Submit a Story!
topics:

Cellphone market growth raises pricing fears
* LG, Samsung, Apple win greater share in Q3 * Q4 cellphone market to rise 3 pct y/y - Strategy Analytics * Sales volumes have dropped each quarter since Q3 2008 * Analysts cautious about speed of recovery, wary on prices * Nokia cuts prices across portfolio mid-October * Analysts say market ...
Nokia will invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T
Nokia will invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T
venturebeat.com — AT&T, the major U.S. phone operator, will launch a Nokia Symbian phone with a Qualcomm chip in... the U.S. market, an industry source close to Nokia has told VentureBeat. It’s just the latest in a wide front of attack the giant Finnish ... (more) Nokia will invade U.S. market — will launch new phone ...
Nokia Illuvia – The Purple Driven Nokia Series
Nokia Illuvia – The Purple Driven Nokia Series
hardwaresphere.com — Nokia has just released a purple-ish series onto their existing Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, Nokia 6700 and Nokia... 6303 phones by attaching the ‘Illuvia’ at the end of the model name. There is no further information why Nokia named it as Nokia Illuvia series, but this series did have a ... (more) Nokia Illuvia – The Purple Driven Nokia Series
Comments
Blog Reactions

Price Wars Loom As Mobile Phone Market Edges Toward Recovery
paidContent — ... But while mobile phone shipments may be edging back up, not all is rosy for the industry, especially moving from the lucrative holiday season to the new year. As vendors pump out new models to keep up with the competion, the market faces a glut of phones. MKM Partners’ analyst Tero Kuittinen told Reuters, “In 2010, we are getting oversupply as the industry is emerging from a major volume decline. The danger here is that the cut-throat competition is going to blight the industry recovery.” ...

Price Wars Loom As Mobile Phone Market Edges Toward Recovery
mocoNews — ... But while mobile phone shipments may be edging back up, not all is rosy for the industry, especially moving from the lucrative holiday season to the new year. As vendors pump out new models to keep up with the competion, the market faces a glut of phones. MKM Partners’ analyst Tero Kuittinen told Reuters, “In 2010, we are getting oversupply as the industry is emerging from a major volume decline. The danger here is that the cut-throat competition is going to blight the industry recovery.” ...

Will Handset Makers Lose Their Grip on a Recovering Market? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Deutsche Bank’s numbers mirror last week’s reports from IDC and Strategy Analytics that indicate the market is finally turning around. Strategy Analytics reported a 4 percent year-over-year drop in worldwide phone sales during the third quarter, and predicted a 3 percent annual increase during the fourth quarter. Much of the expected growth will come as phone makers slash prices to blow out older inventory and make room for newer, more lucrative hardware. Nokia cut prices across its portfolio a week ago, and Deutsche Bank reported a 1 ...

Related Content
Nokia Struggles to Regain Market Share in U.S.
nytimes.com 10/29/2009 — , the Finnish company that is the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, is an undisputed powerhouse in Europe, Asia and Latin America, with market shares regularly topping 30 percent. But in the United States, Nokia’s signal has faded. As recently ...
Nokia could seek up to $1 billion for iPhones: analysts
reuters.com 10/23/2009 — Tarmo Virki , European technology correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) - Apple faces the possibility of having to pay the world's top cellphone maker Nokia up to $1 billion for the technologies used in iPhones sold so far if it loses a lawsuit brought by ...
Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement
wired.com 10/23/2009 — HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia Oyj on Thursday charged Apple with infringing Nokia patents in its iPhone. Nokia dominates the global handset market but it has lost some ground to new smartphone entrants like ...
Nokia N900 Review
ubergizmo.com 11/1/2009 — Nokia is facing a tide of ferocious competitors in the lucrative high-end smartphone market, but the company is on the move: Nokia is battling on multiple fronts a the same time: OS, app store, maps and devices. With the N900, Nokia wanted to ...
LawCrunch: Some (more) ideas on why Nokia sued Apple
crunchgear.com 10/26/2009 — Disclaimer : Jeremy Kessel has a J.D., but is still waiting for his (July 2009) California Bar Exam results. Thus, he is not (yet) a licensed attorney. Barry L. Cohen, who also shares some insights below, is a licensed attorney. Regardless, this ...
Apple tops phone chart as Nokia, Samsung step up
reuters.com 28 days ago — Tarmo Virki , European technology correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's two largest cellphone makers, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, unveiled on Tuesday their latest rivals to the iPhone as Apple became the top profit generator in the handset ...
Press Release: Nokia packs a powerful portfolio punch in the CDMA market
MobileBurn.com 28 days ago — Nokia weighs in with 3 new CDMA devices - Nokia 6316s, Nokia 3806 and Nokia 1506 Read the full story here.
Nokia: SUE you, Apple. That’s our wireless tech you’re infringing on.
intomobile.com 10/22/2009 — Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) isn’t just the largest mobile phone maker in the world (although, they’re bleeding market share like a hemophiliac heavyweight boxer), they also hold a lot of technology patents that make the wireless world go ...
Nokia vs. Apple: $12 per iPhone
brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com 10/23/2009 — The iPhone's had a "free ride" on its patents since 2007, claims a Nokia lawsuit Who can blame Nokia ( NOK ) if its nose is out of joint. The Finnish telecommunications giant is used to dominating the global cellphone market, and ...
Nokia N97 mini goes on sale; N97 OS 2.0 released
slashgear.com 10/28/2009 — It’s all go in Nokia N97 land this week, with the double news that not only have the Finnish company released the much-anticipated 2.0 firmware update for the original N97, but that the Nokia N97 mini would be arriving on shelves. The N97 mini ...
Nokia exec talks Ovi platformCNET News.com 11/2/2009
Niklas Savander, Nokia's top services guy, shares his thoughts on everything from lessons learned from Apple to why the Ovi store still isn't available on AT&T;'s network.
Nokia to shut down N-GageThe Register 11/2/2009
A brief history of fail First it was a phone, then an online service. Now, Nokia's N-Gage will soon be nothing at all. The Finnish phone giant is going to shut it down.…
Speak search terms into Google's app for NokiaCNET News.com 11/2/2009
A new version of Google Mobile app for Symbian Series 60 introduces voice search to Nokia N and E series phones.
Nokia Siemens Networks to slash almost 6,000 jobsThe Register 11/3/2009
No omelette without strategic workforce rebalancing Nokia Siemens Networks is planning to shave €500m off annual running costs over the next 26 months, with cuts that could include six thousand jobs.… Web threats: Why conventional protection ...
Nokia Siemens eyeing cost cuts, layoffsCNET News.com 11/3/2009
Network equipment maker announces major reorganization, with cost cuts and layoffs in plan to slash operating expenses by 500 million euros by end of 2011.