As part of this program, UNESCO and Nokia are joining hands, where Nokia is providing its mobile phones and its application "Nokia Education Delivery (NED)" for UNESCO s project on use of ICT for professional development of public school teachers in remote areas.
As the leader in mobile phones, Nokia now has to take a broader view of the market, he believes.
In 2003, the Nokia's sales of mobile phones in North America hit 32.4 million, or nearly 20% of the company's global volume.
In mobile phones, Nokia and Research In Motion are sagging badly (following the footsteps of Motorola) and scrambling to maintain their historical strength.
Our estimates indicate that Nokia sold around 60 million mobile phones in India in 2009, out of a total of 300 million sold in emerging markets.
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Nokia, the largest maker of mobile phones, has warned of a weak start to 2011 after seeing a fall in profits in the last three months of 2010.
The 600-room ITC Grand Chola opens in Chennai, India on 1 November and ITC released a mobile app for Blackberry and Nokia phones from which users can get details about the hotel and surrounding area.
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Nokia says unit sales were 71 million for Mobile Phones and 12 million Smart Devices.
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As Mr Ollila steps down on June 1st, however, he hands his successor, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the difficult task of leading Nokia into new markets as the distinction between mobile phones and other consumer-electronics devices becomes increasingly blurred.
The lack of communication has been a concern to members of the mobile industry as well as users of Nokia phones, the majority of which are powered by Symbian.
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Although Nokia remains the world's largest maker of mobile phones by volume, it has lost market share in smartphones, which are driving the industry's sales and profits, to Apple Inc.
Unfortunately for Harry, Engadget Mobile will continue to refer to Nokia's products as phones, cellphones, or perhaps even telephones, but luckily a little program called Greasemonkey should enable him to continue reading the site while remaining blissfully phone-free.
Main candidates are said to include both Motorola and Nokia, but Moto already seems to be doing just fine with the Q, and to be honest, it's hard to imagine Nokia snapping up a company that puts out phones running on Windows Mobile.
Nokia will once again play a big part in that, having built so-called Near Field Communications technology, which allows mobile payments, into its phones for some time, and Nokia has pledged to make NFC a standard feature of its Symbian smartphones this year.
No mobile company will ever know more about how people use phones than Nokia.
"Nokia still leads all vendors by a significant margin for converged mobile devices and mobile phones as a whole, " said Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's Mobile Devices Technology and Trends team.
Nokia researchers believe that advances in nanotechnology will give them the ingredients to make future mobile phones far thinner, more stretchable, more durable and more energy-efficient than contemporary devices.
Nokia has been working with Wolfson Microelectronics of Edinburgh to produce a wireless headset for mobile phones and music players that uses ten MEMS microphones: two to record speech and eight to cancel noise.
In 1995, for instance, virtually all mobile phones sold in China were made by one of three global giants: Nokia, Motorola or Ericsson.
Next year Adobe is eliminating its fee to phone manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola, which will put a mobile version of Flash on a billion phones by 2009.
Nokia, the largest handset maker, owes its dominance in part to its early realisation that mobile phones would evolve into fashion items, and that different users would want different features.
Nokia in fact announced, in 2010, that it was working on eye-scrolling software for mobile phones but has never announced being near to a commercialized product.
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Nokia, by comparison, has already committed itself to providing an open standard for its new generation of mobile phones.
They certainly were to mobile phones, which is one reason why two of the biggest firms in that business, Nokia and Ericsson, are based there.
This expected increase in mobile phones sales should bode well for RIM as well as its competitors Apple, Motorola and Nokia.
Looks like Nokia's announced their new E60, E61, and E70 3G (WCDMA) phones with WiFi and mobile mail targeting mobile business users (yes, it's got GoodLink, Nokia Business Center, Seven Always-On, Visto Mobile, and BlackBerry Connect support).
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Nokia announced the new budget-friendly Windows Lumia 610 at the Mobile World Congress and played up several upgraded basic phones that run on the older S40 and Symbian operating systems, including the Asha 202 and 203, the Asha 302 equipped with keyboard, and the mid-range 808 PureView, which boasts a camera with 41-megapixel resolution.
It's hard to believe now, but Nokia was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1991, when it shed a raft of diverse businesses to focus on mobile phones.
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