“Industry” Articles

At the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Nokia has announced its partnership with the automotive industry to introduce ‘Terminal Mode’. Terminal Mode is being proposed as an industry standard to connect all smartphones that adopt it, not just Nokia smartphones, to support in-car infotainment systems. Nokia believes it should be easy to share information and content between your smartphone and other devices you use everyday such as your PC and the web. This way it is easy to keep everything synchronized and ensure you always have access to the things you love, such as your music, and the services you use, such as navigation, whenever and wherever you need them.

In this video, Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President of Nokia smartphones, discusses some of the significant aspects of Symbian^3. Jo also goes on to talk about where smartphones are headed in the future in terms of both Symbian and Meego, and how all future Symbian devices will be based on Symbian^3. Symbian^3 will enhance the user experience with better graphics performance, the speed of the UI, and less user prompts, making the experience “WOW but familiar.”

Nokia has decided to scrap what could have been its third NFC handset, the Nokia 6216, due to the quality of the consumer experience not being what it hoped for. The Nokia 6216 would have also been the first NFC handset to have handed over control of the payment system to the Service Provider’s SIM card through SWP (Single Wire Protocol). SWP is the exact architecture that China Unicom is expected to be deploying later this year.

Nokia has today announced its Q4 2009 results, reporting an operational profit of EUR 1.141 billion and net sales of EUR 12 billion, down 5% year on year (up 22% sequentially). The devices and services sector saw net sales of EUR 8.2 billion, up 0.5% year on year (18% sequentially), and converged device sales were 20.8 million, increasing the worldwide smartpohone marketshare to 40%. Nokia has also reported estimated industry mobile device volumes of 329 million units, up 8% year on year and 14% sequentially, with 126.9 million Nokia mobile devices, up 12% year on year (17% sequentially).