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Nokia Asha leak by evleaks @evleaks today posted what is claimed to be a render of a new Nokia Asha device. The design borrows much from Nokia’s line of Lumia devices. Colors are clear green, red, and yellow. The red colored render has a dedicated back button, while the green and yellow renders only come with a roundish button in the middle. @evleaks has a rather good track record with leaks. It remains to be seen whether these new Ashas ever see the light of day. ...

Nokia Asha 310 dual-sim Nokia today announced the Asha 310. The device bring a 3-inch capacitive touch screen, Dual-SIM, Wi-Fi all for an affordable price. Nokia expects the Asha 310 to sell for just $102 USD. The Nokia Asha 310 will be available in Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa and Brazil from Q1 2013 Nokia Asha 310 tech specs:System: GSM/EDGE  900/1800 Dimensions: 109.9 x 54 x 13mm Weight: 103.7g Display: 3-inch WQVGA, capacitive touch Memory: Up to 20MB internal free user memory. Up to 32GB MicroSD memory...

Nokia 808 PureView, Red Nokia just confirmed that Symbian is officially dead. The company’s last Symbian powered device was the Nokia 808 PureView, which at the time included best hardware that Nokia had put into a phone. Still, the Nokia 808 PureView is the best cameraphone there is. Hidden in the earlier press release lies the following comment:During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian.The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came...

FINANCIAL AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS Fourth quarter 2012 highlights: Nokia Group non-IFRS EPS in Q4 2012 was EUR 0.06; reported EPS was EUR 0.05.Nokia Group achieves underlying operating profitability, with Q4 non-IFRS operating margin of 7.9%. Nokia Group strengthened its net cash position by approximately EUR 800 million sequentially, of which approximately EUR 650 million was generated by Nokia Siemens Networks. Devices & Services Q4 non-IFRS operating margin improved quarter-on-quarter to 1.3%, due to an increase in gross margin...

Nokia 808 PureView Sensor (Phase 1) The Verge reports of a Nokia device codenamed EOS. The device will combine true PureView with Windows Phone. By true PureView The Verge means PureView Phase 1, which was a 41-megapixel sensor found on the Nokia 808 PureView. PureView Phase 2 marks the optical image stabilisation found on the Nokia Lumia 920. Codename EOS will be of the high-end Lumia series, and according to the rumor, will be built using aluminum, rather than the polycarbonate found on the most recent Lumia devices. Nokia’s...

Nokia Smartphone Shipments chart (by @BenedictEvans) Nokia just announced better than expected preliminary financial information for Q4 2012. The stock price immediately reacted with a roughly 15% increase. Nokia expects to have sold 86.3 million Total Units, 4.4 million Lumias, 9.3 million Ashas and 2.2 million Symbians. Nokia currently estimates that Devices & Services net sales in the fourth quarter 2012 were approximately EUR 3.9 billion, with total device volumes of 86.3 million units.Mobile Phones net sales of approximately...

Nokia Asha 311 Dark Grey I haven’t really had the opportunity to post a live image gallery in a very very long time. Today, the Nokia Asha 311 got it’s own gallery. I actually did the photo shoot on September 18th, so the software seen in the images can be outdated. Nokia Asha 311 specs:GSM frequencies: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz 3G frequencies: 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz Screen: 3.0-inch TFT capacitive touch, 56K colors, 240×400 resolution, Gorilla Glass Camera: 3.15-megapixels (2048×1536), video (VGA@25fps) CPU: 1GHz Memory:...

StatCounter, Mobile OS share in Finland, Jan – October 2012 It’s been a while since we’ve taken a look at the Finnish mobile OS market as reported by StatCounter. Android has finally overtaken iOS as the most used mobile OS in Finland, with the third spot taken up by Windows Phone. Android has a share of 35.96%, closely followed by iOS with 35.17%. In third spot we have Window Phone with a share of 14.49%. Symbian OS (without Series 40) has sunk down to 10.04%. Series 40 has a share of 1.62% and MeeGo is down to 1.38%....