An image from a Lumia 800 running WP Bench shows four Nokia code names that could hint at future Nokia Windows Phone handsets. The image was first shared on My Nokia Blog, and it shows four Nokia smartphones with Greek names that we haven’t seen before. Those names include Nokia Phi, Nokia Pure Phi, Nokia [...]
Nokia has ambitious plans for its Nokia 808 PureView and other successors in the line. With a 41-megapixel camera sensor, the Nokia 808 PureView–a highly anticipated successor to the Nokia N8, is the camera phone king and is arguably one of the best camera phones to arrive on the market when it goes on sale. [...]
Nokia’s budget Lumia device, the Nokia Lumia 610, will be hitting shelves in the United Kingdom at some point in the near future. Vodafone UK, a carrier based in the United Kingdom, has the device listed as coming soon although it has not revealed a specific date for the Windows Phone device’s release. The timing [...]
Bad news for Nokia Lumia 610 owners as Nokia has gone ahead and pulled the cord on the Skype client for the budget device. In a statement made to WeLoveWP, courtesy of WMPowerUser, the company confirmed that it had yanked Skype for the Lumia 610 from the Windows Marketplace because the user experience wasn’t ‘up [...]
Amazon has dropped the price of the Nokia Lumia 900 for new customers and those wishing to upgrade to AT&T’s flagship 4G LTE Windows Phone. Originally, Amazon had been offering the Lumia 900 for a mere $19.99 for those wishing to make an upgrade. The retailer has now dropped the price for upgraders all the [...]
The Nokia Lumia 900 has a 4.3-inch ClearBlack display that not only looks great but has some of the best durability of any smartphone screen on the market. And in a new test, the Lumia 900′s screen withstands beat down with a hammer and nail and actually is used, successfully, as a hammer itself. This [...]
A new Nokia video details the Nokia 808 PureView’s journey from conception to the final product. Nokia spent five years developing the phone before unveiling it at Mobile Word Congress this year. The Nokia 808 PureView is Nokia’s latest Symbian smartphone with a gigantic 41MP camera. The images we’ve seen from the phone are impressive, as is the [...]
It looks like in under a year since Nokia had debuted the Lumia series of Windows Phone devices, the Lumia brand is now gaining mind share against more stablished product lines, such as Motorola Mobility’s Droid series based on Google’s Android operating system. According to the latest Google search statistics, it appears that the search [...]
Last week just when CTIA was beginning, users who asked Apple’s personal digital assistant Siri what the best smartphone available is got a surprising result–Siri told them that the best iPhone, based on user reviews, is the Nokia Lumia 900. The data that drives Siri comes from Wolfram Alpha and the result should be unsurprising [...]
It appears that Nokia has reversed its previous decision not to bring its intriguing Symbian-powered Nokia 808 PureView smartphone to the United States as the company has confirmed that it will indeed be arriving for customers in the United States at some point in the future. In statements made to PCMag, Nokia’s U.S. president Chris [...]
The Nokia 808 PureView, while not a juggernaut of a device, is certainly one of the more interesting smartphones of 2012. The reason is, it sports an absolutely massive 41 mega-pixel camera with a Carl Zeiss sensor. We were able to go hands-on with the Symbian-powered (you read that right) Nokia 808 PureView at CTIA [...]
Nokia’s newest exclusive Windows Phone app is City Lens, an augmented reality app that looks like it could replace Local Scout for Lumia owners. The idea behind Nokia’s City Lens is simple: It gives users an easier way to find nearby locations through augmented reality or through a simple map view. The app will show [...]
Potential smartphone users who use their phones outside a lot might want to take a second look at the Nokia Lumia 900. According to a test performed by DisplayMate, the Nokia Lumia 900′s screen is the most readable smartphone screen when viewed in indirect sunlight. The Samsung Galaxy S and Apple iPhone 4 tied for second [...]
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Nokia gave the public a rare glimpse of what its future product portfolio would consist of, and perhaps the move is to incite investor confidence after a series of credit downgrades and concerns following the company’s announcement of $1.7 billion in losses. In the interview, Nokia Chairman [...]
According to the latest report, Nokia is in advanced stages of discussion with a venture capital firm to sell off its Vertu line of luxury smartphones. The Nokia-owned Vertu smartphones are hand crafted using luxury materials like sapphire crystal for its glass screens, jeweled bearings, ceramics, leather, and precious metals using age-old techniques employed by [...]
In a bit of controversy and publicity, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had picked up the Nokia Lumia 900 flagship smartphone using Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Though Wozniak says that the iPhone is still his favorite device of choice, the Apple co-founder has demonstrated that he can be objective in his rivals’ products and was [...]
Samsung posted a record $5.2 billion profit for the first quarter of 2012, with sales pushing it above Nokia to become the world’s largest mobile phone vendor. According to Reuters, Samsung sold a total of 93.5 million phones last quarter, including both feature phones and smartphones. Almost half, 43.5 million, of the phones were smartphones. [...]
In Nokia’s most recent financial quarter, the company announced a$1.7 billion loss attributed to rapidly declining sales of devices using its Symbian cash cow operating system as the company makes a hard transition to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS. Nokia had cautioned and analysts had warned before that it will get worse before it gets [...]
Those who have been waiting for the Nokia Lumia 900 in the United Kingdom won’t be able to get their hands on the highly anticipated Windows Phone until May 14th at the earliest. UK retailer Phone4u, by way of Pocket-lint, has confirmed that the device will not be touching down until May, a slight delay [...]
If you are in the market for one of the hottest AT&T phones on the market and wonder which screen looks best, YouTube user foxfire235 has three hot new phones side by side for you. He takes a quick look at the differences between the top 3 AT&T smart phones, the HTC One X, Nokia Lumia [...]
AT&T’s Nokia Lumia 900 is now available in a grand total of three colors as the white version, which wasn’t expected to go on sale until April 22nd, is now on sale in at least some AT&T retail stores. MobilityDigest has posted two photos that depict the white Lumia 900 being sold inside an AT&T [...]
There has been quite a controversy surrounding the upcoming Windows Phone 8 Apollo update from Microsoft and today, more fuel has been dumped on the fire as a Nokia Evangelist & Developer has claimed that Nokia’s Lumia handsets, which run Windows Phone, will receive the update. WMPowerUser reports that João Luis, citing a source he [...]
Despite recent history, Verizon seems ready to put its support behind Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. According to All Things D, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo talked about the company’s interest in Windows Phone during its first quarter earnings call today. Shammo said “It is important that there is a third ecosystem brought into the mix here, we are [...]
Today Nokia announced its quarterly earnings, and with those earnings came some news on its lineup of Lumia Windows Phones. Overall, the company posted a loss of about $1.2 million, mostly from its Nokia Siemens Network restructuring, but there is some good news on the consumer side. In Nokia’s Q1 2012 Interim Report, CEO Stephen [...]
In the US Nokia’s Lumia 900 and Lumia 710 are selling well. Some AT&T stores sold out of the former phone within days, and T-Mobile says the latter is performing well on its network. Europeans carriers aren’t as thrilled with Nokia’s Windows Phones. According to Reuters, European carriers don’t think Nokia’s Lumia phones are good [...]
It appears that AT&T won’t be the only U.S. carrier that will see Nokia’s Lumia 900 Windows Phone as a new report claims that T-Mobile could be getting the device sometime this summer. According to a report from WMPowerUser, a T-Mobile representative very bluntly revealed that the carrier would be getting the device at some [...]
Over the weekend, AT&T’s latest flagship Windows Phone, the 4G LTE powered Nokia Lumia 900 was completely out of stock online for reasons still unknown. Today though, it appears that the carrier is once again offering one of the Lumia 900 models to eager customers. AT&T has said that sales of the Lumia 900 have [...]
Nokia recently started taking pre-orders for the 808 PureView, the Symbian phone with a 41MP camera. Today the phone is available for pre-order from Clove UK for anybody that wants to buy one, even Americans. According to PhoneArena, Clove UK is now selling pre-orders for the Nokia 808 PureView for $711. The phone actually costs £449 excluding [...]
Earlier, it was reported that a small number of early adopters of Nokia’s flagship Lumia 900 Windows Phone for AT&T’s 4G LTE network were having connectivity issues. Nokia quickly looked into the problem and did right by its customers, offering early adopters a $100 credit on their AT&T phone bill and also promised a quick [...]
The Nokia Lumia 900 is topping sales charts as users discover the young Windows Phone operating system. Can the Lumia 900 deliver a “Droid Effect” to Windows Phone, boosting Windows Phone App selection and appeal? In the fight with the iPhone and Android for market share, Windows Phone is the underdog, much like Android was in 2009. In [...]
The massive Lumia 900 marketing effort appears to be paying off for AT&T, Microsoft and Nokia. The new Windows Phone is currently the best selling smartphone at Amazon.com, and some AT&T stores are already sold out. A Wall Street Journal article calls out Nokia’s challenges and declining stock price , but has a glimmer of hope. Paul Roth, AT&T’s president of retail [...]
The Nokia Lumia 900 (as reviewed) Windows Phone 7 device for AT&T’s 4G LTE network costs $100 with a two-year contract or $450 to consumers who do not want to sign any service agreement with the carrier. Given these prices, AT&T can still net a healthy profit from the Lumia 900 despite working with Nokia to offer [...]
AT&T has said that the recent launch of the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone will be its biggest smartphone launch ever. The carrier is promoting the phone heavily with ads in stores and its website, and Nokia and Microsoft have spent a lot of money in advertising. However, it seems AT&T employees didn’t get the [...]
The Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T launched on Sunday for the carrier’s 4G LTE network. However, as of right now, there are currently no docks available for the device. Well, one new owner decided to take matters into his own hands and built a Lumia 900 dock out of Lego. Baris Eris has posted detailed [...]
Not content with the Nokia Lumia 610 that it just announced at the Mobile World Congress back in February, Nokia has unveiled a new version of the Nokia Lumia 610 that will be hitting UK carrier Orange at some point during the third quarter of this year. This version of the Lumia 610 will have [...]
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