The Finnish company Nokia officially presented at the European mobile market telfon Nokia 6760 also known as Nokia Surge. Smartphone Nokia 6760 slide is a horizontal slider, which is running Symbian S60. Among the characteristics of the apparatus can be 2.4-inch display with a QVGA-resolution 3.2-megapixel camera (as opposed to a 2-megapixel in the U.S. Nokia Surge), A-GPS module slot for memory cards microSD (up to 8 GB ) and be nominated by the QWERTY-keyboard. Nokia 6760 Slide provides access to a number of useful services, including Google Talk, Windows Live Instant Messaging, as well as to social networks, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. In addition, the phone supports work with several mailboxes, and Mail for Exchange and Message Reader. Main technical characteristics of Nokia 6760 slide: Standards: GSM / EGPRS 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, WCDMA / HSDPA 850/1900 MHz OS: Nokia S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 Display: 2.4-inch with a resolution 240h320 points, displays 16 million colors Keyboard: QWERTY Video: H.264, H.263, RealVideo 10, WMV 9, MPEG4 Camera: 3.2-megapixel Audio: FM-receiver, AAC, AAC + v1, AAC + v2, AMR-WB, WAV, MP3, WMA 9, RealAudio10 Memory: 120 MB, support for memory cards format microSD (up to 8 GB) Communications:

  Nokia Company has published the results of its financial performance in the second quarter of 2009. In the second quarter of this year, Nokia sold 103.2 million mobile phones are 15% lower than in the second quarter of 2008. Net profit of the manufacturer of euro 380 million - 66% less than in the corresponding period last year. The results of the company's Nokia in the second quarter of 2009: Net sales amounted to 9.9 billion euros, a 25% lower than in the second quarter of last year, but 7% higher than in the previous quarter. Net sales of Devices & Services division amounted to 6.6 billion euros, which is 28% lower than in the corresponding period last year, but 7% higher than last quarter. Net income services unit was 140 million euros. Nokia Company believes that during the second quarter of 2009 the world was sold 268 million mobile phones, which is 12% less than in the second quarter of last year and 5% higher in comparison with the previous quarter. Nokia sold 103.2 million phones, which is 15% less compared to the same period last year and 11% more than last quarter. The market share of Nokia is 38%, which is 2% less than last year and 1% more than last quarter. Average price of a Nokia mobile phone fell from 65 euros to 62

Local people of Iran protests against the Finnish company Nokia. Once the Iranians knew that the company Nokia is working with Iranian President and the local authorities, providing them with electronic tracking systems that are used for surveillance of political dissidents, as well as listening to conversations and intercepting text messages, the local population has announced a boycott of Nokia . Demand for phones has dropped by half: the buyers refuse to buy the Finnish phone manufacturer, but some owners of Nokia phones brings back to the shop and asked to exchange them for the models of other manufacturers. Sellers despite its loss of sales, also supported the protesters in the struggle for human rights - they are cleaning phones with display cases and counters. Recently in Iran, actively growing number of users of mobile communication and is not known whether the return to former levels of sales of Nokia phones in this country. Source: GSMPress ®

Operators AT & T has officially announced smartphone Nokia Surge. Smartphone Nokia Surge previously met under the names of Nokia Mako and Nokia 6790. This device is made in the form of lateral slider and is equipped with a QWERTY-keyboard. Design of the phone has made a design center in San Diego. Manufacturer Nokia Surge focuses on teens who use social networks to communicate. Among the advantages of this model is the support of technology Flash, along with the ability to view videos from YouTube. In the sale of Nokia Surge will be July 19 at the mobile operator AT & T. Main technical characteristics of Nokia Surge: Standards: GSM / EGPRS 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS / WCDMA / HSDPA 850/1900 MHz OS: Nokia S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 Display: 2.4-inch with a resolution 240h320 points, displays 16 million colors Camera: 2-megapixel Keyboard: QWERTY Audio: FM-receiver Additional features: GPS-receiver, support A-GPS Battery: Lithium Ion, BP-4L, 1500 mAh Memory: 128 MB, support for memory cards format microSD (up to 8 GB) Communications: Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, MicroUSB, 2,5-mm jack Duration of work: in standby mode up to 400 hours of talktime up to 4.7 / 4 hours in the networks of GSM / UMTS Dimensions: 97,5 h57, 2h15, 5 mm

Ten companies producing mobile phones June 29, submitted a memorandum, which pledged to bring into the territory of the European Union, only phones with the same chargers. Since 2010, sold in the EU phone chargers are equipped with micro-USB connector.   The list of signatories included: Nokia, Samsung, Apple, Sony Ericsson and Texas Instruments.Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM, produces communicators Blackberry).   According to the European Commission, this decision will make life easier for users of cellular services and reduce the amount of garbage dumped from the old charges.   "Today the EU - an abundance of charges. Many of them work only with one particular phone model. Almost every household has an excessive number of" zaryadnikov ", which several thousand tons of garbage a year," - said the European Commission. Source: GSMPress ®  

The 3G bar smartphone features Symbian 9.3 operating system with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 user interface, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with xenon flash, Carl Zeiss lens and active lens cover, FM radio with RDS, HSDPA, A2DP, 2.5 mm AV jack, A-GPS, a powerful speaker, 2.2-inch QVGA crisp and clear display, 120 MB of onboard memory, and support for microSD memory cards up to 8 GB. However, we were disappointed not find Wi-Fi and accelerometer. We think that it is the omission of these two features that makes the Nokia 6220 classic mobile phone a mid-range handset. As you can see, the mobile device meets the requirements of a large category of mobile users who do like use their phones to the max but avoid spending big money on them. Nokia 6220 classic is even too functional for a mid-range mobile device. CPU, Memory and Connectivity   The CPU @ 369 MHz and 128 MB of RAM ensure a very nice performance of the Symbian operating system and the hardware is enough to quickly respond to user commands and navigate the menu without any lags. The support for microSD cards up to 8 GB provides extra storage for videos and pictures that always tend to take all free space in a short time. There’s a 1 GB memory card in the sales package as Nokia 6220

  Nokia has announced the NFC compatible Nokia 6216 classic mobile phone on the third WIMA conference held in Monaco. Nokia 6216 is the first Nokia mobile device of this kind. Nokia 6216 classic will enable mobile network operators to provide their subscribers with NFC services that make file sharing much easier and not only that. Particularly, NFC technology makes mobile payments secure as a special application and NFC compatible SIM card that is bought separately act like a passport. For instance, you can store your credit card information on this SIM card and pay for products and services just by waving your phone in front of a contactless terminal. The mobile phone Nokia 6216 classic has a camera, stereo FM radio, and music player. The phone supports 3G and microSD memory cards up to 8 GB. Nokia 6216 classic is slated to start shipping in the third quarter of 2009 with an estimated retail price of EUR 150 before taxes and subsidies.  

  Today Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia President and CEO, outlined the company's future strategy and it appeared that it is completely changing its business model. While the company goes on competing with its rivals, it is also dealing with emerging companies from the Internet and PC industries, and to succeed in this environment, Nokia needs to develop extraordinary solutions for its customers. Nokia's future strategy consists in combining high-quality devices with unique services that is expected to increase customer retention. Particularly Nokia sees opportunities as consumers prefer less expensive devices, and the expansion of smartphone features into the mid-range product category is one of them.  

  The report is devoted to Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile operating systems and smartphones that run them. Key points are as follows: • BlackBerry 8300 (Curve) is the most popular RIM smartphone. It left behind BlackBerry 8100 (Pearl) and has 45% of traffic. Verizon mobile Internet is mostly accessed from BlackBerry Storm handsets that generate 38% of traffic. • The most popular mobile devices running Symbian and Windows Mobile are much older than RIM smartphones. Nevertheless, most of the worldwide Symbian devices traffic is generated by Nokia N70 mobile phones and makes 17%. • Among Windows Mobile devices Samsung Blackjack II is mostly used. It is interesting that the mobile Internet is generally accessed from phones running operating system that is several years old. • Within the USA 5% of traffic is generated by mobile devices running Android. Not long ago HTC Dream (G1) was the number 13 mobile device in the US with 1.7% and now is the number one handset on the T-Mobile network. Top Smartphones and Operating Systems   • Worldwide traffic generated by smartphones in February 2009 reached 33%, up from 26% half a year ago. • Symbian remains the most popular operating system with 43% of traffic from 6

Nokia has today published "Nokia in 2008" that includes Nokia 2008 Annual Accounts and the Review by the Board of Directors. The document is available in pdf-format on Nokia's Internet pages at www.nokia.com/financials. Shareholders may also request a hard copy of the document free of charge through Nokia's Internet pages. Source: Nokia

  Yesterday you could see the intriguing YOUR MUSIC PLAYER IS RINGING on the main page of events.nokia.com and today Nokia has raised the curtain of mystery and unveiled 3 new XpressMusic mobile phones: Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 5330 XpressMusic and Nokia 5030 XpressRadio. All mobile devices are designed for better sound quality, easier music player use, and more convenient navigation. As for price range, it is really wide and this fact cannot be underestimated because every phone will find its buyer and admirer immediately. Nokia 5730 XpressMusic is the most functional among the three devices: its has a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3.2-megapixel camera, 3.5 mm jack and supports 3G, Wi-Fi, and HSDPA up to 3.6 Mbps. The mobile phone is 16 GB microSD card compatible (an 8 GB card is included in the package), and has 100 MB of onboard memory. An estimated retail price will be 280 EUR, before subsidies and taxes. The Nokia 5330 XpressMusic mobile phone has fewer features in comparison with the previous 5730 XpressMusic. It also has a 3.2-megapixel camera, 3.5 mm jack, 3G and 16 GB microSD card support. However, 5330 XpressMusic doesn’t support Wi-Fi and has no QWERTY keyboard. The onboard memory is 70 MB and there’s a 2 GB memory card

  And it will be a music surprise. We don’t have any more information about the event because the company keeps it a secret. Probably Nokia is going to unveil another music mobile phone or a service for music lovers – it’s anybody’s guess. Well, Wednesday is the day of learning the meaning of the YOUR MUSIC PLAYER IS RINGING on the main page of the events.nokia.com website. This sentence is the only thing that makes it possible to describe the upcoming event somehow. Maybe we’ll manage to get some details before the event begins. We’ll see.  

  The GSMA reported that Mobile World Congress was attended by more than 47,000 visitors from 189 countries with executives from the largest mobile operators, software companies and equipment providers as well as government delegations. Attendees holding C-level positions constituted 50% of visitors and there were more than 2,800 CEOs at the conference. Leaders from companies including AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, Ericsson, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Nokia, Telefonica, Telenor, Verizon Communications and Vodafone gathered to outline the plan to cope with the global economic slowdown and lessen its impact on mobile industry. The Congress featured 1,300 exhibiting companies on more than 57,000 square metres of space, 11% larger than in the previous year. Announcements made at Mobile World Congress were reported by nearly 2,400 international, Web, and broadcast media. Prospects and strategic issues facing the mobile industry will be explored at the Mobile Asia Congress that will be held in Hong Kong in autumn 2009.  

  Seventeen top mobile operators and manufacturers announced that they have decided to team up and create a universal charger for new mobile phones. The project is initiated by the GSMA. The universal charger compatible with all mobile phones will eliminate the manufacturers of making duplicate chargers (all of them have 51,000 tonnes in weight) that can be purchased separately in case the original charger is broken. Environment will only benefit by the reduced production of chargers. Moreover, mobile phone users will find the universal charger very convenient – they won’t have to spend a lot of time looking for a charger compatible with their mobile phones. The universal charging solution (UCS) is scheduled to be included in the package of most mobile phones by the 1st January 2012. A universal charger will be based on the Micro-USB interface. The following companies will work upon the UCS: 3 Group, AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone, KTF, LG, Motorola, Mobilkom Austria, Orange, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telstra, Telecom Italia, Telenor,

  Nokia and Qualcomm plan to develop advanced UMTS mobile devices initially for North America. Most probably new smartphones will run Symbian S60 and have Qualcomm MSM7xxx and MSM8xxx series chipsets. The first mobile devices are slated to launch in the middle of 2010. Vice president of Qualcomm says that cooperation of such giants like Nokia and Qualcomm would result in an exceptional leap in mobile industry.