Apple, Google Can Rest Easy Over New Nokia N8: Rich Jaroslovsky
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Nokia Oyj just released an awfully sweet little camera. It fits into a shirt pocket and features a 12 megapixel sensor, xenon flash and Carl Zeiss lens. If only the rest of the wireless phone wrapped around it, the new N8, were as good.
The world’s largest smartphone maker has a lot riding on the N8, which it’s rolling out worldwide this month. The Finnish company has been hemorrhaging market share -- down to 37.4 percent in the second quarter, from 45 percent a year earlier -- recently replaced its chief executive and has announced the departures of two key managers.