Top Ten Mobile Phone News Stories of the Week
Enjoy our roundup of ten mobile phone related news stories you may have missed this week, including leaked Amazon App Store pricing, BAFTA’s for iPhone games, some interesting Nokia Beta Labs apps and another Xperia Play advert! Or if you’re eyes aren’t up to reading all this text click the video above for our bitesized version. 1. Amazon App Store Pricing Spotted Amazon are...
Read MoreSmartphone Sales Increase Over 70% Last Year
Smartphone sales are skyrocketing with a 72.1 % increase in sales last year, according to Gartner’s end-of-year report. The phone market has massively increased in size and complexity, accounting for a fifth of all mobile sales last year – and “all” is one point six BILLION brand new handsets. The complexity comes in with a radical rearrangement of the old order:...
Read MoreIt Has Really Happened – Nokia and Microsoft Announce Partnership
Ahead of Nokia’s Strategic and Financial Briefing scheduled to take place later this morning, the mobile phone manufacturer has announced a partnership with Microsoft to create Windows Phone 7 devices. This represents a huge change in direction for the Finnish company, who have previously only produced hardware running their own Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo platforms. Nokia published an open...
Read MoreNokia Goes From Bad To Worse As N9 Gets The Boot
The Nokia N9 has reportedly been scrapped days before it was due to be made official at Mobile World Congress. Reuters reported that two industry sources informed the agency of the decision after seeing an internal memo sent from Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to his employees explaining that MeeGo might not be the “platform for winning high-end smartphones”. The Nokia N9 has had a rocky ride over...
Read MoreNokia, Strategy Briefings, MWC and Beyond – Are Nokia About to Rise, Phoenix-Like, From the Flames?
A meeting with the title Strategy and Financial Briefing doesn’t really sound like the kind of event where pulses will be set racing, does it? Well, Nokia’s Strategy and Financial Briefing on Friday 11th February continues to look as if it’ll be quite the opposite, as new CEO Stephen Elop appears to be on the warpath, and big changes are looming at Nokia. Nokia have been having...
Read MoreNokia Announce New C5-03 Touchscreen Phone
Nokia have announced a new phone today, the C5-03, which they say is an inexpensive way to move into the modern smartphone market. Shunning the alphanumeric keypad and Nokia Classic-style looks of the first C5, the C5-03 has a touchscreen and a sleek design reminiscent of the Nokia N8. The feature list looks like this: A 3.2″ touchscreen. 3G. Wi-Fi. A microSD card slot for cards up...
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