Microsoft makes tablets while Nokia makes cuts

Podcast - 20th June 2012

This week's mobile industry news podcast starts with two very different stories from Nokia and Microsoft: one is announcing closures, the other is expanding its manufacturing.

We also find time to talk about roaming tariffs, mobile money, intelligent vending machines and a handful of recent mobile-related acquisitions.

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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Retailing, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Podcasts

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Jun

2012

Last week at The Fonecast: 18th June 2012

What next for Nokia?

Author: The Fonecast

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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Categories: Handsets and manufacturers, Retailing, Networks and operators, Operating systems, Applications, Opinion

Tags: opinion, apple, ios, nokia, vertu, scalado, psion, motorola, izettle, square, payments, uk, tesco, carphone warehouse, sainsbury's

Jun

2012

Psion to become part of Motorola Solutions

Author: The Fonecast

Motorola Solutions has agreed to acquire mobile computing business Psion plc in a deal worth $200 million (£128 million). It’ll then combine Psion with its Enterprise Mobile Computing business

Psion was formed in 1980, becoming a pioneer of mobile computing. It’s also responsible for the EPOC operating system, which later turned into the Symbian OS.

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