Gartner expects manufacturers like Samsung to launch a whole range of budget devices that will drive Android into mass market segments.
The two entities would form a "broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem."
Get Ahead reader Daya Kudari lists out the highs and lows of Nokia Lumia 800. According to him this Nokia-Microsoft effort is a more than decent affair.
Reports suggest that the new handset would feature the Microsoft logo, 5-inch display, 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB storage.
Going forward, the Korean company's real competition could be nimble-footed Indian companies, more than the Nokia-Microsoft combine.
The widely-rumoured Apple iPhone 5 is scheduled to make an appearance on 12 September, Nokia-Microsoft, too, is allegedly launching new smartphones and Samsung has already released a new Windows 8 phablet (phone that masquerades as a tablet).
The Mobile World Congress 2011 brought quite a few interesting devices and technologies to the forefront, and while none of them were shockingly new, some stood out much further than others.
The phone has the ability to store up to 6,000 songs on a 32 GB memory card.
Microsoft Devices Group has unveiled the Nokia 215, its most affordable Internet-ready phone.
Nokia shut down has also resulted in the loss of job for over 12,000, who were indirectly employed by the company.
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On March 14, the Supreme Court had ordered Nokia India to give Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion) as guarantee before it transfers the plant to Microsoft.
Union sources claimed production at the Chennai plant, considered one of the biggest for Nokia, had declined from 13 million handsets per month to four million per month.
Nokia started operations at Sriperumbudur plant near Chennai, the second biggest facilities by any global firm, in 2006 after Korean auto major Hyundai's came up with its plant in the late 1990s.
About 900 employees would lose their jobs following the suspension of operations at the plant.
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Employees at Nokia's Chennai plant are not so keen to shift their base.
The device is being labelled as the phone for 'selfies and skype'.
Finnish phone maker Nokia may have to exclude its Chennai plant from the $7.2 billion deal with Microsoft if tax issues facing the India unit are not resolved by next week.
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Besides staging a hunger strike on March 31 in Chennai, the Nokia India Employees Union have decided to further step up their protest post the Lok Sabha elections.
The Income Tax department has informed the Delhi High Court that Nokia India and Nokia Corporation owe it Rs 21,153 crore (Rs 211.53 billion) as total tax liability (existing and anticipated), including penalty during a seven-year period from 2006-2013.
Unions will 'fight to death' if company 'decides' to shut Chennai factory.
The workers who were hired straight out of school as unskilled labourers are now struggling to find alternative employment because they lack skills.
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