The Telco equipment manufacturer giant, Nokia Siemens Networks, has agreed to purchase the network equipment division of Motorola for $1.2 billion.

The business proposition is easy: The dying Motorola’s business would prove out to be profitable for Nokia Siemens, as they now achieve #3 spot in Top wireless network vendors in the United States and hence expand business propositions with Motorola’s existing customers.

The acquisition gives  Nokia Siemens 7,500 employees plus solid relationships with Clearwire, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, and China Mobile.

For application developers who are hunting down to rewrite GUI for every other OS, there is a simple and yet, an elegant solution : Qt

Qt (pronounced “Cute”) is cross-platform application and UI framework developed and maintained by telecom giant, Nokia. As far as I can tell you, this is the most portable, and yet most feature-ful UI, I’ve seen lately. Surprisingly, it works on both PCs and mobiles, alike. It supports embedded-Linux, Mac OS, Windows, .. Read Further »

Hackintosh is a state of the Art but it was never meant for smartphones. But Virtualization makes it possible to do it.

A Nokia geek managed to Run Mac OS X 10.3 on a Nokia .. Read Further »

Mobile companies, and other industries are prototyping new concepts that can encourage Green computing. One such idea was Mechanical phone that needed no charger.

A new Prototype from Nokia is kind of a strange innovation. Charging the .. Read Further »

Back in October, Nokia filed suit against Apple, accusing the company of a number of litigations costing $1Billion.

Today, Apple decided to respond back with strong statements. They have filed counterclaim the U.S. District Court of Delaware, Apple  denies infringement and stresses that Nokia attempted to copy the iPhone and infringed 13 Apple patents in the process.

The key takeaway on the counter fight was:

“Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” Bruce Sewell, Apple’s SVP.

Nokia has long been embracing Symbian. The fact comes from it’s acquisition of Symbian. But as industry saw rivals like iPhone, Nokia decided to move on. As one of the moves, they have open sourced most of Symbian.

And these days we see a choice between Symbian and Maemo on most N-series. Fortunately, things are starting to become a bit more clear, Maemo’s marketing team  meet-up in London last night, declared future for Maemo.

iPhone does a good job at browsing. But the lack of Flash has put the popularity to the backstage. Nokia has been researching on new ways to innovate web browsing . They have worked around the traditional Opera Symbian browser and found their way to Mozilla’s Open source phone browser.

N900, integrates the open source browser with delicious gestures and smoothness to it. Of course, gestures are different from that of the iPhone, coz they are patented, but equally good on daily use. The browser features a Full-Flash instead of Mobile .. Read Further »

Nokia unveiled its first netbook. Called the Nokia Booklet 3G, the long-rumored device features a 10-inch screen, weighs 2.75 pounds, runs Windows, and has Wi-Fi 802.11g as well as to cellular 3G wireless networks.

Throw a stone in the dark with All Electronics companies around and chances are high that you will hit a company who has a Netbook  released or upcoming. Whether it’s a Graphics leader like Nvidia or a small computer .. Read Further »

In all the talk about Nokia acquiring Symbian, setting up a foundation to support it and scouring the world for sales, one key question remains unanswered.

Is the software any good?

Symbian is a Real Time Operating System for managing telephone functions. It is just a little smarter than a toaster. The .. Read Further »

When the specs of Nokia N96 were first leaked to the net, I thought it was a pretty boring phone. After all, more then a year has passed since the introduction of Nokia N95 handset, and the only improvement that N96 had to show – was some added memory and DVB-H tuner…. Duh

During Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, I had an opportunity to check it out live. And I have not changed my opinion – Nokia N96 is boring.

However, I had an epiphany while playing with Nokia N96. It turns out, that except for us geeky/blog newsy types, boring is actually very good.

When Nokia N95 hit the market, it had multiple bugs, was slow, used to crash, did not really felt .. Read Further »