Nokia - Highly Demanded Mobile Phones in Pakistan

NOKIA - Connecting People

Nokia is one of the most famous and well known Mobile Phone manufacturers in the world especially in Pakistan. Almost Each and every Pakistani is familiar with Nokia cellphones. Nokia cellphones are also considered as the most reliable and usable cellphones in Pakistan. Nokia cellphones are manufactured by Nokia Corporation which is a Finnish multinational Communication and Information technology corporation. Nokia has employees in 120 countries and their cellphone are being sold in about 150 countries. By the year 2012, Nokia was the 2^nd highest mobile phone maker after Samsung. 

Nokia is highly known for its slogan "NOKIA Connecting People" and it was the largest vendor of Mobile Phones from the year 1998 to 2012. Nokia 1100 was Nokia’s best-selling cellphone ever. Nokia 3310 is also very known mobile phone Nokia has manufactured. Most famous and popular series of Nokia mobile phones are N Series and E series. Nokia was the first to claim that there is some space for the mobile phone in the market which could a serve as a gaming console. Nokia also introduced N-Gage which was a mobile phone as well as a gaming console.

Nokia N95 - Popular Nokia N Series SmartPhone

Symbian was the main OS for Nokia mobile phones till 2011. Nokia N series which is very popular among Nokia cellphone came with the Symbian OS version 8.1. Later N series mobile phones are released with the upgraded version. Nokia released its mobile phones not only with Symbian OS but also with MeeGo, Maemo, etc. Later in 2011, Nokia joined hands with Microsoft, and announced that its Symbian and MeeGo OS will be replaced with Microsoft Windows Phone OS. Recently, Nokia Corporation has been working on its Lumia Series smartphones which are operating on Windows Phone OS.

During the last 5 years, Nokia has suffered a declined market due to the growing use of the touchscreen cellphone from the other vendor like iPhones and also devices running on Google Android OS. Nokia phones are now struggling in America and Europe. In Asian markets, Nokia has to face a hard competition. Nokia has introduced its Asha series to combat the challenges caused by the Android phones and iPhones.

Nokia Lumia Windows Phone

Nokia has been organizing workshops in different places in Pakistan for the development of Windows Phone 8 and Symbian OS applications. They are providing training to the software developer to make them familiar with Windows Phone OS development. Keeping in mind that the Windows Phone 8 demand is increased in the country, which is a positive sign for Nokia Corporation.

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Apple iPhones: More than Just a Cellphone

Today there is not a single person who is not familiar with the name of iPhone. iPhone is best known as the line of Smartphones designed and manufactured by Apple Inc. Well known products of Apple are iPod, iPhones, iPad and Mac PC’s. Operating system being used in iPhone is iPhone OS. Apple CEO of that time Steve Jobs steered the focus of their company more towards the smartphone and the development for of iPhones was started in 2004.

Apple iPhone

iPhone was released in June 2007. It was just only a GSM phone. However the later generations of iPhone introduces several new and significant features. iPhone is more popularized for the user interface built around a multi touchscreen with a virtual keyboard. It also includes WiFi, Bluetooth, Cellular Connectivity, Camera, Sensors, Networking, GPS navigation, web browsing, games and other features. Invention of iPhone has fundamentally changed the industry of Cellphones. In 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said:

"the iPhone was not just a communication tool but a way of life"

Each generation of iPhone has been released with a different chip. Such as iPhone 4 contains Apple A4 chip, however Iphone 4S contains a dual core Apple A5 chip and iPhone 5 comes with Apple A6 chip. Several Internal Storage size such as 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB are introduced with each generation. Apple Applications Store contains more than 75,000 third party applications which can be used in iPhone. Applications may be of any type such as game, social apps, software, etc. Third party developers are allowed to develop apps for iPhone but all applications should be registered with Apple.

Different Generations of iPhones from iPhone 3G on Left to iPhone 4 on Right 

The latest generation of iPhone released is iPhone 5. It was officially released by the end of September 2012. Every features of iPhone 5 is superior to its predecessors. It contains a 1.3 GHz Apple A6 chip with 1GB Dram. It is available with 8GB, 16GB and 32GB Internal Storage. It contains a 8 MP camera with capability of 1080p video shooting. It has 4 inch multi touchscreen display. IOS 6 is being used in iPhone 5. iPhone 5S will be launched in June 2013 which will contain more refined features than iPhone 5.

iPhone 5

This invention of Apple has made a great impact in the evolution in the development and demand of smartphones. The demand of iPhone is very high over the globe. However the price of iPhone is also very high and due to availability of smartphones of different companies such as Nokia, HTC and Samsung, competition between smartphones is increased much. However Apple is still working on more iPhone products to compete more positively in the markets.

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