Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) is clearly following the words “the bigger the better.” According to a report from a Taiwanese site Digitimes, citing industry sources, Nokia will come up with its first phablet in 2014. The segment will be an important one for Nokia, and more so, since the hand set maker has no plans to come out with a full blown tablet device. Therefore, a 6-inch smartphone will be best suited for...
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Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) just released another promo video for the Lumia 928. This particular spot shows images and video clips taken under low-light conditions. One in particular shows a man dancing on the sidewalk at night, another sequence shows a group of people dancing inside a dark room, and then there is another shot featuring a child on a swing at night. At the end of the video, there was a message...
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Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) is rapidly refreshing its product portfolio at the high-end as well as entry level. But competition is at its peak, and is increasing with every passing day. Vendors are launching new smartphones at various price levels. Xperia Z, HTC One, Galaxy S4, upcoming iPhone 5S, Z10, Q10, Q5, new smartphones are just being poured into the market at the fastest pace. That’s the reason Barclays remains underweight on the...
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Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V)’s Lumia 928 is off to a great start fresh out of the gate. The handset was made specifically for Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) subscribers, and within just a day, it jumped up to the top of the best-seller list. The Lumia 928 has been adapted to Verizon’s CDMA network, and the black version of it sold out almost immediately with Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ). It...
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Four former Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) engineers along with another partner, began a small smartphone company in 2011 called Jolla with the intention of doing something new. Right now the company stands at 70 employees strong and has announced that it will launch its first smartphone in the fourth quarter retailing at 399 Euros ($519). The company is taking aim at mid-range to high-range manufacturers. The group left Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) in...
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Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) are in a virtual neck and neck race for third place in the global smartphone market share. That’s according to the latest statistics from research firm International Data Corporation Worldwide. Those numbers show that Android and iOS continue to be number one and two respectively in terms of the most popular smartphone operating systems. Together, shipments of devices using both operating systems made up...
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In the modern era of Bring Your Own Device to work, Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) has been unusual in restricting its employees from using their own devices to access company data, ZDNet reported. The Finnish mobile maker is reportedly rolling out an internal mobile device management (MDM) scheme for the 25,000 of its employees that use company-issued Lumia handsets. “At the time, Windows Phone 8 was a very young platform, and there were...
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The latest report from Gartner on global smartphone market share revealed a lot about how Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) and Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) are doing in the smartphone race. Analysts at Raymond James took a closer look at the raw data and were able to determine several key points. Global Smartphone Growth Estimates Of course the main takeaway from the research report was that Asia and the...
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The Nokia Lumia 928 is now available at Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) for $99.00 with a standard two-year contract. The new phone is available in store and online. For those purchasing their phone online, the phone will ship out on May 20. The new smartphone is smaller and sleeker than it’s predecessor the Lumia 920. This phone features an AMOLED Display, Carl Zeiss optics camera, digital high-performance microphone, unibody construction, scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass...
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Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) unveiled the Lumia 925 this week, and it’s likely that we’ll see even more devices from the smartphone maker in the very near future. After all, we saw less expensive versions of the Windows 8 Lumia handsets within months of the company’s higher end models. We’ve also seen a virtually constant stream of devices from Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) (BIT:NOK1V) (HEL:NOK1V) in recent months, including the Lumia 928 and...
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Global smartphone profits in the first quarter of the year were $12.5 billion, and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) took 57 percent, according to the latest figures from the research firm Strategy Analytics. That amounts to more than $7 billion in smartphone profits for Apple just in the first quarter. Android Dominates In Sales, But Apple Wins In Profits Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s big win in profits actually came with lower sales numbers when compared to Android...
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