Nokia hints about LBS ecosystem. Love, design & location will enable autonomous driving.
Nokia has good presence at SXSW and Peter Skillman (whom you may know as the man behind design and Swipe UI of Nokia N9) has delivered keynote on connected cars there. As expected, this keynote talks about taking the in-car experience to the next...
China’s Ministry of Commerce holds seminar to hear the Nokia-Microsoft case.
A new report from China reveals that anti-trust arm of China's Ministry of Commerce held a seminar to hear the Nokia-Microsoft case on 3rd of March. Local handset makers have yet again urged to set limitations on Nokia's licensing rate and FRAND use to...
Report: First MS-Nokia deal included HERE Maps as well. Rift over deal may have hastened Ballmer’s retirement.
Microsoft-Nokia deal which involves Nokia's Devices and services unit sales to Microsoft for $7.2 billion is going to be closed within Q1 2014 as per the latest information. But, a new report from Bloomberg claims that the original proposed deal (which was rejected by...
Nokia expects €600 mn quarterly licensing revenue post deal-closure. Analysts upgrade the stock.
Analysts at Canaccord Genuity have upgraded Nokia stock and raised the price target to $10 per share. They have assigned an estimated 2015 revenue of €11.4 billion to NSN. They estimate Nokia patents value at about €9 billion and its HERE maps business at...
Microsoft-Nokia deal is a matter of conern, say Google & Samsung. China likely to approve the deal soon.
Samsung and Apple have piggybacked on Chinese vendors, expressing concerns over Microsoft-Nokia deal, says a report from Bloomberg. If you remember we reported about China exercising extra caution in approving the deal over apprehensions of many local vendors like ZTE, Lenovo and Xiaomi, who...
Nokia CTO: Advanced Tech division to Focus on “Internet of things”. Can license imaging tech!
We reported some of the areas "Nokia's Advanced Technology division" will focus on post Nokia-MS deal closure. The keywords from that interview of Nokia's CTO Henry Tirri were Radio tech, cloud and sensors, Licensing of technologies and smart wearables.
In an interview now at MWC 2014, Henry...
HERE brings navigation to Samsung Galaxy Gear. 16 million Nokia X can ship in 2014.
If you have followed our coverage carefully, then you may be able to see telltale signs of how the new Nokia will open up and will target all smartphone platforms with its devices and services like HERE maps. So, from providing maps to Tizen,...
POV: Nokia X has the ability to disrupt market. But, will Microsoft allow future Nokia X launches?
So, Nokia's Android family of phones is here and while the whole world was skeptical about it ever seeing light of the day, we were hopeful and our sources proved themselves trustworthy yet again. Anyways, the price points at which Nokia is planning to...
IDC: Windows Phone to be the fastest growing OS for next four years.
IDC has come up with its smartphone growth predictions for next four years. According to this prediction, amongst all OSes, Windows Phone will grow the fastest in next four years. The yearly growth rate for Windows Phone is predicted to be 29.5% which is...
A Nokia patent talks about partial lock mode showing content & allowing user interactions.
A recent Nokia patent reveals a very practical and welcome feature (if it ever makes to any of the Nokia phones in future). The patent talks about "Partial lock mode". As the name suggests, this is indeed a lock mode for the phone, but...
Nokia: Here 2.0 is for smartwatches, self-driving cars, & drones
In an interview with CNET, Christof Hellmis, the head of mapping platforms at Nokia has let some interesting bits out!! We know how Nokia is playing a big role with HERE Maps, in bringing self-driving connected car concept alive developing 3D best-in-class precision maps...
A big day for Nokia at MWC and my views on the Nokia X family
Today was a big day for Nokia, not just with the announcement of five new devices, but a different view coming to a new Nokia line. Before we can get into the really interesting stuff we have to cover the minor details as well....