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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. I had a Nokia N95, but I played around with my friends' iPhones and decided I wanted to get one," he said.
[July 11, 2008, 10:31]
Apple snatches second place for smartphone sales
News Nokia is still the leading vendor by a comfortable margin, holding 38.9 percent of the market. But shipments declined slightly, and market share fell 12.5 percent, compared to last year, as Nokia goes through a transition from older models to newer...
[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]
Nokia to exit Japanese market
News Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, plans to stop making phones for the Japanese market, one of the largest in the world. In the current global economic climate, we have concluded that the continuation of our investment in Japan-specific...
[November 28, 2008, 8:01]
Nokia N97 review
Reviews The Nokia N97 next to the Apple iPhone 3G (left) and T-Mobile G1 (right). Similar to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the Nokia N97 has a resistive touch-screen that measures 3.5in.diagonally and shows off 16.7 million colours at a 640-by-360-pixel...
[June 26, 2009, 15:36]
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. Nokia is bulking up its communications platform with the acquisition of Oz Communications...
[October 1, 2008, 9:38]
First impressions of the Nokia N97
Blog Comment I have no grievance whatsoever with open source - as a cursory glance through previous posts of mine would show - nor with Nokia going open source. My point was that the N97 is the last flagship device that Nokia will be releasing using Series 60...
[June 11, 2009, 7:54]
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. Nokia beat sales expectations on its mobile handset business on Thursday when it announced its earnings for the second quarter...
[July 18, 2008, 16:43]
T-Mobile: We must do more on data roaming
News It would be handicapping itself if it turned up as 2.5G," said O'Kelly, while pointing out that the iPhone was "a long way off" and would have to compete with rivals such as the Nokia N95, which will soon be added to T-Mobile's catalogues.
[January 31, 2007, 15:31]
Nokia N97: Bye-bye Communicator
Blog What I am saying is that Nokia seems to have thrown everything at the N97, slapped a very hefty price tag on it, and then expects it to live up to the market leaders - i.e.the likes of HTC’s Hero and the iPhone 3G S, and capture users of...
[June 29, 2009, 13:58]
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 Nokia remains in the number-one spot, with 42.4 per cent market share. However, Gartner says Nokia recorded its first decline in sales, of three percent year-on-year. iPhone maker Apple is cruising past Microsoft's Window Mobile when it comes to...
[December 5, 2008, 9:22]
Cisco adds web conferencing to more smartphones
News It will also be available for the Nokia E71, Nokia E75, Nokia N97 and other Nokia E series and N series devices, as well as for the Samsung Blackjack II. The company already offers the capability on the Apple iPhone 3G.
[February 17, 2009, 11:12]
Microsoft prepares smartphone challenge to Apple
News Symbian, which powers Nokia's smartphones, is by far the leader, followed by Research In Motion with its BlackBerry devices. With the release of the iPhone 3G last summer, Apple has tripled its market share from three percent in 2007 to nine...
[February 10, 2009, 9:50]
The mobile features that could succeed in 2009
News Even Nokia, the market leader, has had to seriously downgrade its forecasts. Gone are the days where you take what comes with the phone — except, perhaps, on the iPhone. We are already very used to resistive touchscreens, as used in countless...
[December 24, 2008, 6:30]
iPhone yet to make an impact in India
News Of the 120 million mobile phones sold in India each year, around six million are of the smartphone variety, and Nokia owns the market with between 60 percent and 70 percent market share. There is a huge market for mobile phones in India but...
[November 14, 2008, 9:17]
First impressions of the Nokia N97
Blog Comment A 3MP camera, more memory and 3G does not make the iPhone anything more than the Nokia N95 8GB was to the original N95. The "new" iPhone 3GS (oooooo they added an "S") is really a major anticlimax. It looks the same as the old iPhone, does pretty...
[June 12, 2009, 8:08]
Steve Jobs unveils the $199 iPhone 3G
News Jobs compared the 3G iPhone to the Nokia N95 and Treo 750 — two other 3G phones — and said the 3G iPhone is 36 faster to download the same web page. Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited iPhone 3G at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in...
[June 9, 2008, 19:50]
Apple still 'niche' in touchscreen market
News While Apple may not have been the first device maker to put a touchscreen on a mobile handset, the emergence of the iPhone has certainly boosted the market, inspiring a slew of imitators from Samsung's Omnia to Nokia's rumoured Tube phone.
[September 11, 2008, 9:32]
Who do Apple think wants an iPhone
Blog Comment Will you be satisfied with the slower than dial-up connection for your mobile surfing, while others on Nokia/Sony Ericsson surf away in 3G and Opera Mini? As much as I want an iPhone for the things it has, I fully understand those who see this as a...
[August 3, 2007, 13:22]
