T-Mobile will launch the Nokia Lumia 710 Windows Phone, reports the Wall Street Journal. Citing sources familiar with the companies’ plans, the two will announce the phone at a press event that is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, December 14 in New York City. The Lumia 710 runs Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and includes customized software made by Nokia. The international version of the Lumia 710 features a 3.7-inch WVGA display with Nokia’s ClearBlack technology; 1.4GHz single core SnapDragon processor with 512MB of RAM, and 8GB of storage; HSPA Category 10 at 14.4Mbps down and ...

Nokia is interested in selling off its U.K.-based Vertu subsidiary, which sells high-end cell phones. According to a report in the Financial Times, Nokia has hired Goldman Sachs to help it fetch top dollar for the cell phone unit, which is valued between $270 and $400 million. The Financial Times says that private equity groups will be the most likely buyers of Vertu, though Nokia has not confirmed the story. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Nokia is preparing to sell Vertu, a UK-based subsidiary that specialises in handmade luxury phones for the super rich.The process is at an early stage, although there has been interest from private equity groups and it’s likely to attract interest from luxury goods brands, according to sources of the Financial Times.Yet to be officially valued, Vertu has an estimated annual revenue of up to €300 million (£255 million).Vertu’s luxury handsets are available in more than 60 countries, some with dedicated shops. Somewhat predictably, it has a strong following among those ...

Nokia today indicated that it is delivering the first system update to the Lumia 800 Windows Phone device. The update adds features, such as improved email, audio quality, and brightness, as well as better voicemail notifications. The update also makes performance enhancements, and power efficiency and charging improvements. The update will take several weeks to reach all owners of the Lumia 800 and requires the Zune desktop client. Nokia also said that it will provide another update to the Lumia 800 in early 2012. The Lumia 800 is available in a handful of markets around the world, but ...

Nokia is interested in selling off its U.K.-based Vertu subsidiary, which sells high-end cell phones. According to a report in the Financial Times, Nokia has hired Goldman Sachs to help it fetch top dollar for the cell phone unit, which is valued between $270 and $400 million. The Financial Times says that private equity groups will be the most likely buyers of Vertu, though Nokia has not confirmed the story. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Nokia will begin its Windows Phone assault on American soil early in 2012 with the Lumia 900, according to reports.BGR reckons the device will boast a 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED display, with a 1.4GHz processor and an 8-megapixel camera.The Lumia 900 will channel the same look and form-factor as the Lumia 800 recently released in Europe, only with the larger screen. The Lumia 800 featured only a 3.7-inch display.According to BGR sources, the handset will ship with the forthcoming Windows Phone “Tango” update, which promises to build on the improvements made by the Windows Phone ...

It seems that Apple’s iPhone 4S isn’t the only new smartphone on the market with reports of battery life issues, as Nokia has announced that a software update is coming for the Lumia 800 that will address battery life and charging issues that have been reported by users. In fact, the company plans to release two software updates in the coming months to address the problems. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Nokia Siemens Networks today said that it is restructuring its business to better focus on the mobile broadband and services markets. As part of the broad reorganization, NSN plans to cut 17,000 employees from its global workforce by the end of 2013. Nokia Siemens has about 74,000 employees today, and the cuts amount to a massive 23% of its total employee base. In order to accomplish this workforce reduction, NSN said it will consolidate facilities and functions, simplify processes, eliminate the company’s matrix organizational structure, as well as realize certain synergies with the ...

Sales of Nokia’s first Windows Phone devices are set to fall short of expectations, according to industry analysts.Bernstein Research reckons that the Nokia Lumia 800, which launched in the UK last week, will only ship half a million units before the end of 2011.Analyst Pierre Ferragu has been checking out data on Google Trends and found that the buzz level is around the same as the Symbian-powered Nokia N8, which endured a tough time.Another firm, Pacific Crest says it had expected the Lumia 800 to ship up to two million Christmas-boosted sales, but have now switched the estimate ...

Nokia Suite 3.2 has graduated from the Nokia Beta Labs and is now available for all to download. The revised (and renamed) desktop software for Windows PCs adds a number of features, including a brand new user interface. Other changes include a new Support view that provides more information about the user’s handset and control over its memory/storage; an improved sync log; and more reliable system and app update performance. Nokia Suite 3.2 officially replaces the Ovi Suite desktop software. ...