The Nokia 803 may come equipped with the largest-ever camera sensor to date, a rumor coming from Boy Genius Report details.
According to BGR, they have “been told that the Nokia 803 will feature one of the largest camera sensors — if not the largest camera sensor — ever seen on a mobile phone.”
However, BGR – which did not cite a source for the information leading to their report – did not provide an exact or approximate sensor size for the Nokia 803.
The Nokia 803 is expected to be …

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Microsoft has paid the amount of $ 250 million to Nokia to adopt the software giant’s operating system Windows Phone 7 for the new series of Lumia smartphones. We are talking about the agreement reached last year between the two companies while Nokia was having big sales problems because they did not have a powerful operating system. The Finnish company needed an operating system already designed for mobile platforms, but also with some …

There was modest growth in global handsets shipments for the previous year but it did not stop the market from shipping more than 1.55 billion handsets for the last 12 months.
The data comes from Strategy Analytics which said in a recent report that its latest research indicate that handsets shipments for 2011 reached 1.6 billion (1.551 billion) units globally posting an annual growth of 14 percent.
The most number of handsets shipped during the year was in the final three months of 2011 when …

Samsung has reportedly gotten the most market share in the smartphone shipments race for the whole of 2011 even as Apple reclaimed the lead from Samsung by a small margin in shipments of smartphones in the fourth quarter.
The news comes from Strategy Analytics which said that Apple was indeed the biggest smartphone vendor by shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011 but that did not stop Samsung from getting the biggest share of shipments of smartphones for the whole year.
Samsung shipped 97.4 …

Nokia have today announced a hefty loss on its overall earnings for the year ending December 2011. Nokia, which recently partnered with Microsoft to feature Windows Mobile on its range of smartphones, reported a loss of $1.4 billion in a sharp contrast to the $980 million profit it made in a similar period 2010. This loss is attributable to a cocktail of issues that conspired to hand Nokia the huge loss it has incurred. Top of these is the 29% drop in phone sales during 2011, a loss factor that …

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Sales of Nokia phones that run Windows Phone are encouraging for the Finnish manufacturer in the attempt to regain confidence, considering that Nokia has lost 19 billion dollars of its market value over the last year.
Lumia phones, which came out on the European market in November last year, were sold, probably, in 1.4 million copies worldwide by the end of December, according to estimates of 22 analysts and compiled by Bloomberg.
“The figures look bright. If Nokia had …

The Nokia Lumia 710 will have its U.K. release this coming February 1, reports from the U.K. reveal.
According to 3G.co.uk, the Nokia Lumia 710 will be launched on the wireless carriers Three and Orange.
Another report from CBR Online says that the date of the launch of the Lumia 710 in the U.K comes from Nokia U.K.
The Lumia 710 will join the Lumia 800 which has a lot of similar specifications as the lower-end 710.
The Lumia 710 and the Lumia 800 both run on the same single-core 1.4GHz …

The Nokia Lumia 900 will be coming exclusively to AT&T for the U.S. market this coming March, a post on the Nokia Developer Website reveals.
The post says:
Nokia’s newest smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 900, was introduced this week at the International CES 2012 in Las Vegas by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. (Watch Elop discuss Nokia’s strategy focusing on the new Nokia Lumia phones running Microsoft Windows Phone during the AT&T Developer Summit that took place at CES.)
The Nokia …

The upcoming Nokia Ace (a.k.a. Nokia Lumia 900) will have big bucks backing it up in the form of a promotion as it launches, a new report suggests.
According to BetaNews, the Nokia Ace will have a promotion with a budget of around $100 million as it launches in the second quarter.
Citing unnamed sources who told them the information about the Galaxy Ace launch and marketing budget, the site writes that the Nokia Ace will launch in late March.
Together with its launch, Microsoft, Nokia and …

A new benchmarks video from a YouTube user making the rounds in tech circles shows that the native browser of the iOS 5 iPhone 4S trounces the native browser of the Windows Phone 7.5 Lumia 800 in a selection of benchmark tests.
The YouTube video was picked up by My Nokia Blog and has since been passed around by other publications all over the world.
In the video uploaded by YouTube user “359gsm”, an Apple iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3, a Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and an Apple …