Nokia has been struggling to get traction with its newly acquired smartphone avatar with Microsofts Windows Phone OS. The Finnish manufacturer that ruled the mobile phone market for several years is finding it tough to stay relevant in the smartphone age. Some key launches for Nokia this season are the Windows Phone 8 devices, Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 820 (check price) and the Nokia Lumia 620. Priced at Rs 25,200 at launch, the Nokia Lumia 820 does its bit when it comes to competing with the Galaxy S2. It gives a 4.3″ screen, 8MP camera, 720p video recording and a 1.5 GHz processor / 1GB RAM duo to support the device. [click to continue…]
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Nokia has thrown its punches at the upcoming Apple iPhone 5 at the recently concluded Nokia World. Ever since Nokia announced its partnership with Microsoft to adopt Windows Phone as their sole platform for making smartphones, expectations of a third front compared to Android and iOS came up. Nokia delivered its first set of Lumia phones last year, the 800 and 710 created enough buzz for the re-branding of Nokia smartphone line-up.
As they phase out Symbian OS, Windows Phone is maturing. Microsoft is about to integrate its desktop and mobile platforms with Windows 8 and Nokia is betting big with the 2nd gen Lumia products. Nokia announced the Lumia 920 and 820 this week and Espoo would hope to compete with the movers and shakers of smartphone industry, be it the Android powered HTC One X & Samsung Galaxy S3 or the Apple iPhone series.
Among all the public rants that Apple Inc. has been subjected to, the most recent comes from Sean Parker, Director at Spotify (also former Facebook president). According to Parker, Apple apparently was the bone of contention for the music streaming company’s release in the US. The release was delayed by nearly two and a half-year after the company’s services were launched in Europe.
Parker made the revelation in the recently concluded D10 conference on Wednesday. According to him, Apple indulged in this behavior only because iTunes was facing major competition from Spotify, even though iTunes has major dominance in the music distribution scene in the US currently. Parker is reported to have said as an explanation to the revelation, “You hear things, people send you emails.”
Spotify was created in 2006 in Sweden, and had already become a major sensation in Europe in 2010. However, the US came in contact with it only in July 2011. [click to continue…]
With the latest update on Apple TV 2, Apple has brought most of the features of the new Apple TV which offers a redesigned UI, music purchase through iCloud, Genius recommendations and so on. When we have a tethered JailBreak for A4 devices, it was pretty much expected that the support would be expanded for more devices and that includes Apple TV 2 as well. Fortunately, FireCore has come up to release a tethered JailBreak for Apple TV 2 on latest firmware, iOS 5.1.
Similar to all A4 devices JailBroken on iOS 5.1, Apple TV 2 also needs to be attached to PC/Mac once the device is rebooted. But the chances for the same are certainly less because unlike other devices, Apple TV 2 doesn’t have an inbuilt battery for the charge. You need to keep it connected to the power source for the continuous usage. That’s why, you may require to perform a tethered boot of an Apple TV 2 once in a while. Also, there are several plugins which works with the current tethered JailBreak. [click to continue…]
The news originally came from AllThingsD which says that Apple is planning to hold an event at the end of January 2012. This event will not include any announcement of iPhone 5 or iPad 3. Instead, the fruit company will talk about either advertising or publishing. Unexpectedly, the event may not happen in the Apple HQ at Cupertino or San Francisco, but in New York. [click to continue…]
Nokia is making its way back into the smartphone market. The worlds no 1 mobile phone maker has failed to capture a market-share in the smartphone era triggered by the Apple iPhone and embarrassingly it ends up being on the wrong end whenever smartphone marketshare or profits is compared. Add to that the fact that the US market isn’t Nokia’s strong point, the Windows Phone 7 (Microsoft) tie-up for the Lumia series however should help Nokia. Also the American CEO, Stephen Elop. [click to continue…]
Apple just made an announcement that they will be launching the all new iPhone 4S in Hong Kong on 11th November. The big difference we noted that the prices for the 32 GB unlocked iPhone 4S were just 5088 HK dollars which comes up to just USD 757. Generally the price differences between 16 gig & 32 gig throughout the world is more than 60-70 dollars, making the HK pricing the best deal on the unlocked iPhone 4S 32 GB internationally. [click to continue…]
Apple which held the record for the fastest selling phones in a week with their iPhone 4, has added another BIG feather to its cap by becoming the biggest smartphone company in the world and displacing Nokia from the top in terms of volume sales.Apple was already the best in terms of profits and revenues generated. [click to continue…]
We already know that Apple’s phone business was more profitable than Nokia. Though Nokia had larger revenues, last when we checked in 2010, iPhone made more money for Apple than Nokia’s handset business did. And here comes the final blow, Apple has surpassed Nokia’s revenue with its iPhone sales.
The Apple iPhone 4 came in a CDMA avatar in January 2011 and went on to sell over 2 million units on Verizon, the largest operator in US. This perhaps accelerated the catchup with Nokia. The difference is also huge. Analysts gauge the iPhone turnover at 11.9 billion dollars whereas Nokia did $9.4 billion. [click to continue…]
There has been quite a few reports in the Nokia vs Apple patent suit. For over a year we have seen these two companies sue and counter-sue each other and backup lawsuits with complaints to ITC. As predicted the patent battle would go on for years, but here is what ITC has to rule about one of the complaints that Apple made in December 2009 claiming 5 patents being infringed by Apple in its iPhone 3GS and iPod Nano (and several other products).
Nokia in a statement avoided commenting on the situation, but their lawyers are surely back to work on counter moves. Believe us fellas, this is far far from over. This particular ruling comes from Judge James Gildea of ITC, while a six member panel is expected to probe this later this year and the ball may well swing Nokias way there. Wait and watch! [click to continue…]
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