Nokia has just announced plans to launch the first C-Series Smartphone, the Nokia C5, sometime during Q2 of this year. You may ask yourself, what is so special about this device? Well at just €135 ($183), before taxes and subsidies, it has an impressive price point.
Even though it does not have a large touchscreen, [...]
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This last week has been a big week in the smartphone market, with the most widely publicised handset launch being that of the Nexus One from Google. Other phones which were unveiled last week included the Backflip from Motorola, Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10, both due to be available from some point in Q1 2010 and [...]
Nokia Smartphones: Will half as much prove to be twice as good?
by Patrick Fairlie on December 8th, 2009
Last week, Jo Harlow head of Nokia’s Smartphone division announced that Nokia will be halving their smartphone portfolio in 2010. In the past, Nokia has always profited from having a large selection of handsets so this decision was surely made with much thought involved. But will halving the portfolio prove to be a winning strategy? [...]
Last week, three of Japan’s largest consumer electronics companies agreed to combine their mobile handset businesses in a stand-alone joint venture. The stated aim is to help the three companies - Casio, NEC and Hitachi - to make significant savings in production and marketing costs and to improve their positions in the cut-throat domestic market.
The venture, a [...]
By now, most of the major mobile handset manufacturers have announced results for Q209 and, bar any unforeseen developments at late reporters such as ZTE, these results were a little better than I’d been expecting.
Nevertheless, with approximately 269 million devices shipping in the quarter just gone, this performance is still around 9% down on the [...]
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