Samsung Bests Nokia as World's Biggest Mobile Phone Vendor: IDC

Samsung and Apple post strong mobile phone sales thanks to strong product lines, while Nokia and RIM slip, according to IDC. The worldwide mobile phone market declined 1.5 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12), as Samsung ousted ...

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Nokia Lumia 800 mod enables Touchstone charging

With a little bit of modding know-how and hard work, one YouTube user has taken apart a Nokia Lumia 800 and added the ability to charge via Palm's Touchstone. It doesn't look particularly easy, with some room having to be made to accommodate the copper ...

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Nokia Reportedly Talks to Sell Vertu Luxury Unit

Nokia has been under significant pressure during its painful operating system transition from Symbian to Windows Phone for its high-end smartphones. Nokia was once the largest seller of mobile phones in the world, but Samsung has recently taken that ...

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S&P Downgrades Nokia to Junk

Rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) recently downgraded the credit rating of Nokia Corp. (NOK) to BB+ from BBB-. The rating agency has also downgraded the company's short-term credit rating to B from A-3. With this downgrade, Nokia's debt now falls ...

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Nokia's new phone was meant to herald the company's revival

by Chris Sorensen on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:57am - 0 Comments It was one year ago that Finland's Nokia Oyj joined forces with Microsoft Corp. in a last-ditch effort to secure a foothold in the booming smartphone industry. With its once-dominant global ...

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Nokia Blings Up Luxury Sale

By HESTER PLUMRIDGE Nokia is selling its jewels. It is looking to sell luxury mobile-handset business Vertu, the maker of $300000 diamond-clad phones, to private-equity group Permira for about $260 million, according to someone familiar with the talks.

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Nokia's Credit Rating Downgraded to 'Junk'

By Kurt Mackie Nokia, which early last year made the decision to shifts its business model to center on Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system, had its credit rating downgraded on Friday. According to Reuters, Standards & Poor's cut the ...

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