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Jolla unveils first Sailfish OS smartphone, set to ship this year
- Jolla on Monday unveiled the first smartphone designed to run a Meego-inspired operating system called Sailfish. The Finnish mobile handset company, comprised of ex-Nokia employees, believes the self-titled mobile device will be a strong candidate in the mid- to high-end…
Nokia's Lumia 925 gets official with lighter aluminum body
- Nokia’s Lumia 925 smartphone is now official. As most expected, the device is basically a revised version of the Lumia 920 with improvements in several categories. Most notably, Nokia ditched the polycarbonate shell and replaced it with a more durable…
Nokia's Lumia 928 gets official on Verizon, coming next week for $99
- Nokia’s Lumia 928 smartphone is now official as Verizon Wireless just announced it ahead of a planned Nokia media event next Tuesday in London. The new handset will carry a Gorilla Glass-coated 4.5-inch AMOLED display operating at 1,280 x 768…
Nokia press conference could reveal new Lumia tablet, smartphone
- Nokia has invited members of the press to a conference on May 14 where they plan to reveal the next chapter in the Lumia story. The Finnish handset maker didn’t outline exactly what we will see but rumors point to…
Windows Phone 8 mainstream support to end July 8, 2014
- It appears mainstream support for Windows Phone 8 is slated to end on July 8, 2014. Prior to recently updating its support website, lifecycle information for WP8 hadn't been officially published by Microsoft. However, this date confirms previous suggestions of…
Nokia supports Apple in Samsung product sales ban effort
- Nokia filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington earlier this week to back Apple’s intentions of permanently banning select Samsung phones from being sold in America. The documents were sealed upon…
Neowin: Nokia Lumia 820 review
- The launch of Windows Phone 8 saw the announcement of a new generation of handsets, consigning a fairly lacklustre set of earlier devices to the past, with the news that those phones would not be upgradable to the newest version…
Weekend Open Forum: At what age did you get your first cell phone?
- I grew up in a time when landlines were the primary means of voice communication. Sure there were cell phones in the early ‘90s but they were typically reserved for business executives and the wealthy. The pager (or beeper) was…
HTC infographic pokes fun at Nokia's PureView camera technology
- HTC is planning to unveil a new flagship smartphone later this month. Known as the M7, it is expected to be the first Android smartphone to use pixel oversampling technology – or some variant of it. In preparation for the…
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop suggests Windows tablet on the way
- Three months in, the Surface tablet hasn’t really seen the level of adoption Microsoft would have hoped for, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a future for Windows tablets. In fact, Redmond’s flagship partner in the smartphone space might be…
Nokia receives $1.35 billion grant to further develop graphene
- Nokia has been awarded a $1.35 billion, 10 year grant from the European Union to further develop graphene for practical applications. The 2D super material is just a single atom thick yet according to the Finnish handset maker, it’s the…
Nokia is building a WP8 handset with a true PureView image sensor
- Nokia is reportedly working on what is described as a true PureView Windows Phone 8 handset that would ship with a super-high resolution image sensor similar to the 41-megapixel monster found in the 808 PureView. The device, which goes by…
Nokia intros 3D printer kit, create custom shell for Lumia 820
- It looks as though Nokia hopes to take the idea of customer personalization to an entirely new level. Today the phone-maker published what is being called a 3D-Printing Development Kit, empowering anyone with access to right kind of 3D printer to…
Nokia's Lumia did 'better than expected' in Q4, 4.4 million units sold
- Nokia has revealed that fourth quarter sales of their Lumia handsets were better than expected, giving the company’s stock a nice boost in the process. A strong holiday season pushed Lumia sales to 4.4 million, a solid increase over the…
Nokia Lumia 920 successor will be constructed of aluminum
- Nokia is planning to update their line of Lumia Windows Phone devices for 2013 and at least one of them will be built around an aluminum shell. The new phone, codenamed Catwalk, is expected to be much lighter and thinner…
Nokia Lumia 920 Review: Can the WP8 flagship convert iPhone/Android lovers?
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Since Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 7, they have tried in vain to introduce a legitimate competitor to the Apple iPhone. They have also failed to unseat an army of Android devices. Nokia's entry was an all-in gamble that was supposed to platform among the elite of smartphones, but being the most popular of the bunch didn't translate to commercial or critical success.
In the Nokia Lumia 920, Windows Phone 8 has a worthy competitor to iOS and Android. It continues the design philosophy that made the original Lumias the most popular Windows Phone handsets. It also features brand new software that is faster and more robust than its predecessor. Will a winning hardware foundation and vastly improved software secure the Lumia 920 a place among the elite?
Rumor: Nokia is preparing a 10-inch Windows RT tablet for early 2013
- Nokia is rumored to be setting their sights on the lucrative tablet market. The Finnish handset maker is reportedly preparing a 10-inch slate running Windows RT for a February 2013 introduction at Mobile World Congress.
Samsung tops Nokia in cell phone shipments, Apple in smartphones
- Samsung is poised to overtake Nokia as the world's top cellphone brand this year, according to iSuppli's preliminary 2012 forecast. The researcher has published its expected rankings for the top five handset OEMs with Samsung accounting for 29% of the…
Nokia launches first budget-minded WP8 smartphone, the Lumia 620
- Nokia has unveiled a new Lumia smartphone designed for budget-conscious consumers. The Lumia 620 was just announced at the LeWeb 2012 conference in Paris, France and will sell for just $249 off contract – significantly cheaper than other Windows Phone…
Happy Birthday: The text message turns 20 years old today
- One of the most popular means of modern communication is celebrating its 20th birthday today. The very first text message was sent from a PC to a mobile phone on December 3, 1992, by then 22-year-old Neil Papworth over the…
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