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Microsoft Looks to Nokia, HTC and Samsung to Improve Windows Phone 7 OS Smartphone Sales
After a disappointing response from the global smartphone market, Microsoft Corp. may be looking to companies like HTC, Nokia and Samsung to improve sales of its smartphones, according to a new report.
Sales figures for smartphones powered by the Redmond based software giant’s Windows Phone 7 OS platform have been far below expectation compared to what the company had been anticipating earlier.
Shaken by the unexpected disastrous performance of Windows Phone 7 devices, Microsoft first announced it was going to spend $400 million on advertising.
Now, according to latest reports, the company is hoping that the big brands in the WP7 eco-system such as Nokia, Samsung and HTC will help strengthen the device’s performance in the market.
The company’s president of mobile units, Andy Lee, told Bloomberg that Asian smartphone giants HTC and Samsung have already committed to increasing their marketing budgets for all respective WP7 devices.
Meanwhile, the company has not given up on the troubled smartphone platform as it prepares to release the latest version of the Windows Phone OS – the WP 7.5 Mango within a few weeks.
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Nokia C5-06 Specifications
Nokia C5-06 Specifications
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SIZE |
height*depth*width |
105.8 x 51 x 13.8 mm |
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weight |
93 g | |
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MEMORY |
Phone memory |
40 MB storage, 128 MB RAM |
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External Memory |
Up to 16GB, 2GB included | |
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Phone Book |
Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall | |
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CAMERA & VIDEO |
Pixel |
5 MP |
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Digital/Optical Zoom |
Digital zoom | |
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Video Recording |
Yes, VGA@30fps | |
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Face detection |
Face detection & smile detection | |
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BATTERY PERFORMANCE |
Talk time |
Up to 11 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 4 h 30 min (3G) |
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Standby |
Up to 600 h (2G) / Up to 576 h (3G) | |
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ENTERTAINMENT |
Ringtones |
MP3 ringtones. |
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Music player |
Audio/video player | |
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Radio |
Stereo FM radio | |
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TV |
No | |
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Gaming |
Yes, Downloadable games | |
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Screen savers, Themes |
Yes | |
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CONNECTIVITY & NETWORKS |
Bluetooth “technology” |
Yes, v2.0 with A2DP |
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Infrared |
No | |
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USB |
High-Speed USB 2.0 | |
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Wi-Fi |
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology | |
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Network support |
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 |
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WAP |
Yes | |
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Band |
Quad band | |
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SCREEN & USER INTERFACE |
Screen |
TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors |
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Screen size |
3.2 inches, 360 x 640 pixels |
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User Input |
Touchscreen | |
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COMMUNICATIONS |
Messages |
SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging, Push Mail |
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Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for images, videos, music and documents. | |
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SOFTWARE & APPLICATION |
Operating system |
Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5 |
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ENVIRONMENTAL |
Ambient light sensor, unplug charger reminder, High Efficiency Charger AC-10, Device is up to 80 % recyclable | |
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OTHER SPECS |
GPRS supports, Java Enabled, Standard battery Li-Ion 1000 mAh (BL-5CT) |
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Symbian Belle Powered Nokia 603 Launching at Nokia World Event?
Nokia plans to dish out the Symbian Belle update and a new device running the update at the upcoming Nokia World event.
According to Unwired View, the company is preparing to launch the new Nokia 603 running on Symbian Belle at the Nokia World event.
Symbian Belle is an update to Anna, which was launched by the company a few months ago. The platform is expected to come with new features like six home screens, a pull down notifications page and resizable widgets among other things.
Nokia had earlier revealed that all the Symbian Anna devices along with the N8 and N7 will be able to update to Belle. This is most likely to be the last major Symbian update the company releases before it starts churning out Windows Phone 7 based devices.
According to leaked reports, the Nokia 603 will come with a 1 GHz processor, a touch screen, a 5MP camera, Bluetooth, HSPA, and Wi-Fi. The device also comes with customised back covers. Rumours also suggest that the update is expected to go live right when Nokia announces it on October 26, the first day of the Nokia World conference.
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Symbian Belle Powered Nokia 603 Launching at Nokia World Event?
Nokia plans to dish out the Symbian Belle update and a new device running the update at the upcoming Nokia World event.
According to Unwired View, the company is preparing to launch the new Nokia 603 running on Symbian Belle at the Nokia World event.
Symbian Belle is an update to Anna, which was launched by the company a few months ago. The platform is expected to come with new features like six home screens, a pull down notifications page and resizable widgets among other things.
Nokia had earlier revealed that all the Symbian Anna devices along with the N8 and N7 will be able to update to Belle. This is most likely to be the last major Symbian update the company releases before it starts churning out Windows Phone 7 based devices.
According to leaked reports, the Nokia 603 will come with a 1 GHz processor, a touch screen, a 5MP camera, Bluetooth, HSPA, and Wi-Fi. The device also comes with customised back covers. Rumours also suggest that the update is expected to go live right when Nokia announces it on October 26, the first day of the Nokia World conference.
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Nokia 303 Price
Nokia 303 Price
Nokia has recently made an announced its latest slider mobile phone called Nokia 303. This latest handset comes packed with such as 3.2 mega pixels Camera, 3G enabled, Wireless LAN WiFi facility, 3.5 mm Audio jack support and more features.
Nokia 303 Price in India is Rs. Coming soon
Nokia 303 Features
- Display – it has a TFT Touchscreen
- Slider QWERTY keypad
- Runs on Symbian OS
- Camera – 3.2 mega pixels
- WAP 2.0 browser
- Wireless LAN WiFi
- GPRS / EDGE / 3G enabled
- FM Radio
- Music player
- Micro SD card -32 GB
- 3.5 mm Audio jack
- Facebook & Twitter apps
- Integrated games
- Bluetooth / USB connectivity
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Nokia to Introduce Windows-Based Smartphones by End of 2011
Nokia is finally launching its Windows-based smart phones during the last quarter of this year.
Arguing that despite Apple and Google producing some of the best and most popular smart phones and devices available, there is space for alternative smart phones, Chief Executive of Nokia Stephen Elop stated in a technology fair in Helsinki that “Our belief is that there is a clear opportunity for an alternative ecosystem.”
In a radical move, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturing company by volume, Nokia, dumped its self developed Symbian software and closed a deal with Microsoft to give stiff competition to Apple and Google.
Once the leader of the mobile market, Nokia is facing some tough times with both Apple and Samsung outnumbering Nokia in the smartphones market this year. Q2 sales of Nokia witnessed a 20 percent drop whereas the mobile market had grown 10 percent.
This was before the iPhone 5 was made available in the marketplace, however. Once the Apple iPhone 5 enters the market it will be interesting to see changes in the market equations.
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Details Of Nokia Sabre, Ace & Sea Ray Emerge
Specifications of a trio of Nokia Windows Phone smartphone have emerged on a Nokia fan website called MyNokiaBlog with the Ace joining the existing Sabre and Sea Ray handsets.
All three devices come with a 1.4GHz SoC, possibly a single core Snapdragon model from Qualcomm. The Sea Ray and the Ace share a number of commonalities which leads us to believe that the latter will be a bigger version of the former.
They both comes with an AMOLED Clear Black Display screen, with the Sea Ray inheriting a 3.7-inch model and the Ace, a bigger 4.3-inch one, an eight megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and AF, 16GB onboard storage.
The Ace has a bigger battery (1800mAh) compared to the Sea Ray (1540mAh) and lists Mango+ as one salient characteristic. As for the Sabre, it offers an interchangeable back cover, a 3.7-inch Clear Black Display screen, 8GB internal storage and a five megapixel camera with AF.
Obviously, all three devices offer Windows Phone Mango and according to WPxap.com, 3D voice navigation as well.
The phones are expected to be launched towards the end of the month at Nokia World 2011 Conference which will be held later this month in London.
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Nokia Signs Software Development and Support Outsourcing Deal with Accenture
Nokia has closed a Symbian software development and support services outsourcing deal with Accenture.
The deal, which was first announced on July 22nd 2011 states Accenture will provide software development and support services to Nokia until at least 2016. Nokia said Accenture will also be the preferred supplier for Nokia as it moves to Windows Phone.
Under the deal, 2,300 Nokia employees in the UK, China, India, United States and Finland will be transferred to Accenture.
“We are focused on growing our business in mobility and embedded software. The addition of these highly skilled technologists and engineers to Accenture will strengthen our capabilities in these areas,” said chief executive, Accenture Communications, Media & Technology operating group, Marty Cole.
“We look forward to supporting Nokia in the execution of its strategy,” he added. Accenture also plans to work with Avanade, a technology services company that Accenture has a majority share, to provide other services to the mobile phone giant.
The deal was announced shortly after Nokia stated it would abandon Symbian and work with Microsoft to develop smartphones based on the Windows Phone 7 platform.
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Nokia Cuts 3500 Jobs, Plans on Shifting Production to Asian Units
Struggling Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is reportedly planning to cut 3,500 more jobs as a part of a restructuring move under the leadership of Stephen Elop.
According to The New York Times, the company has announced that it is going to shut down a production unit in Romania, which would result in 3,500 jobs cuts, which is around 6 percent of its workforce.
The company, as it tries to streamline its production lines to meet consumer smartphone demands, plans to shift the production to its Asian units which are much more efficient.
“We are seeing solid progress against our strategy, and with these planned changes we will emerge as a more dynamic, nimble and efficient challenger,” Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said in a statement.
“We must take painful, yet necessary, steps to align our work force and operations with our path forward” he added.
The job cut announcement made by Nokia sent the company’s stocks up by 2 percent in Helsinki. Analysts believe that although the job cuts are unfortunate, the company needs to streamline itself and prepare for Windows Phone 7.
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With Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, Microsoft Has Levelled the Smartphone Playing Field
Microsoft has begun its rollout of Windows Phone 7.5, affectionately known as Mango, this week, and it should be finding its way on to all WP7 devices by the end of October. The first major update of its new smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 7.5, addresses many of the feature shortfalls found in the first version, as well as adding several interesting new ones.
It’s also the version we’ll be seeing on the new wave of Nokia phones later this year, so it’s as important to them as it is to Microsoft. The question is, can Mango make Windows Phone handsets desirable enough to mount a serious challenge against the current smartphone champion, Google’s Android?
The Update
If you already own a Windows Phone device, then Mango will be delivered through your computer rather than over-the-air, and a notification will appear on your phone when it’s ready to download. Applying the update to an HTC Trophy using the Mac Connector software was a painless experience, rivalling iTunes’s iOS updates. The process took around 30 minutes and included a backup of all stored data too.
Each and every WP7 phone will be getting Mango – although the Omnia 7 looks like it’ll have to wait a while – keeping hardware purchased earlier in the year current, and in-line with the brand-new devices making their way on to shelves soon.
Microsoft’s decision to ban manufacturer UI overlays was a sensible one, avoiding the Android problem of manufacturers being unwilling or unable to adapt their systems for the latest version of the OS. Witness the recent problems of getting Android Gingerbread onto the HTC Desire; a device similar in spec to several WP7 phones that could easily run Gingerbread, but was prevented from doing so by HTC Sense.
Apple keeps the vast majority of its customers happy by regularly providing them with a software update, even supporting hardware superseded by two generations. By taking this same approach, Microsoft has shown a degree of customer attention one wouldn’t have expected from them a couple of years ago.
The Features
There are hundreds of new and updated features inside Windows Phone 7.5, and it would take an age to go through all of them, so here we’re going to look at several of the most interesting and useful new additions, and how they work in the real world. Let’s start with voice commands.
Speech Commands
Speech recognition is nothing new, and notoriously flaky, so how does it perform in Mango? The feature is activated by pressing and holding the Windows button, then speaking your command normally. Mango understands ‘call’, ‘text’, ‘find’ and ‘open’, allowing you to call or text people, open applications or search the web.
The downfall with many speech recognition programs is the ability to recognise accents. Speaking with a clear English accent didn’t cause any problems for opening apps or starting a text message. Mango even recognised some complicated European surnames stored in the address book; although its subsequent phonetic reading of them was amusing!
Opening a text message box is only the start, as you can dictate and send your message this way too. Mango reads the message it has converted back to you, allowing you to send or to cancel and try again. Speaking a few simple messages resulted in around a 90% success rate, with only the odd word – ‘October’ proved problematic for some reason – being misheard.
It fared less well when the voice had a non-English accent, resulting in names previously recognised not being found. As with many speech recognition programs, practicing with the system will see you get better – and as Mango’s system wasn’t useless from the start, continuing to use it won’t be as soul-crushing as it had the potential to be.
Social Integration
While Windows Phone 7 had Facebook integration, 7.5 brings Twitter and LinkedIn integration to the party. Found under the Settings and Email + Accounts page, you can also add a Google, Yahoo or other POP or IMAP email account, but by providing your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn account details, it opens up a whole world of social integration inside Mango.
By using the Me Live Tile, you can post a message to these three services, plus Windows Live, with a single action. If you only want to post it to one, two or three of them, it’s easily customised too. Scroll to the right and you’ll get a list of all your mentions or replies, and again to see your most recent postings. When you get a reply to a post, the Me Live Tile will let you know.
This feature shows the way forward for using social networking on the move. It’s so wonderfully easy, so perfectly integrated; you’ll rarely bother to open the standard Twitter app under normal circumstances, as the People tile shows your Twitter and Facebook stream equally as well.
As unusual as it may sound these days, you’ll actually be using the operating system to perform a task, rather than a series of third-party apps.
Multi-tasking
Microsoft has taken a leaf out of Apple’s book here, providing a helicopter view of open or running applications. A long press of the Back button brings up a line of large tiles, each showing the open app, which can be scrolled through and individually selected. It’s quick, easy and effective – exactly as it should be.
Email and Messaging
The new threaded conversation feature keeps tabs on not just SMS or email, but social networking conversations too, and holds them in one stream. Messages can also be sent via Windows Messenger and by Facebook Chat, and you can select your preferred type through the Message tile – again, no need for a separate app.
Other new features include Facebook Places check-ins via the Me tile, visual voicemail, custom ringtones created through Zune or iTunes and finally, and perhaps the best of all little changes, a ‘save’ option for the camera; so the video mode no longer defaults to the lowest quality setting every time you close it. Hurrah! No more rubbish footage when you really wanted 720p!
Ready for the Bigtime?
Windows Phone 7.5 is superb. It feels like a fully mature, well-rounded, rock solid smartphone OS that’s fun to use and genuinely well thought out. What’s also interesting is that it can be used with the minimum of applications thanks to plenty of built-in tools. In addition to the Facebook and Twitter integration, Zune now provides podcasts and playlist creation, while the Trophy has the HTC Photo Enhancer app, with a wide variety of fun filters to apply to your pictures. Sharing pictures and video can be done without a third party app too.
The fact it doesn’t feel like an app delivery system is a bonus, as it’s Windows Marketplace that lets WP7 down. Thirty thousand available apps is a great soundbite, but when your favourites aren’t there or don’t work, that number is irrelevant. For example, coming from iOS and Android the photo sharing app PicPlz could be a firm favourite, but it’s not available for WP7; and while the popular fitness app Runkeeper is available, it refused to recognize the GPS, rendering it useless. On the flip side, the WP7 Foursquare app is better than any other mobile version!
The app store will improve over time though, and more developers should head Microsoft’s way if Mango is the success it deserves to be. The recent introduction of the online Marketplace is a step in the right direction too, and makes browsing and purchasing new apps considerably easier. It works like the Android Market, where you need an ID (in this case your Windows Live sign-in) and the telephone number of your device, and new apps are sent to your phone in the form of a download link.
Windows Phone 7.5 is, leaving aside the app store’s shortcomings, the most user-friendly smartphone operating system available right now. But this success could be short lived, as iOS 5 and Android Ice Cream Sandwich are right around the corner, and will probably level the playing field. It doesn’t matter though, as Microsoft will still have a product that’s on par with the two big names, and that’s a massive achievement these days.
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