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Nokia abandons Symbian in North America, says goodbye to the N9

It wasn’t long ago that Iwas talkingwith Nokia’s Eric Klein about the future of the company as it moved toward the adoption of the Windows Phone OS. At the time, Klein talked about the future of the Symbian OS and how it was important to the company’s success in markets outside of smartphones. But it appears that the smartphone market is the only thing that Nokia will be focusing on in the US....

Nokia accused of violating Chinese labour laws over employee layoffs

Finnish mobile giant Nokia has been accused by some of its employees of violating Chinese labour laws following new plans to cut a number of employees working at Nokia China, theNational Business Daily reports. Nokia China’s Human Resources department was send a joint letter at the beginning of the week by 29 employees which refused proposals by the company to terminate their contracts, after it announced it would cut 170 jobs from its research and development and service divisions responsible for its Symbian mobile operating system....

Nokia admits it needs to change faster as marketshare falls

Nokia hasreleasedits financial results for the final quarter of 2010, as well as full 2010 figures. It’s a mixed bag a figures for a company that is still struggling to adjust to the post-iPhone world. Marketshare for the company’s mobile devices fell to 31%, down from 35% the previous year. While there’s poor news in terms of profits and market share for the Finnish mobile giant, it experienced a modest increase in sales compared to 2009....

Nokia adopts new device naming policy, ranks phones based on features

With smartphone sales dwindling and bothAppleandSamsungnow selling more smartphone devices worldwide, Nokia has announced that it has reconsidered how it names its devices and will now label each of its devices with a numerical model, dropping the one-letter prefixes completely. Previously, Nokia has prefixed its devices with C, N and X (to name a few) in an attempt to explain to the consumer what they would be able to expect from the device....

Nokia and Microsoft Deal Official, Definitive Agreement Signed

Nokia and Microsoft havetoday signed a definitive agreement, officially recognising that the Finnish mobile manufacturer will make the Windows Phone platform the primary operating system for its smartphone devices. The announcement, which was initiallyannounced in February, noted that the deal was signed ahead of schedule, ensures that both companies will contribute to the development of the new ecosystem but also highlighted that Nokia and Microsoft had already made “significant progess” on the development of the first Nokia products incorporating the Windows Phone platform....