The Finnish group is seeking to become the world’s largest maker of mobiles with touchscreens this year after unveiling handsets that will compete with the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Omnia.
Such a feat would provide Nokia with some good news – the world’s largest mobile maker is predicting that handset sales by all manufacturers will fall in 2009 for the first time in eight years.
Nokia has been slow to respond to Apple’s 2007 release of the iPhone and its touchscreen technology.
During the third quarter of 2008, the popularity of the iPhone turned the US technology group into the world’s third largest maker of smartphones – mobiles that double up as mini computers with users able to play music and surf the internet.
