing Symbian OS, including popular Microsoft…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Companies, Microsoft, Nokia, microsoft word, symbian, symbian belle
Aug 24, 2011 7:52 AM
Symbian may be getting put to one side in markets like the U.S., but it is alive and well in Asia. Only three months since announcing its update to Symbian called Anna, and just one day after making that available for download, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) laid on an event in…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, Bluetooth, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Countries, Asia, China, anna, symbian, symbian anna, symbian belle
Aug 23, 2011 11:25 AM
Not sure whether you should draw too many serious conclusions from the following bit of research, but it does reveal some significant divides between men and women when it comes to smartphones and how they get used for marketing and advertising. The bottom line? Men appear to be more responsive…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Features, Infographic, Marketing, Mobile, Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, inneractive, symbian
Aug 18, 2011 6:24 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is taking some big steps to streamlining how it presents itself to the market—for example, cutting down the number of countries where it is officially launching its MeeGo handset, the N9 (axing some big Nokia markets like the UK); and reducing sales channels for new devices in…
Posted In: Mobile, Companies, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Countries, accenture, symbian, symbian anna
Aug 18, 2011 3:54 AM
A look at some of the top stories in mobile today: » Motorola/Microsoft: Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility gets a setback in a patent infringement case being brought against it by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). (via Florian Mueller)
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Legal, Patents, Privacy, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, France Telecom, Orange, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Starbucks, Countries, Europe, Spain, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Asia, Korea, jumptap, symbian
Aug 9, 2011 2:22 PM
Call this streamlining of the highest order. The beleaguered handset maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is setting itself up for what it hopes will be a lean and mean relaunch in the U.S. later this year: it has finally admitted that it will not launch its newest N9 device—the first and…
Posted In: Mobile, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, T-Mobile, Countries, , stephen elop, symbian
Jun 22, 2011 12:52 PM
Just one day after announcing a dozen new phones running the once-proud Symbian mobile operating system, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has finalized an agreement to dump the creaky OS on management consulting firm Accenture. First announced back in April, the agreement will provide Symbian smartphone makers and developers with the cold…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Mobile, Companies, Nokia, accenture, symbian
Jun 21, 2011 4:47 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is going hell for leather to get out its first devices built on Windows Phone 7 before consumers—and investors—start to go too cold on the idea. Or is it? Today during the Nokia Connection strategy day, held this year in Singapore, if you didn’t know any better,…
Posted In: Apps, Mobile, Social Media, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, RIM, Countries, Asia, China, meego, n9, symbian
May 31, 2011 8:32 AM
We all know about Nokia’s trials and tribulations in the smartphone market today—the declining sales that have led its CEO Stephen Elop to describe its situation as being on a “burning platform” and its radical decision to adopt the Windows Phone OS from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to turn things around.…
Posted In: Money, Earnings, Companies, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Countries, Europe, Asia, China, symbian
May 16, 2011 5:39 AM
We reported last week that this would happen, and frankly you could have guessed as much, but now it’s been made official: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today outlined how it planned to slowly drop its Ovi mobile content brand, in favor of Nokia branding, in the lead-up to a new set…
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, Microsoft, Bing, Windows Phone, Nokia, Verizon, Countries, Asia, China, ovi, symbian
Apr 12, 2011 3:58 AM
Last week, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) promised some Symbian news, and today we have it: the company is today is launching its E6 and X7 devices, running on the new version of Symbian, called “Anna,” and has also come out with some updated stats on its app store, Ovi. There’s also…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Companies, AT&T, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Countries, Europe, UK, symbian
Apr 6, 2011 7:37 AM
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) schedules a Symbian event; some forecasts on mobile entertainment revenues; and question marks over how well Motorola’s new Xoom and Atrix devices are selling.
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Mobile, Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Motorola, Nokia, juniper research, symbian
Mar 9, 2011 6:24 AM
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Symbian; Foursquare gets an update; and a new iPad “social magazine” launches to compete with Flipboard: Zite.
Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Social Media, Events, SXSW, Companies, Apple, iPad, CBS, CBS Interactive, Last.fm, Google, Android, Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, BlackBerry, Twitter, 7digital, foursquare, playbook, symbian, zite
Feb 8, 2011 6:57 AM
In the lead-up to Nokia’s strategy presentation at the end of this week comes a report on what mobile operators are hoping the challenged handset maker decides to do to turn around its business. In an ideal world, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) would take up the reigns on MeeGo and launch…
Posted In: Mobile, Companies, Apple, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, Countries, Europe, intel, maemo, meego, moblin, symbian
Feb 4, 2011 9:05 AM
Some rather damning numbers crunched today by Horace Dediu, the independent analyst at Asymco. According to his calculations, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) currently has as many people working on its smartphone software, as Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has working on all of its products: around 8,000 people.
Posted In: Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, Microsoft, Windows Phone, Nokia, asymco, horace dediu, stephen elop, symbian
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