After a period of sinking, sales loss, and plunges in shares, Nokia has floated back to the top of the mobile market. Working with Microsoft over the past year, the company brought forth the Windows Phone, which buoyed them out of deep water. Now Nokia is considering targeting Apple’s iPad with a Windows 8 tablet. [...]

Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down Marketplace, its Windows Mobile phone app store, on May 9. Marketplace is to Windows Phones what the App Store is to iPhone. Marketplace launched for Windows Phone operating system in 2010. Since the launch, the mobile operating system hasn’t been updated by Microsoft, who has all [...]

Until now, Android and iOS users have been stuck with their smartphone’s exclusive mapping services. Nokia is ending that by making their Nokia Maps an available option to both iOS and Android users. The service will be available through an HTML5 Web app rather than through individual apps via each mobile platform’s store. Users can [...]

Nokia is climbing its way back to the top of phones manufacturers as it aces rivals in 2011. It now ranks as the top dog of Windows Phones sellers, even though it was one of the last to launch the new smartphones in November. Nokia has been losing sales and profit steadily, but it hung [...]

As fourth quarter reports are trickling in, Nokia announced that it recorded an operating loss of $1.25 billion. Though Windows Phones sales were high, they weren’t enough to compensate the declines in the company’s other smartphone sales. Nokia’s net sales fell by 21% while earnings dropped by 38.1 cents per share. Earlier last year, Nokia [...]

Nokia Corp. is digging in its heels and climbing back to the top on the list of mobile phone manufacturers. The company is coming back with a bang with a new smartphone powered by Microsoft’s latest Windows software. The Lumia 710 is reported to go on sale in the U.S. for $50 after a two-year [...]

Nokia has finally unveiled their much anticipation Windows Phones, the Lumia 800 and 710.  The new headset has been speculated to be a last-ditch attempt at competing with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android. The phones were revealed at the annual Nokia World event in London, in collaboration with Microsoft. The first handsets will run on [...]

This month, we welcome you back to another eventful and rollercoaster ride in telecom-land. The FCC teases us about the AT&T and T-Mobile merger, while Apple devastates us all with shocking news. We say goodbye to Nokia smartphones, HP TouchPads, and await the new RIM QNX smartphones and Nokia Windows Phones. Wars break out all [...]

Nokia has struck a deal with Polar Mobile to add more than 300 mobile apps to its smartphones, including the Windows Phone. Although Symbian-based phones will no longer be available for purchase in the U.S. or Canada, the first 50 set of applications will be added to Symbian-based smartphones by next month. The newest Nokia [...]

Nokia, once the top dog in cell phone makers, is now marking the end of an era as they halt sales of Symbian-based smartphones and feature phones in the U.S. and Canada. Nokia plans to focus its time and productivity on the Windows Phone, which is due for public release in a few short months. [...]