Nokia’s new handsets to challenge Apple, Google

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Business Digest: Nokia vows to ‘shift into high gear’ in smartphone fightback

LAST UPDATED AT 11:52 ON Wed 15 Sep 2010

Finnish phone giant Nokia has revealed three new smartphones - E7, C7 (above) and an updated C6 - at London's Nokia World conference in a bid to challenge the likes of Apple, Google and Blackberry.
 
Nokia is still by far the world's largest maker of smartphones, selling around 260,000 every day. But its market share has taken a 14 per cent dive since July 2009, according to research firm Comscore.
 
Niklas Savander, executive vice president of the markets unit at Nokia, said: "Today we shift into high gear in Nokia's fightback to smartphone leadership."
 
The C6 and C7 smartphones are both consumer devices with touch screens and high quality cameras, while the E7 is the firm's flagship business phone.
 
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