Nokia unveiled three smartphones and two cellphones last week in a bid to recapture the market it once ruled, reports AP.
Nokia 600, 700 and 701, three new Symbian Belle smartphone models are being advertised as world’s smallest touchscreen smartphones by Nokia. These models have come five months after Nokia launched its first smartphone running on updated Symbian software.
“Symbian Belle and the three new handsets we are launching today show our commitment to continue delivering Symbian …

Nokia has debarred its developer forum site after a cyber-attack breached security and compromised user data.
In an email, the Finland-based phone maker and tech giant said that the developer.nokia.com/community discussion forum would freeze services until an extensive deliberation and investigation on the security breach takes place.
Nokia also admitted the exposure of user data to foreign elements with malicious intent, including birth dates, emails and several others.
However, the company …

Nokia has announced a new updated version of mobile operating system Symbian, code-named Belle. It will replace the Symbian Anna, which was introduced in spring 2011.
Among the new features added in Belle are support for wireless communications technology NFC, and scalable widgets. The Symbian Belle OS also features Android style drop-down notifications and provide small dialogue boxes facilitating easy multi-tasking.
The open applications on the Symbian Belle OS would be called …

Symbian Anna, the latest version of the Symbian mobile operating system, has just been released by Nokia.

Symbian Anna has just been released for download by Nokia. Image: Nokia

According to Nokia, Symbian Anna offers improvements to the Symbian OS which is targeted to improve “user experience on the Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01 and Nokia E7.”
Symbian Anna has various improvements including a new UI which Nokia says has “crisp icons and multiple usability enhancements”.
For …

 
Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia Corp., has warranted the company’s decision to leave Symbian OS for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 as its mobile operating system of choice after Google announced to acquire Motorola Mobility on Monday.
Like several analysts and experts, Elop believes that Google will switch from a partner who currently offers its Android OS to other companies to a direct competitor once the Motorola deal is completed.
On February 11, Nokia chose to drop support for Symbian …

 
Nokia has picked China Mobile as its first partner to launch Windows Phone 7 handsets in the Asian country.
While the Finnish tech giant has yet to announce launch dates for its first WP7 smartphones, the company is not wasting any time by collecting partners for a big comeback in the smartphone industry after ditching Symbian OS as its primary mobile operating system.
Last week, Nokia EVP Colin Giles announced in Beijing that the company would team up with China Mobile for its launch in …

A new video posted on YouTube shows what could possibly be some Nokia Windows Phone 7 (WP7) phones which aren’t the first leaked Nokia Sea Ray smartphone.
The news comes via mynokiablog.com which picked up the video showing the purported Nokia WP7 devices.

According to Jay Montano of the said blog, he got “an email from someone claiming to be from microsoft (but using an ovi.com email).”
Montano mentions, however, that the “video looks like a mish mash of nokia and microsoft footage …

Apple Inc. has surpassed Nokia in the race to be the biggest maker of smartphones, reports Bloomberg. According to Strategy Analytics, a research company, Apple overtook Nokia for the first time since introducing its iPhone in 2007, when it shipped more smartphones than Nokia last quarter.
The research company disclosed in an email statement that Apple’s smartphone shipments in the second quarter accounted for 18.5 percent of global smartphone shipments. Nokia is now at third place behind …

Nokia on Thursday reported a bleak performance for the just-ended fiscal second quarter at the company and has surrendered its smartphone leader status to Apple.
In its earnings report for the fiscal second quarter, Nokia revealed that it posted a loss of 368 million Euros compared to a profit of 227 million Euros for the same period last year.
The Finnish phone giant reported that net sales decreased by 7 percent to 9.275 billion Euros compared to net sales of 10 billion Euros for the same …

Nokia’s Vertu phone will close its last store in Japan and exit the country, a report from The Associated Press says.
According to the report, Vertu, which sells “high-end” luxury phones, will be closing its last Vertu store in Japan’s Ginza. It previously had four such stores.
Vertu manufactures and sells expensive luxury phones. They are adorned with precious metals like gold, silver, platinum and gems like diamonds.
The brand is “withdrawing from the Japanese market”, The AP …