Nokia News & Articles

It seems odd that Microsoft has the hottest smartphone of the moment but doesn't have a Skype app for it, despite having paid billions for the company. That will change, "soon," as the Windows Phone bandwagon starts to really roll.

On a packed day at the CES show, Microsoft showed off the 4G Nokia Lumia 900, BlackBerry promised an email app for the PlayBook next month, while Sony showed off its first solo phone.

As Nokia's Lumia 800 phone becomes the latest device with a software-related battery issue, the company may show off its next model early in 2012. While Apple tops the U.K. sales charts as 2011 comes to a close.

Microsoft has recently done some reshuffling of key executive posts, which includes its Windows Phone 7 chief. In assigning Andy Lees a new non-executive "contributor" role working directly under the CEO, is Microsoft on its way to merging its desktop and mobile operating systems?

With the drama building over the week as a decision loomed, HP has taken the halfway route and decided to offer up its WebOS and the ENYO app framework to the open source community.

The western trenches of the smartphone war are empty. Pretty much every user has picked their side and gone home. It is time for the makers to start improving on features and add what users really want from their phones, rather than play out a pointless specification war.

Hot on the heels of its new Windows Phone-powered Lumia range, Nokia's next offering could be a Windows 8-based tablet, tagged for release next summer. A surprising date, but one that might just work.

If you haven’t got your Christmas shopping done yet, there’s a pile of new document management software that’s worth a look. SAP and OpenText have upgraded NetWeaver, Microsoft and Nokia have new apps for Symbian, Version One goes to R2.2, KnowledgeTree releases ExplorerCP and SmartVault has a new service update.

After a hectic few weeks of financial reporting and launches, the mobile landscape is changing rapidly as the players align themselves for the battles to come.

As Nokia and Microsoft try to get back in the smartphone game, we take a look at the new devices as they're announced at Nokia's big event.

 Nokia World will see at least three new Nokia devices, running Windows Mango, including the newly named Lumia 800. With recent Nokia phones getting rave reviews, could these bring both companies back into the mobile game?

The Nokia World show taking place in London next week will see the first fruit of Microsoft and Nokia's collaboration for Windows Phone devices.

As mobile platform owners vie for dominance in the smartphone and tablet market, smaller players will need to find a way to beef up their capabilities. But with big names like Samsung and Intel joining forces to launch a new smartphone operating system, do they stand a chance against dominant mobile platforms from Apple and Google?

With Intel and Apple reporting healthy earnings this week, how will Nokia do today as it prepares for its Microsoft-themed mobile future?

In a move that will surprise few folks, Apple (news, site) and Nokia have settled out of court over their ITC patent-flinging argument, with Nokia winning license payments from Apple.