The first ever Nokia Android tablet has been announced, and the device happens to be called the ‘Nokia N1'. It's the first tablet being released under Nokia brand after company's acquisition to Microsoft, and it looks like a finer version of iPad mini from Apple.
Where Microsoft has been busy hogging the headlines with its strategic shift lately, with Nokia since having foregone its mobile division to the software giant, has been pretty silent on what the future holds for the Finnish company. Akin to how Microsoft revealed its plans for unveiling a Microsoft branded Lumia by teasing us with obscure photos of the Lumia 535, Nokia has just released a photo of a black box via its Twitter account, the details to which will be revealed on the 18th of October, in a day.
Microsoft is finally dropping the Nokia and Windows Phone branding for all its smartphones. And as we move forward, all Windows Phone devices from Nokia will now be carrying the Microsoft Lumia branding. Earlier, there were rumors that Microsoft, having acquired Nokia's phone division, was now looking to kill the Nokia and Windows Phone brand, but we weren't entirely sure what the replacement was.
It wasn't too long ago when Finnish Prime Minister, Alexander Stubb, openly blamed Apple, or more appropriately, Steve Jobs for Finland’s economic struggles. Stubb, in a recent interview on CNBC, said that Apple has caused the decline of two major industries of Finland: IT industry led by Nokia, and the paper industry. Stubb was replying to a question about the country's business environment following a decline in its credit rating.
Nokia, which was recently acquired by Microsoft, has long built great smartphones, particularly those of the Lumia variety. But while the market has been enticed by the sleek, funky designs and top-notch rear-facing camera technology, most have been put-off by the Windows Phone OS, which is nowhere near as evolved as, say, Android.
The Nokia Lumia 830 may have only made its first appearance in a spy shot that popped up a few days ago, but it's already making headlines once again after new renders were leaked which appear to show the unannounced smartphone with some rather new branding.
As of early last week, Samsung has taken over London Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 in a typically over-the-top ad campaign that has seen the entrance renamed "Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5." On top of that, the place is awash with billboards advertising the Korean company's most celebrated handset, and this exhibition is set to continue for another week yet. Before Samsung's takeover, though, Nokia - now Microsoft - had quite a sizeable advertising stake in Terminal 5, and given the mobile industry rival, it's no surprise that the Windows Phone giant has begun trolling Sammy's efforts with a little campaign of its own.
Executives constantly jump ship between some of the biggest names in tech, and today, Nokia's former photography lead Ari Partinen has joined Apple in a move that will doubtlessly help to improve the point-and-shoot credentials of the iPhone and iOS device range in general. Given the reverence of the Lumia camera range, this is a massive coup for Apple, and Partinen will officially begin his work in Cupertino from June.
During the first week of September last year, it was announced that Microsoft was to acquire the devices and services division of Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia for the reported sum of $7.1 billion. With both companies having already established a close relationship thanks to the Lumia-Windows Phone partnership, the transition was always likely to be a smooth one, and with all the regulatory formalities done and dusted, Nokia is now officially a part of Microsoft.
It was somewhat inevitable that, upon completion of its takeover of the Finnish telecommunications outfit Nokia, Microsoft would look to rebrand the products and services of its recent acquisition to something more in-keeping with its own. Now, it has come to light that by the close of 2014, devices will no longer bear the famed Nokia branding, with the company having settled on 'Microsoft Mobile.'