Nokia Company has announced that it will not produce the 6216 model, equipped with NFC module. Announced in April 2009, the phone was supposed to be the first model with a Near Field Communication, supporting the SWP protocol. Such a solution would allow payment transactions with authorization by special SIM-cards, rather than through a separate module as the NFC in the 6212 Classic model.

Nokia explained its decision by the reluctance of the market to massively use a system of mobile payments. The model was supposed to appear in autumn 2009, but the small number of NFC terminals with SWP put the 6216 release in doubt. Meanwhile, a representative of Nokia, Mark Selby said that the company in no way loses interest in NFC and hopes to further develop this promising technology.

Nokia 5800 smartphone has become one of the most sold touchphone models in 2009.
The sales of mobile devices with touch screen continue to increase. The leadership of this technology no longer belongs to Apple, but Nokia. In 2009, the Finnish company sold 4071% more sensory smartphones than a year earlier and almost caught up with the number of devices sold by the Steve Jobs company.

In 2009, the sales of smart phones set a new record – 166 million units; for the first time more than half of them (55%) were equipped with touch controls. Touchphone sales for the year increased by 109%, to 75 million, while the overall increase in the smartphone market is 41%. This is stated in the report of Canalys analyst firm.
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Even more interesting looks the distribution of touch phones by manufacturers. It turns out that the main part of the growth belongs to the Finnish Nokia, which for the year increased its sales by 4071% (!): In 2008 the company sold nearly half a million touchphones, and in 2009 about 22.4 million. Only Apple has higher rate – last year, the Steve Jobs company has released 25 million “applephones”.

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.

The largest global manufacturer of mobile phones, Nokia, intends to “vigorously” defend itself in court on charges of fraud. The scandal erupted last Friday when a group of investors from the United States has accused the Finnish manufacturer of concealing information and as a consequence of falling profits. The petition was filed in federal court in New York on February 5.

It noted, that Nokia had not informed investors about the production delays in the release of certain models of mobile phones in 2008. According to the plaintiffs, this violation of the decline in prices of Nokia products, led to a drop in the cost of mobile phones and reduction of operating profit. Nokia, in its turn, called all the allegations ungrounded.
We would like to mention that the company’s net profit in 2009 decreased 4,5 times and was only 891 million euros compared to the 3.99 billion euros of a year earlier.

Both vendors should be happy, as the sales of mobile phones have been soared. The consumers are still demanding, especially when choosing a Smartphone, they are carefully evaluating the traditional price / quality.
According to IDC, during the period of the report there have been sold 325.3 million mobile devices against 292.4 million shipped in the last three months of 2008.

Both Nokia and Apple increased their own sales approximately for 17% when compared with the third quarter. At the same time Apple has sold 8.7 million of iPhones – a new record. But Nokia does not stand still: the Finnish giant is working hard on improving the user interface of Symbian-Smartphones, including an abundance of new features. Nokia released the 126.9 million phones, 20.8 million of which is accounted for Smartphones.
Samsung and LG have also set a record of number of phones – 68,8 and 33,9 million.
Sony Ericsson and Motorola continue to struggle – 14,6 and 12,0 million units constituted their sale.
During 2009 the Smartphone market was the mainstay of the total mobile phone market. Smartphones have shown annual increase of around 30% against a 5 per cent fall of the mobile segment as a whole.

The new application was created in order to help the users of Nokia phones in the diagnosis and troubleshooting of the system, as well as to customize the device. The application can perform network testing, Internet connection, charger connection, speakers, etc. At the moment the application of Nokia Diagnostics works only on the following phones: Nokia X6, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230 and Nokia 5530. The support for Symbian S60 3rd Edition will be added in the future.

The S40 platform is really going to leave the base models of phones. New Nokia C5 is an excellent proof of this. This model has all chances to reorient a mass audience on the OS Symbian.
Besides, Nokia C5 is the first device of fresh C-series, which many remember from July of the last year, when Nokia Company registered Xseries and Cseries. With Nokia X3 and X6 models it became clear that the Xseries devices have strong musicality. And now it came the turn of C-series classic phones.

Shortly about the specifications: the display is not touchscreen, with 2,2’’ QVGA size, 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED-backlit, GPS and a microSD slot for memory expansion up to 50MB.
The device can also operate in 3G networks, there is a FM-radio and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. C5 model is actually a 3G-version of Nokia 6303, but with an updated operating system. It is like that Nokia C5 will be presented at the congress in Barcelona very soon.
By the way, we learned that C-series includes one more device. The smartphone has a full QWERTY-keyboard and a compact package. Among other things it has a 5 megapixel camera with LED-backlit.

According to the production schedule provided by James Harper, the senior manager of technology marketing of Nokia, the company plans to become one of the first mobile phone manufacturers with support for 4G-standard Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Nokia will present phone with LTE in 2010. At the same time, as expected, laptops and other devices will support high-speed wireless data transfer which bandwidth is 60 Mbit / s in practical tests. It is unclear, what Nokia implies under notebooks – netbooks, or modems for existing devices.
The Finnish manufacturer will begin in 2020.
Company synchronizes LTE-device Issue since the launch of the first commercial 4G-network.For example, Verizon will launch LTE network in early 2010. Canadian operators Bell and Telus will join around at the same time. AT & T plans to launch a commercial LTE-Network in 2011.