Nokia: let Microsoft will get your phone

Finnish giant did not get upset if the company Bill Gates will release its own smartphone.

Stephen Ilop, head Nokia, put the future of the veteran mobilestroeniya map success of the operating system Windows Phone authorship Microsoft. But the last and after two years of existence have not been able to take its rightful after Google Android and Apple iOS smartphones place under the sun. Redmond this, of course, is not happy, and apparently intends to release its own smartphone brand Surface in 2013.

The head of Nokia, which seemingly should resent this turn of events, on the contrary, welcomed hypothetical novelty: «Surface-phone will have a stimulating effect on the ecosystem. We approve of any attempts to HTC, Samsung, Microsoft, or anyone else who is heavily invested in the development of Windows Phone-direction. "

Of course, no specifics regarding Surface-phone has not been told, but if he will repeat the project Surface-plates, we can safely say that we are waiting resolutely quality product that Microsoft partners are definitely unhappy.

Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820: price of wireless charging

Became known the price of accessories for wireless recharge power Windows Phone 8 new products of the Finnish giant.



Recall: just put the Nokia Lumia 920 or Lumia 820 connected to a current source charging pad to the smartphone battery started to replenish electricity. The technology standard Qi is the magnetic induction, by which energy is transmitted between the built-in mobile device and the charging surface coils in the case when the distance between them is sufficiently small (4 cm).

At the top-end Lumia 920 support wireless charging introduced directly into the battery, but sredneklassovomu Lumia 820 will have to acquire a special rear panel - the benefit they are removable. Cost of the latter is 20 euros (25 dollars).

Nokia offered a nice range of Qi-reel stands:

- A standard platform for 55 euros (70 dollars);

- Vertical Stand (thanks to NFC-module triggers a pre-selected application, such as an alarm clock or music player) for 70 euros (90 dollars);

- Charging pad authorship Fatboy for 80 euros (105 dollars);

- Dock with audiodinamikami brand JBL (via NFC-and Bluetooth-enabled communication can play music from the top of the phone laid) for 145 euros (190 dollars).

In order to spread Qi-standard Nokia has agreed to host the Qi-sites with airlines Virgin Atlantic (at London's Heathrow Airport and later in New York it. John Kennedy) and a network of cafes Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (in some of the world's major capitals.)

Scandal: Nokia stole the design of the new players Apple. Or vice versa

On the Internet there was a funny picture, which, if they see the right people can be a starting point for a new patent battle of Apple (and she takes them on almost all continents).


Apple, if you remember, does not forgive those who repeats. Samsung, for example, the American judges were forced to pay a billion dollars. Nokia once had blacklisted the company was not included, but there are fears that it will soon add.

Take a look at this picture - Nokia Lumia and the new iPod Nano is really very similar. The same rectangular shape, the same "stuck" curved screen (only Nano it with a white border). Colours and the like. Just outrageous. Is Apple abusive?


If we go into the history of design away, remember iPod Nano, introduced in September 2010, well before all the Lumia. And here there is a sneaking suspicion that Apple is not repeated, Nokia, on the contrary, because the smartphone Lumia looks like two glued together Nano model 2012.

Of course, this is all just fun and irony, it was too tired from all the legal battles Apple and competitors. However, few will be surprised if any claims based on this frivolous comparisons do occur.

Nokia will punish those responsible for the creation of misleading promotional materials

Last week, Nokia showed a new generation of smartphones, and especially praised their ability to record video and create images. Promotional materials did look impressive: even in the dark picture is excellent. But then there was a scandal, and it became clear that the videos and photos were taken not on the Lumia 920, but with the help of professional equipment.

To be honest, not a good development for Nokia, for which the new smartphones will be almost the last hope for the revival of the market. Now consider that the potential buyers, which almost deceived about the options of the main model? In fairness, we note that the Lumia 920 does create a good photo in the dark, but not as much as in the demo materials (detailed test chamber smartphone spent journalists The Verge, the results can be seen here).


Nokia has promised to conduct an internal investigation to find out how you can prevent such a marketing blunder. She is very sorry that it happened.


"As far as we understand now, mistake was made by accident. But it was foolish not to prevent the video and photos that content created by another device and not the one that shows how to ", - said the representative of Nokia Sezan Sheehan (Susan Sheehan).


Sheehan declined to name the company that has produced a promotional video.


«Nokia will deal with the issue quickly and fairly quiet," - she said.

Analysts said the gaffe during the announcement is unlikely to affect sales of Lumia 920, but it may adversely affect the value of shares in Nokia.

Nokia:photolife after PureView

The Finnish giant is continuing the glorious tradition of equipping their mobile devices the most advanced cameras.

Currently PureView-technology implemented in the 41-megapixel camera phone Nokia Symbian-808 PureView, admirable features multiple zoom photos and visuals, with no loss of quality and without the need for optical zoom. But what next?

Decorated Nokia patent application number 20120205518 describes a detector detecting the photons from the graphene layer on top of which lay numerous finger electrodes necessary for the collection of holes, electrons produced during the passage of photons of light. Graphene nanoribbons acting as a field effect transistor to amplify the resulting voltage and transmits its control electronics. Several layers of light and to capture the voltage gain can be stacked on each other with paved between the color filters so that each pixel in the sensor was able to easily identify different colors.

Using graphene has its reasons, the main of which is enclosed in its transparency. A single layer of carbon element absorbs only 2.3% of incoming light, and does so uniformly on the entire spectrum, including infrared, visible and ultraviolet. As a result, graphene sensor is better than conventional CMOS sensors, handles in low light conditions.

Graphene will considerably reduce the thickness of the photocell: Imagine a new generation of Nokia 808 PureView without a huge, protruding out the rear camera module.

The production process is tied to the graphene would be simpler than the current factory CMOS technology, and materials used will be cheaper.

Currently, researchers are struggling with the shortcomings of graphene sensors, such as lack of photosensitivity and the generation of a large amount of noise.

HTC and Nokia: rebirth from the ashes?

It seems that the position of Nokia and HTC began leveling off. First the company announced the purchase of software developer, designed for image processing, and the second began working closely with Facebook. So it remains to be seen as a bad case of HTC and Nokia. Both have problems with sales of its smartphones. But they probably will not greatly affect the financial capacity of these companies.

How much Nokia paid for the company Scalado, is not reported. However, representatives of the manufacturer's smartphones indicate that purchased the developer has created a unique photo processing technology that will create a revolution in photo processing. In particular, the modern mechanisms of known media companies allow multiple frames to make one picture, which will carry a significant amount of information about the owner. Scalado have developed software that makes a picture of one frame.

And distinguished company HTC, which cooperated with Facebook. Now, with the support of the largest social network, it will be very difficult to squeeze in any market. Apple's need to really try to overpower the fresh lobby HTC-Facebook. The manufacturer will create social networks for the corporate smart phone, and she, in turn, will help sell it worldwide. The popularity of smartphones developer so high that HTC phones repair service and warranty is much cheaper than devices from other manufacturers.

However, Apple, and in this case is not poorer. Only in the last quarter it earned $ 8.8 billion. And this is just pure profit. A total quarterly revenues of $ 35 billion. It was sold 26 million iPhone and 17 million iPad. However, the plates lost their appeal. Their sales "collapsed" by 10 percent, compared with the same period of 2011.

Android-devices have other problems. Platform was occupied by the hackers. According to Microsoft, from the Android-smartphone has created the first mobile botnet.

Nokia gave up its own mobile operating system

Undergoing a prolonged crisis Finnish Nokia has stopped work on a new mobile platform, through which hoped to challenge the phones based on Android. The company hoped that the Linux-platform on the stage of development known as Meltemi, will replace long time used the Series 40, but eventually closed the project as part of the massive reduction in costs.

Experts believe that the rejection of the Meltemi Finnish manufacturer threatens the loss of a strong position in the mass market segment (with the cost of handsets in the $ 100-200). Here, according to IDC, Nokia, despite the losses, is still controlled in the first quarter, more than 20% of sales.

On the platform Meltemi became known in the middle of last year from a leaked video from the network performance of the head of Nokia Stephen Elop. The company itself has never officially confirmed the existence of the project, and to curtail it became known thanks to insider information.

Recall that, according to a published report for the second quarter, once the lead producer losses increased by more than 3 times, reaching 1.41 billion euros. Sales of smart phones for a few months decreased by 34%, even forcing Nokia to the unprecedented decline of prices in the U.S. market: a new tube Lumia 900 fell from 100 to 50 dollars (for comparison, in Russia the same phone offered to buy for 25,000 rubles).

It is expected that in the third quarter, the company will continue to go into negative against stiff competition from Samsung and Apple. The head of the company has already announced that plans to reduce jobs have increased from ten to twenty thousand employees.

Nokia promises something amazing

"Something amazing is coming 07/09/2012" - a label emblazoned on posters and banners near the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki. What exactly will be presented on September 7, one can only guess.

Journalists believe that will be released a new smartphone operating system Windows Phone. According to the reviewers site The Next Web, the focus is really to be WP-Communicators, and Nokia will announce the day to update the software of existing shells smartphones to Windows Phone 8. According to another version, the new phones will be shown in a series of Asha.

On the eve of Nokia reported sales of four million phones Lumia in the II quarter of 2012. Most of the vehicles sold in the markets of Asia and Europe. In the coming months, the Finnish vendor intends to gain a foothold in the U.S. market.

At the end of the reporting period, net loss increased from 368 million euros a year earlier to 1.41 billion euros. Analysts on average expected loss on the level of 641.1 million euros. Revenue for the period fell by 19%, to 7.54 billion euros with an average forecast of analysts at 7.32 billion euros.

Nokia could release their iPad and iPhone before Apple

After successive disappointing financial results of the Finnish company, many analysts have pondered the causes of failures of Nokia and why is it now found itself in such a situation.
It is believed that the Finnish company simply did not have time to adjust to the market in 2007-2009, ie immediately after the release of the first Apple iPhone.
However, it turns out, Nokia thought about the possibility of production of its "iPhone" and "iPad" long before the release of these devices from Apple.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, former chief designer Frank Nuovo Nokia said that in the late 90's Finnish conducted a presentation for investors and representatives of the cellular operators, which showed his vision of the future of wireless - phones with color touch screen, with which you can find the location of restaurant, buy a lipstick and play a racing simulator. A separate team at the same time, developed a Tablet PC - with a wireless connection and a large touchscreen.

Unfortunately, all these developments Nokia remained on the presentation slides, or as early prototypes did not see the light. Now the Finnish company is fully relied on his new partner - Microsoft and its operating system Windows Phone. It is expected that the first device on Windows Phone 8 will be presented during Nokia World 5-6 September.

Nokia has solved the problem with a purple screen with 900 Lumia

Nokia has released an update for the smartphone Lumia 900. In addition to minor fixes patch solves one of the most prominent issues the device faced by about 10% of customers. It is a purple shade of gray color with low brightness display. In addition, the update improves the sensitivity of the touchscreen. Nokia has said that the patch was released in response to the wishes and complaints of users. In the future, the Finnish company promises to please the owners of Lumia 900 other updates, expanding the functional smartphone, according to SlashGear. A month ago, Nokia admitted the defect with a purple tinge, but did not specify the reasons for its occurrence.

Nokia has denied rumors about the release of smartphones with water-repellent nano

Nokia has commented about the imminent appearance of new models Pureview Lumia and with water-repellent nano. On the eve of the vice-president of the Finnish company in Western Europe, Conor Pierce said that the developed technology is "ready to apply it," but in the ensuing statement was reported that the words of Peirce interpreted incorrectly.

"Yes, of course, the purpose of any laboratory studies is that the effort is not wasted and development have been implemented in practice. However, Nokia has no plans to provide the market with a range of water-repellent coating Lumia, "- commented on the information in the publication of The Verge of Finnish companies.

Recall Nokia Technology was presented in March. Then company officials have stated that "superhydrophobic" coating Nokia contact angle of 180 degrees (120 degrees against a Teflon coating) that causes water to "bounce" from the surface.

Nokia's Android - the reality

Resource Nitdroid posted already the third alpha version of the firmware ported to Nokia N9, which, as you may recall, initially working on the OS MeeGo.
The owners of these smartphones Nokia (brothers blizetsov Lumia 800 WP) can install the latest Android 4.0.4 as a parallel OSes, and switch easily between the two operating systems.

And everything works - Google Play, applications, games, playing multimedia content, radio (SMS, Internet 2G/3G, USSD), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. Of the non-working moments remained GPS and the ability to make calls, but it will probably be fixed in future releases.

But now the owners of Nokia smartphones appeared an exclusive opportunity to try - what is Android and what it eats.

Nokia sold an office in New York for $ 12 million

Last year's rumors were confirmed: the Finnish company Nokia has released the building in the district of Westchester County (NY, USA) at 102 Corporate Park Drive. This office is located Nokia, which, according to online edition IntoMobile, was sold for $ 12 million, despite the fact that over six years of operation it had invested about $ 30 million. According to Rao, Michael (Michael Rao), president of the New York Commercial Realty Group, provides services in commercial real estate, the building acquired biotech firm Histogenetics.

In this building were employed 300 employees Nokia, which has been assigned a difficult task - to do everything possible to increase the popularity of Nokia phones in the U.S.. Sales office in New York does not mean leaving Nokia with the U.S. market. Back in February 2011 it was decided to postpone the North American office in New York in Sunnyvale, Calif., where already large Internet-based corporation.

Meanwhile, Nokia continues to carry out the plan for layoffs. Recently, it has laid off 1,000 workers in Finland. Nokia promises to pay them compensation and to help find a new job.

Nokia may sell Vertu

The Finnish company Nokia can get rid of the premium brand Vertu, to fully concentrate on their core business. This past weekend The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources.

The Finnish company is planning to get for Vertu around € 200 million Nokia officially does not comment on reports of a possible sale of the brand. As you know, the company is now in crisis, and its attempts to stop the decline in sales is not too successful. For example, smart mobile phone Nokia Lumia on OC-Windows can not yet show decent sales - only for the first quarter of this year, the Finnish company's loss amounted to € 929 million, whereas a year earlier the company reported a profit € 344 million

Since May last year, Nokia shares dropped in price by 60%. In conditions of growing competition from companies Apple, Samsung, HTC and other Nokia's market share has steadily decreased - in late April, research firm Strategy Analytics said that in the first quarter deliveries Samsung phones and smartphones worldwide totaled 93.5 million, or 25 % of total (368 million) of all mobile phones in the world, delivered from manufacturers to stores in the first quarter, Nokia's delivery over the first quarter of last year fell by 24% - up to 83 million, leaving a Finnish company to second place on the market proportion (22.5%). In third place with a share of 9.5% is Apple.

Nokia loses patent litigation company IPCom

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has lost patent trial German company IPCom. April 20, 2012 the Court of Mannheim found guilty of violating Nokia patents IPCom. It is reported by Yahoo.com.

News - Nokia Secretary Mark Durrant (Mark Durrant) said that the court's decision did not affect the current generation of mobile phones.

"We do not agree with the decision of the court, but all the patents for phones that were listed in the lawsuit were issued in February 2011, and our current products use other methods," - said Durrant.

The court ruling does not appear to violate whether existing phones any patents IPCom. Recall that in 2011 the court in London found that Nokia has not been producing phones that are listed in the lawsuit IPCom.

Slim Tablet Nokia running a Windows 8

As you know, the strategic partnership Nokia and Microsoft is not just smartphones series Lumia, running a mobile platform Windows Phone 7. The Finnish manufacturer is likely to expand its scope and will force a Tablet PC segment, which will work on Windows 8. Nokia 1 The new Nokia concept one author based his innovative, distinctive and, of course, attractive design, given the two "twins» Nokia N9 and Lumia 800. Only now it's not a smartphone and tablet. Nokia boasts a thickness of 8.5 mm and weighing just 580 grams, AMOLED-display with a resolution of 1280x800, 5-megapixel camera on the rear panel, which supports video recording at 1080p at 30 frames per second. At the front of the camera is also present, but now 2 megapixel. Built-in storage is 32 or 64 GB of memory module with a 2 GB capacity of the battery is 7500 mAh. Operating system, as you might guess, is the ARM-platform version of Windows 8. Finally, the author wanted to see the concept in an active stylus Nokia Wacom, which is ideal for the representatives of creative professions

Nokia abandon the brand Symbian

Support for the Finnish giant software Symbian - no more than a disappearing courtesy to customers, who unfortunately got the phone at this dying platform. Nokia went further, deciding to withdraw the reference of the Symbian name of its current update of the mobile operating system. If the earlier Community awaited Symbian Belle, now the novelty passes, just like Nokia Belle. Links to Symbian, of course, remained in direct description of the update. Now Symbian Belle enjoyed only hosts Nokia 603, 700 and 701, but in February the next year, this version of the owners will be made available Nokia N8, E7, E6, X7, C7, C6-01, Oro, and 500 - as long as they operate on the Symbian Anna. Symbian Belle, proposed in late August brought a fast and smooth web surfing, "live" widgets of varying size, pull-down notice, visualization, multi-tasking, six customizable home screens, new applications, additional tweaks, NFC-support. It is unknown whether there will be following the Belle releases, although in November have been rumors that Nokia is preparing two major updates Symbian, which will allow the devices on this platform going into the past a little more to stay afloat. Argue that Espoo will keep the tradition of call updates Symbian female names in alphabetical order: for Anna and Belle followed Carla and Donna. So, Carla, which is suitable to all current Symbian ^ 3 devices, as well as new models of the sample end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013th, will upgrading your web browser, support for virtual surround sound Dolby, new widgets. But Donna, assigning the most updated Symbian, will be limited to mobile phones with dual core processors. 

Analysts: Microsoft may buy Nokia phone business

Danske Bank analysts said Nokia phone business may soon be bought out by Microsoft.

"This deal makes sense," - says the report, which cites Bloomberg. In this connection, experts recommend an investment bank to investors not to rush to sell shares of the company. Immediately after the statement of Danske Bank shares went up by the Finnish company 3.2% and is now estimated at 3.97 euros per share.
Rumors that Microsoft may buy Nokia, go with 2010, but no official comment on this subject have been reported. Now the Nokia denies rumors of the sale of telephone business.

Earlier it was reported that in the summer of 2012, Nokia plans to release a tablet computer that runs on the Windows operating system from Microsoft.

Recall, October 26, Nokia introduced the Nokia World conference in 2011 the first smartphone platform Windows Phone (Mango) - Nokia Lumia Lumia 710 and 800, created in cooperation with Microsoft.

Apple has broken into the top 10 most valuable global brands of the world

Interbrand's annual report assigns a dollar value to each brand based on financial performance, brand strength etc. The report marked Apple as the biggest riser in its 100-brand report with its value rising 58% year on year to $33.5bn.
Apple displaced Nokia to 14th position and become the only newcomer to the top 10.
Google maintained fourth place. Its value soared 27% to $55bn.
It is the first time in the 12 years the report has showed that Apple has made the top 10.
Congrats, Apple! We are looking forward to iPhone 5 in a few hours. The Internet is full of rumors about it!