Nokia has started shipping the N9, its first and last smartphone based on the MeeGo operating system, the company said. MeeGo is one of the operating systems Nokia decided to forsake in February when it announced plans to use Microsoft’s Windows Phone as its primary operating system for smartphones. The other operating system Nokia nixed was Symbian. Four months...

Microsoft made the latest version of its mobile phone software available to handset partners as it seeks to claw back market share from Apple and Google. The Redmond, Washington-based personal computer software powerhouse said the update to its Windows Phone operating system, code-named “Mango,” features over 500 new features and faster browsing with Internet...

A new report by Nielsen Company, a market research firm, reports that in the US, Android is the most popular operating system among smartphone users and now accounts for nearly a third (29%) of all active smartphones in a study of 14,701 Americans. In comparison, the R.I.M. BlackBerry platform and Apple’s iOS each account for 27 percent of active smartphones since they...

German weekly WirtschaftsWoche reports that, Finnish cell phone giant Nokia is planning to sack around half of the current executive board members as part of a strategy to revamp the world’s biggest mobile phone maker. So far, only one former leader, Anssi Vanjoki, has left the company. But citing company sources, weekly reported that Mary T. McDowell, the executive...

‘Connecting People’ is the slogan of Nokia. But we are getting some rumors that; we can also use ‘connecting Microsoft’, instead of ‘connecting people’. Confused right? According to rumors sparked by some comments made by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, Microsoft and Nokia could collaborate to bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia’s smartphones. So, how about that? Microsoft...

Vizio Inc., the second-largest U.S. television supplier, will introduce a low-cost smartphone and tablet computer using Google Inc.’s Android software to attract consumers who can’t afford Apple Inc.’s devices. It’s also a sign that the market for Android devices will become even more crowded and confusing for consumers in 2011. Vizio–a small, privately...

Nokia has filed patent claims against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, for allegedly infringing its patents with technology used in the Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The legal battle began in October 2009 when Nokia alleged that the iPhone infringes on Nokia’s patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards, specifically 10 patents...

Skype has just released an update to their Symbian app that adds support for new Symbian phones, including the Nokia N8, C7 and E5. This is the new version of the operating system running on Nokia’s current forerunners like the N8. Over the last decade, Skype has grown to be one of the leading online applications for people connectivity through which  millions...

In a bid to regain lost ground, and respect, in the cutthroat race to become the smartest seller of Smartphones, Nokia promised to grab on to its top position on Monday, at its annual Asian trade event in Singapore. Evidently, the ongoing attempts by Apple and Research in Motion, using their strongest contenders: iPhone and Blackberry, to topple the mobile manufacturing...