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Nokia announces Ovi application store
News Nokia's announcement follows the big success of Apple's App Store, which provides applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Nokia is taking on smartphone rival Apple with its own version of an application store.
[February 16, 2009, 12:36]
Nokia files patent suit against Apple over iPhones
News Nokia has sued Apple over the iPhone manufacturer's use of GSM, 3G and Wi-Fi patents. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption, and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in...
[October 22, 2009, 16:11]
Apple snatches second place for smartphone sales
News Symbian is the market leader, due to its close association with Nokia, but Apple and RIM are the second- and third-place vendors, respectively. Apple's stellar quarter for iPhone 3G sales has lifted it into second place among all smartphone vendors...
[November 7, 2008, 7:24]
Apple iPhone buzz hits the UK
News However, the build-up between the handset's first appearance and its UK release — now scheduled for 9 November — has allowed rival manufacturers to push out several devices that match or even exceed the iPhone's specification, such as Nokia's N95...
[September 18, 2007, 17:59]
iPhone fever sees Apple market share grow
News Its latest research report highlighted the buzz surrounding Apple's iPhone, the Android and BlackBerry smartphone platforms, focusing particularly on the iPhone's gains in the market. However, he added that there is opportunity for rivals to target...
[August 20, 2009, 16:14]
Nokia to exit Japanese market
News Even Apple's iPhone 3G has had difficulty making gains in the Japan market. Apple sold about 200,000 phones in the first two months that the iPhone 3G was available in Japan, according to a September report in The Wall Street Journal that cited...
[November 28, 2008, 8:01]
iPhone 3G hits London
News Steve added that he was switching provider from Orange — with whom he had a Nokia N95 — to O2 so he can get the iPhone. Friday saw the launch of the iPhone 3G, the second version of Apple's smartphone.
[July 11, 2008, 10:31]
Mozilla's Fennec heads to Symbian
News In the same quarter, smartphones from Apple, RIM and HTC (using Google's Android operating system) also took substantial market share, but Mozilla is not planning to port Fennec to Apple's iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry or Android-based devices...
[December 17, 2008, 14:03]
Symbian's mission to woo North America
News Research in Motion and Apple are the companies cleaning up in the US market at the moment, spurred by the response to Apple's iPhone a year and a half ago. And developers will get to keep all their revenue, rather than giving Apple a 30 percent cut...
[December 5, 2008, 9:45]
Nokia vs Apple: no easy answers in GSM wars
Blog Half the world has assumed that Nokia is doing it because it can't make phones as good as the iPhone, because it wants to cripple a competitor, because it's a cheap path to publicity, because its losing money and Apple has loads.well, pick any...
[October 22, 2009, 19:01]
Mobile Device convergence - is gaming on phone devices a step to far?
Blog I am being terribly lazy and rather than write an article about Nokia, Apple and Sony's push for a mobile device that can effectively be used for communication and gaming, I have simply copied pasted the conversation that inspired it here:
[June 26, 2008, 18:03]
Nokia boosts comms platform with Oz purchase
News Meanwhile, Nokia is facing competition from new entrants in the mobile market, such as Apple, with the iPhone, and Google, with the Android operating system. Apple launched the App Store earlier this year, when it released the new iPhone 3G.
[October 1, 2008, 9:38]
Gartner: Expect an enterprise iPhone
News The Exchange email server is the market leader… I would expect in the future it might happen that we see Apple licensing the ActiveSync software to support direct push on their phones, as Nokia and other manufacturers have done," Basso told ZDNet...
[September 4, 2007, 16:46]
Apple urged to open up iPhone to third parties
News Tony Cripps, service manager for mobile user experience at analyst company Ovum, said that Apple's decision limits the iPhone, as compared to Microsoft and Nokia's approach in opening up their respective Windows Mobile and S60 platforms.
[July 5, 2007, 10:04]
Mac OS X sails past Windows in the smartphone race
News iPhone maker Apple is cruising past Microsoft's Window Mobile when it comes to global smartphone OS shipments. The success of the iPhone 3G pushed Apple's Mac OS X into third place in the global smartphone OS provider rankings, behind Symbian and RIM.
[December 5, 2008, 9:22]
Analyst: Build apps for platforms other than iPhone
News But pay close attention to other stores like BlackBerry App World, Android Market, Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Nokia's Ovi store. Competing app stores will likely offer slightly different capabilities and processes," the report notes — for...
[May 19, 2009, 15:55]
Smartphone boom defies wider handset slump
News We'd been waiting for this device since December last year, and it was supposed to be Nokia's pride and joy, but it has not seen the anticipation and excitement that the iPhone has seen. Apple's iPhone 3GS, by way of contrast, sold a million units...
[August 12, 2009, 16:26]
Nokia sees boost in handset sales
News Nokia also plans to introduce a range of touchscreen phones that are likely to compete head-to-head with Apple's iPhone. Apple and AT&T stores across the US have sold out of the new iPhone 3G, as sales of the new iPhone appear to be living up to...
[July 18, 2008, 16:43]
Handsets World: Show me the money!
Blog He loves the iPhone: "Apple chose a different route from other cellphone manufacturers. I'll have a story up tomorrow on Nokia's views on open source (interesting, I reckon) but in the meantime, since the people milling around this smallish event...
[June 10, 2008, 18:33]
Review of the Mac OSX Snow Leopard Review
Blog But, like Nokia's answer to the iPhone, the review checks all the boxes but misses the point. By making this statement twice (I think the review started with much the same comment) you are missing out on what exactly Apple have done here.
[August 28, 2009, 15:58]
