Nokia sued Apple in May 2010, claiming the company infringed five of Nokia’s patents. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, Nokia alleged. Nokia’s statement in May 2010 about the lawsuit: Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in mobile devices” said Paul Melin,...

As Noted by the folks at Appleinsider Nokia used Apple’s mac to announce their precious partnership with Microsoft, here is the details: When Nokia wanted to convince the world that it would bring consumers “stellar hardware and innovative software and great services” in its partnership with Microsoft, it turned to Apple’s Mac-only iMovie to get word out. Following the announcement of Microsoft Nokia...

Everyone saw this coming but dang, it doesn’t seem like a great mashup. For instance, are HTC and Samsung going to be stoked that their Windows 7 phone OS is pretty much coming from Nokia, one of their rivals?  Nokia sounds like they will get the Windows Phone 7 good stuff first, it isn’t just hardware. And Microsoft.  They are giving up Bing Mobile maps for Nokia’s?  Again, where does that leave...

Reuters reports that for the first time in over ten years, Nokia’s Symbian is no longer the world’s number one smartphone platform. The new king? Google’s Android. In the fourth quarter, phone makers sold 32.9 million Android-equipped phones globally, roughly seven times more than the year-earlier quarter, compared with Symbian’s sales of 31 million, according to Research firm Canalys. Of course it should...