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10 things you might not knowing about NOKIA Phone

Posted by sudhirmangla January 27, 2009

1) The ringtone "Nokia tune" is actually based on a 19th century guitar work named "Gran Vals" by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega. The Nokia Tune was originally named "Grande Valse" on Nokia phones but was changed to "Nokia Tune" around 1998 when it became so well known that people referred to it as the "Nokia Tune." 2) The world’s first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in Helsinki over a Nokia-supplied network, by Prime Minister of... Read more »

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Nokia profit collapses 69% in fourth quarter 2008

Posted by sudhirmangla January 23, 2009

"Nokia Corp., the world’s top mobile phone maker, said Thursday its profits fell 69 percent in the fourth quarter as the world economic downturn slowed handset sales," matti Huuhtanen and Karl Ritter report for The Associated Press. "Net profit was euro576 million ($743.62 million), down from euro1.84 billion in the same period in 2007," Huuhtanen and Ritter report. "Sales dropped 19.5 percent to euro12.7 billion ($16.4 billion), from euro15.8 billion." "The... Read more »

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Nokia closes its Symbian acquisition

Posted by sudhirmangla December 4, 2008

In announcing today that it’s closed a deal to buy Symbian Ltd, mobile phone maker Nokia called the completion of the acquisition a "fundamental step" in creating the Symbian Foundation, a multi-vendor group that will bolster the Symbian OS to take on Android and the LiMo Foundation’s emerging OS as a mobile open source environment. Beyond Nokia, the foundation has members that include wireless carriers AT&T, Vodafone, and Japanese-based NTT DoCoMo, in addition to... Read more »

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Nokia to Develop Smart Home Platform , now you can Control your home – remotely

Posted by sudhirmangla November 29, 2008

Are you the kind who has always wished for a system that would offer you complete control over your home? A system that let’s you control virtually all things electronic – remotely? While there have been "home automation systems" available at your disposal already, these are usually expensive, lack interoperability and vary in complexity. However, there is good news now. Folks at Nokia have just released details of what it calls the "Nokia Home Control Center". This... Read more »

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