Nokia announced on its quarterly fiscal report that its smartphone sales fell 39 percent to 10.2 million in the second quarter this year. However, if we include its feature phones into the count, the drop is actually smaller at 5 percent to 83.2 million.
According to research firm Gartner, the Finnish tech giant once dominated as the world’s top phone maker for over 10 years, but Samsung has overtaken it in the first quarter of this year.
Gartner made a year-on-year (YoY) comparison of each …

Fresh from a massive net loss in the first quarter of the year, Nokia has reported that it tallied a net loss of 1.41 billion euros (or about US$1.74 billion) for the second quarter of the year.
This is a four-fold increase in loss for the struggling Finnish handsets maker compared to its loss of 368 million euros for the second quarter of last year.
Back in April, Nokia posted a massive loss of 1.34 billion euros (or about $1.7 billion) as its sales of feature phones and smartphones failed to …

Nokia Lumia 900 buyers should grab the opportunity to purchase the Finnish phone maker’s flagship Windows Phone device in the US, especially now that it only costs 50 percent less.
US telecoms carrier AT&T has decided to cut the smartphone’s two-year contract price to $49.99. The Lumia 900 is available in four different casings: blue, white, black, and pink.
Previously sold for $99, the Lumia 900 comes with a 4.3-inch display, a 1.4 GHz processor and an 8-megapixel camera with …

Nokia Transport is now out of beta, with the Finnish phone maker rolling it out to Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace.
Nokia Transport, a navigational application that allows users to get directions from location A to B via public transit, just launched last month in beta. The app provides several routes for you to choose and follow. It also has the ability to look at earlier and later departures of the app’s chosen route.
Now that it is out of beta, Nokia Transport offers additional …

Nokia and Namco Bandai Games has released this week 22 classic retro arcade games for the Asha Touch phones range.
The news about the newly available retro games from Namco Bandai comes as Nokia also recently passed the 5 billion downloads milestone with its Nokia Store.
Headlining the 22 retro games for the Nokia Asha Touch range are PAC-MANR and Final Fantasy while the following classic Namco Bandai games are also available on the Nokia Store:
- SOULCALIBURR
- ACE COMBAT NORTHERN WINGS(TM)
- …

Nokia, still struggling against essentially a duopoly dominated by Apple and Samsung in the smartphone space, has been in clear trouble since last year.
Nonetheless, the Finnish handsets maker – once regarded as the undisputed king in mobile phones – seems to be holding true to their announced path: sell as much feature phones as possible and transition to Windows Phone as their high-end smartphones’ operating system.
However, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, a former high-ranking executive of …

Nokia may be releasing the Nokia PureView 808 in the U.S. tomorrow as hinted by the Finnish phone manufacturer on its U.S. Facebook Page.
Yesterday, Nokia posted a map of Hawaii with big, bold letters saying “6.18.12” which will be the date tomorrow.
In the image, there appeared to be Nokia Maps navigation keys overlaid. This has prompted people to speculate that tomorrow will be the launch of the Nokia Maps service which has been recently rumored to be replacing Bing Maps on Windows Phone …

Nokia has agreed to sell its luxury phone division Vertu to EQT VI, a private equity firm from Northern Europe.
“With its strong brand, undisputed category leadership and attractive growth outlook, Vertu fits well with EQT VI’s investment strategy,” said Jan Ståhlberg, Partner at EQT Partners.
“EQT VI is excited about the opportunity to develop Vertu as a standalone company and plans to drive the development of the luxury mobile phone category through significant investments in …

Pay Close Attention When Buying a Windows Phone. (Image via Slashgear )

First announced in the beginning of 2012, low-end smartphones with Windows Phone and 256MB of RAM seem to come with the advantage of price and the lack of restricted functionality.
Even during the launch of the first smartphones with 256MB of RAM, including the Nokia Lumia 610, Microsoft was mentioning the fact that 5% of applications from the online store will be compatible, but no one expected the surprise it has …

Those who were wishing there were more Nokia PureView phones coming from the Finnish handsets maker are in for a treat.
According to a new report from Engadget, the struggling mobile phone maker – which recently saw its crown as the world’s biggest phones vendor by volume taken away by Samsung – will make more Nokia PureView phones.
The information comes from Vesa Jutila who is  Head of Product Marketing for the upcoming Nokia 808 PureView, the publication says.
Jutila told the site that …