PRESS : NOKIA SMARTPHONES SALES UP BY 57%

Nokia has reported a 57% increase in smartphone sales, to 21.5 million units, for the quarter ended 31 March 2010. The manufacturer saw net sales of 9.5bn euros up 3% year on year, but down 21% on the previous quarter. Services revenues were up 8% year on year to 6.7bn euros, down 19% on quarter four 2009. Meanwhile, average selling price was 62 euros, down from 64 euros a year earlier.
Nokia’s preliminary estimated mobile device market share was 33% in the first quarter 2010, up from an estimated 32% in the first quarter 2009 and down from an estimated 35% in the fourth quarter 2009.

Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, said: ‘In Q1, Nokia delivered both year-on-year net sales and operating profit growth. We continue to face tough competition with respect to the high end of our mobile device portfolio, as well as challenging market conditions on the infrastructure side.
‘During the quarter, we also demonstrated our ability to deliver the Nokia smartphone experience to consumers on a global scale, with our smartphone shipments up by more than 50% year-on-year. The consumer response to the inclusion of our walk and drive navigation offering on our smartphones has been tremendous. Since launching in January, 10 million Nokia smartphone users around the world have downloaded the offering.
‘In infrastructure, Nokia Siemens Networks’ profitability benefited from a positive sales mix in Q1. I am also pleased to see encouraging results from the company’s focus on helping operators meet the challenge of the rapid growth in data and signaling traffic from smartphones.’

FAIL : NOKAI N97 COMMERVIAL VIDEO VS REALITY.....

Heres a video demonstrating the reality of using the Nokia N97, which is what Nokia call their “flagship” device.

NOKAI N900 CAR PARKING APPLICATION

EasyPark for the Nokia N900 helps you when you park your car, and it will guide you back when you forgot where you parked it!.

NOKIA OVI CONTACTS V 1.5 - UPDATED

Ovi Contacts for S60 5th Edition devices have been updated to v1.5, and it includes the following improvements:

• Pop-up note for incoming chat messages
• Additional file types for file sharing: contact card & presentation

With Ovi Contacts, you can let your friends know what you are doing and where you are. You can also check your friends’ status messages to see what your friends are up to. Ovi Contacts is all about keeping in touch with people who matter.

NOKIA UPDATES OVI STORE - ADDS IMPROVEMENTS

Nokia have updated the OVI Store and the three main goals with this Ovi Store release are:

• Make it easier to browse, search and discover content
• Improve the quality of content reviews (eg: change from 3 to 5 star rating system)
• Provide more product information to help you decide what to buy

Novarra server increases speed

This is a demonstration of how Novarra server increases speed and reduces over the air data for smartphones like HTC MyTouch (G2).

On March 26th, Nokia announced its intent to acquire Novarra, the Internet Mobility company, due to its expertise and ground-breaking products for mobile internet and cloud-based services for web, applications and advertising.

NOKIA OVI PLAYER 2.1 NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Nokia OVI Player (formerly Nokia Music) gives every day a soundtrack. You can organise and transfer the music you love, rip and burn CD’s, discover and download music from Nokia Music Store – seamlessly integrated with your PC and mobile device.
Changelog after the break…
Changelog:

• We have re-worked music downloads functionality to make it more reliable. You can now pause and restart downloads from the Nokia and Ovi Music stores. Ovi Player will automatically retry any failed downloads and will also preserve uncompleted downloads on application restart.
• With the latest Nokia Ovi Player you now can automatically import your music library from iTunes and all the manual playlists that you created in iTunes (however, iTunes DRM files and smart playlists will not be imported).
• We have also provided a new ‘Play’ control above column headers in detailed view. Simply click this button and all the containing tracks will be added to the Player Queue and played sequentially.
• There are new tooltips for tracks in the Playlists and Player Queue. These tooltips are visible when hovering over a track and will show you Artist, Album and Artwork for the track.
• We’ve made it easier to select the Music Store for your region (note that you will need a credit card for that region to purchase any tracks) and change the Proxy settings. Just hit F4 key and all this pops up in the Options dialogue window.
• The new version is more robust and memory efficient when compared to the previous version.
• Finally, we have also made it possible to hide the start-up screen, so you can carry on using other applications without being interfered by the Nokia Ovi Player.

NOKIA GETS THE NORDIC / UK BUSINESS AWARDS

Nordic/UK Business Awards: Winners of Research & Development Award Finnish Nokia, the worlds number one manufacturer of mobiles by market share, develops its nanotechnology at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridg.

MeeGoo REPOSITORY COMING TO THE NOKIA N900

Nokia Employee Valtteri Halla has said that MeeGo’s repository is to open to the Nokia N900 later this month.  There is no indication that this will mean that the N900 will be an eventual target device for MeeGo but news of the Repository could be the start of good things to come.

Nokia 5230 Nuron

Nokia and T-Mobile USA today announced the upcoming availability of the Nokia 5230 Nuron, a smartphone solution for the masses packed with applications, maps with turn-by-turn directions, and more. Operating on T-Mobile’s blazing-fast 3G network, the Nokia Nuron offers dynamic Web browsing and rich experiences on a 3.2″ touch screen. The device is also the first pre-loaded with Ovi Maps, a free turn-by-turn navigation solution from Nokia, and the first to have the Ovi Store pre-loaded, giving consumers access to thousands of compelling applications and games. The Nokia Nuron is expected to be available in the coming weeks exclusively from T-Mobile.
“The Nokia 5230 Nuron is a great product of our collaboration with T-Mobile USA and provides consumers with more compelling mobile experiences as they navigate, watch video, play games and social network,” said Mark Slater, Vice President, Sales, Nokia. “The Nokia Nuron offers U.S. consumers a unique and compelling mobile experience that caters to their everyday needs and enables them to connect to their passions with an affordable 3G touch smartphone.”
The Nokia Nuron is a mobile solution that allows consumers to easily make their way around town, download content and applications to keep them entertained, or help to manage their busy lives. Consumers can keep up with friends and family via IM, text, personal or work e-mail, and offers the ability to easily surf the Web with a full HTML browser.
“Many of our customers are looking for smartphones that deliver a great mobile Web experience with access to games and applications, all at an affordable price,” said Travis Warren, director, product marketing, T-Mobile USA. “We are excited to partner with Nokia to offer our customers the Nokia 5230 Nuron, a 3G smartphone for the masses that delivers features like a full touch screen, free turn-by-turn navigation and a premium storefront for applications.”

The Nokia Nuron is the first U.S. carrier -supported Nokia smartphone to pre-load Ovi Maps, a solution from Nokia that offers consumers free turn-by-turn directions and navigation. Additionally, Ovi Maps makes it easy to discover great places to eat, concerts, movies and more with Lonely Planet guides. Other features include the ability to check the weather forecast and even share one’s current location on Facebook. With pedestrian navigation, Ovi Maps delivers the best routes through pedestrian zones and shortcuts as well as pathways through parks and buildings. Exploring the world or rediscovering your own city has never been easier or more fun with Ovi Maps. Nokia Nuron also comes preloaded with maps for the USA, Canada and Mexico – with the ability to access over 180 country maps at http://www.nokiausa.com/maps.
The Nokia Nuron will be the first device from a national U.S. carrier to come pre-loaded with Ovi Store by Nokia – giving consumers access to thousands of applications and other exciting content.

PICTURES:NOKIA C5 PICTURE GALLERY.....

Here are the pictures of the latest nokia social networking device - C5....

NOKIA C5 ANNOUNCED - OPTIMIZED FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING AND SHARING

Nokia today unveiled the Nokia C5, a smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing. The compact device includes access to Nokia’s range of mobile services, such as free navigation, in one affordable package, with an estimated retail price of EUR 135, before taxes and subsidies.

With direct access to favorite contacts on the device homescreen and Facebook status updates visible from the phonebook, the Nokia C5 keeps people connected with the ones who matter the most. Accessing social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, is fast and easy, while instant messaging and email accounts from Ovi Mail and other email providers are available through Nokia Messaging. Loaded with a 3.2 megapixel camera, a 2GB memory card that comes in-box and high speed data connection for effortless uploading of photos and videos to various online communities, the Nokia C5 delivers an outstanding sharing experience.


The Nokia C5 offers the latest version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, including location sharing with Facebook friends. The Nokia C5 also provides fast web browsing, allowing easy access to favorite Internet sites, Ovi Music*) and a range of applications through the Ovi Store. The Nokia C5 is expected to begin shipping in select markets during the second quarter of 2010.
The new Cseries represents the core of Nokia portfolio, focusing on social interaction between friends and family.
Specs:

• 2.2 inch display
• 3.2 megapixel camera
• microSD card slot
• Stereo FM radio
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Talk time of 12 hours
• Available in white and grey
• Dimensions of 4.41 x 1.81 x 0.47 inches

FIREFOX FOR N900 READY TO DOWNLOAD FROM THE OVI STORE

Firefox mobile web browser for the Nokia N900 went live in the Ovi Store today. So what are you waiting for? Download it now!

IS THIS THE NOKIA N98?????

There's no shortage of reasons why we should throw this render in the trash. First is the simple fact that it's a render at all, and we all know how extraordinarily talented the world's artistically-inclined phone fanboys and girls are. Second, we're hearing that this is known as the N98, which runs counter to other rumors (and retail evidence in the X3 and X6) that Nokia is moving to a one-letter, one-digit naming convention across its smartphone range. Third, this looks like a straight-up cross between a Sidekick 2008 and a Sidekick LX 2009 (save the tilt-up display, of course). All that said, we can't help but feel that a device exactly like this makes sense for Nokia's high-end, multimedia-savvy Symbian range -- a proper successor to the N97 that might clear up some complaints like the off-center spacebar.

Anyhow, rumor has it the so-called N98 features a 4-inch touchscreen (likely capacitive, considering the precedent set by the X6) with 32GB of internal storage and a launch date in time for holiday 2010 at around €450 ($617) -- and we're even seeing an HDMI logo silkscreened on the side, too. This actually mixes pretty closely with another recent rumor that says we can expect an N8 model this Summer with a 3.5-inch capacitive display, 12 megapixel sensor, and Symbian^3, so an alternate possibility is that we're actually looking at that N8 here. Either way, if any of it is real, it could see a debut anywhere between MWC next week and Nokia World later in the year -- but admittedly, our fake-o-meter's reading pretty high on this one until we see an announcement. Nokia fans: is this what you're looking for in a next-gen device?

NEW APPS COMING FOR NOKIA N900.....

Video preview of new cool apps coming for Maemo and Nokia N900. Check it out after the break…