Posts tagged: nokia
Matthew Panzarino, The Next Web, on Nokia Lumia 800:
If you’ve been a mobile phone user for more than a decade, then you remember a time when Nokia made the best cell phones in the world. The landscape was smaller then, with Motorola and Nokia dominating most of the 1990′s.
Now, with its sidelining of the custom-built MeeGo OS, Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft to create the Lumia 800 in an effort to defibrillate its flatlining smartphone business.
In the process, Nokia has created something that is somehow greater than the sum of its parts, a feat that I have only seen matched by one other smartphone recently, the iPhone.
By reading the review alone, I was honestly tempted to give this phone, this OS a try. The hardware engineering and design looks very good, something very rare these days in the smartphone market.
Nonetheless, if I had to choose a phone apart from the iPhone, I’d go for Nokia’s WP7 smartphones.
Mosaid said it will buy about 2,000 wireless patents from Core Wireless, which holds them for Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and Microsoft (MSFT.O).
Mosaid said it will pay nothing for the patents, but will shoulder the costs of reaching licensing deals with other companies and take a one-third cut of any deals made.
The deal is “transformative” for Mosaid and revenue from future licensing will likely exceed the company’s revenue from its first 35 years in business, Mosaid Chief Executive John Lindgren told Reuters.
The Intellectual Property scene is set to look bloodier then ever in the years to come. Hopefully, this doesn’t stall technological development as badly as Blu-Ray and HD-DVD has for the future of DVD.
Last year, Nokia’s global share of phone sales sank below 30 per cent for the first time since 1999. Its descent is destined to become a business textbook study of how a trusted business built on a simple product can, in a matter of a few short years, lose its way.
The burning question is: how did Nokia manage it?
Tragic train-wreck.
Canadian Blackberry maker Research In Motion announced sharply lower profits related to product delays an intense competition, pushing it to sack workers while the market attacked the company’s valuation.
Epic. Even Nokia isn’t that dramatic.
