Tehran, May 21, Taliya News – Head of one of companies that have signed contracts with Industries Ministry for production of mobile sets in Iran said here Saturday, “If we would manage to bring Nokia to Iran we have not only succeeded to manufacture mobile sets, but also gained a reputation for Iran that major brands involved in complicated technologies can work in Iran.
According to ISNA, Mahdi Afrasiabi speaking on process of mobile set production inside our country, said, “This project is proceeding successfully and Nokia representatives have twice inspected our factory’s machinery so far, having approved of the scientific and technical competence of our technicians and engineers.”
He added, “Of course, there are certain concerns for such major Western brands, and although we initially contacted Nokia and Ericsson, the latter company rejected our proposal at the beginning, which is why we are pursuing the proposal with Nokia.”

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World leader of the mobile communications, Nokia sold in 2006, 1,5 miliards of portable telephones in the world. For the year 2007, Nokia counts on 2 billion products to sell. It is what announced yesterday in Dakar, at the time of a meeting with the press, the regional manager Clients and West Africa operation, Yannick Depaute which in profited to present the new model Nokia 6300.

For 2007, Nokia, world leader of the mobile communications want to still gain other shares of markets. With already 1,5 billion portable telephones sold throughout the world, the persons in charge see large and count on 2 billion products to run out on the market of the portables for the year into short. Yannick Depaute, regional manager customers and Nokia operation makes the advertisement of it. For that, Nokia wants a strong penetration in Africa and in the Middle East where the firm makes only 13% of its annual sales turnover.

Benefitting from this occasion, the team of Nokia based in Dakar presented at the press the last Nokia 6300. According to it, this model translates a modern cast solid design. Weighing only 91 grams, Nokia 6300 combines materials of quality to a pallet of functionalities the last cry for the modern user with his large screen, an ergonomic keyboard and its simple menu of use. “Like a costume to measure, Nokia 6300 posts perfect proportions, always with style, it is especially appreciated for the attention paid to the detail”, specifies Yannick Depaute, regional manager customers and operation Nokia West Africa. “Nokia 6300 was developed for the customers in the search of a mobile telephone offering to them a whole of functionalities without compromise in a very attractive désign of point. We are persuaded that this model will appear among our best sales in 2007”, added Mr. Depaute. In addition to its natural curves, and its attractive design, Nokia 6300 conceals functionality simple of use, of which a camera, two mégapixels with zoom, an extensible memory, a Mp3 reader integrated into the radio operator Fm. Nokia 63 00 offer up to 3,5 hours of endurance in communication and 14 days of autonomy in day before.

Mats Lindoff, of Sony Ericsson, and Rick Simonson, of Nokia, seems to be very safe of their position of leader in the market of the movable telephony, but the recent announcement of Apple with his iPhone has turned east market a time bomb, a pump that could explode to him in the hands of Steve Jobs, or to crack the present panorama and leadership of both companies.

On the one hand, Mats Lindoff, CTO of Sony Ericsson, say that the company is not worried about imminent iPhone, simply because his Walkman devices already well they are positioned in the market, in addition… offer 3G, contrary to iPhone of Apple that in principle would not have 3G.

By another one, Rick Simonson, of Nokia, says that the opening of iPhone will lead back the market of the moving bodies made the concept of devices multimedia, something in which Nokia does not have anything to envy to others and it even has great lessons that to give. Nevertheless, the final decision is into the hands of the public.

High-end smartphones such as the Nokia N95 and Sony Ericsson W950i Walkman are becoming increasingly popular. Some 15.9 million Symbian -powered mobiles were shipped in the first 3 months of this year.

The latest figures from Symbian represent a 35.9 per cent increase on the number recorded for the same quarter last year. The increasing dominance of the Symbian smartphone platform demonstrates the difficulty facing Microsoft ’s Windows Mobile platform and the soon-to-launch Apple iPhone . Making headway into the lucrative high-end smartphone market is not an easy task.

Since the Symbian platform launched in 2000, over 126 million Symbian smartphones have been sold. There are now 114 Symbian mobile models on the market - 73 per cent up on a year ago. Nokia has led the way for Symbian with numerous popular S60 handset including recently the N73 and N95.

The latest estimates for smartphone usage worldwide give Symbian a 72 per cent share of the smartphone market. Windows Mobile takes around 6 per cent and Linux around 17 per cent. With the latest Windows Mobile 6 release, Microsoft is hoping to boost its share of the smartphone market.

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Metacafe has launched a great new service that, combined with the Nokia video manager, allows you to carry producer rewarded vids wherever you go on your N93, N93i, N76 N95 and a few other Nseries and Nokia’s.

Jump over to their blog to have a read how to do it, then get downloading, it also means if you’re an uploader yourself you can carry your show reel around with you. Quite a cool idea, let them know what you think and how you get on.

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“Connect to Art is a collection of modern art for your mobile Nokia phone. It represents art from known and established artists as well as interesting new comers. The company I worked for in shanghai did the production designs for this launch party. This event video clip I edited was not shot from pros…”