Is the mobile OS Symbian retiring soon after serving its fans for so many years, when at the same time the Finnish company Nokia promises to sell at least 150 million smartphones on this platform during the next few years.
Over the past six months, rumors have been circulating with the information about its future updates, which the company didn’t seem in any hurry to announce.
As it can well be guessed from the invitations sent out to journalists, Nokia is arranging a presentation for …

Recent changes made by Nokia’s Board of Directors to CEO Stephen Elop’s compensation package reveal that the ex-Microsoft exec has a lot riding on the success of Nokia making the Microsoft-developed Windows Phone operating system its primary smartphone platform.
According to records of a recent Nokia Board of Directors meeting, if Nokia performs well through 2012, Elop will be awarded shares which would then be worth almost $13 million Euros.
If the plan sabotages Nokia’s performance, …

Nokia must be furious. Now it is saying that “virtually all” Apple products violate patents it owns.
After the U.S. International Trade Commission dismissed on Friday a patent case filed by Nokia alleging Apple of infringing on five patents the Finnish company owns, Nokia has filed a new complaint against the iPhone and iPod-maker alleging it is violating Nokia patents in “virtually all” of its products.
Paul Melin, vice president of intellectual property at Nokia said that the …

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When Nokia will be entering the tablet market, it does not intend to go with its recently-announced mobile partner Microsoft, a report from Reuters says.
Citing a person with knowledge of Nokia’s plans, the report says that Nokia is “still considering its options for tablets”.
The report says that the Finnish phone giant is considering MeeGo to become its tablet platform. MeeGo is developed under a collaboration of Nokia and microprocessor behemoth Intel.
In …

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Stephen Elop, the former Microsoft executive who now run Finnish phone giant Nokia, has revealed that the first Nokia phone running on the Windows Phone platform is now currently in development, a report from Reuters says.
The news comes a month after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with Elop announced that Nokia will be using the Windows Phone platform for its high-end smartphones.
Some analysts say that this is a fast turn-around because the announcement …

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Samsung may be wooing Nokia engineers to come work on the Korean company’s Bada operating system for its mobile devices, reports say.
There has been a lot of speculation about what will happen to Nokia’s proprietary Symbian mobile operating system after the Finnish company announced with Microsoft that it will be using the Windows Phone platform in it future high-end device market.
Many analysts say that it basically means the death of the Sybian OS and …

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Microsoft will pay Nokia more than $1 billion to “promote and develop” Windows Phone devices, Bloomberg reports.
According to the publication, “two people with knowledge of the terms” of the Nokia Microsoft deal said that Microsoft will pay Nokia the said amount while Nokia will pay for each copy of Windows used in the manufacture of handsets.
In essence, the two companies are paying each other for the product of the other. Nokia is paying for the Windows …

Released last year, the mobile platform from Microsoft – Windows Phone 7 needs very powerful smartphone hardware, and so it runs until only on powerful – and therefore expensive – gadgets. However, Nokia, which recently became a strategic partner of Microsoft, promises to change this situation.
CEO of the Finnish company, who previously worked with Microsoft, Stephen Elop said: prices of smart phones with Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will fall very soon. It is in the interests of …

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Saying it was a key topic on why Nokia decided to forge a deal with Microsoft, chief executive Stephen Elop detailed recently that the Finnish company sees the prices of smartphones running the Windows Phone (WP) platform to likely decrease soon.
Terhi Kinnunen writing for Reuters says that a key factor in Nokia’s decision was convincing the company that WP-powered smartphones “could reach ‘a very low price point.’”
“We have become convinced that we …

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For employees of Nokia who will be let go due to the company’s recent pact with Microsoft, Skype said that it would be happy to hire them, according to Reuters.
Recently, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced that the Finnish phone giant will be making the Microsoft-developed Windows Phone mobile operating system the main platform for its high-end smartphones.
The deal sparked speculation that the company will soon be abandoning its …