When you're the world's largest company by stock valuation and a smartphone leader, everyone wants to take you down. We've seen it from Samsung and now Nokia has thrown their hat into the ring. Their latest commercial depicts animated dark characters lining up for the iPhone 5, but only come to life when they get...
Marko Ahtisaari, the head of Nokia’s design studio, shared his thoughts on several smartphones from Nokia’s Lumia lineup in New York City, saying that not every smartphone needs to look like an iPhone. In fact, nothing else looks like the Nokia’s Lumia 920 in a phone store today, he added (via Wired). Ahtisaari picked up a canary yellow Lumia 920 (pictured...
With the sixth-generation iPhone on-tap to be announced September 12th, many competitors of the Cupertino company are trying to beat them to the chase. These fall announcements are important to companies, as the holiday season rapidly approaches they want their product to be known. This week Nokia and Motorola have announcements set for Wednesday. The former market-leaders will announce...
A year and half ago, Nokia and Microsoft teamed up to "disrupt mobile ecosystems". Let's refresh with this video: It looked like the perfect symbiotic relationship, but too bad nothing really emerged that has made a significant impact on the smartphone industry. To Nokia's credit, they did note at the time 2011-2012 would be 'transition...
Nokia has announced today that it is going to shut some research and development projects including a manufacturing plant in Salo, Finland and research facilities in Burnaby, B.C. and Ulm, Germany, as the company plans to lay off 10,000 jobs globally by the end of 2013, reports Bloomberg. Nokia said that these cuts and closures will result in...
A recent publication by Wall Street Journal reveals challenges faced by Nokia as it struggles to compete in the cutthroat smartphone marketplace. The report points out that Nokia's Lumia 900 sells for $200 less than the cheapest iPhone 4S, even though the Finnish cellphone maker actually pays more for its phone's components than the Cupertino giant. According to the source:...
Apple has continued to march on its path to standardize their design of the nano-SIM, a smaller version of the current microSIM currently used in iPhones and iPads. It was revealed back in March Apple planned to allow its design to go royalty free. Apple's latest revised design is currently being showcased by SIM maker...
Samsung was the first to start anti-apple commercials, posting a series of ads (see here and here) which poked fun at the iPhone owners. In February, it again aired a complete anti-Apple commercial during the Super Bowl which attacked iPhone users waiting in line. Now, its Nokia and Microsoft's turn to go after iPhone and Android owners with its new Smartphonebetatest.com campaign starring former...
The massive Q4 2011 sales of iPhone 4S have already taken Apple to the 3rd spot in global rankings of largest smartphone manufacturers and now, another statistical analysis by Asymco crowns Apple as the highest earning mobile phone manufacturer in the world. Asymco has calculated the profit and revenue share of top 8 mobile makers and also counted...
According to a fresh report (via MacRumors) by research firm IDC regarding global cell phone sales during Q4 and full-year 2011, Apple has surpassed LG Electronics to become the 3rd largest mobile phone maker. Only one year back, Apple was on the 5th spot in the largest global cell phone manufacturer's rankings just behind ZTE, but the...
Apple has had a handful of patent-violation lawsuits in recent months which made one thing pretty clear to us that Cupertino's patent policy is very territorial. However, a recent article by The Verge points out a totally different scenario. It seems that Apple has in fact licensed its iOS scrolling patent to Nokia and IBM, especially...
Apple recently beat Nokia to become the world's largest smartphone maker, a company that led the global smartphone market for so many years. Today, Nokia has launched its brand new handset called the Lumia 800, supposedly targeting the iPhone's worldwide market dominance. It is also Nokia’s first smartphone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. As suggested...
