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The Creation of the Nokia 808 PureView

Although Nokia are still experiencing a fairly rough patch right now, they can still pull a surprise or two. None more so than the Nokia 808 PureView which captured all the headlines at the recent Mobile World Congress, even winning the 'Best in Show' award. To highlight the work that goes in to the creation of a modern mobile phone, Nokia have produced a video, which aptly enough was captured using a Nokia 808 PureView. So, if you were wondering just what the video quality is like, you can see for yourself in the video below. The in-depth video covers the full...

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Android Controls More than Fifty Percent of Smartphone Market

Industry analyst Gartner has announced in a report that in the first quarter of 2012, Android smartphones held a 56% market share, easily beating the 22.9% held by the Apple iPhone. The data from Gartner also showed that Samsung were by far the most popular manufacturer of Android devices, generating nearly 44% of that market share. Other manufacturers of Android devices, including HTC and Motorola, were all at less than 10%. Combined figures showed that one in every two smartphone sales was either a Samsung device or the iPhone. Competition is tough in the smartphone market, and right now it is RIM, the...

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Nokia Announce New Level Entry Feature Phones

Nokia has unveiled two new budget feature phone handsets, that will each retail for less than ?40, as they seek to regain a foothold in the emerging mobile phone markets. The Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 are candybar style devices, that will offer simple, quick access to social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Email and Instant Messaging is also included, and the devices use the Nokia Browser, which reduces data consumption by up to 90%. Click here to view the embedded video. Each device supports Dual SIM functionality, and the Nokia 112 allows you to store profiles for up to 5 different...

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Nokia 808 PureView Launching in May

Nokia has confirmed that the award winning Nokia 808 PureView will start rolling our across selected territories during May, with Russia and India the first countries to see the device. The Nokia 808 PureView pretty much stole the headlines at the Mobile World Congress in February, thanks to its amazing 41 Megapixel camera. Since then, the device has won multiple industry awards, including Best Imaging Innovation for 2012 at the Technical Image Press Association awards, held in Cape Town, South Africa, in March. Nokia use advanced algorithms and pixel oversampling technology, along with high performance sensors and Carl Zeiss optics to obtain...

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About Nokia phones

Nokia are probably the most well known and respected name when it comes to mobile phones. They are the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world after all. They continue to produce some of the best selling handsets available today on the UK market.

Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is the leading manufacturer of phones in the world. They have developed and manufactured phone handsets since their inception and continue to innovate in the mobile sector leading the way for others to follow focusing on ease of use and reliability.

They continue to develop and manufacture some of the best selling handsets on the market because of their ease of use and reliability. Nokia have sold in excess of a billion mobile phone handsets worldwide.

The Nokia range of phones includes the E-series for enterprise phones, N-series for powerful multimedia phones, the X series (formerly Xpress Music) range of dedicated music phones and the newly formed C series focusing on communication smart phones.

The new range of phones are named 1-9 upwards with 1 being the lowest tech and cheapest price up to the highend 9 being the most expensive and feature rich.

History of Nokia phones

From the beginning of GSM handsets Nokia battled Motorola their US based rivals to establish themselves as the world number one when it came to the manufacturing of mobile handsets. They continue to innovate focusing on reliability and usability.

Nokia's early successful mobile phones included the block designed Nokia 1101 followed by the Nokia 2100 series handsets. They then went on to develop popular phones including the Nokia 2110 which was seen as the first true business mobile phone and the Nokia 6310 which was one of the most popular mobile phones ever and is still sought after today. Followed shortly by the so called 'Banana' phone - the Nokia 8110, made famous by its appearance in The Matrix series of films.

They then went on to release the first WAP enabled mobile phone handset - the Nokia 7110 followed by the Nokia 6650 their first 3G enabled handset offering greater mobile internet speeds than WAP devices.

2001 brought about the Nokia 9210 Communicator their first ever Symbian operated handset. Further innovation then saw the release of the first European camera mobile phone - the Nokia 7650 handset.

With Symbian being such a success because of the ability to install additional software onto a handset, they developed the E-series their enterprise range and multimedia range the N-series to enhance their Symbian mobile phone range. Nokia went on to develop the Xpress Music range of MP3 phones that focuses solely on being a music playing device as well as a mobile phone - the range debuting their first ever touch screen handset.

In May 2009 Nokia opened their Ovi store where Nokia users can download and install applications, upload images and video, access Nokia maps and backup their important settings to further enhance their mobile phone experience.

Nokia will continue to develop and innovate the latest enhancements at the forefront of the mobile phone market.