All multimedia phones and smartphones from Nokia will now be pre-loaded with popular Yahoo applications.
Last week, Nokia offered financial help to employees who wished to explore opportunities elsewhere
The company will announce pricing and specific roll-out dates country by country when sales are due to begin.
Dairy major Amul, Life Insurance Corporation of India and mobile manufacturer Nokia have emerged as India's top three brands according to Asia's Top 1000 Brands
Currently, most smartphones available in the country offer cameras with 5-12 MP quality.
Mobile phone giant Nokia's market share in India has increased to 62.5 per cent in 2007-08 from 53.6 per cent in the previous year, according to a survey by Voice & Data.
At 190g, this phone is noticeably heavier than nearly everything else of its size on the market.
The Nokia plant near Chennai started operations in 2006.
Global telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks on Monday announced plans to invest US$ 100 million in the country over the next three years to set up a high-end wireless products manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, among other initiatives.
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The smartphone is priced at Rs 9,199.
Mary McDowell, executive vice-president and general manager (enterprise solutions), Nokia, is not ready to rest on her laurels, yet. In the second quarter of 2007, Nokia's enterprise solutions unit recorded an operating profit of Euro99 million.
Nokia has expanded its research and development facility in Bangalore with the inauguration of a 210,000 sq ft development centre at the Prestige Tech Park in the IT corridor.
Nokia India is likely to ramp up its Chennai facility with an investment of $170 million over the next 18 months to upgrade machinery and enhance capacity.Nokia, which is planning to launch about 30 handsets in the next six months, expects its handset prices to fall by 20 per cent every year.
Mobile handsets maker Nokia has claimed that there has not been any drop in sales due to the recent incidents of explosion of BL-5C batteries, used in its phones but manufactured by the Matsushita Company of Japan. Following the Nokia product advisory, many consumers in India using BL-5C batteries have received replacements and the rest were being accessed.
The company currently employs over 9,000 people and has 95,000 outlets with 50,000 exclusive Nokia brand stores.
Nokia may now not sell its Chennai unit.
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Employees at Nokia's Chennai plant are not so keen to shift their base.
Nokia India Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Finnish cellular equipment maker Nokia, on Thursday suffered a legal setback when a tax appellate tribunal ordered it to pay service tax on consultancy services offered by it to the parent company's cli
Aimed at strengthening its position in the smart phone segment, Finnish handset giant Nokia on Monday launched the 'Lumia 800' and the 'Lumia 710', the first devices from its partnership with software major Microsoft.
Mobile phone maker Nokia Corporation has launched a search to replace current chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who has been struggling to mark a place for the company in high-end smartphone market, says a media report.
The Nokia India Employees Progressive Union held discussions with the management on Monday. "The wage settlement offered by company is quite low. We are not happy with that," said Union sources.
The Department refused to allow transfer of the plant till the dues claimed by the department are not remitted by the company.
Nokia announced that it is selling the division for 3.8 billion euros and a 10-year license to its wireless patent portfolio for 1.65 billion euros, or the combined equivalent of 1.4 euros per share in cash, according to Deutsche Bank.
The facility is considered to be one of the largest manufacturing units of the handset major.
The Chinese film industry has started discussing with cellphone major Nokia the possibility of developing 'mobile film', considered the fifth-generation medium.
Finnish telecom firm Nokia on Wednesday said it demonstrated a record 4G speed that enables a high-definition movie to be downloaded in only 11 seconds.
While critics doubt if the new brand would be continued once Microsoft completes integrating Nokia, the X appears to be Nokia's ploy to ease Android-junkies into a Windows Phone environment.
The $9.5 billion Nokia deal was the last in a string of bad deals struck by Chief Executive Satya Nadella's predecessor, Steve Ballmer.
In yet another setback to Finnish handset maker Nokia, the Tamil Nadu government has slapped on it a Rs 2,400 crore (Rs 24 billion) tax demand notice related to the devices sold from its Chennai factory.
In yet another major outsourcing deal, Sunil Mittal-owned Bharti Group on Tuesday entered into a over Rs 580 crore ($125 million) deal with telecom major Nokia to expand the network in eight circles.
Finnish telecom giant Nokia has entered into a joint venture with China Putian Corp to develop and market third-generation (3G) mobile telecommunication technology.
Ernst & Young is appointed as valuer for Nokia India's Chennai mobile making plant
The Lumia 2520 tablet, along with its Lumia 1520 and 1320 phablets, are among the last products the Finnish company developed before deciding to sell its handset business to Microsoft.
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