Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, announced the financial results yesterday, and together with this, also the planned release for the Nokia N8.
Nokia has previously told that the Nokia N8 will be released in Q3, 2010. Now we have a more accurate timeframe, by the end of Q3, in other words late September.
Microsoft has announced 5 hardware partners that it will rely on to bring the latest and greatest hardware for the Windows Phone 7 launch later this year. The launch partners are:
Greg Sullivan, senior product manager at Microsoft, confirmed these partners in an interview with Pocket-Lint. Good to see that basically every Windows Mobile 6 manufacturer is in the game.
Microsoft today released a UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7. This includes basic design guidelines, and also a closer look at how Windows Phone 7 will look like.
You can find out how the themes will look like, how the status bar will function, how the notification system works, the function on all six hardware buttons and so on.
Download the design guide here (101 pages)
This seems to turn into a wear between phone manufacturers. Apple just posted the video above to their official Youtube channel. This time they show a Nokia N97 drop from 7 bars to 2.
Apple today announced its financial results for the second calendar quarter, and third fiscal quarter of 2010. Apple’s revenue is $15.7 billion, with a net profit of $3.25 billion. A year ago the revenue was $9.73 billion, and net profit $1.83 billion.
Apple shipped 3.47 million Macs, 8.4 million iPhones and 9.41 million iPods. Apple also sold 3.27 million iPads after it’s launch in April 2010.
“It was a phenomenal quarter that exceeded our expectations all around, including the most successful product launch in Apple’s history with iPhone 4,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPad is off to a terrific start, more people are buying Macs than ever before, and we have amazing new products still to come this year.”
“We’re really pleased to have generated over $4 billion of cash during the quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the fourth fiscal quarter of 2010, we expect revenue of about $18 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $3.44”
Read full Press Release here.
The Nokia C6-00 is currently available from Nokia’s Finnish online store. The phone is now priced at 299€ with a VAT of 23%. That price is without a contract, so the phone is not locked to any specific carrier, and you’ll be able to use it with any SIM.
The Nokia C6-00 has the following specs:
Samsung has produced an AMOLED screen that is very hard to brake. This is mainly due to the fact that the screen is flexible. OLED-Display.net is reporting that this flexible AMOLED screen (FAMOLED?) will be in consumer products in the coming two years.
There is no info whether the digitizer will be flexible or not. If it is flexible, then we’ll see touch screen phones that can bend. With a stiff digitizer we’ll not see flexible touch screen, since the digitizer is the component that registers touch input. But 2 years in electronics is a very long time. By the time the flexible AMOLED screen is available, we could also see flexible digitizers.
Wall Street Journal today cited “people familiar with the matter” that Nokia is looking for a replacement for Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. According to the same source, OPK will be replaced in the coming month.
Eldar Murtazin has also previously speculated that OPK will be replaced in the near future. Maybe this is the thing that Nokia needs now?
