Apple squares off with Motorola, Nokia, RIM over nano-SIMs

Apple's proposed extra-small SIM card standard has triggered a war it's currently likely to win, sources uncovered Tuesday. The format, nicknamed a "nano-SIM" by the FT in its purported leak, was opposed by proposals from Motorola, Nokia, and RIM Read more...

Nokia maps fightback against cheap Android phones

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish group Nokia aims to revamp its feature phone offering this year and add more and cheaper Windows smartphones to fight back against the fast-rising popularity of Google's massmarket Android phones. "We are addressing this with our planned introductions in 2012 of smarter, competitively priced feature phones with more modern user experiences," the company said on Thursday in its annual report. ... Read more...

Nokia to bring 41 megapixels of its 808 PureView to Windows Phone

Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world got a taste of the most powerful camera phone that crams 41 whopping megapixels into an 18 mm-thick, or approximately 0.7 inch, device. While the majority of fans were fascinated by the incredibly impressive feature, many were also disappointed to find that the 808 PureView will still run on an updated version of Nokia’s practically defunct operating system, Symbian Belle. Nokia has responded to this by hinting that it plans to bring the camera feature to a more popular OS of Windows Phone in the near future Read more...

Bing, Nokia, Windows Phone debut unified map style

Designers with Bing Maps and Nokia Maps have coordinated with the Windows Phone team to bring a unified look to maps across both services, now available on the desktop and mobile version of Bing and Nokia maps. The goal was to update the color palette to better distinguish roads from rivers while keeping overlaid information, such as traffic, distinct. The redesign extends to collaboration across services on fonts, labelling and readability... Read more...

Nokia pins hopes on cheaper Windows smartphone (AP)

AP - Struggling cell phone maker Nokia kicked off the world's largest mobile phone trade show Monday by unveiling a new low-cost Windows smartphone that operators could give away free to customers, and another aimed at snap-happy consumers demanding better photo quality. Read more...