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Nokia Prepares to Give Developers a Look at High-End System

Christopher Lawton, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 14, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

It appears we may get a sneak peek of Nokia’s strategy for tackling the high-end device market, currently dominated by Apple’s iPhone and iPad franchises, very soon.

Smart Phones: Will There Be More Than Two Mobile Platforms?

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on May 18, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Right now, the smart phone landscape seems completely cluttered with software platforms: IPhone OS, Android, Windows, Symbian, Maemo, BlackBerry OS, WebOS and a number of others. But that’s not likely to be the case forever. Some of the players will end up being exposed as pretenders.

Nokia: “By 2011…We Will Be at Par With Apple and RIM”

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 4, 2010 at 6:44 am PT

Nokia’s quest for relevance in the smartphone market will soon come to fruition, though perhaps not as quickly as the company’s shareholders would like. Nokia, which saw its smartphone market share slip to 35 percent from 41 percent in its latest quarter, will reverse that decline by 2011.

Want to Be Relevant Again, Nokia? Buy Palm.

John Paczkowski in News on December 3, 2009 at 2:48 pm PT

Over the past few years, Nokia’s dominance of the smartphone market has been steadily eroded by competition from the likes of Apple and Research In Motion. So what should it do? Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair has a suggestion: Nokia should buy Palm.

Nokia Buy Palm? Riiiiight.

John Paczkowski in News on November 13, 2009 at 12:39 pm PT

Palm shares are trading higher today, bolstered by anticipation of the Nov. 15 launch of the Pixi, the company’s second webOS handset, and by some silly rumors about a potential takeover by Nokia. Does the company really need another software platform to add to Symbian, Maemo and Qt? C’mon.

Nokia Reorg Actually "Job Rotation"

John Paczkowski in News on October 16, 2009 at 10:27 am PT

Nokia describes the management overhaul it’s undertaking as a common “job rotation,” but coming as it does after its lousy third-quarter financial performance and a worrisome decline in smartphone market share, it seems perhaps just a little bit more. This morning the Finnish mobile phone giant tapped Rick Simonson, currently its chief financial officer, as head of its handset division. And the company named Timo Ihamuotila, currently global head of sales, CFO.

Nokia Reorg Actually “Job Rotation”

John Paczkowski in News on October 16, 2009 at 10:27 am PT

Nokia describes the management overhaul it’s undertaking as a common “job rotation,” but coming as it does after its lousy third-quarter financial performance and a worrisome decline in smartphone market share, it seems perhaps just a little bit more. This morning the Finnish mobile phone giant tapped Rick Simonson, currently its chief financial officer, as head of its handset division. And the company named Timo Ihamuotila, currently global head of sales, CFO.