ABI’s Kevin Burden has stepped forward to count down the market’s Tier 2 cell phone players according to market share. Starting at No. 11 and counting up to No. 6, Burden discusses the sales strategies that have dropped these companies among the world’s top cell phone manufacturers.

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Documents became public today on the FCC web site that detail an unannounced Nokia phone for AT&T. The Nokia 6750 “Mural” is a clamshell phone with dedicated music keys and an outer display hidden behind a mirrored shell. Documents confirm 3G in the 850/1900 bands that AT&T uses. Also confirmed are a memory card slot, [...]

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The hot-selling Nokia E71 is reportedly getting yet another new variant, E71i, equipped with some minor upgrades that include a 5-megapixel camera, up from the current models’ 3.2-megapixel shooter. Otherwise, the new handset will also get a slightly new operating system, the Symbian S60 FP2, which was already seen on the Nokia E71x running on [...]

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Nokia have launched a new mini-site for the forthcoming N97 ahead of its expected June launch. The site features the usual options of viewing pictures and videos of the handset as well as seeing it in different colours. There is also an interactive tour so that you can ‘try out’ the handset before you buy [...]

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The N97 will soon be upon us and many people are itching to find out all they can about it. Well the good news is that details of the processor have become available, the bad news is that it may disappoint some. For the N97 Nokia have decided to use a single ARM 11 processor [...]

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The latest edition of Nokia Messaging, for Symbian S60 5th Edition, is due to be released next month, but it seems the developers have pre-released the client to get feedback. The release version, according to Nokia Beta Labs, won’t see any radical changes from the pre-release version, this is primarly to get feedback rather than [...]

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Today Nokia announced the 6216 Classic, a bar-style phone that has Near Field Communications technology built directly into the SIM card rather than in a separate module. By including the NFC technology on the SIM card, it allows network operators to custom tailor services to the NFC capabilities of the handset. The 6216 Classic also [...]

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The Nokia 5800 has proven a popular handset with great sales figures, but you may not have realized just how great those figures actually are. Nokia’s first touchscreen handset made up around 20% of all touch screen handsets sold in Q1 2009. The figures come from Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo himself, Nokia’s CEO.
For their first attempt at [...]

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Documents seen on the FCC provide some information about an Nokia device that is a dual-slider. The phone has design language similar to Nokia’s N Series multimedia devices and has similar features, according to the draft user manual. The FCC confirms that it has CDMA EVDO Rev. A and Bluetooth. The draft user manual says [...]

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The V21 firmware update for the Nokia 5800 looks to be finding its way into the world at large. The main improvements in the update apparently revolve around the handset’s camera and in general performance upgrades.

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The N97 is go for a July release on Vodafone UK. There is no pricing mentioned although given past releases of high-end Nokia handsets it woldn’t be unreasonable to expect it to be free on a relatively high monthly contract at first.

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Nokia today announced a whopping 90% drop in Q1 profits compare with Q1 2008. As steep a drop as that sounds Nokia did still post a respectable profit of €122 million. The fact that Nokia managed to make any profit at all at a time when many companies are going into the red served to [...]

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Today Nokia announced the launch of WCDMA 3G mobile phones in Korea. The first available 3G phone from Nokia in Korea is the Nokia 6210s.
The Nokia 6210s is a smartphone based on S60 software. It features a 3.2 megapixel camera, an MP3 player, video playback, and a stereo FM radio. Photographs can be taken in [...]

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Finnish Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, said “thousands” of developers and content providers had registered to sell content in its online store, Ovi, which will be opened in early May. Reuters reports.
“Ovi is set to compete with Apple Inc’s App store and others as they battle to control the emerging smartphone market.

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Nokia today announced the 1661, a basic, affordable bar-style phone for T-Mobile USA’s prepaid lineup. Phone features include a speakerphone, FM radio, and an LED flashlight. It also comes pre-loaded with Soduku and Mobile Soccer games. The 1661 will be available later in April.

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