Nokia has confirmed that its smartphone sales included in this morning's financial results reveal were buoyed by the MeeGo-powered Nokia N9, though the company has declined to specify exactly how many of the niche-appeal handsets were sold. "Our ASP in the fourth quarter 2011 benefited from the sales of the higher priced Nokia N9 and Nokia Lumia devices" the Q4 2011 report indicated, though a Nokia spokesperson said the company would not be breaking down its smartphone figures to detail individual devices.
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If you have handed your parents, kids, or significant other a smartphone for the first time and watched them, the devices can be confusing for beginner if they need to wade through settings menus. Motorola has announced plans for bringing new ease of use to its smartphones this year with easy to use Smart Actions that will make it simple for a beginner to manage the device.
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Nokia: Microsoft paid us $250m in Q4 to use Windows Phone
Microsoft paid Nokia $250m in Q4 2011 for adopting Windows Phone, the Finnish company's financial results today have revealed, the first of a "platform support payments" scheme expected to eventually account for billions of dollars. The two companies have always declined to put an exact figure on the "significant investments" Nokia would receive, though this new stat lends weight to earlier talk of over a billion in Microsoft subsidies.
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Nokia sells “well over” 1m Windows Phones, still makes €1bn loss
Nokia has announced its Q4 2011 financial results, and the big news is Windows Phone sales: “well over 1 million Lumia devices to date” the Finnish company claims. Still, strong out-the-gate demand for the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 weren’t enough to turn Nokia’s ailing books around: the company recorded a €954m ($1.25bn) profit loss in Q4 2011, bringing the final 2011 tally to a €1.073bn ($1.4bn) loss, down 43-percent year-on-year.
Samsung Galaxy S III to skip MWC 2012 claim insiders
Samsung's Galaxy S III, the much-anticipated successor to the flagship Galaxy S II, won't be making a Mobile World Congress debut according to new rumors, with the Korean company holding off until later in 2012 to reveal the smartphone. Both BestBoyz and The Verge are reporting that Samsung will not bring the GSIII to Barcelona next month, with suggestions that there are currently at least two issues with the handset that have impacted the release date.
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PRADA Phone by LG 3.0 on sale in UK on Friday
The PRADA Phone by LG 3.0 will hit UK shelves tomorrow, Friday January 27, retailer Phones 4U has confirmed, with the designer-branded Android smartphone priced from free with a new agreement. Packing a 4.3-inch LG NOVA IPS display - albeit running only at WVGA resolution - along with an 8-megapixel camera and NFC, the PRADA Phone runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread right now but has an ICS upgrade in the works.
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T-Mobile’s AT&T prize in Spectrum shown clearly on map
This week it's being shown clear as day the amount of spectrum AT&T will have to hand over to T-Mobile after their planned merger falls through entirely. What you're going to see is a collection of areas and their associated MHz that AT&T currently has sway over but will be transferring to T-Mobile to amp up their own 4G network. This information comes from an FCC transfer application signed by AT&T and reveals the specific licenses T-Mobile will gain, here mapped out by spectrum policy reader Andrew Shepherd and so kindly shared with the entire world.
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AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 to be $100 on March 18 tips insider
Nokia and AT&T will offer the Lumia 900 for just $99.99 with a new, two-year agreement when the Windows Phone lands in mid-March, according to the latest roadmap leak, an ambitious price to get the device into as many consumers' pockets as possible. The AT&T Lumia 900 will undercut most new Android devices - and indeed the iPhone 4S - by half, according to BGR's insider, with a release date of March 18.
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Apple outpaced Android in Q4 US growth says research
Apple has reclaimed the platform momentum crown with the iPhone, research suggests, with demand for the iPhone 4S contributing to faster growth than the market for Android devices in pre-holiday sales. In the twelve weeks until December 25, researchers Kantar Worldpanel ComTech say, Apple’s share in the US was at 44.9-percent, the merest smudge ahead of Android share at 44.8-percent. In contrast, Windows Phone mustered a mere 2-percent.
Q-pot SH-04D looks like a bar of chocolate
This is one of the weirdest phones I have seen in a very long time. Sharp has unveiled this smartphone in Japan where geeks are known to like some odd stuff. The phone is called the Q-pot SH-04D and it is designed to look like a bar of chocolate. If you love Android and candy, this might be a device for you to hunger for.
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Nokia offloads feature-phone factory onto De’ Longhi
Nokia has completed plans to shutter a cellphone factory in Romania, selling off the unwanted plant to De' Longhi for an unspecified sum. The closure and sale of the factory was announced back in September, and originally expected to be completed by the end of 2011; Nokia has already shifted its remaining feature-phone production to Asia, where it says facilities are better at keeping up with the shifts of the mobile market.
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Fujitsu LIFEBOOK2013 concept docks tablet, phone & camera in laptop
A concept Fujitsu notebook could pull together your notebook, tablet, smartphone and digital camera, according to one designer's convergence ambitions, with the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK2013 docking each mobile gadget into a core laptop chassis. Created by Prashant Kumar Chandra for Fujitsu's "A Life With Future Computing" competition, the concept consists of a roughly 17-inch notebook that uses a detachable touchscreen tablet as its keyboard; a smartphone docks into a slot at the front, lending its WWAN connection, while a digital camera slots into a cutaway on the lid.
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