Fishlabs Games Studio added fuel to the fire of rumors surrounding the tablet Nokia – said that in cooperation with Nokia to create games of a device with a large screen and graphics based on OpenGL ES 2.0. When will the game or tablet itself, representatives of the studios are not told.

In principle, it is likely that we are talking about some sort of flagship smartphone N8. However, the phrase "big screen" is usually not to characterize the smart phones, even more.

Officially, Nokia does not confirm plans for a tablet, but it has repeatedly stated that she was interested in other types of devices other than phones. Nokia already sells a netbook Booklet 3G, and the popularity of iPad, coupled with the development of 3G and touch screens – too great a temptation to stand apart from these trends.

Via Electronista

Today, 9 April, Nokia announced the acquisition of U.S. firm MetaCarta, engaged in the development of technologies in the field of geography.

Details buy Massachusetts MetaCarta not yet known. But obviously, as a result of this transaction is to increase the level of navigation services Nokia, which the Finns make a strong enough emphasis in its marketing strategy.

In particular, with the help of technology MetaCarta Nokia is going to improve geopoisk and geotegging that ultimately helps the user to quickly find information about his area of interest.

Recall that back in January Nokia has provided free navigation service to enhance competitiveness against companies such as TomTom, Garmin and Google.

Via Reuters

On Wednesday, Reuters news agency reported that a heated market for Tablet intend to enter several new players, including Nokia.

The source reports that Nokia is very impressed by the debut of iPad, when for the first day sales broke up over 300 thousand ( previous information was even about 600-700 thousand , but it has not been confirmed – approx. ed.) thousands of devices. Most Nokia took two years to somehow establish selling its first phone with a large touch screen.

Last year Nokia released its first netbook Booklet 3G , and since 2005, sells a small Internet Tablet class MID. However, neither the one nor the other special demand.

Information about the Nokia tablet comes from independent analyst firms, such as the Rodman and Renshaw. Analyst Ashok Kumar of the company (Ashok Kumar) believes that the tablet will run on Windows, but there is also a feeling that this will MeeGo – operating system that Nokia is developing jointly with Intel.

«MeeGo, likely to focus largely on the market Tablet", – says another analyst Tero Kuyttinen (Tero Kuittinen).

According to Kumar, the tablet of the Finnish manufacturer will appear on store shelves in September and October, immediately before the Christmas season.

As Nokia has not commented on this information.

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On Tuesday, Nokia announced that the navigation service Ovi Maps now supports smart phones E71 and E66 , at no cost. Before that free navigation from Nokia was available only for E72, N97, and X6. You can download at the official site of Nokia; true, it first need to download to your computer. In addition, for Ovi Maps can now download maps and use them offline.

The Nokia also warned that the E71 and E66 are the latest phones based on Symbian S60 3.1, supporting free Ovi Maps.

Via Electronista

Nokia on Friday last week announced the acquisition of the Chicago company Novarra, a developer of mobile browsers. The company provides solutions such masters like Palm, Motorola, Samsung, Verizon, Sprint, as well as herself Nokia.

The main product is a browser Novarra Vision Mobile, running on Java and BREW. Its main feature – the ability to work on conventional phones, not just smartphones. In particular, Sprint Vision Mobile preinstalled on the cheapest model sold phones. Nokia also uses Novarra solutions in their models based on Symbian S40.

Novarra is also engaged in back-end solutions, widgets, advertising and analytics. The company employs about 100 employees. The amount and other details of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to be finalized in the second half of the year.

Via TGDaily

Nokia plans for 2.5 years to triple the number of own shops in Russia. As a result, they should be 120. First steps in this direction have already been made: in March, new stores have opened in Samara, Perm, Krasnoyarsk and Rostov-on-Don.

How to be invested in network expansion, the Nokia does not disclose, however, according to independent experts, the opening of each point will have to spend from $ 100 up to 300 thousand Consequently, the total for the project can be spent around $ 10-20 million

In Nokia pay much attention to brand retail, considering it a very effective way to promote products. What is not surprising: in single-brand showrooms a wide range, a large number of expensive models, it is possible to provide additional services.

via Gazette

As Nokia said they did not intend to renew the contract with one of its two official Russian distributors – the company "Telelogistika. Representatives of Telelogistiki "Vedomosti reported that the Finnish side explained this decision by some" changes in the distribution market, "without specifying what kind of changes. Abuses by Russia as a partner was not. Analyst at Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin agrees: he believes that the decision of the Finnish company is not motivated by economic reasons.

Although officially a contract with Telelogistikoy "expires on June 30, delivering the goods Nokia has already ceased, and the notice of the possible penalty ignored. In Russia the company estimated the damage at 122.23 million rubles.

"Telelogistika" was one of the two official Nokia distributor in Russia, and as such it is delivered on Russia's market is about 25% of all products Nokia (data for 2009). Second distributor of the Finnish manufacturer is WMP Group.

This situation can benefit from Samsung, which has almost caught up with Nokia on the volume of Russian sales. Sieg also WMP Group, which has ckopilos large number of unsold goods Nokia.

via Gazette

Company Nokia has sent to the court to refute the arguments contained in the lawsuit Apple. The 28-page motion argued that the arguments have Apple sole purpose – to "divert attention" from violations by Apple patents Nokia on 3G. Nokia claims that honestly tried to agree with Apple's licensing terms, but she rejected all such initiatives.

"How could Apple not tried, she could not change the fact that the licensing proposal would not become illegal just because one party subjectively considers it unacceptable", – stated in the petition.

Among other things, Nokia rejects as unfounded claims Apple, based on the Sherman Antitrust Act. According to the Finnish manufacturer, Apple assertion that, through patents, Nokia has achieved a monopoly in the 3G-standard, is groundless. C on the other hand, Apple can not and argue that these standards are free and for their use do not need patents. The petition also states that Apple has not resulted in any concrete examples of how the conditions of Nokia can break the law, instead he will present talks with Nokia in a false light.

Nokia denies charges Apple, that she allegedly deliberately concealed its patents to "catch" other companies for their violation. According to Nokia, all patents were issued in accordance with the law.

The solution to this situation, wait for a long time: the main hearing in this case will be held only in 2012. The delay is partly due to the fact that the U.S. International Trade Commission decided to examine the matter independently.

Via Electronista

Company Nokia has filed in the U.S. Patent Office for a patent self-charging battery. The official name of the invention – "piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester» (piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester). The idea of the invention is that the battery is attached to the outer frame and isolated from it by piezoelectric elements. The result is a kinetic energy, which generates an electrical signal, "partially charging the battery. The battery is moved inside the phone on runners, which goes into the condenser. Incidentally, a similar idea is used in some models of hours, which is also recharged while driving.

Via Electronista

Nokia and Skype announced a provision of voice services Skype IP-telephony in all Nokia phones running Symbian ^ 1, and the Nokia N900. The service will work on 3G, Wi-Fi or even GPRS / EDGE.

In addition, Skype reported that soon enjoy the most popular VOIP-client can be on Symbian-phones from other manufacturers such as Sony Ericsson.

Skype Client for Nokia phones will be sold in Ovi Store. As Nokia predicted that the first time, it will download about 1.5 million people a day.

Version of Skype for Symbian existed before, for example from Fring, but officially Nokia starts to support it for the first time.

Via TechRadar