This is just a rumor from a single source – from a Twitter tweet, no less. But, stranger things have happened (like Google buying Motorola Mobility). So, here goes… as reported by the Global Post. Eldar Murtazi, Mobile-Review.com, editor-in-chief Analyst, tweeted that Microsoft will buy Nokia’s smartphone division.
Paul Thurrott, who has a good inside track to Microsoft’s Windows Phone team, said that the rumored $100M 2012 marketing budget for Windows Phone is way off. Exclusive: Microsoft and Nokia’s Plans for Marketing Windows Phone in 2012 He says that he was told that the marketing budget for the U.S. alone is in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had to laugh when I read this subject line over at Betanews. Windows Phone partners bet $100M on Nokia Ace Why laugh? It is because it was so reminiscent of this rumor floated on TechCrunch in August 2010 shortly before Windows Phone launched. Microsoft To Pay More Than Half A Billion Dollars To Jump-Start […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forbes noted survey data from BNP Paribas showing Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone, Lumia 800, only attracted the attention of 2% of Europeans considering a new smartphone. This is not good news for Nokia or Microsoft. Nokia’s first generation of Windows Phone devices were supposed to vault the platform into contention with Android and iPhone. Instead, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Verge reports that Nokia’s Lumia phone will get their own app section in the Windows Phone marketplace. While this is not a first, HTC and other firms have apps only available for their phones, most of those apps fall into the interesting but not “must have” category. However, if Nokia’s Lumia because the flagship […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was briefly happy to read about the release of… Fennec 1.0 Beta 1 (Firefox for mobile devices). Why only briefly? This release only for the Maemo platform (Nokia Internet Tablet series) which I don’t use. Oh well. Nice to see progress made on any platform.
This is a rebuttal to my MobileDevicesToday.com blogging partner’s comment that Nokia and Windows Mobile does not have flagship products. Nokia has both current & future flagship phones. Their current flagship phone is the N96 although I’ve noted Nokia product experts (I don’t consider myself one of those) sometimes note they prefer the older N95. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I usually get all kinds of UIQ press releases that I don’t care about. The one time there is a UIQ related news item I DO care about, I don’t get anything. Figures. I read this on Brighthand and went over to Nokia’s site to find the press release. Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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