Nokia Phones

Let’s say that MeeGo operating system, which is the ideological heir of Maemo is already a month available for installation on a limited number of netbooks. It is now up to the mobile devices. This became obvious with the first screenshots and video demonstration of the interface.

Strictly speaking, the video is not anything particularly interesting and even more exciting. It shows the work of photo album, web browser, address book and typing. Everything works perky, but do not try to guess a phone model – in this case the company generally does not show a specific phone, but just a demo unit with the interface.

Aside from the fact that the symbol is not ideal -man with a square head (clearly inferior to the charisma merry green robot), it is still not particularly say what – there are no miracles. We are waiting for other news and other videos.

Nokia has reported that it is going to present new smartphones, which will help to reduce the gap between the company and its competitors. Of course, now the Finnish manufacturer is still the leader in the market of smartphones, in a competiton with such rivals as Apple and RIM.

The head of Nokia Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo noted that the company has a lot of work. “This year Nokia plans to introduce a new generation of devices that will constitute serious competition to rivals”, – said the head of the company.

As it is known, according to the results of the first quarter of 2009, the share of Nokia in the mobile phone market has fallen by 33%. “The economic crisis has coincided with our reorganizations, as well as with changes in our portfolio of devices”, – said Kallasvuo. “This led to the decrease in operating profit and earnings per share.

During his speech Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo also said that 83 million customers around the world are active users of Nokia mobile services, but in the future this figure is planned to increase. “We are making every effort to return the leadership of high-end smartphones and mobile computers in the market. The important thing is that we make the use of our phones and our services  are more comfortable”.

Kallasvuo underlined that Nokia has been number 1 company for the production of mobile phones for 12 consecutive years. The manufacturer has sold 432 million phones worldwide, and this figure is more than those of its three main rivals combined.

Nokia has released the beta version of Qt SDK, allowing you to create applications for different mobile devices based on Symbian, Maemo and MeeGo operating systems. The release includes the following elements: a library of Qt 4.6.2, development environment of Qt Creator 2.0, simulator of Nokia devices – Qt Simulator, as well as tools for working with Symbian (Symbian tool chain) and Maemo (Maemo tool chain) platforms.

Nokia reminds that this release is under open beta testing stage, and recommends to bring in information about problems in the system of back tracking of Qt Bug Tracker.

Like other companies, Nokia has published the results of its work for the first quarter of 2010. The report of the Finnish manufacturer states that, Nokia’s sales increased by 5% as compared with the previous year and amounted to 9.5 billion Euros. Net sales of Devices & Services subdivisions are equal to 6.7 billion Euros, 8% more than last year’s performance and 19% less as compared with previous years, and the Services subdivisions is 148 million Euros.

During the first three months of this year 107.8 million Nokia devices were sold, this figure has increased by 16% as compared with the first quarter of 2009 and decreased by 15% as compared with the fourth quarter of 2009. 21.5 million Nokia smartphones and mobile computers were sold, which is 57% more than last year and 3% more than in the previous quarter.

The share of Nokia in the mobile phone market has increased to 33%. It should be noted that a year ago, it was equal to approximately 32%, and in the fourth quarter of last year it was equal to 35%.

We have already mention the mysterious phone from the Finnish manufacturer with an appropriate name Nokia Mystic several names. It was assumed that this is a new Nokia device of C-series. Also there was a possibility that it is a successor of popular business smartphones Nokia E71 and Nokia E72 – QWERTY-device Nokia E73. But we still do not know what will be the final name of this “mysterious” new smartphone.

Currently, there is information on the web that the smartphone Nokia E73 will appear on the U.S. market in June this year, where it will be sold through the mobile operator T-Mobile. No other details are available yet: neither the exact date of occurrence, nor the likely cost of the new device, nor any of its technical characteristics.

It is not clear if this information will be confirmed in the future. However, if this happens, the emergence of Nokia E73 in the portfolio of T-Mobile USA could attract the attention of many buyers, because for now the operator sells only an entry-level Nokia devices.

Nokia company plans to introduce super-budget phones to the Indian mobile market where, despite the fact that it is the second largest in the world, there are still more than 500 million people who do not have mobile phones.
It is expected that Nokia phones will cost no more than 1,000 INR (about $ 20), moreover, according to Economic Times India, among them will be several devices, the price of which will be only $ 10. It should be noted that currently the cheapest new phone of the Finnish manufacturer is Nokia 1280, which costs about $ 30. The model is equipped with a 1.35-inch display, the resolution of which is 96×68 pixels, FM-radio, speakerphone, 3.5 mm audio connector, as well as the opportunity to have mp3-melody ringtones.

With regard to new products for India, there are no pictures and no alleged characteristics. But it is already clear that the phones will not differ greatly from the already well-known Nokia 1280.
We cannot forget about another mobile phone, which also plans to submit the budget news for Indian users. A company called Gee Pee also wants to start selling phones for $ 10, but the most interesting fact is that these mobile phones are very reminiscent of the design of Nokia devices.

One download per second, and so 24 hours a day. This happens with a new version of Ovi Maps. No wonder – this navigation for pedestrians and for motorists is absolutely free. 1 million downloads were reached in just a week after launching. And it is not surprising, the new cards have 5 grand benefits that users appreciated very quickly, and that radically changed the rules of the game on the market.

The intensity of the growing number of customers using Nokia devices for navigation is ahead of even the most optimistic projections of the company .According to the research conducted by Canalys, the number of people using GPS-navigation on their mobile phones around the world for to 2009 was about 27 million.
Nokia Company outlook is planning to win the leadership in the market for mobile mapping and navigation. The new release of Ovi Maps is just the main element of the new strategy. Generally, the plan was to gain a huge user base, which could then offer new services, content and opportunities associated with determining the location of the user and navigation.
By the way, the new version of Maps Ovi was most actively downloaded in China, Italy, Britain, Germany, Spain and Russia.

All new models from Nokia with GPS-receiver will continue to be delivered with a new version of Ovi Maps, loaded with regional maps, as well as free functions of pedestrian and car navigation and access to premium content from Lonely Planet and Michelin.
We remind that the Ovi Maps packet includes detailed maps of more than 180 countries, with the functions of the automotive and pedestrian navigation for 74 countries in 46 languages, as well as information about the state of movement for more than 10 countries. The package includes more than 6000 3-D markers in 200 cities worldwide. Lonely Planet and Michelin Guidebooks contain information on more than 1000 locations worldwide.