Nokia news - Page 2

**nauriceprivat** · #11 (**permalink**) 01-11-2008, 10:51 PM

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**nauriceprivat** · #12 (**permalink**) 01-14-2008, 07:10 PM

[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]Mark Louison, president of Nokia’s North American business recently said that the EU and APAC dominating company plans to throw even more crumbs to the colonies in 2008 and 2009 than it has in previous years. How many devices actually do come out are dependent on the facist like American operators, but Mark was quoted as saying: “It’s not unreasonable you’d see between 6 to 12 new operator-specific devices this year. It’ll probably be more than this.” Looks like the USA is finally on Nokia’s radar and this money shot quote says it all: “You’ll see some of that in the first half of 2008, with the velocity to increase that in the second half and going full steam ahead in 2009.”
I wish you and your team the best Mark.

**nauriceprivat** · #13 (**permalink**) 01-14-2008, 07:16 PM

[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]In the latest episode of Nokia’s Technology Podcast “The way we live next” Nokia’s new CTO Bob Iannucci talks about where we are today in terms of mobile and how the next few years will look absolutly nothing like the decade prior. He likens today’s mobile industry to the PC world of 1982 and gives recognition to the 14,500 people Nokia has doing research and development, calling them the crown jewels of the company. Bob talks about openness and says that it is more than just a word, but a discipline. Less than 10 minutes, something you can listen to on your commute, highly recommended; NRC is one of the most under marketed parts of Nokia which I think is a real shame.
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**nauriceprivat** · #14 (**permalink**) 01-14-2008, 07:18 PM

Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s head of the recently instituted Markets Division, will keynote the 2008 Game Developers Conference with a presentation titled: “Play with Anybody Everywhere — Context, the New Paradigm for Game Play.” I’m going to go out on a limb here and say N-Gage will be launched during his speech on February 18, but I could be wrong.

**nauriceprivat** · #15 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008, 12:04 PM

In order to say competitive Nokia is [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and laying off up to 2300 people. It will be cheaper to do the same work in Romania.

“We are moving production to existing plants, mainly in Romania, which will start during the first quarter.” - Nokia Spokeswoman Arja Suominen

In other news, it looks as if the Romanian plant will open on [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and at full capacity will make 5 mobile phones per second. Having never visited a Nokia factory, can any employee reading this sneak me into the Salo facility for a tour?

**nauriceprivat** · #16 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008, 01:38 PM

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**nauriceprivat** · #17 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 01:35 PM

[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]On Tuesday we told you that Nokia was going to [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] due to rising labor costs, well today Juergen Ruettgers, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia state, where Nokia’s factory is located had [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]:

“I am very angry, above all about the way this happened.”
“So far, there is no comprehensible reason why this decision was made.”
“We are not simply going to accept this _ this is not yet the end of the debate.”
“Nokia must think over what it has done here.”
“The German market for cell phones is one of the biggest in the world.”

The harsh words were not the only blow to Nokia, State Economy Minister Christa Thoben is demanding Nokia [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] given to open the plant in the first place. Will Finland appease Germany?
UPDATE: That 17 million euro figure has now swelled to [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]!

**nauriceprivat** · #18 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 01:40 PM

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I can barely read Romanian, more like sound out the characters and hope the noises click, but according to this article in “[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]” the Nokia factory in Cluj produced their first mobile phone last night at 8 PM. No clue as to which model, but the paper cites how proud they are of this day and how this one factory will put Romania on the map like never before.

**nauriceprivat** · #19 (**permalink**) 01-20-2008, 01:25 PM

The people over at [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] think Nokia is going to launch a video store at the Mobile World Congress and I tend to believe their predictions. It makes sense when you think about it, the first S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 devices are set to be announced and they will support DRM’d to the brim WMV videos. I would rather see Nokia buckling down and using Open C to port over VLC so I can watch all the XviD videos I torrent, but that doesn’t seem like it will happen any time soon.

**nauriceprivat** · #20 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 02:41 PM

[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]Rumor on the street is that Nokia is planning on investing in Facebook. Let me be the first to call complete and utter bullshit. Nokia bets long term and while Facebook may be the fad right now, there are plenty of people who rightly question their dominance in the long haul. According to [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] “a senior Nokia executive” has said:

“There is talk of a partnership in the works … it’s safe to say we’re testing the waters and things still have to be worked out.”

Now excuse me while I go have a wank, but if this is true then this is a side of Nokia I’m not familiar with. The Nokia I know would champion standards such as OpenID and OAuth so that the social network in vogue is irrelevant. The Nokia I know wouldn’t piggy back on someone else’s social network when instead they would create something where mobile phones talk to (transmit data) other mobile phones. Since [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] then why should Nokia have to invest in Facebook to get access to their data? Why hasn’t Nokia joined [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] yet?
I don’t believe this story, mainly because my experience with Facebook has gone from magical back when it was only for college kids to out right worthless. Here is hoping this gut instinct is right.