Just few days ago Nokia released the Nokia N8 in pink. Rachael Bell, Nokia’s senior designer, said “following the fantastic response to the range of colors we launched for the Nokia N8, it seemed a natural step to extend this choice. The Nokia N8 in pink complements the original line up well with its expressive, intense hue.”
This is how business is doing. No matter what in different country, different policy is there too to maintain security. It is another burden to Nokia with the postpone of its push email service. The abandon of MeeGo, old Symbian and late Windows Phone OS are all the problems of Nokia. Now even launching a service is also a matter.
Open-source MeeGo has been announced by Nokia by working with Intel’s Linux-based platforms but was abandoned due to the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. This new improvement, Nokia plans to implement its next smartphones with Windows Phone OS rather than MeeGo.
Do you remember I told you about the Symbian Event on April 12th hosted by Nokia? As expected, there is the officially word from T-mobile today that the Nokia Astound, known as Nokia C7 and running the Symbian^3, is now available for sale. The Nokia Astound Symbian^3 Smartphone features a 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen display, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, 3.5mm headphone jack, FM Radio, microSD card slot, front facing camera and an 8 megapixel rear facing camera with 720p video recording and a dual-LED flash. The Nokia Astound also comes with a QWERTY keyboard, Swype entry option, new browser, split-screen for text input, and turn-by-turn GPS navigation.
Nokia is going to host an event in London taking place next Tuesday, April 12th. Unfortunately, there is no information about what Nokia will announce during the event. It is expected that Nokia will release its latest Symbian update. In addition, Nokia will probably show us some new smartphones as well.
Nokia finally made its latest version of the Symbian platform’s source code available to the company’s platform development partners. The completion of the transfer period, during which code delivery from the Symbian Foundation has now been replaced by an open and direct model from Nokia. That means Nokia stop developing the platform.
The analyst firm IDC has released its predictions regarding the smartphone market in 2011. These are more than 450 million units expected to be passed this year, an increase of 49.2% over 2010! IDC expects that Google retains the lead, with 39.5% taking Android Market. Symbian would take second place with 20.9% followed by iOS Apple in third place with 15.7%. RIM is not very far, with 14.9% market share for the BlackBerry. Phone Windows 7 would not exceed 5.5% while other actors whose Bada webOS Samsung and HP, former Palm, occupy the remaining 3.5%.
Nokia have just released the device software updater for Mac. This application is able to get the latest software updates to your device. This release candidate is still in the development phase, and the plan is to keep the trial ongoing until further notice. Plus, it is still in beta. It means that There will be more releases based on feedbacks which are critical improvements. (more…)
It has been months already since the announcement of Microsoft and Nokia partnership. Recently more news has been around that Microsoft will have to pay $1 billion for Nokia for adopting Windows Phone 7 OS on their future smartphone.
Look like something quite official is revealing thank to a series of interview with top ranking Nokia employers. We are not so surprise with the fast Nokia Windows Phone 7 introduction to the market since we have seen its Windows Phone concept already just a few sec from the partnership announced.
We can somehow confirm, according to reliable sources, that Nokia is trying to penetrate market share with its new cheap Windows Phone 7. It would be quite interesting to see this new powerful OS running on one of the best mobile phone company especially with cheaper price.
If Nokia can achieve a better performance smartphone with cheaper price, I am pretty sure that they will be able to get back the lost market share from Apple iPhone and other phone running one Google Android.
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