MobileReview is claiming that Nokia also signed up to produce an Android handset in early 2012. You might think that on the whole that might be false. But some things do not match. The CEO’s memo and speech mentions that Nokia is getting out-marketed in 3 distinct areas; low cost feature handsets, middle cost smartphones, [...]
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Nokia Drops JavaME
Posted: October 22, 2010 in Java, MobileTags: MeeGo, Nokia, Qt, Smartphone, Symbian, Symbian OS
What the major news outlets failed to highlight yesterday in Nokia’s news to consolidate on QT for both Symbian and MeeGo is that Nokia sells a large majority share of MIDP JavaME devices deployed worldwide. And usually consolidation moves like this ripple through the Mobile OEMs. True, not many other OEMs have something like the [...]
The Android Invasion
Posted: August 7, 2010 in AndroidTags: Android, Apple, Google, Handhelds, IPhone, Nokia, Open Handset Alliance, Smartphone
Google CEO announced in talks to the press that Android just reaqched the milestone of 200,000 activations per day which surpasses the iphone daily activation rates bragged by Apple. But what does this mean? Lets put this in perspective. That is 6 million devices per month or 18 million devices per quarter. Nokia is currently [...]
Just when you thought it could not get any more interesting with the Apple HTC patent lawsuits. Nokia is involved in porting QT to Android. The project is called Android-Lighthouse. Why would Nokia port QT to Android? Nokia uses a QT port of Webkit in Symbian with some Nokia extensions on top and customizations. Interesting [...]
