Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is denying it’s due to unveil an Android-based handset at its upcoming Nokia World ‘09 shindig in Stuttgart on Sept. 2. Guardian.co.uk reported the news, citing only “industry insiders”, but was light on any further detail, saying only that it would be “a strategic U-turn” from the…

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It’s no surprise that Nokia’s share of the smartphone market is under attack. For years, the Finnish handset maker didn’t have much in the way of competition, but now of course, there is the iPhone, RIM’s Blackberry devices, the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, and the countless other smartphone releases that…

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) CEO Shantanu Narayen confirmed during the company’s second-quarter conference call last week that the company is close to releasing a beta version of its Flash Player 10 in October for a number of smartphone browsers, including Windows Mobile, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) WebOS and…

Chipmaker Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has scored a “breakthrough” deal with Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to supply the world’s largest handset maker with processors for its mobile device, according to Bloomberg, citing a “person familiar with the matter.” The agreement is expected to be announced tomorrow in a conference call. Though Intel’s…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens, the joint venture between German electronics giant Siemens, and Finnish handset maker Nokia, has sold technology to Iran Telecom that allows the monitoring of fixed line and mobile phone calls. The story was first reported in the WSJ and subsequently picked up by a number of…

Nortel Networks, which has been struggling to sell off its assets since filing for bankruptcy in January, has accepted a $650 million bid from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens Networks, the second-largest telecom equipment maker in the world, reports WSJ. Nokia Siemens, a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens, initially made…

—iPhone vs. iPod Touch demographics: While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has sold about 21 million iPhones, it inflates the numbers by including iPod Touch owners, who connect to the internet using Wi-Fi, rather than a cellular network. AdMob determined by analyzing its ad network that iPhone users are richer, older and…

Many music services have been dropping DRM to make their wares more popular, now speculation says Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is about to do the same. This thin story at Mobile-Ent.biz cites “sources” as saying Nokia will remove copy locks from Nokia Music Store in favour of MP3 later this year,…

Now that the Ovi Store has been running for a few weeks now, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has some stats available on the apps that are being downloaded. Interestingly, the applications store’s overall top download and its current bestseller are both paid ones—bucking the notion that the most popular apps are…

What to make of the new ad for Nokia’s flagship device, the new N97, set to the 18-year old rap song “Mama Said Knock You Out” from LL Cool J? Way back then, LL Cool J was apparently already thought of as “washed up,” and wrote the song to prove…

How competitive is the smartphone market becoming? Following last week’s launch of the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre and the iPhone 3GS comes the roll out of Samsung’s touchscreen Jet, RIM’s 3G Blackberry Tour, and Nokia’s E72 and 5530 XpressMusic. RIM: The 3G-enabled Blackberry Tour 9630 will go on sale in…

Several U.S. senators urged the FCC to examine the widespread use of exclusive arrangements between handset makers and carriers to see if they negatively affect competition and choice in the marketplace. Reuters reports that the Senators voiced their concerns in a letter to Michael Copps, acting chairman of the FCC.…

Earlier this year, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) changed course, having realized it shouldn’t have taken a wait and see approach on Apple’s App Store, and aggressively started to move into the smartphone space, by developing for the iPhone, Android and Nokia’s N-Gage. The new direction wasn’t easy. The company was…

Southeast Asia’s biggest telecoms firm SingTel launched a mobile download service Sunday for music and videos in its home market of Singapore, which it plans to take to other parts of Asia. The service, called AMPed, was developed with Universal Music and will help position the carrier’s offering beyond “just…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be having difficulties breaking into the content arena, but there’s a few sectors remaining, where it likely won’t bump into the likes of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) or Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)—that’s in providing services to emerging markets. Nokia said today it was rolling out its “Life Tools”…

Nokia has released a game on the N-Gage, called Dance Fabulous. Developed by Digital Legends, the game picks up on the trend of integrating music into gaming, like Guitar Hero and the Tapulous’s popular iPhone game, Tap Tap Revenge. In the game, players collect points by creating cool moves and…

—PlayNowPlus: SonyEricsson’s pre-licensed unlimited music download package is to be bundled with some its W595 phone through Orange in Austria, the service’s ninth launch territory. PlayNowPlus, powered by Omnifone, offers unlimited music downloads and music sharing out of the box, on mobile and PC - like Nokia’s Comes With Music,…