Alex Kinch

Nokia have today unveiled three new handsets – the touch screen 5530 ‘XpressMusic’, the E72 QWERTY business handset, and the flip-style 3710 fold.

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” – NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, and Nokia signed the memorandum of understanding on the direct delivery of Nokia devices to MTS’ retail network.

Saunalahti, the consumer brand of Elisa, have announced plans to launch the Nokia Messaging push email service to consumers across Finland.

Aimed squarely at the emerging markets, Nokia have just unveiled three new low-end handsets – the Nokia 2730 classic, Nokia 2720 fold and Nokia 7020.

Nokia announced that the slimmest smartphone on the market, the Nokia E71x, will be available in AT&T retail stores and online beginning today for $99.99 on a two-year contract.

With the recent gloomy financial results from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola, the news that phone sales have plummeted by 13% in the first quarter of 2009 was to be expected. However, Apple has continued to buck the trend with strong sales of it’s iPhone handset.

Ooh. Aah. Mmm. Want want want.
Yes folks, the Nokia N97 is hitting the UK in July, and Vodafone are already taking down names for the ‘I want one’ list.
It’s got a touch screen, a neat looking slide out keyboard, 32GB of built-in memory (you can add another 16GB via a memory card), and a 5 [...]

A day after Nokia posted a 90% drop in profits for Q1 2009, it’s the turn of Sony Ericsson to dish out the bad news.
Sky News is reporting the joint venture made a £260m loss in the first quarter of 2009, and plans to cut another 2,000 jobs. This compares to a £165m loss in [...]

Nokia quietly slid a press release announcing their results for Q1 2009 out onto the news wires about half an hour ago – and to be honest it’s not great reading.
Sales across the group are down 27% year on year to €9.3 billion, with devices and services taking a 33% year on year hit down [...]