Tag Archives : Nokia

Nokia Lumia 1020 Review

Nokia Lumia 1020 Review

Nokia have gone in hard with their product placement deals for the Lumia range
Android Accounts For 65% Of Last Quarter Smartphone Sales, Windows Score With First Time Smartphone Users

Android Accounts For 65% Of Last Quarter Smartphone Sales, Windows Score With First Time Smartphone Users

 Android and iOS lead the chart and Windows follows at a predictable number three according to Kantar’s WorldPanel Comtech report for Q2 2003, Samsung retains its position of top Android device, it accounted for 65 percent of all smartphone sales in the top smartphone markets in the world (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Australia, China, Mexico) iPhone Sales presented a mixed picture, [...]
Microsoft Accquires Nokia’s Phone Business For US$ Seven Billion

Microsoft Accquires Nokia’s Phone Business For US$ Seven Billion

Microsoft on Tuesday had made public it’s plan to buy Nokia’s devices and services division which makes Nokia smartphones by paying about US $7 billion. $5 billion is for Nokia’s devices business and around $2.2 billion for the rights to Nokia’s patents.   Nokia is no longer among the top five makers of smartphones but remains the second-largest shipper of mobile phones [...]
Huawei’s Nokia Acquisition Boosts Nokia Shares, Huawei Denies It

Huawei’s Nokia Acquisition Boosts Nokia Shares, Huawei Denies It

Huawei was reportedly considering acquiring Nokia in it’s bid to help Huawei become a global leader in smartphone manufacturing according  an article  by the Financial Times. The buyout news boosted Nokia shares in U.S. markets which went up 41 cents, or 11%, to reach $4.10, during US mid day trading on Tuesday. Huawei quickly responded saying that it “has no plans to acquire Nokia”. The [...]
Nokia To Hold Press Event In London  On May 14 For Windows Smartphones Announcement

Nokia To Hold Press Event In London On May 14 For Windows Smartphones Announcement

Nokia is getting inspired  from Apple by having exclusive press events and sending out invites that gives only a hint of what it might be about. Nokia has sent out an invite to the members of the press to an event here in London on May 14. The invite teases “See what’s next” followed by “The Nokia Lumia story continues.” Nokia might announce at least one new Windows Phone handset at the [...]
Microsoft Nokia Lumia Windows Phone Ad Attacks Samsung Galaxy S3 Camera

Microsoft Nokia Lumia Windows Phone Ad Attacks Samsung Galaxy S3 Camera

Microsoft is pitching Nokia Lumia 920 against the Samsung Galaxy S3. Microsoft announced today that they are planning to air the “ Windows Phone Challenge” touting the camera in the Nokia Lumia 920 vs. the Samsung Galaxy S3. Since we kicked off the Windows Phone Challenge over a year ago at CES (it was called “Smoked by Windows Phone” back then), the one question I’ve been consistently asked [...]
Nokia Announces Cheap Windows Phones With Lumia 520 And Lumia 720

Nokia Announces Cheap Windows Phones With Lumia 520 And Lumia 720

Nokia is making efforts to widen its Windows 8 user base, it has today announced two new Lumia smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The entry level Nokia Lumia 520 will be priced at US $185 off contract, while the mid range Lumia 720 will cost US $338 . The Nokia 720 features a 4.3-inch display 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB of storage, and expandable memory.  The camera [...]
Samsung Comes Up With Low-Cost Phones To Counter Nokia Asha Series

Samsung Comes Up With Low-Cost Phones To Counter Nokia Asha Series

Nokia’s low-cost Asha series phones are selling twice as much as Lumia, Apple is rumored to be developing cheap iPhones, how could Samsung be far away, Samsung is coming up with a new handset line called Rex that is  targeted  at emerging markets according to a WSJ report.   “As the number one mobile leader and innovator, we are committed to developing the best possible mobile solutions [...]
Android And iOS Contributed 87.6% To Smartphone  Market Share In 2012

Android And iOS Contributed 87.6% To Smartphone Market Share In 2012

Android and iOS once again dominated the smartphone market with 91.1 percent of all global smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2012. Android and Apple shipped and landed 87.6 percent of the 722.4 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2012 according to a report by IDC. “The dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark in the fourth quarter,” said Ramon Llamas, research [...]
Apple and Samsung Garnered More Than Half Of Smartphone Sales In Q4 2012

Apple and Samsung Garnered More Than Half Of Smartphone Sales In Q4 2012

Apple and Samsung accountes for 52 percent of all global smartphone sales in fourth quarter of 2012 according to a report by Gartner. Overall, mobile phone sales declined across the globe by 1.7 percent last year, the last time when sales fell were in 2009. Below is the report : “The last time the worldwide mobile phone market declined was in 2009,” said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst [...]
© 2012 Sporkings. All rights reserved.
LDN.cm Publishing Limited.