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Articles tagged with: Symbian and Nokia
Adobe Announces Upgraded Flash Platform for Smartphones
Adobe Systems has announced a new variant of the Flash website software that it expects to be available on the majority of smartphones from early next year - excluding the Apple iPhone. more
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New Mobile Platforms Drive Smartphone Growth Worldwide
While symbian devices such as the Nokia N70 and N95 continue to be popular handsets, analysis from mobile advertisign agency, AdMob finds that the iPhone OS, Android and webOS have gained marketshare over competing platforms in the last six months. more
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What Does Nokia Pact Mean For Windows?
When Microsoft and Nokia last week announced a smart phone alliance that they called the first of its type for either, the competition in this market escalated. So tough has this field become that several analysts say the pact signals the demise of Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. more
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Nokia Adding Support for Microsoft Software to its Smartphones
Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft to port Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia's symbian based smartphones. Starting from next year, Nokia intends to start shipping Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile on its smartphones, followed by other Office applications and related software and services in the future. more
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Nokia's First TD-SCDMA Based Smartphone Due by End of 2009
Nokia says that it will release its first 3G phone based on China's homegrown TD-SCDMA format before the end of this year. The phone will be a symbian based handset in the mid to high price range. more
Related Tags: td-scdma, 3g-phone, China
Nokia Sells its Symbian Services Unit
Nokia has announced that it is to sell its symbian Professional Services unit responsible for symbian OS customer engineering and customer support to consulting firm, Accenture. The unit provides engineering consulting and product development services on a global basis to mobile phone manufacturers, as well as chip manufacturers and mobile operators. more
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Nokia Denies Reports it is Working on Android Based Smartphone
A report over the weekend that Nokia is working on a smartphone based on the Android platform has been denied by the handset manufacturer. The UK Guardian newspaper, citing industry insiders reported that the new touchscreen device will be unveiled at the Nokia World conference in September. more
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Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
Opinion by Ovum's Adam Leach, Devices principal analyst
Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014
During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party
applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and
OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus
on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications
and services to mobile phones.
more
Related Tags: app-store, ovum, smartphone, google, microsoft, sony, windows, google-android
Nokia's CEO Outlines Vision for the Future
Today at its Annual General Meeting, Nokia President and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo outlined the company's future strategy. "Nokia is fundamentally changing its business model to transform both the company and the industry. While we continue to compete with the traditional mobile device manufacturers, we also are dealing with new competitors entering the market from the PC and Internet industries," he said. more
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Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
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