Nokia Phones Collection

Nokia 770 Tablet critisism

2006-05-07T23:06:00.000+03:00

Nokia 770 got terrible review from Rob Pegoraro of Washington Post. According to him, everything is wrong all the time. Some miraclous moments he came across with and during those moments, Nokia 770 was almost OK to surf the web. Seems like Nokia has some tough challenges in fixing up the flaws.

ATI, Nokia and Bitboys

2006-05-05T00:10:00.000+03:00

Bitboys has always been a strange bird on graphics frontier. Tiny company in the middle of nowhere, but their products have been ahead of their time. Bitboys was never able to capitalize their expertise in personal computer graphics segment. However, mobile graphics has meant booming times for the company and growth has been rapid. Nokia is the important key in this capitalization as a big and

Nokia also ties with Visa

2006-05-02T22:13:00.000+03:00

Came up with this interesting piece of news. Nokia and Visa are working together in order to bring out mobile paying system in Malaysia. Hot (literally) markets of Asia are just drooling to get such system.

Nokia ties with Adobe

2006-05-02T22:10:00.000+03:00

Nokia will start to ship their N93 with Adobe’s Premiere Elements 2.0. This means that N93 owners can edit the video clips that they have shot with their handset. This is very cool news, especially if it doesn’t affect pricing. My guess is that with this sort of announcements, Nokia is trying to prevent N93 price from eroding. Technology is hard to change in millions of units sold, but software

Nokia rises from ashes

2006-04-27T23:33:00.000+03:00

Business world has been full of analysis and news about Nokia’s new rise. Their higher end mobile phones have gotten buyers attention and everything is well again. Nokia’s features are the key that attracts buyers. It still isn’t the innovative and sexy design, but I am so much hoping for that day to come again. Anyhow, now Nokia has grasped

Nokia's mobile TV projections

2006-03-05T16:16:00.000+02:00

Nokia estimates that mobile TV will be part of our everyday life by year 2008. Only two years, do you believe that? I still use voice and text services only, and I consider myself as relatively technology friendly. Looks quite optimistic projection to me. Reuters run the original story.

Frank Nuovo leaves Nokia

2006-03-05T14:01:00.000+02:00

Various media has been commenting Nuovo's leave from Nokia as some sort of disaster. Just think of it, the guy who raised the company to design greatness, is leaving the company. Jorma Ollila is also leaving, so are other managers. What is going on?Luckily Nokia has very stable protocols on place. Old managers breed old ideas, it is about time to get new blood into the company and steer away from

Mad Dog Player for Nokia phones

2006-03-05T13:58:00.000+02:00

Mad Dog Mobile is a mobile community, where youngsters can interact with each others. Mad Dog Player is the core of the community, it changes your phone into community gateway - chat, play, listen, message, talk... Fun and it can be free if you mange to get your friends using it too.For now Mad Dog is only running on Nokia mobile phones, but expect it to take on the world like a virus.

Nokia Flagship Stores

2005-12-09T00:40:00.000+02:00

Nokia has plans for opening several sales points at world’s shopping capitals. What is interesting in these stores is that they will be located in high-profile locations in world’s major shopping destinations. Complete Nokia products portfolio and access to N-Gage Arena will be showcased at these locations. Today they opened the first Nokia Flagship Store in Moscow, Russia.WHAT'S UP WITH NOKIA?To

Forum Nokia S60 3rd Edition Challenge

2005-12-09T00:10:00.000+02:00

Nokia’s purpose is to encourage development on fields like – enterprise, music, location-based and Flash applications for the Series 60 platform. Competition has some neat prices (sadly just for the winners) – money, fame and memberships. If you can create something stunning with C++ or Flash, you must act now because the registration is open until 15th of December. Read details over here.

Is Nokia leaving India?

2005-12-06T21:39:00.000+02:00

Just as I posted about Nokia’s “We move not” assurances for China, it seems that it is India that really needs those assurances. Nokia is planning an investment in India that would benefit from special tax brakes for example in a form of toll free imports. All is well on planning board, but now Indian governmental bureaucracy is taking its toll and licenses are still in the making. Nokia is

Nokia and Foxconn

2005-12-06T21:17:00.000+02:00

Now I spotted news that supports my previous comment. Nokia’s supply agreement with BenQ is about to run over the finish line. This Forbes article is not able to verify any information but points to the possibility that jump to Foxconn might be ahead. Read more here.

Nokia in global politics

2005-12-06T20:58:00.000+02:00

India is growing as a mobile market area. In size it will be similar to China. Nokia has been investing heavily on China and now Chinese are wondering whether India’s growth will draw Nokia’s investments, especially research and development, from China to India.To ease this tense situation in international politics, Jorma Ollila has been assuring that Nokia will not do any drastic relocation

Nokia aims for stronger channel and customer relationship

2005-12-06T20:46:00.000+02:00

I just posted a brief rant comment about Nokia handling their US distribution channel with remarkable stupidity. Now I noticed a piece of news saying that next year Nokia will focus on channel and customer relationships. Finally! If you want to read more about Nokia’s future plans (they pointed five separate goals) then follow this link.

Nokia brings video tone

2005-12-06T19:06:00.000+02:00

Nokia has introduced a new consumer service product – video tone. It works so that whenever call comes phone will play chosen music video or animation. Service will run on Series 60 platform mobile phones.Personally I think that animations and demos will be very popular. This will also be good market crack for companies. They can offer short mobile video advertising clips for free. Consumer would

Nokia's Kallasvuo talks stock price up

2005-12-06T18:59:00.000+02:00

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo from Nokia said in New York investor relations meeting that Nokia’s mobile phone sales would see continued growth while profit margins would remain stable. This and other improvements that Nokia has been able to pull through this year resulted into hefty stock price increase. Nokia stock price is now on its highest level in almost two years.It was very interesting to notice

Nokia live TV

2005-12-05T00:04:00.000+02:00

Anssi Vanjoki, an Executive Vice President and General Manager of Nokia Multimedia, was just a moment ago in live TV here in Finland. He was asked various questions concerning Nokia. Most dominating issue was Nokia’s TV endeavors.According to Mr. Vanjoki, TV often creates a rhythm for our day, whether it is news or other programs that we watch. Therefore TV becomes important part of our lives.

Nokia goes Wi-Fi

2005-12-03T21:32:00.000+02:00

All Nokia handsets that use Symbian Series 80 OS will have wireless local area network capability. Not only Series 80 phones have the capability also growing number of Series 60 phones incorporate wireless Lan. Read more about the story.

Nokia stops developing N-Gage

2005-12-03T21:22:00.000+02:00

Finally it came! Nokia announced that they are not continuing the development of N-Gage. They will sell it though – now there is soothing declaration for first time N-Gage purchasers. We see N-Gage to die after this announcement. Nokia will focus on music and mobile TV for couple of coming years that is the official reason, why we see N-Gage to go. More.

Nokia searching direction

2005-12-03T21:06:00.000+02:00

Nokia 770 discarded Symbian and embraced Linux. Nokia 6708 discards Symbian Series60 platform and embraces Symbian v7.0 OS. Slight changes but quite sizeable tremors inside Nokia’s streamlined production machinery. This shows that costs are not defining production and design framework anymore, hence, Nokia is going after consumers with new and innovative products. Let’s see what buying public

Nokia N80 – household wonder

2005-12-03T20:47:00.000+02:00

Nokia has unveiled its N80 mobile phone. What’s special in this model is that it has Universal Plug and Play feature. This means that N80 can control other consumer electronics like DVD players and TVs. Find more about Nokia N80 from here.

Solid growth for Nokia in China

2005-12-03T20:38:00.000+02:00

Bloomberg has a short news clip about Nokia’s performance in China. Company’s deliveries in China have risen 77% during the first 9 months of the year. Article.

Nokia Corporation description

2005-12-03T18:27:00.000+02:00

Wikipedia has an article about Nokia. It is a company profile that tells about Nokia’s history and corporate culture. Good briefing, maybe I should put some effort on improving the article.

Nokia mobile phone design decliningm

2005-12-03T17:59:00.000+02:00

Harry Choi, the head of Samsung’s design, says that Nokia’s mobile phone design has declined from what it was couple of years ago. Choi says that Samsung’s market share in Europe has started to increase because of their new distinguishable mobile phone line.I must agree with Harry Choi. Recently, I would say, Nokia has been excelling on low-end phones. There you don’t emphasize the design but

Nokia N90 doing well in US

2005-12-03T15:41:00.000+02:00

David Watkins, Director, Imaging Business for Nokia North America has commented N90 to sell well and market response having been overwhelming. Phone has been launched but is still in limited supply. Read more about the Nokia N90 over here.

Nokia rejects BenQ for Foxconn

2005-12-03T14:02:00.000+02:00

I was working for a high technology organization in Taiwan during years 2001 and 2002. It was evident that during those years Foxconn was working on every front to upgrade their Nokia supplier status. Foxconn wasn’t core component supplier. Instead, they provided parts that were very low on the food chain, parts like keyboards and cases. Even in cases Nokia had their own hands so margins that

Nokia Intellisync acquisition

2005-11-24T22:45:00.000+02:00

Nokia announced that it will buy mobile e-mail software company – Intellisync. Nokia uses its abundant cash reserves for this purchase and investors are going to be pleased as Nokia has more innovative use than just extra dividends.Nokia hasn’t been shopping around, and company has been almost notorious because of its persistent organic growth. It was possible because on its field, Nokia can set

Nokia 770 Tablet defense

2005-11-22T23:38:00.000+02:00

Doctor Ari Jaaksi is voicing his support for Nokia 770 Tablet. Doctor Jaaksi is working in Nokia’s Multimedia division so take this defense with a grain of salt. By the way he also claims that maintaining unified software platform was one of the reasons not to include mobile phone feature to Nokia 770.

Siemens challenging Nokia

2005-11-22T23:26:00.000+02:00

In another Forbes article, Siemens openly challenges Nokia in China. Siemens is the biggest foreign supporter of Chinese TD-SCDMA standard. Company is relying on the possibility that domestic standard is being chosen and therefore Siemens could leapfrog their competitors in China.

Nokia 770 Tablet problems

2005-11-22T22:41:00.000+02:00

Forbes had an article that points to the core problem of the Nokia 770 Tablet. This gadget doesn’t have mobile phone ability. Device battles head on with other digital assistants with no real twist. I would say that while Forbes points to the right flaw they don’t include the reason behind such product specifications. Nokia wants to keep price under control and Linux platform is not ideal choice

Nokia White Papers

2005-11-22T22:39:00.000+02:00

Just to point you to this page where Nokia is keeping their white papers. One of the latest great articles is called – The Evolution of Workforce Mobility it tells how organizations can be on different levels what comes to their use of mobility as a tool for doing work and business.

Nokia market value rise

2005-11-22T22:19:00.000+02:00

This wonderful article was published at TimesofMalta.com. Analysis goes hand in hand with Nokia’s market events and share price changes. This article is a good read if you want to have a quick glance on Nokia’s status during the past year.To blow my own horn, this article lists same reasons that I have been giving, as reasons behind Nokia’s current strength – marketing, design and manufacturing.

Nokia N90 and Nokia N91 awards

2005-11-22T21:44:00.000+02:00

Nokia announced that their N9-series has been honored with “Best of What’s New” Award in Popular Science magazine’s annual top 100 innovations list. These two mobile phones are packed with useful and useless features. N91 is optimized for music and N90 is optimized for pictures, both introduce mobility as a part of the product content – mobile pictures and mobile music – excellent. Nokia has

Nokia 770 is a jackpot

2005-11-19T22:30:00.000+02:00

It is all over the blogosphere – Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is a winner. General comments are excellent and complaints are directed to minor flaws that are mostly software based and therefore easy to be fixed.So strong has been the demand for the product that worries of supply shortages are surfacing. It is like the late 90’s all over again. However, Nokia UK has comforted those who have ordered

Nokia 8800 stainless steel

2005-11-19T22:29:00.000+02:00

It is a tough world out there. Nokia 8800, which is called Nokia 8801 in the States, combats that toughness with solid stainless steel case and refined software heart.In Russia, luxury items are nowadays extremely important status symbols. This brings us to the following link. Russia has gotten a very special edition of Nokia 8800.

Nokia Qualcomm patent dispute

2005-11-19T22:12:00.000+02:00

Qualcomm has some patents that Nokia considers to be essential for mobile phone industry. Nokia has accused Qualcomm of not licensing their patents with fair terms. This is why Nokia has used some solutions that step on Qualcomm’s patents without paying appropriate licensing fees.Qualcomm is right to complain, but then again, it would be good for the mobile industry in general to have level

Nokia open source site

2005-11-19T00:03:00.000+02:00

Nokia has started an open source website that keeps track of Nokia’s contributions on open source front. Check it here.

Nokia market share flipside

2005-11-15T22:19:00.000+02:00

Nokia has been able to increase its market share in China and India. Unfortunately Nokia has been loosing market share in USA. Putting together these trends we get stagnated total market share. Nokia’s mobile phone collection really needs some high-end phones that are trendy. U.S. market is still far behind European and Asian markets and brand image and marketing surpass phone technology and

Nokia new winds

2005-11-13T23:51:00.000+02:00

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is said to be the new broom in town that has put some new wroom into the company. Unfortunately the man is such a long-timer that he strikes as hard as a cold cup of coffee.

2005 Nokia Games Summit

2005-10-29T13:06:00.000+03:00

Lee Epting, Vice President of Forum Nokia, has written an excellent summary on 2005 Nokia Games Summit. Read the article at Gamasutra.

Nokia strengthens services

2005-10-29T01:35:00.000+03:00

This was an interesting piece of news. It is about Nokia developing their service offering for mobile operators. Operators can get cost-effective services without big infrastructure investment and Nokia can take advantage of scale benefits. I.e. develop the service once and then sell it multiple times. More.

Nokia rulez! smart phones

2005-10-28T23:44:00.000+03:00

Canalys, a research company, has found that Nokia’s smart phone shipments have risen by 75%. Massive growth! This is the stuff that Nokia should be doing more. Could future actually look bright for Nokia? Maybe they could grab the emerging markets and now developing smart phone markets...According the report, Palm and RIM are in trouble and some other sources have speculated that coming Nokia

Nokia slithering into Indians' awareness

2005-10-28T23:33:00.000+03:00

Only 5 percent of people in India are able to speak English. Nokia wants to grab the whole of Indian mobile market, and therefore they embrace Indians’ with culturally targeted ad campaign that uses five regional languages. Nokia can connect you with your native tongue, excellent. Article from Indian Television.

Nokia goes deeper into growth markets

2005-10-26T22:09:00.000+03:00

Nokia introduced two new mobile phones for emerging markets. Nokia 1255 and Nokia 2355 (still loosing track with all these numbers) are value phones that pack quite a lot of mobility power. Nokia 1255 has classic block design and Nokia 2355 sports folding design.These low-end mobile phones won’t be introduced on developed markets, which is great so they won’t further erode Nokia’s brand. On the

Nokia ratings changing

2005-10-25T23:17:00.000+03:00

Industry analysts are not able to make up their minds about Nokia’s future. Good indication of this can be found from Newratings site some analysts have upgraded their ratings while some have downgraded. Everybody seems to agree on one thing, Nokia has to improve their high-end products to maintain their brand image.

Nokia L'Amour!

2005-10-24T22:32:00.000+03:00

Let me introduce you the Nokia L'Amour Collection... Nokia 7360 Nokia 7370Nokia 7380Now we got that out of our system. Don’t they just look nice and arithmetic, but who can keep up with all these model numbers? Mark my words auto industry experience is going to be very handy here. Once upon time there were multitude of car models, which had only number signature. Is it boring or what? “I am

Vertu luxury phones

2005-10-23T13:11:00.000+03:00

Vertu is handmade luxury phone that sells for up to 90 000 USD. As a subsidiary of Nokia, Vertu uses Nokia technology as the base for their products. Vertu brings in the luxury by embedding the phone case with tiny diamonds and by using special materials like gold and platinum. Actual phone is not about product performance therefore it doesn’t boast with camera or with latest software. This phone

The 10 best phones ever

2005-10-23T13:10:00.000+03:00

Nokia made the list with three mobile phone models, which just about reflects company’s market share. So the models that made the list were: Nokia Cityman, Nokia 8210 and Nokia 8800. Check the whole list and commentary at Independent.

Nokia "Number One" in Taiwan

2005-10-22T11:18:00.000+03:00

You must be aware of the strange affection that Chinese feel with the term ”Number One”. There is just nothing better than being better than all the rest. Number Ones’ enjoy high social status because everybody do give the respect for such an excellent standing. This also works in commercial arena. If you are the Number One on any single field, no matter how miniscule, then you better use that to

Nokia results

2005-10-21T09:58:00.000+03:00

Nokia was able to top estimations but wasn’t able to surprise markets, hence the stock price tanked. No matter what they do, they seem not to be able to stop the slide of average prices. However, Nokia competitors are improving steadily so financial markets look at the situation smelling blood. Nokia is not in jeopardy because their product margins still clearly top their competitors’ figures.

Nokia Motorola oligopoly

2005-10-21T09:54:00.000+03:00

In Finnish current news TV-program – A-plus – Nokia CEO commented that he couldn’t see any barriers to such mobile market development, which would be Nokia and Motorola dominated while smaller companies would wither away.To me the interesting part of this kind of out-of-context comment comes in thinking, what would this market oligopoly look like? Nokia is churning more and more mass phones

Nokia breaks 200 million in China

2005-10-18T21:28:00.000+03:00

Nokia has rolled out its 200 millionth mobile phone in China. This shows company’s manufacturing strength (strong). Actually, Nokia is now the biggest mobile phone manufacturer and exporter in China. Check more on this in this article.COMMENTARYDoes anyone remember quaint little textile company called Levi Strauss & Co? They had the image and they had the manufacturing. They lost their image by

Nokia and Motorola on the rise

2005-10-17T23:39:00.000+03:00

Bloomberg speculates with the financials of Nokia and Motorola. Back-to-school sales should push both companies higher. These two giants are bashing their smaller rivalries and mass-grab (yeah, that’s my term) market share from left and right. Analysts seem to favor Motorola but I would say that Nokia’s product slate is better for the holiday season. We’ll see how this ends, might not be pretty...

Just as I was saying...

2005-10-17T23:21:00.000+03:00

Nokia is brewing something in their cooperative cauldron, as they are working with KDE to bring open source browser into Nokia mobile phones. As I said in a prior comment, The lack of good browser has been the Achilles heel of Nokia’s Internet enabled mobile phones. Luckily things are about to be mended. Read more about Nokia's KDE connection over here.

Nokia Eseries Link

2005-10-17T21:36:00.000+03:00

Here is a link to an old comment on Nokia Eseries.

Nokia N70 + T-Mobile + Opera

2005-10-16T12:38:00.000+03:00

OPERA PRESS RELEASET-Mobile has set up an offering, where stylish Nokia N70 is packaged together with Opera browser. With Opera, UK-user can take Nokia N70 for quick surf into the web, use email and instant messaging. N70 mobile phone happens to have two-megapixel camera, video calling functionality, FM radio and even more stuff. Read the full press release here.COMMENTARYThis sounds like Opera

Nokia Design Awards

2005-10-15T20:50:00.000+03:00

Nokia is wooing students in Benelux countries by offering cool testing environment. Nokia Concept Lounge introduces some of the designs that have come out of this project.

Nokia's long march in China

2005-10-13T23:19:00.000+03:00

Nokia started new joint venture with Chinese company called Putian Communication. Joint venture will develop TD-SCDMA products. Most surprising fact in this news is that Nokia will only have 49% of the joint venture. I suppose that Chinese legislation is reason for such share structure. More over here.

Email geared mobile phones from Nokia

2005-10-13T23:07:00.000+03:00

Nokia launched three new mobile phones – E60, E61 and E70 – these phones are based on same technology but have slightly different features emphasis. In Europe they will sell in price range of 350-450 euro without mobile operator subsidies. Nokia said that they are following sociological trends, meaning that people move more and more while at work and they need a mobile phone to support that way

Mobile email usage growing

2005-10-12T23:36:00.000+03:00

Nokia and TeliaSonera have commissioned a survey about mobile email usage. Guess what? Surprisingly mobile email usage is growing steadily. Details.

Nokia to produce 450 MHz GSM phones

2005-10-12T23:33:00.000+03:00

Ericsson announced that they would offer GSM networks technology, which is using the 450 MHz radio spectrum. Meanwhile, Nokia announced that they are going to start offering GSM mobile phones that use that same spectrum.The reason for such a move is that many developed countries are coming into a situation where the good old 450 MHz spectrums are being abandoned – almost free asset waiting to be

Nokia crushes Motorola on 3G arena

2005-10-11T23:47:00.000+03:00

The Street.com had fine article, written by Tero Kuittinen, about Nokia’s advance on the third generation mobile phone markets. Fitting as it is, European mobile manufacturers are doing well in Europe and Motorola is falling behind. This Christmas, European mobile phone operators are widely expected to start major sales push towards higher generation services. This bodes well for Nokia, because

Nokia CEO Ollila sees growth

2005-10-10T21:51:00.000+03:00

In a Financial Times interview, Ollila commented the state of mobile phone market. He believes that this and next year will be years of strong growth. This growth comes from unexpectedly strong demand in mature markets and from emerging markets.Ollila compares different market areas and sees trend in market development cycle. Now Middle East, the Gulf and Africa are at same state as seen in Latin

Nokia 9500 Communicator review

2005-10-09T21:20:00.000+03:00

Check out this wonderful product review of Nokia 9500 Communicator at All About Symbian.

Nokia software store Preminet

2005-10-09T20:32:00.000+03:00

Nokia started a retail store that sells software. It is called Preminet. The big idea here is that consumers would have easier access to third party software. This would increase the customer satisfaction and user efficiency, therefore leading into increased software sales for the whole industry. If Nokia can educate all their customers about the limitless online software supply, they are

New Nokia VoIP solution

2005-10-09T19:55:00.000+03:00

Nokia introduced a new VoIP solution at Broadband World Forum 2005 in Madrid. This new technology enables convergence of fixed and mobile networks, therefore helping fixed-line operators making the jump to various mobile services. Read more details at Light Reading.

Nokia spy phone

2005-10-09T19:11:00.000+03:00

Any Nokia 6600 model phone can act as a spy phone. Indian company Aglaya offers software that can turn phone into two-way spy channel. Phone works like a normal phone, but if you call into it with a special number, it will automatically answer without any voice or visual alerts. This is a handy way to eavesdrop into conferences, private business meetings and your workers private life.

Nokia antivirus collaboration

2005-10-08T12:20:00.000+03:00

Widely discussed piece of news comes from Nokia and Symantec. They will be working together to protect high-end mobile phones that happen to have virus-prone operating systems. I think Nokia is making a good move here. As people are migrating from older generation towards Series 60 and higher platforms, there will be wider and wider breeding grounds for digital gremlins. But Symantec???Thank you

Delay for 770 Internet Tablet

2005-10-08T12:13:00.000+03:00

MarketWatch had short piece saying that Nokia has to postpone their wireless Web surfing device. Don’t worry though - they solemnly declare that the device will come out from the factories before Christmas.Don’t you think that it is bit naive to try to influence the markets this way? So what if it comes out, there is no way that they are able to churn enough devices to meet the gadget hunger of

Nokia camera contest

2005-10-08T12:09:00.000+03:00

In my recent drive to publish old news about Nokia, the latest is the camera phone contest that Nokia is running in collaboration with some internationally famous photographers who act as a jury to judge the shots that are enrolled to the competition. Go and put your Nokia in good use. Read more about the article over go and zdnews.

Nokia image down and volume up

2005-10-08T00:04:00.000+03:00

Alyce Lomax at The Motley Fool wrote about Nokia sending mixed signals to the markets. On the other hand, Nokia seems to be doing exceptionally well with their latest push to the emerging markets. Nokia’s strategy on these markets seems to be to churn out cheap phones that will grab market share. Don’t you think it’s funny, how the price of this emerging markets general phone model seems to be

Billion phones and hundreds of models

2005-10-06T23:02:00.000+03:00

This is old Nokia news already but I just wanted to make this simple calculus. 1.000.000.000/400=25.000.000. After achieving the total sales of one billion phones with bit over four hundred phone models, we get 25 million phones as the average sales volume for one phone model. That is pretty nice total amount.In the future, I suggest that we see this average figure to fall steadily, because the

Nokia 6101 again

2005-10-06T00:02:00.000+03:00

Some time ago, Nokia introduced a 6101 model and I wrote about the ubercoolness of the phone. 6101 has a VGA camera, but when you think of it, who wants to have a lousy VGA camera?Express audio messaging system was also launched with this phone model. This happens to be much more interesting feature. No more text messaging as you can talk message (can anyone see talksage or talge word forming

Nokia XpressMusic

2005-10-04T22:56:00.000+03:00

Nokia shines its armor on the music front and launches new brand feature that tells people which of Nokia phones are optimized for music. From now on you must know that if it reads XpressMusic, it plays cool. From PC Magazine.

Nokia 3250 images leaked and everybody freaked

2005-10-03T23:50:00.000+03:00

Nokia 3250 images have leaked at promotional event in Berlin. Net went crazy about this news. Device looks cool and casual but it also combines some wonderful features. I spotted many sources running the story and I wasn’t even looking.Nokia was quick to react and officially launched the product during the following day of the slip, winners are indeed made by fast dice casting. Whole different

Cingular Wireless selling Nokia 9300

2005-10-03T23:47:00.000+03:00

Getting on the sales list of Cingular is a major improvement for Nokia’s public appearance in the States. Nokia’s brand has been bit out of touch to the USA market, but now improved distribution and coming slate of products will help to turn the page, hopefully...

Nokia sells eRefill to Chinese Jiangxi Mobile

2005-10-02T21:50:00.000+03:00

Jiangxi Mobile Telecommunication Co. Ltd. bought Nokia’s SMS-based solution for micropayments. As people are able to add money to their subscription accounts, the older voucher-based prepaid card mobile service will get a serious competition. I would say that eRefill could have strong impact on Asian markets, where the prepaid model is widely used. This deal happens to be Nokia’s first delivery

Nokia opens 3G service development center in Taiwan

2005-10-02T17:46:00.000+03:00

Nokia opened a mobile content development center in Taiwan, in association with Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry. Taiwan was chosen as the testing ground for such operations because of the strong innovation and development capacity. Time will tell us what kind of 3G service products Nokia comes up with in Taiwan. Read more information about the news in this article.

Also Nokia suffers from frog syndrome

2005-09-20T21:37:00.000+03:00

Check if you have been boiled like a frog and read this article about upgrading mobile phones.

Nokia joins eclipse

2005-09-20T21:29:00.000+03:00

Don’t you just wonder why so many sites in the net and in present popular culture emphasize NOT using capital letters? Does it give more credibility that you all the time have to correct people?- “Excuse me, could you explain what you do at Eclipse?”- “Sir, it is spelled eclipse, not Eclipse.”- “Oh...”- “Oh... Indeed, Sir.”- “Well, because of my total idiotism, I – Mr. Smith –

Nokia 6630 Music Edition

2005-09-20T21:07:00.000+03:00

Nokia has announced a Music Edition of its 6630 mobile phone. In this Music Edition 6630 smartphone, Nokia will use: larger memory card, Nokia PC Suite, Nokia USB MMC/SD reader and 3,5 mm stereo jack for connecting headphones. The regular version of the mobile phone is available for example here (for those who wonder why I link to www.nokiausa.com, I this time use www.nokia.co.uk)Is this the

Nokia 6600 commercial story

2005-09-19T22:05:00.000+03:00

Nokia pushes in India

2005-09-19T21:56:00.000+03:00

Just a quick remark that Nokia is really very busy in India. Almost half of the news articles that are somehow Nokia related have something to do with the developments in India. Time will tell if these actions bring lasting results.

Nokia flexing muscles

2005-09-19T21:52:00.000+03:00

Long article that also goes bit deeper into Nokia's present business model. Boasting to be the world’s largest consumer electronics company with their 200 million mobile phones sold last year, Nokia is making quite a stand. Nokia’s brand ranking has emerged as the sixth biggest in the world. That is not an empty feature, as they manage to combine high visibility consumer brand with high

Nokia India co-branding

2005-09-19T21:17:00.000+03:00

Heikki Norta, the senior vice-president at Nokia said that they are talking to major players in operator community in India. According to him the negotiations usually deal with topics like how operator name is going to show on packaging and actual mobile phones. Read more about the article over here.COMMENTARYNokia is obviously under some stress to make amendments for mobile operators so that

Nokia N-Gage Arena concept runs on

2005-09-18T21:00:00.000+03:00

Nokia continues its online strategy with the N-Gage platform. System Rush is the game and the players can fight against corrupt mega corporations all over the world. Players take shape of cyber hackers that are fighting against corruption on all continents (wonder why Africa has not been included, maybe there are no buying customers to suck up). N-Gage Arena is once again strongly connected to

Management keeps Nokia competitive

2005-09-17T16:04:00.000+03:00

Interesting news coming from South Korea – LG Economic Research Institute, in a recent report, argued that organizational system is the key to win on the highly competitive super-cheap mobile phone market. Actual products, while still important, would however be secondary in importance. They argue that economies of scale and platform thinking that fits to every market will lead to the

Small deal for Nokia

2005-09-16T21:54:00.000+03:00

Telefonica Moviles Chile has chosen Nokia to expand its GSM/GPRS mobile network. No financials, or no special items were disclosed so this deal probably falls among the masses of bread-and-butter deals that keep business running like usual.

Nokia Business Center business logic

2005-09-15T22:13:00.000+03:00

More about Nokia’s push into mobile email services. This Business Week article goes deeper into the business logic behind Nokia’s decision. In a nutshell, Nokia sells lots of “corporate masses” phones that are now capable of emailing. Potential market for Nokia as the corporate mobile email provider is just massive.Nokia Business Center business logic is geared towards encouraging companies to

Improved forecasts at Nokia

2005-09-14T23:12:00.000+03:00

Nokia lifted its earnings forecasts. Better results came from strong sales, cost control and one-time positive items.COMMENTARYNokia spent heavily on N-series launch earlier this year. Marketing obviously shows in the sales figures and as they now haven’t burned money on advertising they seem to have better results. This situation will not last for long though. They need to improve their market

Mobile email solution from Nokia

2005-09-13T21:13:00.000+03:00

Nokia Business Center will make mobile email universally available for Nokia smart phone owners.COMMENTARYGo and check this news, because it will have major implications on the corporate mobile services sector. Combined with Nokia’s latest push in educating companies to use mobile solutions, this will markedly bolster the market position of Nokia Enterprise Solutions.

Nokia Global Network Operations Centre

2005-09-13T20:07:00.000+03:00

Nokia will start a new operations centre that will take care of Nokia's entire networks clientele of mobile service providers globally. This centre will be founded in India and the choice is now between only two locations. Nokia offers managed services for 34 clients and has been helping operators with global services. More here.COMMENTARYI would see this as a coming trend in the

Avaya and Nokia offer new fixed mobility solution

2005-09-12T22:47:00.000+03:00

AVAYA AND NOKIA TEAM WORK TOGETHERAvaya’s applications turn Nokia’s mobile phones, but only those powerful Series 60 phones, into virtual desktop phones. In practice it means that your mobile phone will work as desktop phone with all related features. My eyes caught the news over here. Oh, by the way, if you need flashy references, B.A.R Honda is using this service.HOW IT WORKS?Mobile phone can

Nokia opening a distribution center in Dubai

2005-09-12T22:28:00.000+03:00

Nokia has opened a distribution center in Dubai. Nokia does this in order to tap into the fast growing Middle East and African markets. Link to news. To my opinion this is a good move from Nokia as they benefit from exceptional tax brakes that Dubai is offering for international businesses.

Nokia 6101 offering by T-Mobile

2005-09-11T18:11:00.000+03:00

T-Mobile will launch Nokia 6101 in the USA tomorrow. Cool phone and specifications can be found here at Nokia USA. Price will hover around 150 bucks. I would also like to live in a land of cheap Nokia mobile phones.

Mobile phones taking over the world

2005-09-11T17:17:00.000+03:00

Home entertainment system in your mobile device, is that possible? This seems to be what Andrew White and Will Iredale ask in Times Online article.Super mobile phones seem to grab the title in fight for the gadget supremacy. In Oxford there is a project launching that will broadcast live television for mobile phones that will be a package of 16 channels.According to the writers, this is just the

Christian Lindholm leaves Nokia for Yahoo

2005-09-10T23:42:00.000+03:00

In Yahoo, Christian will create mobile products. He has been at Nokia for ten years and couple of previous years he has been working with Lifeblog product. Sad to see him go, but then again, Nokia has been slow to get their content services out to the markets. Maybe this will lead into some kind of cooperation between Nokia and Yahoo! One never knows.

Nokia teams with Duckie Brown

2005-09-10T17:59:00.000+03:00

Nokia and Duckie Brown are creating a scholarship for students at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. They shun from giving material goods, instead they give donations to the scholarship fund in the names of the attendees.Furthermore, there are five phones to be auctioned at eBay, and proceeds go to the scholarship fund, founded by Nokia and Duckie Brown. Oh, by the way, those phones are

Nokia 3G order to Czech

2005-09-10T08:35:00.000+03:00

Nokia got an order from Czech mobile operator, Eurotel Praha, for delivering a 3G network. Eurotel Praha has 4.4 million customers and covers 99% of Czech land area. Sounds like a nice beachhead, because this is Nokia’s very first 3G order in Czech republic. Snippet from the Forbes and customer and coverage information from Helsingin Sanomat (behind paid services by now).

Nokia N80 phone model rumour

2005-09-09T23:20:00.000+03:00

Cool rumours come from China and get diffused by Softpedia. Probably a hoax, could be that someone has been Photoshopping on the back alley. However, the concept sounds valid and there are similar models on the markets already, nothing quite like this though.