Nokia today announced the first two smartphones based on Windows Phone 7.5 – Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.
back in February 2011, where Nokia decided to ditch its Symbian platform and instead adopt Windows Phone as its 
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According to Nokia, Lumia 800 features:
head-turning design, vivid colors (cyan, magenta and black) and the best social and Internet performance, with one-touch social network access, easy grouping of contacts, integrated communication (more…)

when the iPhone first launched. The Finland based company’s complacence has been the reason of its decline, which showed in its
. The company posted losses of nearly $700 million and almost every sector witnessed a decline. With these results,
 achieved an important landmark of being the world’s top smartphone vendor.
Last quarter Nokia’s smartphone shipments went down by 34% to 16.7 million smartphone units compared to Apple ‘s 20.3 million
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Nokia and Microsoft have just announced a strategic partnership, where Nokia plans to ditch its Symbian platform and instead adopt Windows Phone as its
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Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the news in an open letter.
• Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its primary smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.
• Nokia will help drive (more…)

In the latest episode of the continuing saga of the long drawn legal battles between Nokia and Apple , the former has sued Apple in Europe for infringing upon 13 of its patents. The suits have been filed in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands and each one of them relate to 13 different patents that Nokia says Apple has infringed upon and have been used in many of its popular products.
This, combined with Nokia’s earlier lawsuits takes (more…)

Not surprisingly, that didn’t go down too well with Apple ’s competitors.
for drawing them into the antenna issue.
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Apple has updated its website to show how Motorola’s Droid X and Nokia N97 mini lose signal strength when you grip them in a certain way.
In case of Motorola Droid X, the location of internal antenna is at the bottom.
In weak signal areas, if you grip Motorola Droid X as seen above then it may negatively affect signal (more…)

At the press conference, Steve Jobs explained that they’ve got to the heart of the problem, and that is smartphone have weak spots, which was a challenge not just for Apple but also for the entire mobile industry.
Not surprisingly, this hasn’t gone down too well with Apple ’s competitors. RIM, Nokia, HTC and Motorola have fired back at Apple for drawing them into the antenna issue.
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIM’s co-CEOs issued (more…)

Apple has now responded. In a counter-suit filed with the ITC, Apple claims patent violations by the Finland based company and has sought ITC's help in banning the import of their patent-infringing devices to the US market.
This is the second time in as many months when Apple has filed a lawsuit against Nokia. In December last year,
for having infringed upon 13 of their proprietary innovations. In both these instances, the lawsuits have served (more…)

Now, Nokia has fired fresh salvo in this legal dispute. In a complaint that the company has filed with the US International Trade Commission, Nokia has claimed that ”
” of Apple 's products infringe upon seven of Nokia's proprietary innovations. These patents relate to the devices' user interface, camera, antenna and power management technologies.
Noting that Nokia has been one of the pioneers in mobile phone technology, Paul Melin, (more…)

“Apple has infringed and continues to infringe each of the Asserted Patents by engaging in acts constituting infringement under 35 USD § 271, including but not necessarily limited to one or more of making, using, selling and offering to sell, in this District and elsewhere in the United States, and importing into this District and elsewhere in the United States, certain electronic devices, including but not limited to Apple 's
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In the lawsuit filed in the US District Court of Delaware, Apple claims that Nokia has infringed on 13 separate patents owned by Apple in the design of their handsets – S60, E71 and 5310. These include
No. 5,634,074:
Serial I/O device identifies itself to a computer through a serial interface during power on reset then it is being configured by the computer.
No. 6,343,263 B1:
Real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data.
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