Nokia to Spend £80 Million Marketing their Windows Phone 7 Handsets

Since the rise in popularity of Android handsets, and the arrival of the mighty iPhone, Nokia have seen their stock plummet. Compared to iOS and Android, Nokia’s Symbian operating system is seen as being extremely sluggish and out of date. In one of the biggest stories in smartphones from the last year, Nokia announced that they would be adopting the Windows Phone 7 operating system in all their upcoming mobile phones, presumably as a way to revive their flagging reputation.

The first Nokia phones to feature Windows Phone 7 are thought to be arriving later this year and the Finnish firm are staking £80 million in their success. According to reports in Marketing Magazine, Nokia are planning a six month, eight figure marketing campaign in an effort to put the company, and the Microsoft operating system, up there with the major players in the smartphone world.

Nokia has been struggling to keep its head above water for a number of years. Their profits and market share have been falling rapidly, and forecasts have suggested that the company many not even break even this year, potentially resulting in the loss of over 7000 jobs. The marketing campaign, set to begin in October, is thought to be Nokia’s last chance to reverse their fortunes.

The success of the Windows Phone 7 Nokia devices could be crucial to the success of both brands. Sales of Windows Phone 7 handsets has been described as ‘disappointing’ since their launch in 2010, with some estimated that they are well underneath the 700,000 mark (the iPhone 4 sold 1.7 million handsets in just 3 days). Only time will tell if the partnership between Nokia and Windows Phone 7 will be a match made in heaven, or send both brands falling into the abyss.

Nokia N96 deals just get better!

After having posted deals about the Nokia N96, they just got better. But sadly the Orange Shop isn’t worldwide available. Lucky English people!

There was a scam last year that you buy a SIM-free contract and all those who fell for it misunderstood it for receiving the N96 SIM free, but you actually receive the SIM not the phone. The best part here is that, with this store, there are no type of SIM-free deals.

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Nokia N96 Contract Deals

There are many places where you can get good but not great contract deals. Not all of the good deals offer great things. The N96 is an old Nokia device but not so old that it is forgotten.

There are many places where you can get a  monthly contract deals such as the Nokia N96 or pay as you go meaning pay cash without any extra minutes or messages.

To find a deal like that with Vodacom in South Africa, is like finding a diamond in the ocean. A LCD TV isn’t the only option as a free gift but don’t forget, the consumer gets to choose what type of gift they like from their list. That’s the case from such dealers, such as Dial-a-Phone.

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Nokia N8 Blog

The Nokia N8 phone has a 3.5? AMOLED touchscreen with 360×640 pixels in resolution, 16GB internal storage with a microSD port for extra memory, a 3.5mm audio jack, HSPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0, Dolby Digital sound, an HDMI port (check here the Nokia N8 HDMI port), GPS, and is powered by a 680MHz processor.

We’re working on a blog with lots of information, even before the official release of the N8. We’re also working on a Nokia N8 forum so that users can engage in discussion, and later, a Nokia N8 store, in case you need some handy accessories for Nokia N8.

N96 will Replace the GPS and Car Sound!

Here at the Nokia N96 Blog we have been showing you some accessories that are tremendously useful for your N96, but now that new phones are coming out which are the accessories that will remain compatible to all? Let’s start with this exclusive Car Holder, this one fits perfectly on the Nokia N96, this is indeed an excellent car holder for all phones and GPS, but fits better on the N96.

Do you remember when maps were big papers which occupied the whole car dashboard? And what about that time when we had to buy an actual GPS device and attach it to the car? Well those times are gone, thanks to our exclusive Car Holder. Yes, we are selling this car holder that will make your driving safer and will allow you to gain some time by driving at the same time you are using your phone…on a call…or with GPS!

For only 9.99€ including worldwide FREE SHIPPING you can get yourself one of these fine car holders which securely holds your phone to the car windshield. If you need to know how much it costs in YOUR CURRENCY, post a comment below. Free shipping applies to every single country without exception! Read more

How to browse the internet using Nokia N96?

Internet, email, chatting and file sharing has been made more simple, mobile and handy. Broadband in a 2.5 inch screen and 16Gb of internal memory makes communication much faster. This 3G mobile smart phone is packed with WCDMA HSDPA for voice and data transfer together and dual transfer mode is supported by GSM and EDGE networks. Data transfer is also supported by GPRS and EGPRS, both class B, bluetooth and WLAN WIFI technologies. N96 is available with Vodafone, O2, Orange, T-mobile, 3, etc., Mobile broadband connection is either a bundled package or a PAYG broadband service with N96. Both these service are charged based on the amount of download. Settings may be pre-installed, else can be saved manually to get online.

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More Ducati Moto screenshots

Patrick Campbell, our senior reviewer and writer here at Nokian96.net took out some vacations and will be out until the end of August, we will be back with fresh and new articles regarding the Nokia N96 and Nokia N96 applications. Today, I will bring you some screenshots of the Ducati Moto for N-Gage devices, like Nokia N97 or Nokia N96, so that you can have a deeper insider look at this Ducati Moto game, that will be out in a few weeks. For now, let’s appreciate this screenshots and as soon as we have more screenshots we will publish them here at the website.

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Job Offer: iPhone-Affairs Correspondent

PhoneReport, the mother news portal of the Nokia N96 Blog and Nokia N96 Forum and other phone-related blogs and forums, is looking for technology-enthusiasts who are interested in writing about the iPhone, for cash.

At this news portal, articles are written in a formal and objective tone and register, although in reviews a personal touch is always appreciated. As PhoneReport is a press-accredited publication, it can arrange mobile phones, accessories, and free software licences for our correspondent, in order for reviews to take place.

The requirements are good English writing capabilities in formal register, possession of an iPhone mobile phone, and daily access to the internet.

This will be a part-time job, as only 20 minutes of one’s daily life is required. The editor-in-chief will always guide the potential journalist with sources and images.

Salary details provided upon request.

Contact us here.

Nokia N96 App Review – Best Profiles

Name: Best Profiles

Description: Profile Manager

Summary: I haven’t been impressed with too many applications these days normally because they only have one use. Its going to be a mouth full to tell you what Best Profiles can do for your Nokia N96 but ill give it a go. To start with lets go through the basics, Best Profiles will let you chose to change your profile everyday or just the selected days, you can also set up key words and whenever an event happens in your calender that uses that key word it will change to a selected profile. Best Profiles will also use your GSM location to chose a profile (which so far I have only been able to define a country but you mite be able to work or home locations) and of course it can change your profile when you charge your phone. With all this going on it could well happen that your profiles overlap so Best Profiles has a priority setting for each profile change it does. Now lets get onto the good stuff, first for every different profile you can have different wallpapers, Themes and sound notifications. Also upon activation of a profile you can set it to run multiple applications, different backlight settings and even bluetooth activity. All this needs a bit of planning what if you just want a quick change well Best Profiles has the ability to let you activate any profile at a certain time, after a certain time, for a certain time and even lock for a certain time if your not sure what other profile mite activate.

Overview: On its own Best Profiles doesn’t seem that much but if you think of the possibilities for example my previous post was power mp3 that could start playing music as soon as it opened so if you set that as the application your profile runs it could be an alarm clock that doesn’t stop. Just think what it could do I’m 100% sure that someone will think of an even better use of this application and I would love to hear about it when you do. Unfortunately I have some bad news Best Profiles isn’t free its only £6/$10 but I know that it will put most people off which is a shame because it is a good application and one day there will be a time this application will help you.

To Download the trial of Best Profiles go here

For more info go here

If you have come up with anyway this will help you please tell us at the forum

Nokia N96 Blog News

Hello, Guten Tag, Bonjour, Dia Duit, Ciào, bons dias, Privet, Salaam and welcome to nokian96.net. Our forum has been growing and growing and is now nearing the 2.5k mark, as a result different Languages have appeared in the forum so I’m here to present the International Talk section in the forum. I can understand that many people will think that the best advice will be given in English but with the help of Google Translate we will all be able to understand your problems and hopefully provide you with a solution. We are hoping that this will help break the language barrier between all Nokia N96 users. I would also like to say there has been a noticeable increase in support by some users and I thank them for all there time and hope they will keep up their level of interest, I’m sure they know who they are.

On another note I would like to inform you all of one of our partner site www.phonereport.info which is a long running site that will provide you with news, pre-views and reviews on latest and up and coming phones. The site will keep you ahead of the curve and can be followed through twitter or via their RSS feed. So I would advise you to check that out and subscribe to their services.

Thats it for now and I hope you all enjoy the sports and have a good weekend.

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