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Filed under: Nokia

Hiding behind a press release titled “Nokia continues its change and renews some of its activities,” the woodsmen of Espoo are swinging a corporate axe of woe. In total, the mobile phone giant plans to cut something on the order of about 600 jobs in its Sales and Marketing, R&D, and global operations. Nothing compared to the cuts at Motorola but certainly unwelcome news for those affected.

Nokia declare layoffs with flowery language originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: Amp, Axe, Engadget Mobile, Global Operations, Jobs, Layoffs, Mobile Phone Giant, Motorola, Nbsp, Nokia, Press Release, Sales And Marketing, Woe, Woodsmen

Filed under: Handsets, Others, Samsung, Misc

For those who reckoned a company like Bang & Olufsen was safe from any economic turmoil, um, reckon again. As people from all walks of life decide to spend less extravagantly during these curious, curious times, it seems that B&O has been affected Truly dramatically. As you well know, said company makes its ends by offering up stupendously pricey gizmos, but starting at this time, you’ll find it only offering “core products” such as televisions and sound systems. Unfortunately for those with cash to blow, that means you’ll be scouring the secondhand market for B&O cellphones, DVD players and recorders. In addition, the company is planning to axe 300 jobs to save around $27.5 million, but it is looking to open more shops in “growth markets” such as Russia and China.

[Via iDNES]

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Bang & Olufsen pulls the plug on cellphone production, some jobs originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tags: 5 Million, Amp, Axe, Bang Olufsen, Cellphones, China, Core Products, Dvd Players, Economic Turmoil, Extravagantly, Gizmos, Growth Markets, Job Cuts, Nbsp, Production Jobs, Russia, Samsung, Secondhand Market, Televisions, Walks Of Life

Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA

If you’re looking for pictures from every conceivable angle of Sony Ericsson’s first foray into the danger-fraught tar pit that is Windows Mobile, well, in this place you go. In fact, Smape goes so far as to take a look at Bot. the black and metallic versions of the X1 (but don’t get to attached to the metallic one just yet, seeing how it might have gotten the axe in some markets), noting that they’re assembled exceptionally well and exude a premium look that’s rarely seen in the WinMo realm. Unfortunately, they’ve dinged the keyboard for the same crappy feel observed elsewhere, something we’re all hoping gets fixed by the time it hits production in a couple months’ time. With that wild panel interface, you might expect some pretty miserable performance when you have the thing going at full tilt; fortunately, though, Smape reports that lags occur “only occasionally,” which is better than “frequently” or “continuously” as far as we’re concerned. Camera performance is said to be better than the Touch Pro’s, though Bot. HTC and Sony Ericsson (via HTC, ironically) still have plenty of time to tweak that via a well-placed firmware update or two. At any rate, we’re definitely looking forward to seeing this thing finally materialize so the Touch Pros and X1s of the world can start duking it out in those rough, dog-eat-dog professional trenches of the world.

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Tags: Axe, Camera Performance, Conceivable Angle, Crappy, Ericsson Gsm, Ericsson Mobile, Foray, Full Tilt, Gsm Edge, Hsupa, HTC, Lags, Miserable Performance, Panel Interface, Smape, Sony Ericsson, Tar Pit, Trenches, World Thanks, Xperia