Nokia buys Alcatel-Lucent

Nokia has officially announced for reaching an agreement for the purchase of the French company for telecommunications equipment Alcatel-Lucent for a whopping amount of 16.6 billion.

Nokia agreement puts in a good position to compete for first place in the mobile network market, where Ericsson is currently leading.

This is the first acquisition by Nokia of time when the Finnish company had sold its unit of mobile phones to Microsoft for 4.9 billion pounds, after several years of operating losses.

A week ago, Nokia announced its interest in selling TIMES maps service and all its patents maps and technologies associated with them.

Nokia back on stage, new models of phones in 2016?

Nokia has stopped production of mobile smart phones when she sold her business and Lumia brand to Microsoft, but now it seems that Nokia has plans to enter again in the business of mobile phones, and that this will happen from next year .

Nokia can not issue any new model of phone up in the fourth quarter of 2016, because it is part of the sales agreement with Microsoft.

But according to a recent report from the New / code states that Nokia is planning to launch a new model before the end of 2016, so the same to debut on the market in the fourth quarter of next year.

Nokia recently introduced a new model of Android tablet which has called Nokia N1, and that Nokia was joined by a manufacturer harderi, and a similar thing can be done for a new model phone its.

It is not clear yet what exactly are Nokia'së plans for the mobile market, but it is expected that famous company to launch a new model phone based on Android from next year.

Report: Samsung first, followed by Apple

According TrendForce, global shipments of smart phones for the first quarter of 2015 totaled 291.2 million units, marking a decrease of 9.2 percent compared to the fourth quarter of last year.

Samsung took first place, with market participation of 27.8 percent, an increase from the previous quarter to 24.7 percent.

Rival Apple has seen a decrease in its deliveries taking 19.9 percent of the market, from 23.2 percent it had in the fourth quarter of 2014.

According TrendForce, "Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have successfully captured the attention of consumers in the first quarter."
Expectations are that both the Samsung smart phones sold up to 20 million units in the second quarter of the year.

The company also said that research has remained strong with sales, despite the decline from the first quarter, because the demands are constant for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, especially those from China.

OnePlus has sold 1 million phones

OnePlus opened its sales for smart phone for all public and no longer requires an invitation to buy OnePlus One.

Earlier this year the Chinese company began allowing the sale of its mobile open every Tuesday, and now her phone will be free for sale and available for purchase on each day of the week from its website website.

OnePlus said that so far has sold over 1 million units of its phones OnePlus One since the launch and the official debut of this model a year ago, and it now has over 700 employees.

OnePlus now is preparing to launch its next model, OnePlus Two, which will begin to be sold later this year. 

New Samsung tablet that resemble Apple iPad

Samsung has models with plethora of tablets that are different sizes and capacities, but now it seems that jug south Korea company is adding a new model to its line of tablet PCs, which reportedly will introduce in the US next week.

Rather it is about a new model of tablet and Galaxy Tab line A, which offers three variants of tablets, including the one that comes with a digital pen.

Despite the known characteristics, what distinguishes these new models of Samsung tablet tablet are similarities with her main rival, Apple and its famous tablet iPad.

There are two models of Galaxy Tab A. One of them comes with 8.0-inch screen of the other with the screen of 9.7 inches.

The same are supported by processors 1.2 GHz quad-core and 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 410. But in these models comes only 1.5 GB of RAM and 16 GB of memory, which can be expanded up to 128GB.

Galaxy Tab tablet Series A will begin to be sold in the US starting May 1, and will be available from stores like Best Buy and Amazon.

Price for the first variant will start from 229.99 dollars, while the second will be 299.99 dollars respectively.