Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia on Thursday released its Asha range of handsets in the SA market at fairly aggressive price points. The feature phones — which arguably could be described as entry-level smartphones — could help Nokia regain some of the market share it has lost to entry-level Android
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Nokia warned investors on Wednesday that its first quarter performance was lower than expected, ahead of its earnings report next Thursday. The company also doesn’t expect things to shape up for the second quarter, which means this will be a difficult year for the company overall. But on the bright side, Nokia revealed it sold
“Ideas so simple,” reads a cartoon on an elevator door, “that they feel like the completion of a thought,” continues its twin. Similar doodles adorn the walls of HTC’s headquarters in Taoyuan, near Taipei, and business cards carried by the smartphone-maker’s staff. John Wang, the chief marketing officer, lays out a set of four: concentric
Nashua Mobile is to offer Nokia handsets with unlimited e-mail, Internet browsing, social networking and instant messaging for a fixed rate of R59/month in a move clearly aimed at Nokia rival Research in Motion, whose BlackBerry smartphones are available on
Nokia has repositioned itself impressively as a high-end Windows Phone maker, but the company hasn’t forgotten about the lower end of the market either. On Monday, the Finnish company announced its cheapest Windows device yet, the Lumia 610, as well as three new
You read that right. Nokia has announced the 808 PureView at the Mobile World Congress, and it sports an astoundingly large 41-megapixel camera. Nokia is well aware that such large resolution pictures will be difficult to share, so the phone will over-sample pictures
It’s no secret that Nokia is in trouble. It lost close to US$1,5bn in 2011, its market share, particularly in the profitable smartphone market, continues to plunge and its big bet — a partnership with Microsoft — has yet to produce significant revenues. So when I received a review model of Nokia’s newest phone, the Lumia 800
Exactly one year to the day since Stephen Elop unveiled Nokia’s new strategy and its partnership with Microsoft, TechCentral brings you a special edition of the TalkCentral podcast: a roundtable interview with the Nokia CEO himself. Listen as Elop talks about the future of the Windows Phone ecosystem
South Africans have flocked to BlackBerry devices in recent years because of the cheap and unlimited on-device browsing, chat and e-mail offered through the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS). Now MTN is hoping to bring similarly priced offerings to other smartphone devices. On Thursday
Nokia may have some hot new smartphone models coming this year, but its financial turmoil isn’t over. The Finnish phone giant said on Wedneday it plans to cut 4 000 jobs this year. The company is reducing production at plants in Hungary, Mexico and Finland. The three plants