As with all of Nokia's patents asserted against HTC in Germany, HTC believes that this patent is invalid and will be continuing with the invalidity actions pending before the German Federal Patents Court and the English Patents Court.
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From March 2010, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will come installed with the new Ovi Maps application and pre-loaded with local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.
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With Symbian's share of the smartphone market plummeting by the day - it had dipped below 12% last time I looked - and all of Nokia's marketing efforts aimed at its range of Lumia Windows phones, the 808 won't be at the top of many people's shopping lists.
Representatives of MeeGo, Symbian and other programs within Nokia all struggled to make themselves heard.
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Especially after all the sly grins, winks, and suggestive nods we received from Nokia employees at all levels hinting at MeeGo's awesomeness.
But perhaps there is a silver lining for Nokia in all these stormy clouds.
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From January to April, 42% of all content downloaded from Nokia Store was delivered to Asha and other Nokia devices based on the Java ecosystem.
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Sony, Samsung and Nokia have all used these strategies successfully.
The trouble was, for all the ideas, Nokia failed to turn the inventiveness of its engineers into one compelling product in the same way that Apple managed with the iPhone.
Mr. DAN WORK (Student): Right now GPS is not available in all phones, but Nokia - in the next couple years - will deploy a GPS in every phone that they sell.
And perhaps in the biggest surprise, the troubled Nokia and all-in BlackBerry can take heart that in some parts of the world, they remain fully relevant players in the smartphone race.
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On another battle front, Apple, Google and Facebook will square off and no one is really sure the slumbering giant in Redmond will remain dormant or finally gain some real traction with their mobile OS. Competition will be fierce and some iconic brands like Blackberry and Nokia could all but disappear.
Nokia is doing all it can to please customers and investors, yet its shares have sunk like a stone.
The Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6 are all expected to begin shipping before the end of the year.
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Add to this the ongoing downward spiral at Nokia, have all combined to make us uncomfortable with the near-term outlook.
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However, considering that the Windows Phone has little brand awareness currently, Nokia will need all the carrier support it can garner.
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Best of all, in this mode Nokia lets you choose between taking full-resolution pictures and snapping PureView shots (eight, five or three megapixels) at standard or wide aspect ratios.
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"Nokia still leads all vendors by a significant margin for converged mobile devices and mobile phones as a whole, " said Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's Mobile Devices Technology and Trends team.
Imaging-wise, and yes, it's still all about the camera with Nokia, there's the same 8.7-megapixel camera sensor from the 920 model, although Nokia says it's made countless improvements to noise-reduction algorithms and other inner workings.
And I am happy to see that in the latest quarter, 70% of all Windows Smartphones sold were from Nokia.
All of that convinced us that Nokia had a fighting chance to unseat Motorola as the world's biggest cell phone maker.
Microsoft hopes that the Nokia brand will change all that.
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If that makes you feel better about your legacy Nokia OS investment after all the company's Windows Phone 8 hoopla, check the source to see how to get it.
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There are also other players fighting for positions in this battle: Ericsson, Huawei, Cisco, Alcatel Lucent and Nokia Siemens Network have all intensified their ambitions, already being big suppliers in the ecosystem.
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All in all, even in this case, Nokia share price would be at least over 2.50 euro, excluded NAVTEQ.
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Since Elop came aboard, Nokia has made progress in all of these areas.
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