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Nokia Hopes To Sell At Least 10 Million N97s
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has begun shipping its flagship N97 mobile phone in more than 75 countries, the company said today. The phone, which sports a touch screen and Qwerty keyboard, is meant to compete with Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry devices, sales of which ate into Nokia’s share of the smartphone market last year. In the UK, the N97 will be sold through 3, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U, all of which have not yet disclosed tariff costs. Nokia stores will sell an unlocked version for £499.
Nokia’s VP for N series handsets told Bloomberg that the N97 “should not be a niche product,” and that its goal was to have similar sales to the N95, which has sold more than 10 million units as of the end of March. According to Gartner, Nokia’s share of the smartphone market fell to 41.2 percent at the end Q1 from 49.4 percent at the end of 2007, while RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) doubled its share to 19.9 percent. Apple’s share has shot to 10.8 percent of all smartphones, from none two years ago. Read more on sister site mocoNews.net.
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Nokia Hopes To Sell At Least 10 Million N97’s
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has begun shipping its flagship N97 mobile phone in more than 75 countries, the company said today. The phone, which sports a touch screen and Qwerty keyboard, is meant to compete with Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry devices, sales of which ate into Nokia’s share of the smartphone market last year. In the UK, the N97 will be sold through 3, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U, all of which have not yet disclosed tariff costs. Nokia stores will sell an unlocked version for £499.
Nokia’s VP for N series handsets told Bloomberg that the N97 “should not be a niche product,” and that its goal was to have similar sales to the N95, which has sold more than 10 million units as of the end of March. According to Gartner, Nokia’s share of the smartphone market fell to 41.2 percent at the end Q1 from 49.4 percent at the end of 2007, while RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) doubled its share to 19.9 percent. Apple’s share has shot to 10.8 percent of all smartphones, from none two years ago. Read more on sister site mocoNews.net.
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| Tue, May 26, 2009 |
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Mobile Content Bits: Pre For O2?; EU’s Dongle Boom; Nokia Launches Ovi; Connect2Media’s iPhone App
—Pre for O2?: O2 has beaten rivals Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange to win the deal to exclusively carry the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, unnamed sources told the Guardian.co.uk. It’s good news for O2, which currently stocks the iPhone exclusively, but will reportedly see that deal phased out as Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) looks to open up distribution of the cellphone to other carriers. More at mocoNews.net...
—EU mobile broadband stats: New research shows that the mobile broadband market in Western Europe—comprising of 3G dongles, cards and internal celluar modems, reached 10.5 million units in 2008, compared to 4.7 million in 2007. Via Telecompaper.com.
—Nokia’s Ovi Store: Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today finally unveiled its Ovi app store as a mobile browser-based client via store.ovi.com or as a downloadable app. Users in eight countries including the UK will be able to add the cost of apps to their mobile bills. There are more than 50 million Nokia handsets across the world, but the company has a long way to go to compete with Apple’s iPhone app store, which reached one billion downloads in less than a year. Full story at our sister site Moconews.net
—Connect2Media: The Manchester-based mobile and TV games developer and distributor has launched its first game on Apple’s iPhone app store: users can download Go! Go! Rescue Squad from today, priced £2.99. Versions for Wii Ware, Xbox Live Arcade, Android and Windows Live are due for later this year.
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Mobile Content Bits: Pre For O2?; EU’s Dongle Boom; Nokia Launches Ovi; Connect2Media’s iPhone App
—Pre for O2?: O2 has beaten rivals Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange to win the deal to exclusively carry the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, unnamed sources told the Guardian.co.uk. It’s good news for O2, which currently stocks the iPhone exclusively, but will reportedly see that deal phased out as Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) looks to open up distribution of the cellphone to other carriers. More at mocoNews.net...
The iPhone has been particularly good to O2, where it has helped attract valuable contract customers and reduce churn, no small thing in one of Europe’s most competitive mobile markets. It’s unknown at this point whether the deal with O2, which is owned by Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), will extend to the group’s other units. Spanish press reports in March said Telefonica had won the Pre deal to exclusively distribute the device in the UK, Spain and Latin America.
—EU mobile broadband stats: New research shows that the mobile broadband market in Western Europe—comprising of 3G dongles, cards and internal celluar modems, reached 10.5 million units in 2008, compared to 4.7 million in 2007. Via Telecompaper.com.
—Nokia’s Ovi Store: Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today finally unveiled its Ovi app store as a mobile browser-based client via store.ovi.com or as a downloadable app. Users in eight countries including the UK will be able to add the cost of apps to their mobile bills. There are more than 50 million Nokia handsets across the world, but the company has a long way to go to compete with Apple’s iPhone app store, which reached one billion downloads in less than a year. Full story at our sister site Moconews.net
—Connect2Media: The Manchester-based mobile and TV games developer and distributor has launched its first game on Apple’s iPhone app store: users can download Go! Go! Rescue Squad from today, priced £2.99. Versions for Wii Ware, Xbox Live Arcade, Android and Windows Live are due for later this year.
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| Thu, May 21, 2009 |
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Vodafone To Use Wayfinder For Location-Based Advertising
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) will use Wayfinder, the Swedish navigational software firm it purchased last December for $30 million, to provide location-based advertising in which advertisers, such as restaurants or shops, would pay to overlay their logos on maps that a user requests, Vodafone’s international development manager of mobile advertising Jeremy Makin told mocoNews.net. Users would be able to click on the logos for more information.
The new services will roll out in western European markets first, according to Makin, most likely in the UK, Germany and Scandinavia, three of the 19 territories where Wayfinder is currently available. Other markets will be added in time. Full details on our sister site mocoNews.net...
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