Nokia recently (actually precisely when the iPhone 4 launched in India) started its ‘iDoalotmore’ campaign in India, clearly aiming to take on Apple’s smartphone in the Indian market. The advertisements try to inform the user on how Nokia’s smartphones are better in every way. One blatant comparison was done in the camera ad, wherein a ladybug shown in [...]
Nokia India Pvt. Ltd. will introduce its first dual-SIM handset in the market by the end of the first quarter, according to a company official. With this, along with other measures, Nokia has said that it would fill gaps in its product portfolio, in order to increase sales. With the handset maker losing its world [...]
Nokia’s pact with Microsoft to use Windows Phone 7 on their smartphones will pay them more than $1 billion, if clandestine sources close to the deal are to be believed. Nokia will, in return, pay Microsoft a certain amount per handset that they produce running the Windows OS. This agreement would last more than 5 [...]
TED recently selected 10 best advertisements which it considers worthy to be ‘spread-around’, and Nokia N8’s ad is among them! As their website reads out, “We want to encourage development of ads-with-a-difference. Ads that engage our audience authentically, intelligently, delightfully. Ads that people will want to share” One more interesting piece of information is that [...]
Recently the most intriguing development in the gadget world has undoubtedly been the merger of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system with Nokia’s Smartphones. This means that Nokia would now be avoiding the Intel-Nokia collaborative MeeGo almost completely, and that only one MeeGo-powered Nokia handset would be coming out this year is enough proof of [...]
Finnish research company Inderes has stated that Nokia has sold around 3.5 to 4 million N8 handsets since its launch in October 2010. This is definitely good news for the company as it hasn’t really seen its prior top-end models sell big numbers in the last two or three years. Nevertheless, Nokia has not yet [...]
That the Nokia N8′s camera is one of the best on a phone yet is no surprise, but good enough to replace an SLR for a magazine cover photo? Now that is something!
Nokia is looking forward to giving the people a completely new UI experience in 2011, and this they plan to do with Meego which will land on Nokia handsets next year. Speaking at the LeWeb conference held in Paris yesterday, Marko Ahtisaari, Director of Design Strategy in the company, said that he wanted to give phone users a ’head-up’ [...]
Yet another Nokia handset carrying Symbian^3 named X7-00 has been leaked on youtube (link now removed). The handset is rumored to have a 4-inch AMOLED display with the usual 16:9 360×640 resolution. It is also said to pack an 8-megapixel, dual-LED flash camera and a polished metal casing. But what makes the set unique is that [...]
With an R&D investment of more than 4 times of Apple’s in the last quarter, it is definite that Nokia has never been short of technologies. Then what can be the reason for Nokia to continuously lose on market share and profit margins?