Nokia remains top earning in FY11

Finnish mobile handset maker Nokia continues to maintain its leadership with highest revenues of Rs 12 ,929 crore during 2010-11 in the handset market but has registered a meagre 0.2 per cent growth over the previous year, says a survey.

Revenues of the Indian mobile handset market grew by 15 per cent to touch Rs 33,171 crore in 2010-11 from Rs 28,897 crore a year back, according to annual survey by media firm Voice&Data.

The survey included all mobile handset companies doing business in India across categories like feature phones, multimedia phones, enterprise phones and smartphones from both multi-national and Indian mobile phone firms, it said.

Nokia continued to maintain its leadership in the market with revenue of Rs 12,929 crore showing a meagre growth of little over 0.2 per cent as compared to its last year revenue of Rs 12,900 crore.

The analysts at Voice&Data attributed Nokia's loss of market share to lack of dual-SIM phones in its portfolio. For 2010-11, Nokia enjoys a market share of 39 per cent, the survey said.

Nokia's leadership was followed by Samsung with revenues of Rs 5,720 crore with market share of 17.2 per cent.

Voice&Data said that Samsung grew by 21.7 per cent in 2010-11 from Rs 4,700 crore an year ago. The survey attributed Samsung's success to its rich product portfolio on various popular operating systems like Windows and Android.

It also found company's entry level smartphone 'Wave' and 'Galaxy S' witnessing huge successful during the period. For 2010-11, the company's 3G phones contributed 5 per cent of its entire sales, Voice&Data added.

Homegrown handset company Micromax stood at third position in the survey in terms of revenue. The company grew by a whopping 43 per cent during the fiscal to register revenue of Rs 2,289 crore from Rs 1,602 crore a year before, and grabbed a market share of 6.9 per cent.

Despite objection raised by security agencies on its highly encrypted services, the survey found tremendous growth in India business of Canadian firm Research in Motion's brand BlackBerry.

The survey ranked BlackBerry at fourth position. Blackberry garnered revenue of Rs 1,950 in 2010-11, up 61.2 per cent from Rs 1,210 in 2009-10, Voice&Data said.

Its entry level smartphone saw more sales in the fourth quarter than all other three quarters put together. The company grabbed a market share of 5.9 per cent.

The survey saw highest growth in business of Taiwanese handset maker HTC at 99 per cent. HTC's revenue for 2010-11 grew to Rs 450 crore from Rs 226 crore in FY2009-10 and holds 1.4 per cent market share.

Nokia C2-06 available on official websites

We just spotted the rumoured Nokia C2-06 in a official blog post about IPv6 on the Nokia blog. The handset was leaked in April with pics and is rumoured to be a S40 Touch and Type Dual SIM phone from Nokia.While the source does not talk about the device , the phone in the image has the letters C2 on the top left confirming previous rumours. We reviewed the X3-02 which is the first Touch and Type phone from the handset maker.

With Nokia committing to launch more dual sim devices to take on the competition , such a handset can do a lot of good for the company.Are you excited about the C2-06 ? And the handset looks a lot more attractive than the ugly looks in the earlier pics.

Nokia will launch a tablet soon

Apple, BlackBerry and Samsung have already announced their tablets and people are now looking forward towards Nokia to launch one. Nokia will come out with a tablet but according to the officials of Nokia people will have to wait a little longer than expected before they can get their hands on a tablet by Nokia.

The CEO of Nokia Stephen Elop said that the company will launch an extremely amazing tablet but when the conditions are right. Well this clearly indicated that there is a tablet on which Nokia technicians are working. But later Elop’s statement confirmed that when he said “Our engineers are working very hard on something that will be different relative to everything else that’s going on in the market”. Further he said “We could take advantage of Microsoft technology and software, and build a Windows-oriented tablet, or we could do things with some of the other software assets that we have.”

So good news for all the Nokia lovers is that sooner or later there will be a tablet launched by Nokia that will be something more amazing than other tablet’s in the market because Nokia will definitely try to differentiate its tablet from others.

Why conditions are not right for Nokia to step into the tablet market?
Well we all know that Nokia is facing a tough time in the smartphones market. People are saying that Nokia is no more a market leader in cell phones industry. So, the CEO of Nokia thinks that currently Nokia should completely focus on smartphones and once the company manages to gain success then it should focus on tablets. This seems to be a smart move by the CEO but the delay in launching a tablet will saturate the market more and Nokia will have a very little room to capture the market.

According to The Kerton Group “The problem for Nokia is that the existing tablets and associated app stores cover a lot of ground. The iPad developer ecosystem is able to spot market opportunity and extend the devices to meet it. That doesn’t leave much for Nokia unless their hardware is significantly different,”. But further it mentioned that Apple came in the cell phones market after years but still managed to capture a great share in the market so if Nokia has something extraordinary for the people all around the world it would definitely become successful in the tablet PC market.

No one knows whether stepping into the tablet market late would be a good or bad decision but Nokia lovers all around the world are waiting for a tablet PC by Nokia.

Nokia C7 and E73 now available from Videotron in Canada

Two Symbian-powered smartphones are now available at Videotron in Canada, the Nokia C7 and the Nokia E73.

The Nokia C7 can be yours for $89.95 on a “reduced price with a monthly service fee of $40 or more”. Alternatively, you can just buy the phone outright for $439.95.

The Nokia C7 has a 3.5-inch 640×360 capacitive touchscreen, a 680 MHz processor, 8 GB of internal storage space expandable via microSD, an 8-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, GPS, and a 1200 mAh battery. The Nokia C7 runs Symbian^3



The Nokia E73 is also available now at Videotron, for those who aren’t into touchscreens and like their phones with full physical QWERTY keyboards. The E73 can be yours for $49.95 on that reduced price option (again, requiring a monthly service fee of at least $40). If you want to buy the E73 outright, you’ll have to shell out $199.95.



The Nokia E73 has a 2.4-inch 320×240 display, a 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash, a secondary VGA camera for video calls, 250 MB of internal storage space expandable via microSD, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, and a 1500 mAh battery. The Nokia E73 runs Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2.