Stephen Elop to compete with Steve Jobs?

Reuters came up with some interesting news today, announcing that ”Nokia has hired Stephen Elop, a Canadian Microsoft executive with Silicon Valley credentials, to replace its embattled chief executive and renew its drive to compete with Apple.” First non-Finn chief is seen as a ‘change agent.’ Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila felt confident about the hiring: [...]

Nokia wages War on iOS, Android

Nokia is at a crossroads right now, they know it, and everybody else seems to start realizing it. It’s somewhat paradoxical. On the one hand, Nokia is the company that sells more smartphones than anyone else in the industry but is literally struggling to stay afloat. The representatives of Nokia speaking at Nokia World 2010 [...]

Nokia & Intel partnership in research for 3D experience

Nokia and Intel may be planning to create 3D mobile technologies, so they joined together to establish their first joint research center. This partnership called Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center will have it’s headquarters in Finland at the University of Oulu in it’s Center for Internet Excellence . The main activity of the lab is [...]

Nokia N9 MeeGo specs leaked

Last week Nokia N9 MeeGo smartphone several photos leaked from China. By the end of the week we would have some preliminary specs for the device. It appears the smartphone Nokia N9MeeGo will run under the 1GHz frequency of Qualcomm QSD8250 CPU. The 4-inch display is an OLED screen which has an 800×480 resolution. Along with the [...]

Nokia cutting down prices, going for the overkill

The Finish mobile giant is doing quite good for itself, being a few good bars ahead of any sign of competition, from the likes of Sony Ericsson or Motorola. That’s why it comes as a surprise to me, and probably a heck load of other people too, that Nokia will cut down the prices on [...]

Nokia 1209 and Nokia 2600 Classic, the new finnish entry-level phones

Nokia starts the year of 2008 from the bottom. Today it has launched two entry-level mobile phones (Nokia 2600 Classic and Nokia 1209), specially conceived for kinder garden children and pensioned people. In the best case scenario, these terminals could be used as secondary devices, in emergency situations. Nokia 1209. The flashlight returns, This phone [...]