Nokia has released a teaser video on YouTube that hints it will announce a smartphone with a high-end camera in the coming days. The video includes the tagline "Get Ready to Capture a Pure View" and shows a montage of images. At the same time, Reuters today reports that Nokia is prepared to also announce an inexpensive Windows Phone smartphone at its press ...

Microsoft and Nokia today announced that the Lumia 800 Windows Phone is available for sale at select Microsoft retail stores to those wishing to purchase it. The Lumia 800 is being sold as part of a promotion bundle, which includes the Nokia Purity HD Stereo Headset by Monster, the Nokia Luna Bluetooth Headset and the Nokia Play 360 speaker. THe Lumia ...

Nokia Siemens Networks today announced a new technology for HSPA+ networks that will allow devices to connect to two separate cells at one time. Nokia Siemens says that Multiflow can be used when a device is at the edge of one cell to connect to the neighboring cell simultaneously. The name "Multiflow" was chosen because data flows in two different ...

One of the defining features of Nokia's recent handsets is their ClearBlack AMOLED displays, which offer great color reproduction and work very well in outdoor light. While we already knew that Nokia employs a polarization filter in its ClearBlack displays, we didn't really know how the whole system worked until now.

Owners of the Nokia Lumia 710 have been reporting that the smartphone has a bug that makes it appear as if calls are not terminated when the user hits the end call button on the screen. This has led many to believe that the phone is still using their plan's minutes even after they are done with a call. Nokia has acknowledged the issue, but insists it is not as serious ...

Nokia today announced that the latest version of its home-grown smartphone platform, called Belle, is available to download. The new system software brings a refreshed look to the user interface as well as a number of under-the-hood improvements to the operating system. Belle is available to the N8, E7, E6, X7, C6-01, C7, and Oro handsets. Belle boosts ...

Nokia has announced via its Twitter page that its Lumia 710 smartphone is now on sale in the UK. The Lumia 710 is the less expensive brother of the Lumia 800 that offers users a 3.7-inch, WVGA ClearBlack LCD display and is powered by a 1.4Ghz Qualcomm processor running Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. The Lumia 710 also sports a 5 megapixel camera ...

Nokia's most recent quarterly results show that Microsoft paid the company $250 million for adopting Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform. "Our broad strategic agreement with Microsoft includes platform support payments from Microsoft to us as well as software royalty payments from us to Microsoft," said Nokia. "We have a competitive software royalty ...

Bloomberg has rounded up 22 analyst estimates to come up with an average figure for how many Lumia smartphones have been shipped by Nokia to date. The number that Bloomberg landed on was 1.3 million - an impressive amount considering the Lumia line has only been on the market since mid-November.

Nokia Siemens Networks has received approximately $1.56 billion in new funding from a collection of European and U.S. banks. Citing a source familiar with Nokia Siemens' plans, Reuters reports that the company sought $1.96 billion in funding, but had to settle for the lesser amount due to current market conditions. Parent companies Nokia and Siemens ...

Nokia today said it is distributing a system update to the Lumia 800 that addresses battery performance and Wi-Fi connectivity. The update will be rolled out over the next two weeks via the Windows Phone Connector application.

Nokia has sold a total of 450 patents to a European patent licensing company called Sisvel. The patents include some "essential" telecommunications technologies, such as GSM, UMTS/WCDMA and LTE. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.