The company, besides supporting Windows, is backing a Linux-based variant in partnership with Nokia Corp.
Nokia Corp. and Vodafone Group PLC, the British company that owns 45 percent of Verizon Wireless.
Both are up from 36.1% and 18.3% the year-ago quarter respectively, as rivals like Nokia Corp.
"They were about to enter a field dominated by giants, " he said, citing Samsung and Nokia Corp. as rivals.
At the same time, it has sold enough inexpensive low-end phones to edge out Nokia Corp. as the world's largest maker of phones.
Finland's Nokia Corp. was for many years the world's largest maker of cellphones, but it has failed to translate that into success in smartphones.
Nokia Corp. alleged that Apple copied parts of its operating system.
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He'd adapted the app for iPhones and Nokia Corp.
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Finnish cell phone maker, Nokia Corp. reported first quarter results on Thursday morning that clearly missed the mark as the stock opened 15% lower into extremely heavy volume.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon has confirmed plans involving a Nokia Corp. tie-up, with sources familiar with the deal saying that the companies have been in talks since the spring.
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Tianyu achieved a 7.5% share of nearly 60 million handsets (or about 4.1 million) shipped in China in Q1, ranking third after Nokia and Samsung Electronics Corp. (together these two global giants have over 50% of the market).
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Indeed, Nokia's recent record of being slow to market with smartphones that can compete with the iPhone and other phones in part led to the recent appointment of former Microsoft Corp. executive Stephen Elop as Nokia's new chief executive, succeeding former CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
The X7 would have been the first Nokia smartphone launched exclusively with a U.S. carrier since former Microsoft Corp.
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