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The impact of a slowing global economy has been stronger on the mid-range handset segments, as compared with the high- and low-end segments, indicated Tsung-kai Cheng, manager of Nokia Taiwan’s clients and market operations.

Low-end handsets are daily necessities and high-end handsets target consumers who are not buying handsets for necessity, and these two types of purchases are not as affected by the economy as much as the mid-range segments, Cheng noted.

With distributors not confident about sales of mid-range handsets, Cheng pointed out that Nokia is planning to adjust related prices in coordination with more market promotions to stimulate consumer demand.

According to market watchers, handset vendors are introducing a number of high-end handsets with various promotions to stimulate demand. High-end handset shipments are expected to remain at current levels or perhaps even increase.

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The latest update for Nokia’s N82 will give it some updated features such as a new Flash Lite version, Maps 2.0, improved music player, less sensitive automatic display rotation and some other enhancements all aimed at making you love your N82 more than you already do. If you’ve decided to upgrade the firmware, always remember to backup your data and settings first.

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Today Nokia announced its intent to acquire mobile consumer email provider Oz Communications. Oz provides email capabilities for wireless networks operators who offer access to AOL, Gmail, ICQ, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo. Oz already has more than 5.5 million monthly paid users. Nokia will be able to use Oz’s technology to provide email and messaging services for its Series 40 and S60 phones. Nokia hopes to complete the acquisition during the fourth quarter. OZ will be merged into Nokia’s Services & Software operative unit. [Via This article]

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Nokia’s N82 handset has received its latest firmware version, and some of the updated features include a new Flash Lite version, Maps 2.0, an improved music player, less sensitive automatic display rotation, and other various enhancements that are tipped to help your user experience be all the more enjoyable. As usual, kindly backup all your software and data on the N82 before taking that upgrade plunge.

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We thought he probably would’ve at least stuck around long enough to see the Tube get announced later this week, but Nokia CTO Bob Iannucci has announced that he’s stepping down from the world’s number one cellphone maker effective immediately for undisclosed “personal reasons.” Though it might seem that the move leaves a gaping hole in Espoo’s senior leadership, the company actually says that Bob will continue on in an advisory role while it decides whether it even needs a CTO going forward. Bob also served as head of the Nokia Research Centre — also known as the place where you get to play with Haptikos — where Henry Tirri, current head of the center’s Systems Research group, will be taking over.

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Nokia will no longer focus on selling enterprise hardware to businesses. Instead, it will focus on selling smartphones and licensed business solutions from IBM, Cisco and Microsoft. [Via This article]

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Just how serious are phone manufacturers about Android, Google’s new, open OS? According to TechCrunch, several phone manufacturers are following HTC and T-Mobile’s example–in a big way.

Motorola currently has 50 people on its Android squad, a number expected to increase to 350 soon, according to a job recruiter tasked with getting programmers to join the cause.

Nokia and Verizon have also apparently been looking to join up, despite the fact that neither phone heavyweight is currently an official member of Google’s Android alliance.

My guess is that pretty much everyone but Apple and AT&T is tired of being left out of all of that iPhone buzz from the past few years. T-Mobile’s G1 launch got plenty of notice, but rest assured that this is only the beginning of the big time Android hype.

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According to Reuters, Nokia will be launching its 5800 XpressMusic phone, which is also called the Nokia Tube. Apparently Nokia will be launching this highly-anticipated phone at a media and analyst event in London. So it looks like it won’t be too long till we’ll be able to get hold of this phone!

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