Ovi Maps Navigation Downloaded 1 Million Times In First Week
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Nokia is more than pleased with the take-up of the new Ovi Maps, announcing over 1 million downloads of the free sat-nav service in the first week.
The five most popular phones to get the service are the Nokia N97, N97 Mini, Nokia E72, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the new Nokia 5230 - even more impressive considering the N97 was a latecomer to the upgrade party.
Nokia's Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki was suitably elated with the rapid take-up:
Bringing free turn-by-turn navigation to Symbian phones has been an interesting move for Nokia, both putting their handsets within striking distance of dedicated GPS devices at an attractive price-point, as well as re-invigorating interest in Symbian as a legitimate platform for developers.
Source:http://darlamack.blogs.com
The five most popular phones to get the service are the Nokia N97, N97 Mini, Nokia E72, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the new Nokia 5230 - even more impressive considering the N97 was a latecomer to the upgrade party.
Nokia's Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki was suitably elated with the rapid take-up:
" This is great news for our 3rd party application developers. Within a matter of days there is an installed base of more than 1 million active users all potentially hungry for new and innovative location-aware apps.
When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer. The number of people now using their Nokia for navigation, and as a result looking for more location-aware software, is growing faster than even we predicted."
Bringing free turn-by-turn navigation to Symbian phones has been an interesting move for Nokia, both putting their handsets within striking distance of dedicated GPS devices at an attractive price-point, as well as re-invigorating interest in Symbian as a legitimate platform for developers.
Source:http://darlamack.blogs.com
Labels: Nokia App, Nokia N Series, Nokia News, Nokia Ovi Maps
Apple Overtakes Nokia As Most Profitable Handset Maker
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Apple has overtaken Nokia as the world’s most profitable handset vendor according to Strategy Analytics. TelephonyOnline reports that Nokia can still claim the largest global market share but Apple has overtaken in profits due to Nokia’s stagnant presence in the U.S. and the economic downturn. Strategoy Analytics estimates that Apple’s iPhone operating profit came in at $1.6 billion in Q3, while Nokia recorded only $1.1 billion in operating profit.
“With strong volumes, high wholesale prices and tight cost controls, the PC vendor has successfully broken into the mobile phone market in just two years,” said analyst Alex Spektor in the research note. It is not all bad news for Nokia.
Even with falling profits, it managed to capture 37.9% market share and ship 16.4 million handsets in the third quarter. Strategy Analytics said that focusing on the U.S., Apple’s high-profit home turf, will be the key to recovering in 2010, but that won’t be an easy fight. Nokia’s profit margin for its handset division has been shrinking during the entire 2009 global economic downturn, and the handset-maker is also facing increased pressure from Google Android devices and other new high-end smartphones planned for the rest of the year and into 2010.
Source:http://www.iphoneuserguide.com/apple/2009/11/12/iphone3g/apple-overtakes-nokia-as-most-profitable-handset-maker/
“With strong volumes, high wholesale prices and tight cost controls, the PC vendor has successfully broken into the mobile phone market in just two years,” said analyst Alex Spektor in the research note. It is not all bad news for Nokia.
Even with falling profits, it managed to capture 37.9% market share and ship 16.4 million handsets in the third quarter. Strategy Analytics said that focusing on the U.S., Apple’s high-profit home turf, will be the key to recovering in 2010, but that won’t be an easy fight. Nokia’s profit margin for its handset division has been shrinking during the entire 2009 global economic downturn, and the handset-maker is also facing increased pressure from Google Android devices and other new high-end smartphones planned for the rest of the year and into 2010.
Source:http://www.iphoneuserguide.com/apple/2009/11/12/iphone3g/apple-overtakes-nokia-as-most-profitable-handset-maker/
Labels: Apple iPhone, Apple News, Nokia, Nokia News
Nokia Acquires Plum Assets
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Espoo, Finland-headquartered Nokia Inc has announced the acquisition of certain assets of Plum Ventures, Inc. These assets will help complement Nokia’s Social Location services.
Plum Ventures Inc is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco, with another office in Boston, Massachusetts. The company has funding from Vulcan Capital and Levensohn Venture Partners, whose representatives are on its board of directors. The company is in the business of developing cloud-based social media sharing and messaging service for private groups. The company’s products enable websites to install community-oriented pages where visitors can stay connected with each other by sharing and discussing content from the site, the greater web or their on computers, without leaving the site. In the long run helps visitors to turn into engaged, active users.
Plum’s platform has features such as Group builder, which adds the social hub to the site that can be customized; a topical directory that can be created by the site owner and the visitors, a widgets library that allows group activity to be displayed throughout the site, and also integrates user accounts into one single sign-in. Some of these features will be made us of by Nokia in its own services.
Plum Ventures was cofounded by Hans Peter Brondmo and Margaret Olson. The company is presently manned by about 10 employees.
Source:http://pcs.co.uk/2009/09/nokia-acquires-plum-assets/
Plum Ventures Inc is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco, with another office in Boston, Massachusetts. The company has funding from Vulcan Capital and Levensohn Venture Partners, whose representatives are on its board of directors. The company is in the business of developing cloud-based social media sharing and messaging service for private groups. The company’s products enable websites to install community-oriented pages where visitors can stay connected with each other by sharing and discussing content from the site, the greater web or their on computers, without leaving the site. In the long run helps visitors to turn into engaged, active users.Plum’s platform has features such as Group builder, which adds the social hub to the site that can be customized; a topical directory that can be created by the site owner and the visitors, a widgets library that allows group activity to be displayed throughout the site, and also integrates user accounts into one single sign-in. Some of these features will be made us of by Nokia in its own services.
Plum Ventures was cofounded by Hans Peter Brondmo and Margaret Olson. The company is presently manned by about 10 employees.
Source:http://pcs.co.uk/2009/09/nokia-acquires-plum-assets/
Labels: Nokia, Nokia News, Plum Ventures, Social media, Social Media News
Microsoft alliance Nokia to bring Microsoft Office On Phones
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Microsoft and Nokia are forming an alliance to bring Microsoft Office and other productivity software to a Nokia smart phones.They both plans to make Office widely accessible via Nokia mobile phones.
The agreement marks “the first time Microsoft will make Office for non windows mobile phones,” says Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop.
There are 200 million Nokia smart phones out there, and Microsoft wants its software on all of them eventually.Available for the company's Nokia Eseries to begin with starting from 2010, Microsoft expects the software to roll out to other handsets in due time.
The deal will expand the reach of Office Mobile beyond Microsoft’s own Windows Mobile platform.With this users will be able to use the new software to view, edit, create and share Office documents via Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Microsoft applications.
"This is much more than putting Microsoft products on Nokia smartphones,".It is way beyond just email, way beyond just Office. It is really reshaping the industry, really creating future solutions, said Kai Oistamo, executive vice president for Nokia's devices unit.
The move is a smart one,and it will give competition to the major,mobile office arena by Android,Google,RIM and iphoneApps.
Nokia is also working on improved Exchange ActiveSync support, and expects to roll out support for other features including mobile accessto intranet portals build on Microsoft SharePoint Server.
The agreement marks “the first time Microsoft will make Office for non windows mobile phones,” says Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop.
There are 200 million Nokia smart phones out there, and Microsoft wants its software on all of them eventually.Available for the company's Nokia Eseries to begin with starting from 2010, Microsoft expects the software to roll out to other handsets in due time.
The deal will expand the reach of Office Mobile beyond Microsoft’s own Windows Mobile platform.With this users will be able to use the new software to view, edit, create and share Office documents via Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Microsoft applications.
"This is much more than putting Microsoft products on Nokia smartphones,".It is way beyond just email, way beyond just Office. It is really reshaping the industry, really creating future solutions, said Kai Oistamo, executive vice president for Nokia's devices unit.
The move is a smart one,and it will give competition to the major,mobile office arena by Android,Google,RIM and iphoneApps.
Nokia is also working on improved Exchange ActiveSync support, and expects to roll out support for other features including mobile accessto intranet portals build on Microsoft SharePoint Server.
Labels: Microsoft News, Microsoft Office, Nokia App, Nokia News
