Symbian News

Nokia will offer a diverse range of phones this year, boosting both its feature phone business, while betting big on Windows to propel its high-end smartphones to success.

Gresso's entry into the luxury mobile phone business is one of the rarest and most expensive yet, even if it leaves much to be desired in functionality.

Nokia today announced the Nokia 500 handset will ship to North America in the third quarter, as the company looks to spur business before the launch of its Windows-based phones.

Nokia today announced it will cut 7,000 jobs, or 12 percent of its workforce, and outsource its legacy Symbian software in cost-cutting measures expected to save around $1.5 billion by the end of 2012.

Apple, Google and Amazon are competing for cloud services, while American Express and Google made a push into mobile payment systems, foreshadowing a future without credit cards.

Nokia today unveiled its E6 and X7 phones, featuring what may be the last gasp of its Symbian operating system, a stop-gap as the company transitions to the Windows Phone 7 OS.

Nokia pushed back union talks on job cuts until the end of the April, as it struggles to come to grips with the transition from Symbian to Windows Phone.

Nokia is planning to launch its Symbian-powered C7 on T-Mobile, in a bid to maintain some presence in the smartphone market while readying its next-generation of Windows handsets.

Samsung today said it would welcome disgruntled Symbian programmers with open arms, joining Google, Skype and others, that hope to lure highly-skilled coders abandoned by Nokia to develop their own operating systems.

Nokia has sold part of the software that helped create apps for its Symbian and MeeGo operating systems, in a move to focus resources on its new relationship with Microsoft.

Nokia's stumbling performance is slowing the economic growth of Finland, with exports of mobile software and services from the world's largest phone maker down last year.

Nokia is struggling with how to treat laid-off workers, who will see their jobs go due to its new partnership with Microsoft to develop Windows-based smartphones.

Nokia is fending off attacks by a group of disgruntled shareholders who want the board of directors replaced, after the company announced plans shutter its Symbian and MeeGo platforms in favor of Microsoft's Windows mobile software.

Nokia and Microsoft today announced a partnership to develop Windows smartphones, in a desperate effort to gain ground on Apple and Google in the fiercely-competitive smartphone market.

Nokia is nearing a deal with Microsoft to use the software giant's operating system its smartphones, people familiar with the matter said.