Microsoft and Samsung settle patent dispute
Microsoft and Samsung have settled their patent dispute over royalty payments, which became an issue once Microsoft bought Nokia. Samsung had previously declined to pay Microsoft a patent fee and share...
View ArticleNokia to buy Alcatel-Lucent, set to become world’s No. 2 telecom equipment maker
Nokia Corp. announced on Wednesday its plan to acquire rival Alcatel-Lucent in an all-share deal. The transaction values Alcatel-Lucent at €15.6 billion. The new company will become the world’s second...
View ArticleNokia may return to smartphone market
Nokia Corp. is plotting its return to the market of smartphones and tablets, a media report suggests. This time, however, the company will not manufacture its handsets itself, but will develop devices...
View ArticleNokia’s return to smartphone market confirmed by executive
President of Nokia China has confirmed the company’s plans to return to the market of smartphones next year. He indicated in an interview that the company is currently evaluating different options and...
View ArticleNokia denies that it is returning to smartphone market
Last week, rumors began circulating suggesting that Nokia would be making a return to the smartphone market soon. However, despite a supposed confirmation from an executive, it doesn’t look like this...
View ArticleNokia: We will consider brand licensing model for smartphones
Even though Nokia Corp. does not plan to manufacture its own smartphones in the future, the company confirmed this week that it would consider design and brand licensing opportunities. Essentially, it...
View ArticleNokia to cut over 10% of jobs from its Technologies business unit
Nokia Corp. plans to cut over 10 per cent of its business unit that conducts research and development operations and licenses technologies to other companies. The move seems to be completely unexpected...
View ArticleNokia had plans to launch a Smartwatch before Microsoft buyout
Nokia was one of the few third-party vendors heavily supporting Windows Phone before the Microsoft buyout in 2014, so it may not surprise you that the company was attempting to bring some of that...
View ArticleFormer Nokia CEO is leaving Microsoft
Last year, Microsoft officially acquired Nokia, the company’s mobile division swiftly merged with Microsoft and quite a few key employees stayed on. However, now around a year later, Nokia’s former...
View ArticleChief exec of Nokia re-affirms: Nokia will develop smartphones again
Chief executive officer of Nokia Corp. this week reaffirmed that the company will design smartphones again in the second half of 2016. Officially, the company only wants to develop hardware and leave...
View ArticleMicrosoft is cutting 7,800 jobs from its hardware division
It has been revealed that Microsoft is following up its Nokia acquisition with another round of job cuts. Around a year ago, Microsoft initially announced that it would be letting go of 18,000 people...
View ArticleLeak points towards specs of Lumia 950
It is pretty well known at this point that Microsoft is in the midst of preparing a new flagship Lumia smartphone to launch alongside Windows 10 for smartphones. While we don’t have an exact release...
View ArticleNokia preps its own virtual reality device, plans to debut it next week
Nokia Corp. has developed thousands of various technologies useful for portable consumer electronics gadgets, but at present it cannot use them to build its own mobile devices due to agreement with...
View ArticleNokia unveils Ozo: Virtual reality camera for content creators
Nokia Corp. on Wednesday introduced its first virtual reality project, which is not a headset. Instead of targeting consumers with its VR hardware, Nokia targets content creators with its Ozo, a...
View ArticleNokia sells HERE map service to German car makers
Although far from the mobile powerhouse it once was, Nokia still has a name and some services that are worth an impressive sum. Now it’s down one, after selling its HERE mapping service to a consortium...
View ArticleWe know which Lumia phones will get the Windows 10 update first
Windows 10 for desktop systems is now out in the wild but at the moment, we still don’t have the mobile version, though some devices are capable of preview testing it. While a release date for the...
View ArticleFirst images of Microsoft’s Lumia 950 XL leak
Windows 10 for smartphones is coming later this year and we already have a list of ten devices that will get the new OS update at launch. However, Microsoft also has a new device planned to launch...
View ArticleNokia hires as it preps to re-enter smartphones market
Nokia Corp. is hiring additional specialists as it is gearing up to return to the smartphones market late next year. While the company does not have plans to manufacture handsets itself, the firm seems...
View ArticleNokia could return with an Android and Windows 10 smartphone
The majority of Nokia may have been s0ld off to Microsoft but the company is still kicking around with ideas for future smartphones. Apparently, Nokia is currently planning a device known as the C1,...
View ArticleNokia’s virtual reality camera rig tips the scales at $60k
Nokia isn’t a company that’s been particularly relevant for some time now, only really breaking headlines in recent years when it sold its smartphone division to Microsoft in 2013. However now it’s...
View ArticleMicrosoft is now selling the Nokia brand to Foxconn
Microsoft initially bought out Nokia’s mobile phone division a couple of years back to bolster its own smartphone efforts. However, Windows Phone still hasn’t seen a ton of growth and now the company...
View ArticleNokia and Samsung agree to expand patent sharing deal
We are pretty used to smartphone makers battling it out in court with endless lawsuits over patents these days, so it is always refreshing to hear about two large companies cooperating instead. This...
View ArticleNokia will return in 2017 with new Android smartphones
Nokia is finally set to make its return to the smartphone market in an attempt to reclaim its glory days. However, this time around, the focus will be placed on Android, rather than Windows Phone, with...
View ArticleNokia set to make Android smartphone return in 2017
A number of ex-Nokia employees have banded together and licensed the brand name from Microsoft. Not only that, but they’ve secured a manufacturing partnership too and plan to resurrect Nokia...
View ArticleHMD Global debuts £20 Nokia 150, with 2.4 inch screen
HMD Global, a firm made up of a number of long-time Nokia employees which recently bought the Nokia brand from Microsoft, has announced its first phone. The Nokia 150 will cost just £20 before tax and...
View ArticleBlackBerry is suing Nokia over 11 patents
BlackBerry might not be making smartphones anymore but the company still has some life left in it. Outside of licensing deals and software, it looks like BlackBerry also wants to try and make some cash...
View ArticleNew Nokia smartphones available in the UK on June 30th
When Nokia reformed its mobile handset division under the name HMD Global, and announced its Android-based Nokia 3, 5 and 6 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, it did not set a hard...
View ArticleNokia 8 confirmed, available on pre-order… if you’re in India
While Europe and the US are still twiddling thumbs waiting for the arrival of the first new Nokia phones – the 3, 5 and 6 – India is already having a go at pre-ordering Nokia’s (thus-far rumoured)...
View ArticleNokia and Apple settle patent dispute with new partnership
It looks like Nokia and Apple have managed to settle their differences as the Nokia V Apple patent dispute is now officially over. The two companies managed to settle out of court by hammering out a...
View ArticleNokia ceases development on its VR camera, cuts 310 jobs
While Microsoft did acquire Nokia’s mobile arm a couple of years ago, the company has managed to live on in Finland, the US and UK by working on other projects. One of Nokia’s major projects over the...
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