Microsoft has been working on the latest operating system: version 8. It was thought that this would just be for normal computer systems, and a version for the smartphone, but it seems that a new Windows 8 tablet is being manufactured.

Nokia has seemingly got back to its manufacturing proliferation with its announcement of yet another smartphone. This one is called 808 PureView and is expected to arrive sometime in May.

Nokia is set to launch six new smartphones at the Mobile World Congress (MWC); two are prefixed Lumia.

The pre-MWC news was announced unofficially by Pocketnow, which claims that as well as two Lumia smartphones there will be one Symbian handset and three S40 phones.

Nothing is known for definite as to what features the phones possess, [...]

According to a senior executive at Nokia, the Finnish company don’t have a plan B if the deal worked out with Microsoft fails.

It has been reported that Nokia intends to launch a ‘high concept’ device at the Mobile World Congress this month. However, no one is sure whether it is a smartphone or a tablet device.

Nokia has been launching a large number of Windows Phone 7 handsets as well as a fair number of traditional Symbian devices over the last couple of months. However, it appears the Lumia 910 isn’t one of them.

It’s been suggested that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be in the shops in the UK by June 2012.

While Windows Phones have not taken off as much as Microsoft hoped, the software giant has nevertheless managed to gain in other ways.

It seems that Sony Ericsson is targeting the Indian market with no fewer than 11 smartphones being offered.

It has been reported that Nokia has sold over 450 patents (about 47%) to Sisvel. Most appear to relate to wireless technology.