What's the difference between a phone that costs $300,000 and one that costs $100? Details, details, details.
Nokia on Monday launched its E-series range of phones that are optimised for business use and said it plans to expand the retail outlets for the device from 1,000 to 6,000.
The Canadian smartphone maker in October last year launched BBM for rival Android- and iOS-based handsets and the app since then has been downloaded on over 40 million such handsets.
The software is pure Android, the fingerprint sensor is 99 per cent accurate and very responsive and the notch doesn't bother me yet, says Veer Arjun Singh.
Can the launch of smartphones under its own brand name by Finnish company HMD Global - despite having a licence to use the Nokia brand which it bought from Microsoft - help it regain its once dominant position in the mobile phone sweepstakes in India, where it was once routed? In 2009, Nokia was the country's largest MNC with revenues of $4 billion and a market share touching 80 per cent in 2010. After this, its fortunes fell. Although it had been the first global player to set up an assembly plant, not only to assemble phones for the local market but for exports, it had to shut down operations in 2014.
Fair trade watchdog CCI has approved Microsoft's proposed $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's mobile devices business, citing that the deal would not have adverse impact on competition in the Indian market.
Mobile phone manufacturer Oppo has lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against an order from the Delhi high court. The order requires Oppo to submit a security payment related to the India portion of the last-paid licence fee to Nokia in an ongoing patent infringement case. The case is slated to appear before the bench of the Chief Justice of India, D Y Chandrachud, on August 4.
The company might launch a dual sim phone in 2010.
The facility is considered to be one of the largest manufacturing units of the handset major.
The multimedia device by the company would be available nationwide within two weeks. Targeted at users of converged devices, N97 would be the company's first phone to come preloaded with Nokia's Ovi store.
Nokia launched two mobile phones based on Windows 8 operating system, including one priced at Rs 10,500.
Company has plans to launch its latest 4G enabled phone Lumia 830 priced at around Rs 26,000 before taxes by Oct.
The first Nokia Windows phones have finally arrived, as expected at Nokia World -- the Lumia 800 and 710, fresh with Mango (WP 7.5) onboard. The devices, sharing similar specs, are expected to hit stores in Europe starting November, followed by India, Hong Kong, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan before the end of the year.
Effectively priced, the new series will heat up the mid-level phone market. Samsung Rex beware
HMD, the company that now markets the Nokia brand, has unveiled its new flagship Nokia 8. And the phone ticks all the right boxes of a standard flagship, says Ashish Narsale.
Microsoft also took a charge of $940 million related to job cuts announced this month and last year.
To beat its rivals, Nokia has done what most Chinese brands did soon after they entered the Indian market. Tied up with a well-known Bollywood actor as endorser, associated with cricket and established fan engagement initiatives, reports T E Narasimhan.
Here's how the iPhone 3GS and Nokia N97 compare with each other.
Nokia has officially revealed its first Windows Phone 8 handsets, the Lumia 920 and 820. Pricing and release dates were not shared at the event, but more details can be expected in the fourth quarter.
Do we have to say more? An icon of a phone for many, this retro phone is back with a bang, says Ashish Narsale.
If we consider the design, the Nokia X5 topples all its competitors at this price range but the hardware specs are a concern.
Loss-making Nokia gains full control of the profitable venture Nokia Siemens Networks for $2.2 billion, a cheaper than-expected price, analysts said, although they also noted the acquisition would put pressure on Nokia's balance sheet.
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Reports suggest that the new handset would feature the Microsoft logo, 5-inch display, 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB storage.
Nokia is bullish on India as the fastest growing wireless market has emerged as the third biggest location for the company in terms of sales.
The Nokia 7 plus smartphone, with 6.00-inch full HD+ display, lets you have the big screen experience, says Debashish Pachal.
It is powered by the fastest processor currently used in the Symbian operating system devices and is faster than Dopod D600, a Windows Mobile 5 PDA.
Though they are closely numbered, there lies several areas that are quite unique between these two devices from Nokia.
Fintech major PhonePe on Wednesday announced the launch of its homegrown Indus Appstore specifically for the Indian market, in a bid to compete with global incumbents like Google Play Store and Apple's App Store. The Indus Appstore is PhonePe's attempt at creating a more competitive and localised mobile app store economy for India, which is already the world's largest market for mobile apps.
The Lumia 510 comes with impressive performance and an exciting sub-Rs 11,000 price tag.
Making the Pixel 8 in India will not necessarily bring the price down -- witness iPhones made in India that are more expensive than those in the US and Dubai.
Following in Apple's footsteps, Alphabet - Google's parent company - is in advanced talks with Foxconn to manufacture Pixel smartphones in Tamil Nadu, an industrial state which will also double up as drone-manufacturing hub for the US tech giant soon. According to a state government release, officials from Google will soon visit Chennai to meet Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin to hold discussion on manufacturing of Google Pixel near Chennai.
"All the products that we have announced -- Nokia 3310, Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 -- will be available in the second quarter of this year in India. Average global selling price for Nokia 3310 is 49 euros," HMD Global Oy Chief Marketing Officer Pekka Rantala said.
Nokia Technologies will receive royalty payments from HMD for sales of Nokia-branded mobile products, covering both the brand and the intellectual property rights.
1.4 mn songs are getting downloaded through the Nokia Music Store every day.
As much as Rs 8,000 crore worth of mobile phones in this segment - out of a total of Rs 15,000 crore - come into the country through the grey market. The government imposed the duty on these phones primarily to encourage domestic production but the strategy has failed as the bulk of high end mobile phones are currently imported.
The phone has the ability to store up to 6,000 songs on a 32 GB memory card.
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