Articles Tagged “Nokia”
Not even Android can save Nokia now
by Randy Khoo on May 18, 2012 20 Comments">20
How many of us first started with Nokia? I’m willing to bet that for most of you, a Nokia device was your first mobile phone. Having ‘grown up’ with Nokia phones, I’ve since made the graceful hop to Android, and it’s never been better. That being said, I still think back fondly, almost like an adolescent love relationship that all of us have had – and still cherish in my heart the time we spent together. However, this broken love is just a remnant from the past, and I, and the market, have affirmed their love for Android. Not everyone …
Is Nokia admitting failure with WP7 by relaunching Meego devices and refocusing on Symbian?
by Lucian Armasu on May 15, 2012 60 Comments">60
Reports are saying that carriers and Nokia’s board are becoming restless with WP7, and they are pushing for alternatives to WP7, to slow down the fast decline of the company, and the consumer rejection of WP7 smartphones. It seems that WP7 might have been another critical mistake for Nokia and this time it might be an endgame scenario. I still believe that Nokia made a huge mistake by not adopting Android as their main operating system. I don’t think it was just a decision that Nokia’s board or Elop made, but one that was influenced by the whole culture of …
Asymco: Samsung and Apple earned 99% of all smartphone profits last quarter
by Mike Andrici on May 07, 2012 3 Comments">3
Our regular readers know by now that Samsung and Apple are (by far) the biggest smartphone vendors in the world. But I’m sure that most of you will be surprised to learn that Samsung and Apple have earned 99% of all profits made in the smartphone market during the first quarter of 2012. Taiwanese manufacturer HTC accounts for the remaining 1% of the total profits. These figures, calculated by Horace Dediu at Asymco, are even more surprising given the fact that smartphone shipments grew by 47% percent, bringing revenues up by 20% and overall profits up by 52% (total profits …
Android, Samsung rule China, the world’s largest smartphone market
by Mike Andrici on May 07, 2012 4 Comments">4
According to a recent report from market research firm Canalys, smartphone shipments in China have doubled year over year, surpassing those in the US for the first time. China is now the biggest smartphone market in the world, accounting for 22% of global smartphone shipments, up from 16% last year. US smartphone shipments rose just 5% year on year, now accounting for 16% of global smartphone shipments, down from 22% last year. Worldwide, smartphone shipment levels have increased by 45% year over year. Samsung, the new worldwide leader in smartphone sales, is the top manufacturer in China as well, with …
Apple, what have you done? Nokia files patent lawsuits against HTC, RIM and Viewsonic
by Adrian Diaconescu on May 04, 2012 1 Comments">1
Just when we started to hope that the longstanding legal battle between Apple and Samsung might reach a “friendly” end, another (former) important player in the smartphone market announced the start of what could be an even more epic patent war. Nokia, who just a year ago was the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world, but quickly dropped to third place behind Apple and Samsung, has set its sights on more “modest” targets. That’s right, targets, as in plural, because the Finnish have filed a total of 11 lawsuits in the US and Germany against HTC, RIM, and Viewsonic, covering …
Reuters: Samsung set to trump Nokia to become the world’s biggest phone maker
by Bams Sadewo on Apr 16, 2012 3 Comments">3
Our smartphones lagging behind the competitors’? Not a problem, we’re the biggest phone maker in the world by volume, dontcha know? But after 14 years of being number one in the global mobile phone market (and having that status to fall back to at a time when critics sharpen their knives), Nokia will soon have to stop living in its past glory. According to a poll conducted by Reuters, Samsung’s sales in the first quarter of 2012 will surpass that of the Finnish company for the first time. On average, the surveyed analysts estimate that Sammy has sold 88 million mobile …
Disabled Brit gets smartphone dock built into his prosthetic arm
by Adrian Diaconescu on Apr 10, 2012 1 Comments">1
While technology has immensely advanced over the past couple of years, most electronic manufacturers still focus on the luckiest of their clients, neglecting the desires and preferences of people with special needs. Trevor Prideaux, a 50-year-old British technology enthusiast, was born with only one arm. But the catering manager from Wedmore, Somerset, didn’t let his disability prevent him from having a normal life, achieving his dreams, and enjoying his passions. However, he found it increasingly difficult over the past few years to control and use a regular smartphone with only one hand. Wearing a prosthetic limb since he was three years …
Is Nokia’s $99 Lumia 900 a threat to Android?
by Bams Sadewo on Mar 26, 2012 7 Comments">7
Nokia’s flagship device, the Lumia 900 smartphone, is set to hit AT&T stores on April 8. After being out of the limelight for so long, does the Lumia 900 offer enough incentives for buyers to put Nokia – and to a certain extent, Microsoft – back on the smartphone map in the US and the rest of the world? It’s quite telling how both companies are craving to have a bonafide hit on their hands as the Nokia Lumia 900 is positioned at a competitive $100 price point with a two-year contract. Despite its dominant global presence – and ever …
Why Apple tries to impose their nano-SIM design on Motorola, Nokia, and RIM
by Mike Andrici on Mar 23, 2012 6 Comments">6
In the world of today’s superphones, there are two paradigms that all major smartphone manufacturers go by: displays need to be larger (with one, fruity, exception) and the internal components need to be smaller. As it would seem, gaining space inside the smartphone is so important that every single component is constantly redesigned to take up less space, SIM cards included. Most of you definitely figured this out by now, but the only useful parts of the SIM card are the gold contacts: that’s where the information lives; everything else is just plastic, with no actual utility. The current standard …
Nokia patents vibrating haptic tattoos, future phone calls will tickle
by Danic Filip on Mar 23, 2012 5 Comments">5
As tech writers, we, at Android Authority, are pretty hard to surprise. We see all sorts of innovative, amazing, or downright mind-boggling technologies every day. But yet, at times, even we are impressed of some of the ideas that tech companies come up with. Take Nokia, for example – the Finns just patented haptic tattoos. What do you mean, what the heck is a haptic tattoo? It’s a tattoo that vibrates when some one calls you or sends you a text. Duh!! So, how would these Nokia haptic tattoos work exactly? Basically, they will be made of ferromagnetic (containing metal particles) ink, …
How good is the PureView 808, Nokia’s 41MP camera phone?
by Ankit Banerjee on Mar 19, 2012 7 Comments">7
If there’s ever been a nit to pick with most smartphones, it was usually related with the phone’s camera. In this area, Nokia (regardless of its dwindling market share) has been far ahead of the competition, with the 12MP Carl Zeiss-lensed camera on the Nokia N8 blowing the competition out of the water. Now, the Finnish company managed to raise the bar even higher with the introduction of the Nokia PureView 808 phone, that features an unheard-of 41MP camera! About the Nokia Pureview 808 The Nokia PureView 808 was introduced at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. …
Nokia’s CEO takes on Android and quad-core smartphones
by Mike Andrici on Mar 17, 2012 13 Comments">13
In a couple of gray-hat marketing moves dating back to the end of January, Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, first bashed the Android ecosystem, decrying its fragmentation, then went on to claim that quad-core smartphones are uncalled for, as they drastically reduce battery life. In a Pocket-lint interview published back in mid-January, Elop was quick to point out that Nokia has a strong desire to differentiate their future smartphones as an alternative to both the iPhone and Android smartphones. He also left the impression that Nokia aims to further strengthen its association with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS. Moving on to …
Point-and-Shoot Cameras Going the Way of the Dinosaur, Smartphones to Blame
by Bogdan Petrovan on Mar 09, 2012 0 Comments">0
The funny thing about technology that many in the tech world don’t fully understand (or don’t want to understand) is the fact that a product doesn’t need to be perfect to be successful. There are many concepts that show that “good enough” is, at least sometimes, all the users are asking for. The MP3 format removes much of the original information in a recording for the sake of a smaller size, but users don’t seem to mind, although music luminaries regularly argue against lossy formats. The same thing for JPG vs. RAW. And let’s not start analyzing why users …
Nokia’s 1.5 Billion S40 Phones Number Is Irrelevant for Today’s Markets
by Lucian Armasu on Jan 25, 2012 1 Comments">1
Nokia has just announced that since 1999 they managed to sell 1.5 billion S40 mobile devices. That is an impressive number in a world that was starting to use a mobile phone for the first time and that grew up with Nokia. I’m not going to argue whether Nokia was or was not a great company in the past. It clearly was, and I’ve owned several Nokia phones myself. The question is how relevant are those numbers today? Those type of phones are becoming obsolete and quickly starting to be replaced by lower-end Android phones. Thanks to companies like Huawei, ZTE …
Results for Q4 2011 Smartphone Sales in the US are Here
by Christine Torralba on Jan 20, 2012 0 Comments">0
Despite the fact that the US smartphone market is thickly populated by Android, Apple’s own iOS platform was able to regain some of its losses in the recently concluded quarter. Based on data collected by statistical firm Nielsen, the 44.5% of consumers who bought a smartphone between October and December chose an iPhone. Prior to the iPhone 4S launch in October, iPhone only had a ranking of 25.1%. Alarmingly, 57% purchased the iPhone 4S when it first came out in the market. As of this writing, Android still holds the commanding lead over iOS, standing at 46.3% US smartphone users. …
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