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iPhone more valuable to Nokia than Lumia range

Finns reap rewards of patent licensing as own sales slump

It’s been revealed that Nokia makes more money from licensing its patents to Apple for use in the iPhone range, than it does from selling its own Lumia handsets.

Nokia has recently released its figures for the last quarter and they don’t make for happy reading. The Finnish manufacturer made a loss on its mobile device sales, even after launching new handsets including the Lumia 900.

It’s been a rough year for Nokia, as it took a gamble going down the Windows Phone route and it’s yet to see decent sales figures for its launch handsets the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710.

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How Samsung’s Faster Galaxy S3 Takes On the IPhone

Samsung is beefing up the Galaxy S3 with a quad-core chip for smoother performance for gaming and multitasking, taking aim at Apple and its next-generation iPhone.

The Galaxy S3 will raise the bar for smartphone power with the Exynos 4 Quad processor, which doubles the speed of the S2. Samsung has yet to announced a launch date, but analysts expect it to beat the iPhone 5’s fall release by at least a few months.

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