Nokia Maps gets voice navigation on Android and iOS
What, you didn’t know that Nokia Maps was available for Android and iOS? Well, it is. And from now on it has voice-guided navigation too. Yet before you run to the Play Store or iTunes App Store to install it, bear in mind that there are many caveats here. First of all, you won’t find [...]
Nokia Lumia official launch in China is on March 28
If you were wondering when the first Nokia Lumia Windows Phone would launch in China, wonder no more. The date is March 28, and it comes straight from Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO. It’s still unclear how many devices will be released on that day though. According to recent certifications obtained from the relevant Chinese authorities, [...]
Nokia Windows Phone sales may explode this summer: ~4 million new Lumia 610s, 719, China Mobile deal
Sales of Nokia’s Lumia smartphones haven’t been stellar so far. Perhaps that’s to be expected when a company switches its main smartphone platform seemingly overnight. Perhaps that’s to be expected because the operating system powering these devices is quite young. Though for a company of Nokia’s former size and prowess, the 500-700K Lumias sold in [...]
Dual-core 10-inch Nokia Windows 8 tablet coming this year, rumor has it
This is hardly the first time when a rumor makes its way onto the Internet about a supposed Nokia tablet. But, understandably, this is the first time Windows 8 is mentioned as the tablet’s operating system. So far we’ve had some rumbles about a Nokia tablet back in 2010 when it was going to run [...]
Microsoft platform support payments for Windows Phone, will slightly exceed minimum Nokia royalty commitments
Nokia filed its annual report yesterday. And almost every annual report from a public company usually has some interesting nuggets about state of things during the previous year. Nokia’s 20F was no exception. Though the risk section of the report is most definitely not the good part, even if many tend to focus on it. [...]
Sony Xperia P and Xperia U coming to O2 UK in April alongside the HTC One series
The new smartphones that Sony and HTC have announced during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month are coming to O2 in the UK. The operator has updated its Coming Soon page, and it’s now filled with lustworthy gadgets. The HTC One series – the One X, One S, and One V are all expected [...]
Nokia Asha 302 now available in the UK at Three, free from £15 per month, £89.99 on PAYG
The Nokia Asha 302 is now available in the UK. The first operator to stock it is Three. The Asha 302 is one of the three new Asha-branded S40 feature phones announced last week in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress. We’ve seen it leaked once before that, and it’s a cheap QWERTY candybar for the [...]
Nokia strives to make what Liquipel already offers: waterproof phones
The folks over at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge are currently working to make all of Nokia’s future phones waterproof. They’re relying on nanotechnology to create superhydrophobic coatings that unnoticeably dress a device to make sure liquid doesn’t really touch its surface, even though they seemingly make contact. Nokia has already demonstrated the technology, [...]
AT&T to launch Nokia Prodigy and Nokia AC/DC Windows Phone 8 handsets soon?
It looks like AT&T, Nokia and Microsoft have big plans together for the near future. Apart from launching the Nokia Lumia 900 (which will hit the shelves on March 18), the companies reportedly want to bring two other Windows Phone handsets to the US market. According to The Verge, the upcoming handsets are called Nokia [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 to be released by Rogers in Canada in early April
The Nokia Lumia 900 was confirmed for Canada last week at MWC 2012 in Barcelona, when Stephen Elop said the smartphone would arrive in his home country sometime in April, via Rogers. Now we’re hearing that the 900 is ready to hit the shelves across Canada starting “early April”. Unfortunately, there’s still no word on [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 and Panasonic Eluga Power with Android 4.0 ICS available for pre-order in the UK
Customers over in the UK can now pre-order two new smartphones: a Windows Phone one (the Nokia Lumia 900), and an Android one (the Panasonic Eluga Power). Officially announced for Europe earlier this week at MWC 2012 (alongside the Lumia 610), the Lumia 900 is Nokia’s current Windows Phone flagship device. Despite this, its specs [...]
MWC 2012: Nokia adds Lumia 900 and 610 to its Windows Phone portfolio. Transition prospects just got brighter
In addition to that crazy good 41 megapixel PureView 808 Symbian cameraphone, Nokia added two smartphones to its Windows Phone portfolio. The worldwide version of high end Lumia 900, and the cheapest yet – Lumia 610. Nokia Lumia 900 doesn’t bring anything new to the U.S. AT&T version that was announced at CES. They just [...]
Nokia 808 PureView 41 MP camera sensor, 3x lossless zoom, other crazy imaging stuff to blow your mind
How crazy is Nokia 808 PureView camerphone with 41 megapixel sensor? I wasn’t expecting much from Nokia during this Mobile World Congress. And I was expecting even less from the the successor to N8 – previous imaging flagship. We knew for months that the N8 successor is in the works, we even heard about the [...]
MWC 2012: Nokia Asha 302, 202 and 203 hands-on
Nokia has officially presented three new S40 phones from the Asha series at MWC 2012: the Asha 302, Asha 202 and Asha 203. The most interesting of them is the Asha 302, which comes with a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.4 inch landscape QVGA touchscreen display. Powered by a 1GHz single core processor, the [...]
Cheap Nokia Lumia 610 ‘confirmed’ yet again alongside international Lumia 900
Next Monday morning, Nokia will hold its Mobile World Congress press event. It’s then when the Finnish company is widely expected to announce new devices. In fact, last week we heard that it will intro two new Windows Phones there, the Lumia 610 and Lumia 900. The Lumia 610 will supposedly be Nokia’s cheapest Windows [...]
Compal expects 20% sequential increase in smartphone orders mainly thanks to Nokia’s WP Tango devices
Compal Communications is one of the world’s major mobile device makers (if you include laptops alongside smartphones and tablets in that definition). The Taiwanese company has announced that it expects to see a 20% growth in the first quarter of 2012 smartphone shipments compared to Q4 2011. That will be thanks to increased orders from [...]
New Nokia Lumia 719 confirmed by the Bluetooth SIG
Back in December, we reported that Nokia would launch the new Lumia 900 and Lumia 719 Windows Phone handsets at CES 2012. Since only the Lumia 900 has been announced in the end, you may wonder what happened to the Lumia 719. Well, it still exists, and it looks like it’s coming soon. The Bluetooth [...]
Nokia Lumia 800 may be released by Telus on March 9
Last month, after announcing the brand new Lumia 900 for AT&T in the US, Nokia also unveiled the fact that Telus would be exclusively launching the Lumia 800 in Canada, while Rogers would get the Lumia 710 up north. In the meantime, the Nokia Lumia 800 has showed up at Telus’ website, but sadly without [...]
Nokia Lumia 610 confirmed in Indonesia, where it gets certified
Nokia is about to launch a new affordable Windows Phone, it seems. We first heard about the Lumia 610 a few days ago when Nokia’s upcoming announcements at Mobile World Congress were allegedly leaked. And today we get confirmation of this device’s existence, because it just received certification from the Indonesian authorities. This being no [...]
Unlocked unannounced white Nokia Lumia 900 now up for pre-order for $649.50
The not yet officially announced white version of the Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T is now up for pre-order in unlocked form. The price being asked for the smartphone is $649.50, and despite being unlocked it is tuned for AT&T’s network. It will work on T-Mobile, but only on EDGE. And it will work in [...]