There's only one MWC...
Mark Bridge writes:
As the final days before this year’s Mobile World Congress approach, we discover there are two types of scheduled news announcements from the wireless telecoms industry.
There are the announcements delayed until MWC begins because the company wants to be part of the buzz at Barcelona. And there are the announcements made in the fortnight beforehand because they don’t want their story to get lost.
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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Opinion
Tags: mobile world congress, lg, smartphone, android, ubuntu, inq, social networking, vertu, opera, research
UK mobile phone manufacturer Vertu, which was owned by Nokia until last year, has announced its first Android handset.
The company, established as a luxury phone maker 15 years ago, had previously used Nokia’s Symbian platform.
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The sale of UK-based luxury mobile phone company Vertu has now been completed, with private equity fund EQT VI taking control of the business from Nokia.
Around 1,000 employees have moved to Vertu, although Nokia is retaining a 10% shareholding in the company.
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What next for Nokia?
Mark Bridge writes:
Oh, how cheerful we were last Monday. Apple previewed iOS6, which will bring mobile tickets (and 200 other new features) to the iPhone and iPad this autumn. Vodafone cut the cost of using your phone in Europe with its flat-rate £3-per-day EuroTraveller deal and a few days later Three came up with its own ‘unlimited’ European data roaming.
Yet by the end of the week there were fewer smiles in the mobile industry.
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Nokia says it’s making changes aimed at ‘sharpening its strategy’ and returning to profit.
It’ll be investing in location-based services and making this an area in which Nokia products stand out. The company is cutting up to 10,000 staff, reducing the number of factories its runs, acquiring a new business, selling its Vertu luxury brand and changing its leadership team.
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