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Samsung overtakes Nokia, ending their 14-year reign
Samsung Galaxy Note: The poll showed analysts on average expect Samsung to have sold 88 million cellphones in January through March, surpassing the 83 million which Nokia sold in the quarter
Samsung ended Finnish phone maker Nokia’s 14-year leadership of the global mobile phone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling handset maker for the first time ever.
It’s...
Nokia to axe 4,000 more jobs, improve production efficiency
Today, Nokia announced that it’s going to cut 4,000 more jobs at its factories in Hungary, Mexico and Finland in an effort to improve the production efficiency of said plants. The company plans on moving a larger part of the production of its smartphones to Asia, which it says will help reduce the time it takes for its products to reach the market.
As Nokia continues to suffer the effect of...
Samsung Shows Off Video of Transparent and Flexible 3D Screen
Samsung has said that it will start to ship ‘bendy screened’ gadgets in the first half of 2012 – with the first ‘flexible’ gizmos on the market certain to be mobile phones.
At technology shows, the Korean company has also demonstrated flexible screens just 0.3mm thick.
But its latest video demo shows off truly out-there technology – a ‘tablet of the future’...
What's the deal with Carrier IQ and what it means to you
A lot has been said about Carrier IQ in the past few days. For those who are not aware, Carrier IQ is a company based in Mountain View, California and provides mobile analytic services for smartphones to the wireless industry. So why is it the news suddenly?
A few days ago, Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart discovered Carrier IQ software in one of the HTC devices he was using. He discovered...
Nokia lose huge market share in their homeland
There’s a state of unease within Nokia at the moment and unsurprisingly so. With the first Nokia-Microsoft lovechild now out in the market (the Lumia 800, you might have heard of it) and an aggressive marketing strategy in place to drum up interest in Windows Phone-laden Nokia’s coming fresh out of the factory, the Finnish company have been waiting with bated breath to see how consumers...
Nokia Tests Solar Power For Cell Phones
Petteri Alinikula, Nokia's Head of Product Sustainability and one of the testers in action on the Baltic Sea.
Finnish cell phone giant Nokia is on a mission to find out how to apply solar power technology to cell phone technology.
The company started a project in June called Nokia Solar Charging Project which is coming to its conclusion at the end of September. It sent a group of people on the...
Why gadget makers wield a 'kill switch'
Some phones have “kill switches” built into them that allow the companies to remotely delete software.
When you buy a video game from Best Buy, you don’t give the retailer the right to barge into your house whenever it wants. So why do we give that permission to software companies?
Most popular smartphone operating systems and other electronic gadgets include what security researchers...
Nokia to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide
Nokia is almost Finish(ed), due to its stubbornness to switch to Android, is now set to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2012.
Mobile phone maker Nokia to cut 4,000 jobs worldwide from its 65,000-strong workforce, including 700 in the UK
Nokia, once indisputably the world’s largest mobile phone company, will lay off 4,000 people worldwide by the end of next year as it attempts to cut costs...
Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept revealed
Look what we’ve found! This is the first image you’ll see anywhere of the early fruit of Microsoft and Nokia’s budding new partnership. We have it on good authority that the technicolor phones on show are conceptual devices produced by the two companies. You shouldn’t, therefore, go jumping to conclusions about retail hardware just yet, but hearts should be warmed by the familiarity...
Universal phone charger just months away as mobile firms back micro-USB design
Waste: A universal phone charger will be available on all new handsets within months after the EC this week released technical specs for a standard design.
The days of frantically searching for the correct mobile phone charger are finally set to end with the release of a universal charger compatible with almost all new handsets.
The European Commission this week released technical specifications for...
Beware of Fake Nokia N95 Cell Phones, Pirated by Chinese
Spot the differences between the Nokla N95 and the Nokia N95
As if buying cell phones on ebay wasn’t annoying enough already, with a bajillion things that you should know, it’s about to get a lot worse – at least if you’re thinking of purchasing a Nokia N95 phone.
Learn how to spot the fake Nokia N95 in this How-To.
Behold the “Nokla N95” touch-screen smartphone....