6 posts and columns on N900

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

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.

Want to Be Relevant Again, Nokia? Buy Palm.

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.
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Nokia: 2010 Will Be Better–We Promise

in News on December 2, 2009 at 7:54 am PT

A bit of good news for Nokia in its seemingly endless parade of bad. The company said today that it expects handset industry volumes to rise 10 percent in 2010 from 2009 as the market rebounds from the econalypse. “Going into 2010, the overall mobile devices market is stabilizing and it is growing more in the areas where Nokia has competitive advantages,” CFO Timo Ihamuotila said during the company’s Capital Markets Day event today.
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Nokia's Smart-Phone Slip

in News on October 15, 2009 at 8:23 am PT

Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says the demand for mobile devices improved in many markets during the third quarter–but you wouldn’t know it to look at the company’s earnings. This morning, Nokia posted an unexpected 559 million euro ($836 million) loss for the period, its first in a decade. Worse, its smart-phone market share declined to 35 percent from 41 percent in the previous quarter.
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Nokia’s Smart-Phone Slip

in News on October 15, 2009 at 8:23 am PT

Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says the demand for mobile devices improved in many markets during the third quarter–but you wouldn’t know it to look at the company’s earnings. This morning, Nokia posted an unexpected 559 million euro ($836 million) loss for the period, its first in a decade. Worse, its smart-phone market share declined to 35 percent from 41 percent in the previous quarter.
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Nokia: Linux-Based Smart Phone Takes On the iPhone

in News on August 28, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

Has Nokia finally come up with a smart phone that can take on the Apple iPhone? This morning, the company launched a new model called the N900 which is based on the company’s Linux-based Maemo 5 operating system.