At Nokia World 2008, Nokia announced their new Nokia Maps product.  The most compelling feature is the ability to plan your trip on your PC, and then sync the route to your Nokia phone. Also included are 3D landmarks for 216 cities, to help users visually identify where they are! Camera locations are included for [...]

Nokia is pushing hard for consolidation, looking to make their smartphones the go-to device for communication.  One of the major announcement at Nokia World 2008 this year is about their Nokia Messaging solution.  Read on for the press release.

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Nokia, the world’s leading mobile phone maker, announced it would stop selling and marketing its handsets in Japan because the market share remained flat over too many years (hovering at around 1% vs. around 38% worldwide).

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Not likely: A deal for the BlackBerry maker would be hostile and pricey. Canadian national pride might get in the way, too
The plunge in Research In Motion’s (RIMM) share price has fueled speculation that the maker of smartphones is vulnerable to a takeover—but buyers are unlikely to go BlackBerry-picking anytime soon. Shares of the [...]

The Hutchison subsidiary will make ultracheap mobile phones for surfing the Net. That could toughen competition for Apple, Nokia, Samsung, and others
Frank Meehan isn’t even officially in the cell-phone business yet. But already he has plans to shake it up.
Meehan is a top executive at Hutchison Whampoa (HUWHY), the Hong Kong conglomerate that operates [...]

Qik has announced that its video streaming software will come pre-installed on Nokia’s just-launched 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen phone - the first deal of its kind for the still-young startup. The deal marks a big win for Qik, as it will expose the company to a wide audience while removing its biggest barrier to entry (many [...]

by Erick Schonfeld
The iPhone may be the only game in town for serious mobile Web developers right now, but that won’t last long. Next year, the iPhone will see some serious competition from Google’s Android platform. Of course, T-Mobile will start selling the first Android phone, the G1 made by HTC, on October 22. But [...]

Even with the first light of the day just peeking over the hills here on the west coast, today already brings a pair of unannounced hardware leaks: the Nokia E72 and E75. The E72 is a QWERTY slider, shown above on left, while the E75 is a QWERTY candybar, shown on right. (The model number [...]

by: Jack Ewing

Nokia and Microsoft have given rival Research in Motion a backhanded compliment. The Finnish handset giant and the Redmond, Wash. software maker announced an agreement Sept. 10 that will extend a previous agreement and make Microsoft Exchange ActivSync software available on virtually all Nokia smartphones, as well as many mid-range phones.

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