After a few years of negative headlines, things had been looking slightly more positive for Nokia lately, largely thanks to the advent of its impressive range.

However, its time out of the smartphone limelight seems to have caught up with the company, with the Finns now expected to announce losses for the first half of 2012.

Even as it , Nokia's Symbian devices had always helped the company stay in the black, but it now forecasts losses of £104m ($165m) for the first two quarters.

Nokia Lumia

The company is blaming the emergence of its big smartphone rivals in the Middle East, Africa, India and China for falling sales, which are 40 per cent lower year-on-year.

Cheaper handsets incoming

Upon news of Nokia's recent ill-fortune the stock market reacted with shares falling almost 16 per cent per cent to a 15-year low.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop remained upbeat about the emergence of the Lumia devices and partnership with Windows Phone.

He told a phone conference: "Within our Smart Devices business unit, we are increasing our investments in Lumia: to more consumers and to more markets.

He also added that the company will "accelerate planned cost reductions and we will pursue significant structural actions if and when necessary," meaning cheaper devices are on the horizon.

Google is looking to rid itself of Motorola's handset arm and sell the whole thing to Huawei.

This is according to the latest phone rumours in Asia, with The Wall Street Journal reckoning Google is eyeing up the Chinese manufacturer for a possible sale of Motorola's handset division.

Google has always said it isn't looking to give Motorola the upper hand when it comes to its Android OS. The whole Motorola Mobility deal was specifically about patents – 17,000 of them in fact – and this latest rumour suggests that Google may well be close to proving this with a sale of Moto's hardware.

Goodbye Moto

Google is currently denying that any talks have taken place with Huawei but the smartphone and tablet company is well placed to take on Motorola's handset business.

This year's CES shows that the company is looking to innovate in a cut-throat market. It was the first to announce a quadcore smartphone with the , so the intent is there to match the likes of Samsung and HTC when it comes to Android handsets.

This is all very much rumour and conjecture, however, but there's not much likelihood in Google holding on to Motorola's handsets – given the search giants real passion is for software and not hardware.

TechRadar has spoken to Huawei who denies any knowledge of such a deal, so let's not get carried away with this one.

Google is looking to rid itself of Motorola's handset arm and sell the whole thing to Huawei.

This is according to the latest phone rumours in Asia, with The Wall Street Journal reckoning Google is eyeing up the Chinese manufacturer for a possible sale of Motorola's handset division.

Google has always said it isn't looking to give Motorola the upper hand when it comes to its Android OS. The whole Motorola Mobility deal was specifically about patents – 17,000 of them in fact – and this latest rumour suggests that Google may well be close to proving this with a sale of Moto's hardware.

Goodbye Moto

Google is currently denying that any talks have taken place with Huawei but the smartphone and tablet company is well placed to take on Motorola's handset business.

This year's CES shows that the company is looking to innovate in a cut-throat market. It was the first to announce a quadcore smartphone with the , so the intent is there to match the likes of Samsung and HTC when it comes to Android handsets.

This is all very much rumour and conjecture, however, but there's not much likelihood in Google holding on to Motorola's handsets – given the search giants real passion is for software and not hardware.

TechRadar has spoken to Huawei who denies any knowledge of such a deal, so let's not get carried away with this one.