Finnish mobile giant Nokia has announced a new premium Symbian smartphone, the Nokia Oro, a device that is incorporates 18-carat gold plating, a sapphire crystal and leather lining, as well as a number of high-quality features. The Oro will be available in select markets, running the latest Symbian Anna update. It will support HSDPA 3G and WiFi and sports a 3.5-inch AMOLED display an 8-megapixel camera with 720p video recording. The Nokia device holds upto 8 GB internally but also has a microSD card slot, offering talktime of around 10 hours....

If you think the App Store battle only revolves around Apple and Android, then you’d surprised because such is not the case when it comes to China. iResearchrecently released a study called The 2010 China Mobile Application Report and it shows that Nokia’s OVI Store and China Mobile’s Mobile Market are dominating the Chinese application store market with the highest proportion of access, at 65.2% and 57.7% respectively. It all makes sense because China, which as ofJune 2010has 277 million mobile internet users, is still dominated by non-english speaking citizens....

WhenNokia announcedit was to partner with Microsoft to make Windows Phone 7 its primary operating system, some were surprised, some delighted and quite a few were outraged by the Finnish mobile phone makers intentions. One such group of people that were outraged by Nokia’s announced were actually Nokia shareholders themselves, mobilising to form the Nokia Plan B group to protest and challenge the decision. Today, ithas emergedthat the group is “calling it quits” after just 36 hours....

Nokia is beginning to release details of its plans for its forthcoming line of Windows Phone 7 handsets. Nokia’s leader of its transition to Microsoft’s new smart phone OS, Jo Harlow, spoke to Forbes and PCMag and in the process let loose several new facts that help to sketch an outline of Nokia’s future mobile trajectory. Perhaps most interestingly is her admission that the Nokia hardware cycle for WP7 handsets is going to beexceptionally fast:...

As we reported acouple of days ago, the Dept. of Telecom under has banned Nokia Pushmail services in India. Acting on the advice of the Intelligence Bureau, the Pushmail and Powermail services are banned until a monitoring system is put in place. A communication from Ministry of Home Affair to Department of Telecom states, “In view of the Intelligence Bureau’s report, Department of Telecommunications is requested to advice the Telecom Service Providers not to launch Nokia’s proposed pushmail/powermail service without putting in place monitoring facilities to the satisfaction of the LEAs,” ....