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Category Archives: “smart” feature phones
New Nokia Asha platform for developers
This is a very throroughly designed platform with carefully defined Nokia Asha Design Guidelines providing all the details as well as a comprehensive set of tools supporting that. From Series 40 to Nokia Asha is giving advice about migrating earlier … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, smartphones
Tagged Asha Design Guidelines, Java applications, LCDUI, LWUIT, Nokia, Nokia Asha platform, Nokia Asha SDK 1.0 (beta), Nokia Asha UI, Nokia Asha web app tools 3.0, Nokia Asha web apps, Nokia IDE 2.0 for Java ME (beta), Nokia In-App Payment, Nokia Xpress Web App Builder, User Experience, UX, WDE, Web Developer Environment
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New Asha platform and ecosystem to deliver a breakthrough category of affordable smartphone from Nokia
… by bringing premium experience to the entry-level smartphone market: Peter Skillman (Head of Ux Design for Mobile Phones & HERE at Nokia) demonstratingSwipe and Fastlane experiences on a greatly enlarged touchscreen, actually from a ladder, at the launch in … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, design, Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged affordable smartphones, Facebook, Fastlane, India, intelligent multitasking, Lumia, NAX, Nokia, Nokia Advertising Exchange, Nokia Asha 501, Nokia Asha ecosystem, Nokia Asha family, Nokia Asha platform, Nokia HERE, Nokia In-App Payment, Nokia N9, Nokia Xpress browser, Nokia Xpress Now, Nokia's operator billing network, Series 40, smarter Internet, Smarterphone, swipe, User Experience, UX
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Temporary Nokia setback in India
According to “Samsung Nokia India GfK-Nielsen” search from April 25 to April 28, 2013: Samsung beats Nokia to become largest Mobile Phone seller in Urban India Samsung Leads In Phone Sales & Grabs Leadership Position From Nokia Samsung topples Nokia, … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged Asha, Asha Full Touch, entry-level smartphones, GfK-Nielsen, Idea Cellular, India, Java, Karbonn, Karbonn Mobiles, Micromax, mobile phones, Nokia, Nokia India, Samsung, Samsung Mobile, Samsung REX, Samsung REX 70, smartphones, urban India, Videocon
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Nokia: Continued moderate progress with Lumia, urgent Asha Touch refresh and new innovations to come against the onslaught of unbranded Android and forked Android players in China and India
Nokia Corporation’s CEO Discusses Q1 2013 Results – Earnings Call Transcript [Seeking Alpha, April 18, 2013] … At the highest level, I am pleased that in Q1 2013 Nokia Group achieved underlying operating profitability for the third quarter in a … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, Geopolitics, smartphones
Tagged Asha Touch, China, Competition, competitive industry dynamics, forked Android, India, Lumia, new industry dynamics, Nokia, Nokia competition, trends, unbranded Android
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New and successful “post feature phone” business of Nokia with a new set of risks and uncertainties
Nokia successfully got over the “post feature phone” situation described a year ago as: … many mid-range to high-end feature phones increasingly offer access to the Internet and applications and provide more smartphone-like features and design, blurring the distinction between … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, consumer computing, consumer devices, smartphones
Tagged affordability, Android-based smartphones, feature phones, higher-end, higher-end devices, Mobile Phones business, Nokia, post feature phone, QWERTY devices, risks, risks and uncertainties, uncertainties
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$50 Nokia Asha 205 QWERTY phones and Nokia 206 feature phones with smartphone like connectivity and web experience but with more convenient keyboard interactions
Or further steps taken by Nokia to defend its enviable position of stabilized 75+ million quarterly unit sales on the “sub-smartphone” market. This is a significant addition to the already successful:- Smartphone-like Asha Touch from Nokia: targeting the next billion … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer devices, Geopolitics
Tagged India, feature phones, Series 40, Nokia Life, dual SIM, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, QWERTY phones, Nokia Asha 205, Nokia 206, connectivity, web experience, Slam, Nokia Slam technology, Nokia Nearby, eBuddy, WhatsApp, EA gift pack, premium games, Facebook button, EasySwap, Nokia Internet Radio
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With Asha Touch starting at $83 [Feb 22: $65] and Lumia at $186 [Feb 22: $168] Nokia targeting the entry-level and low-end smartphone markets–UPDATED [Dec 19, 2012] new entry prices and Lumia 505 (? $220 ?) with AMOLED ClearBlack and Gorilla Glass
Preliminary information: Core post: Smartphone-like Asha Touch from Nokia: targeting the next billion users with superior UX created for ultra low-cost and full touch S40 devices[this same blog, July 20, 2012 – Feb 12, 2013] Update as Feb 5, 2013: … Continue reading
MediaTek’s ‘smart-feature phone’ effort with likely Nokia tie-up
With the new generation single-chip GSM/GPRS/EDGE-RX SoC products, MT6255 (in mass production: late Q1CY12) and its lower priced cousin MT6250 (in mass production: late Q2CY12), the Taiwanese MediaTek is strengthening its “smart feature phone” effort started in June 2011 with … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, Geopolitics
Tagged App Store, dual card dual standby, Dual-SIM Dual-Standby, EDGE, Facebook, Gameloft, MAUI Runtime Environment, MediaTek, MediaTek COSMOS, MediaTek Ecosystem, MediaTek Feature Phone Software Framework and Platform, MediaTek Gemini, MoMagic, MRE, MRE Devices, MRE ecosystem, MT6250, MT6255, Nokia, Nokia Browser, smart-feature phone, smarter phones, Spice Digital, Spreadtrum, Twitter, Twitter for Nokia, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Weather
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