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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

Okay, so first we heard that Nokia’s Comes with Music service would be good and ready by October 2nd. Then we heard October 17th. at this time, a certain “anonymous industry source” has revealed that the long-awaited XpressMusic 5800 (or the Tube, as it were) will be launching on the 2nd of next month. With so much conflicting evidence out and about, we’re firmly in “wait and see” mode at this point, and considering that “launch” gives no indication of a ship date, we reckon you’re better off Makethe same.

[Thanks, Mikkel]

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Tags: Handsets, Launch, Music Service, Nbsp, Nokia, Nokia Music, Stake

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Samsung, Symbian

So it turns out that Nokia may have been just a little presumptuous in its June announcement that it was buying the entirety of Symbian in its effort to open-source it. The press release’s headline back then proudly proclaimed “Nokia to acquire Symbian Limited to enable evolution of the leading open mobile platform,” but in reality, Nokia had only gotten firm commitments representing 91 percent of Symbian’s outstanding shares in total at the time; Samsung hadn’t yet agreed to the sale. Espoo merely said at the time that it “expected” a deal to happen there — and at this time it finally has, giving Nokia the clean sweep it needs to make its Symbian Foundation dreams reality. It’ll still be a good while yet before we see Foundation hardware at retail, but at least these guys can go about their business at this time without a nagging feeling that Sammy could be the party buzzkill.

[Via Phone Scoop]

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Tags: Buzzkill, Clean Sweep, Dreams, Espoo, Evolution, Firm Commitments, Hadn, Mobile Platform, Nbsp, Nokia, Nokia Software, Open Source, Outstanding Shares, Phone Scoop, Press Release, Sammy, Samsung, Software Nokia, Stake, Symbian Shares

Filed under: Sagem

Remember back in those freewheelin’ days of 2006 when men were men, phones were phones, and Motorola was rumored to have been seriously considering taking Sagem off Safran Group’s hands? Yeah, well those days are long gone; Moto’s a mere husk of what it once was at the peak of the RAZR craze, and Concerning Sagem, they’re getting ready to fly the “under new ownership” banner in front of headquarters. Venture capital firm Sofinnova has purchased 90 percent of Sagem for around €220 million ($343 million) off current parent Safran, intending to rename it Sagem Wireless (don’t get too crazy with the name change there, guys) and turn it into an all-ODM shop not unlike fellow French firm ModeLabs. Roughly half of Sagem’s staff will survive the transfer intact, while most of the rest should be offered jobs in Safran’s other lines of business or firms in which Sofinnova holds a stake.

[Via mocoNews]

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Tags: Current, Euro, Fly, French Firm, Husk, Jobs, Motorola, Nbsp, Safran Group, Sagem, Sizzles, Sofinnova, Stake, Steaks, Venture Capital Firm