Nokia has launched the Lumia 920T which will be available to over 700 million subscribers of China Mobile.
The Lumia 920T is the first Windows Phone to be capable of operating using the TD-SCDMA network standard used by China Mobile.
According to Nokia, the Lumia 920T will be available on China Mobile at the end of the year for RMB 4,599 (about $740).
“We are delighted to partner with China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, to introduce China’s first Lumia based on Windows …

Nokia has announced a definite agreement to sell and then rent back its head office building in Espoo, Finland.
Nokia will be selling the building in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland which it has operated since 1997 to Finland-based firm Exilion for 170 million Euros (about $222 million).
The move comes as the troubled company is disposing of what it calls “non-core assets” as it reins in massive losses for the previous quarters.
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Nokia revealed on Wednesday it had filed lawsuits in Europe and America against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) for breaching its patent contracts.
On Monday, the Finnish phone maker sued RIM in a California court to impose a Swedish arbitration tribunal’s ruling that RIM cannot sell products with wireless local area network (WLAN) technology without a royalty agreement with Nokia.
“We have now filed actions in the US, UK and Canada with the aim of ending RIM’s breach of …

While Nokia has been shy of posting official sales numbers for its flagship Lumia 920 smartphone, a report now comes from China which casually mentions a definite number.
According to a report from PhoneArena, “Yahoo China mentioned nonchalantly in a report about the launch of the Lumia 920 in China, that Nokia has so far received 2.5 million orders for the device.”
Nonetheless, current developments in other markets seem to support this.
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The head of the imaging unit at Nokia will be leaving the company at the end of November, a new report from Reuters reveals.
Damian Dinning will be heading to Jaguar Land Rover to oversee technology implementation in connected cars, the report adds.
Dinning has been in charge of Nokia imaging division and is the man behind the PureView 808 smartphone with a 41-megapixel camera.
Under his guidance, Nokia built a reputation for imaging excellence in its top-tier smartphones.
In a statement to …

Nokia has released its Nokia Reader app for Series 40 handsets to provide quick access to local and international news sources and RSS feeds.
The Nokia Reader app is still in beta development, but it already brings the latest happenings to a Nokia Series 40 phone without sacrificing battery life because of Nokia Notifications. Nokia says its back-end servers do much of the trick, so it only establishes a data connection when needed.
The Finnish phone giant uses location-based information in …

Nokia has unveiled a new service called HERE as the struggling Finnish handsets maker enters the location and mapping fray dominated by Google.
Nokia says that HERE is the first location cloud and the company aims to offer the best maps and location experiences not only for its smartphones but also for other platforms.
In fact, Nokia has partnered with Mozilla for HERE to be tightly integrated to the upcoming Firefox OS. Firefox OS is expected to debut in smartphones made by ZTE in the first …

Verizon Wireless and Nokia have made it official: the Nokia Lumia 822 is coming to Verizon, exclusive for the wireless carrier’s Fall portfolio.
However, the information shared by Nokia and Verizon is still lacking when and for how much exactly the Nokia 822 will be offered.
The announcement comes after a leak in the previous weeks of an alleged photo of the Lumia 822 which, by the way, appears to have been genuine.
Official specifications shared by Nokia include just its “8MP camera with …

Nokia on Thursday posted its sixth consecutive quarterly loss as gains made in other divisions were offset by losses linked to declining smartphone sales figures and restructuring charges.
Nokia lost 969 billion Euros (about $1.27 billion) during the third quarter coming with a 19 percent decrease in revenue.
In its report, Nokia posted net sales of 7.24 billion Euros ($9.45 billion), down from a 7.5-billion Euros revenue for the same quarter last year.
In the first quarter, Nokia posted a net …

Nokia has lost one of its most senior executives, former Vice President of Product Marketing Ilari Nurmi, as the company struggles to catch up with rivals in the smartphone market.
The news was confirmed by Reuters on Friday although the reason for the departure of the executive is yet to be known.
Nurmi, a long-time Nokia employee, confirmed the news himself in a post on Twitter on Monday saying:
I have left Nokia. I am thankful for almost 15y there. I wish Nokia all the best and look forward …