The ones that are cheap, like Nokia's 36XX series, are all pretty ugly too.
One reason is investment from foreign electronics and telecoms giants like Nokia, IBM, Phillips and Siemens.
Both are up from 36.1% and 18.3% the year-ago quarter respectively, as rivals like Nokia Corp.
If you truly need offline maps on iOS, alternatives like Nokia Here may be better for the task.
Smartphone makers like Nokia (NOK), Samsung, and LG are big users, and haptic technology is increasingly found in automobiles.
It will be new players who come to rule this market, not previously dominant names like Nokia or RIM, he contends.
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So far, companies like Nokia, Motorola and Research in Motion make smart phones such as the N93, the Q and the BlackBerry.
We needed to start pushing and bringing in developers, and bigger players than us like Nokia and Microsoft are struggling with this.
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Much like Nokia, the company is getting steam-rolled by Apple and Android.
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Schmidt says he would still like Nokia to be an Android licensee.
No disaster like Nokia, Motorola and Research in Motion but nevertheless destined to sell at 10 times flattish earnings, just another electronics hardware operator.
For those companies like Nokia, LG, Pantech, Samsung, and others that still manufacture featured phones it will be an even tougher slog as featured phone demand falls.
Out of that came giants like Nokia which sold a half a billion phones a year before it began to fold under competitive pressure from Apple and Android.
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Next year Adobe is eliminating its fee to phone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola, which will put a mobile version of Flash on a billion phones by 2009.
Like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, as the London-based joint venture is called, hopes that colour screens and digital pictures will persuade existing users to trade in their handsets for newer models.
That one-time stalwart of the consumer electronic world has started to slow significantly if not decline and that has a big impact on companies like Nokia, LG and other mobile phone share leaders.
This strategy is beginning to feel a little like Nokia or Research in Motion where they kept introducing so many products into the market that consumers became paralyzed not knowing which product to choose.
Apple may not have ceded ground to the competition, and the iPhone 5 will almost certainly sell extremely well, but the fact is this time around Apple is playing catch-up to firms like Nokia and Samsung.
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And Samsung recently introduced a faster, larger version of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, earlier this month, to help stave off increasing competition from rivals like Nokia, HTC, LG, Huawei and ZTE.
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Looks like Nokia's announced their new E60, E61, and E70 3G (WCDMA) phones with WiFi and mobile mail targeting mobile business users (yes, it's got GoodLink, Nokia Business Center, Seven Always-On, Visto Mobile, and BlackBerry Connect support).
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The wireless joint venture will help extend Ericsson's customer base beyond Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), to other handset makers like Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) and Samsung.
Most major smartphone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Dell, LG and others have tied up with Microsoft to build smartphones powered by its new OS. However, Windows Phone device sales have not been up to expectations, according to Steve Ballmer himself.
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In addition to competition from established players like Nokia, Apple, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, Motorola is facing competition from newer Chinese players like ZTE and Huawei in the lower priced handset market, which is taking share in the lower priced handset market.
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An image recognition service on a mobile phone looked a lot like something Nokia demonstrated in the spring.
Meanwhile, with upcoming phones like the Nokia Lumia 920 on the horizon, the smartphone wars appear to be taking a new shape.
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An image recognition service on a mobile phone looked a lot like something Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) demonstrated in the spring.
Using 100 volunteers armed with Series 60 phones (like the Nokia 6682, pictured), the Nokia-funded project tracked such data as incoming and outgoing calls, Bluetooth activity, and approximate location (via celltower ID data).
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There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when Microsoft declared that fairly fresh (and costly) Windows Phone 7 devices like the Nokia Lumia 900 would never taste its latest WP8 wares.
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New smartphones like the Nokia Lumi boast new and interesting form factors, but the reaction of the great tactile feel fades with the cascading tiles that a user can play with the size, shape, location, etc.
While far from perfect, there's a lot to like about Nokia Creative Studio -- the panorama capture alone is worth the price of admission (which is free, unlike the alternative) since it's missing from the default Lumia camera app.
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