Nokia to sell swanky mobile phone company Vertu for £162 million About the price of one of the posh phones It is being reported that Nokia is to sell the high-end mobile phone company Vertu for €200 million (approximately £162 million). Private equity group Permira is believed to be the interested buyer. Vertu is a UK company that specialises in mobile devices for the rich and famous, with its Constellation Symbian handsets costing anywhere from £4,000 a phone to £10,000. There are some daubed in gold and others in alligator skin, and the company is renowned for having major celebrities at its worldwide launch events. Nokia is...

Nokia no longer biggest handset maker as Samsung ends 14-year reign Samsung top dog Samsung is now the biggest-selling mobile manufacturer in the world, with the Korean company overtaking Finnish giant Nokia. It’s the first time in 14-years that Nokia hasn’t remained on the top spot as the manufacturer has struggled to maintain dominance in the wake of Android and Apple devices. According to an industry study, Samsung shipped 93.5 million handsets in Q1, compared to Nokia’s 82.7 million. Samsung has already issued impressive financial results for Q1 of this year and with the imminent arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S3 it’s happy days for...

Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, talks the competition and the future "As I look forward, right now the conversation is about beginning of momentum. We have a range of devices, we've got some unique applications, the developers are moving in our direction, we are seeing this accelerating momentum, and that is all good." Those are the calm words of Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO, to Pocket-lint at this year's CES in Las Vegas when we convinced him to squeeze a 30-minute interview into in his ludicrously busy schedule. This time last year most pundits had written off Nokia. While hugely successful in the emerging markets, there was trouble at the top. The company's...

Nokia interested in future tablet, looks to Metro design to help its cause inShare Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop, has told Pocket-lint that the company has no plans to release a Nokia tablet just yet, but does hint that that might not always be the case. "We haven't announced anything specifically about tablets. I say that over and over again," Elop told us in an interview at CES in Las Vegas. "But when you look at it and think about what people are expecting in their digital life, they are expecting some uniformity of experience across their phones, their tablets, their PCs, their automobiles, their gaming platforms." He went on to tell us: "We can't...

Nokia Lumia 800 second update rolls out: inShare As promised in December Nokia has started the rollout of its second update for the Lumia 800, which amongst other things fixes issues with the phone's battery, and should hopefully reach handsets across the world in the next 2 weeks. This comes after Nokia responded to complaints regarding the battery life of Lumia 800 handsets in December 2011, admitting there were problems despite the first update just weeks before. Promising a fix in the early part of 2012, the company has stuck to its word. The issue itself related to users being unable to access the full battery capacity of their Lumia 800, meaning it...

NOKIA CEO : ANDROID IS TOO FRAGMENTED Stephen Elop has told Pocket-lint that he thinks Google's Android operating system is too fragmented, a pitfall he wants to avoid with Windows Phone 7 and Nokia in the future. Talking to Pocket-lint at CES in Las Vegas, the Nokia CEO said: "We don't want fragmentation being introduced into Windows Phone because we are beginning to see how in a certain other eco-system that fragmentation becomes a problem." Elop promised that although the company was looking to add exclusive features to its Lumia series of Windows Phone 7 devices, it would always make sure the shared apps still worked. The CEO, who famously wrote a...

Nokia Merilis QT SDK versi 4.7 Nokia telah merilis kit Qt pengembang perangkat lunak ke versi 4.7, dan menambahkan sejumlah fitur baru untuk pengembang. Fitur baru terbesar SDK QT 4.7 ini adalah bahwa versi ini memungkinkan pengembangan interface dengan animasi, berbasis sentuhan menjadi mungkin untuk aplikasi berbasis Qt. Hal ini dimungkinkan melalui QML (Qt Meta-Obyek-Language), yang bisa menggunakan bahasa seperti JavaScript. Qt 4.7 juga memungkinkan pengembang membuat aplikasi untuk baik Symbian dan MeeGo, memberikan kinerja runtime yang lebih baik, dan memungkinkan pengembang menambahkan konten berbasis web untuk aplikasi mereka melalui tool QtWebKit (yang sekarang...