Nokia Lumia 610 launching in Asia this month
The Lumia 610 was added to Nokia’s Windows Phone portfolio back in February at MWC 2012, and now it’s ready to hit the shelves around the world. Nokia has announced that the first country to get the 610 (in “the final week of April”) is The Philippines. Starting the following weeks, the new Lumia will [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 to be launched by T-Mobile USA?
At the moment, the Nokia Lumia 900 is being exclusively offered by AT&T in the US. But other American carriers might release it, too, sometime soon. According to WMPowerUser, a T-Mobile USA employee said recently that the Lumia 900 would “be coming to T-Mobile this summer.” Of course, this is far from being an official [...]
Samsung confirms it’ll have Windows Phone 8 Apollo handsets in the second half of 2012
Last week, we told you that Samsung may plan to introduce three new Windows Phone devices this year, and two of them could come with Windows Phone 8 Apollo. Now, according to ePrice, Samsung Taiwan has confirmed that it would release a WP Apollo handset in the second half of the year. The new Samsung [...]
UK: Nokia Lumia 710 now just £129.95 on PAYG
The Nokia Lumia 710 is now cheaper in the UK than the upcoming Lumia 610 will be. And that’s pretty funny, because the 710 is the higher-specced of the two. But things like this sometimes do happen in the mobile world. Because it’s an older device (yet just by a few months), the Lumia 710 [...]
Symbian is dead. For real this time. Nokia is now an upstart in smartphones, with 1% market share
Nokia has previewed the Q1 2012 results today. And they are a disaster. I did expect Nokia’s first quarter to be bad. But nowhere as bad as this. In Q4 2011 Nokia sold 19.6 million smartphones. 18 to 19 million of them were Symbian devices. This quarter they have shipped 12 million smartphones. 2 million [...]
Nokia admits data connectivity bug on AT&T Lumia 900, fix out on April 16. $100 credit for the affected
Just this past Sunday, Nokia launched the Lumia 900 on AT&T. This high-end Windows Phone was supposed to be in the front lines of Nokia’s reentry into the American market. However, the Finnish company has had a bit of bad luck (or bad coding, one might say). It turns out that there’s a batch of [...]
Nokia Lumia 610 NFC gets announced for Orange
Nokia has just announced the first ever NFC-enabled Windows Phone, and it’s a special version of the already unveiled Nokia Lumia 610. This was first showcased as Nokia’s most affordable Windows Phone to date back in February during MWC. The Lumia 610 NFC will become available “early in the third quarter” of this year (so [...]
HTC Titan II can now be bought for just $149.99
The HTC Titan II was released by AT&T yesterday. This gigantic Windows Phone has a 16 MP camera and has been priced by the carrier at $199.99 with a new two-year contract. That’s not out of the ordinary, for it is the price point at which most high-end devices (iPhone included) are sold nowdays. However, [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 launched by Rogers (available only online for now)
Just one day after AT&T released it in the US (alongside the HTC Titan II), the Nokia Lumia 900 is now available in Canada, too. Obviously – since we’ve heard about this quite a few times – Rogers is the first Canadian carrier to offer the 900. For the moment, Rogers is selling the new [...]
WP8 rumors: 12 MP Nokia PureView for Verizon, QWERTY slider for Sprint, Lenovo and Asus phones too
The Nokia Lumia 900 just got its big launch in the US, but of course the Finnish company has some other devices planned for this year as well. In the fourth quarter is when we expect Windows Phone 8 to launch. According to past leaks, this OS version will support a lot more high-end hardware [...]
AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 is just $19.99 (for upgrades) or $49.99 (for new customers) at Amazon
Now that the Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T has been on the market for one full day, it’s time for the great deals to start coming in. And the first third party retailer to offer the smartphone for less than AT&T is Amazon You can now get a Lumia 900 (in both cyan and black) [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II now available at AT&T, Windows Phone fans rejoice
Today, AT&T has launched two new Windows Phone handsets, its first to come with LTE connectivity. As expected, the handsets are the Nokia Lumia 900, and the HTC Titan II. Unsurprisingly – considering how much Microsoft and Nokia are investing to promote it – only the Lumia 900 is featured on AT&T’s homepage. We already [...]
HTC beats sales estimates in March, too
Back in March, we told you that HTC is in a slow process of recovering from what have been some pretty bad months, sales-wise. Now HTC has announced that its revenues have increased once again. The company posted revenues of 30.88 billion Taiwanese dollars (1.05 billion USD) for March 2012. That’s a 52.2% increase compared [...]
Samsung to launch 3 Windows Phone handsets in 2012, LTE-capable Mandel included
Nokia may be the most important hardware manufacturer for Windows Phone now, but that doesn’t mean other companies have to ditch Microsoft’s mobile platform. And they certainly won’t do that. Samsung, for example, is reportedly getting ready to introduce three new Windows Phone handsets this year, sometime in the second half. That’s what Chinese website [...]
Nokia TV for Lumia Windows Phones launching in the coming weeks (only in Finland for the beginning)
Nokia is adding a new service to its Lumia smartphones, joining the likes of Nokia Music and Nokia Reading. The new service is called Nokia TV, and, as its name suggests, it will act as a hub that allows users to access TV programs. Nokia TV will be first released to Lumia handsets in Finland, [...]
Nokia Lumia 900 and Lumia 610 get priced in the UK
Nokia’s Lumia 900 will launch on AT&T at the end of this week, but what about elsewhere? Well, there’s still no solid info on that (the latest rumor saying something about June, by the way), but we do have some good news if you’re in the UK. We now have officially-confirmed prices for the Lumia [...]
Only 2% of downloaded apps will be on Windows Phones in 2012. But it’s not as bad as it sounds
According to a new report from ABI Research, only 2% of the apps that will be downloaded throughout 2012 will be downloaded to Windows Phones. The total number of app downloads expected for this year is 36 billion. iOS and Android will make up 83% of that number. Windows Phone will lag behind RIM’s BlackBerry [...]
Telus-bound LG Miracle with Windows Phone gets caught in the wild
LG hasn’t completely given up on Windows Phone. At least that’s what a string of recent leaks seems to indicate. The Korean company was conspicuously silent on the WP front last year, but it does have something ready for 2012, apparently. So far we’ve heard two codenames being tossed around, sometimes interchangeably: Miracle and Fantasy. [...]
China Telecom’s Nokia Lumia 800C will be free on $45/month contract. In stores on March 31
Yesterday the Nokia Lumia 800C got officially announced for China Telecom, and today the on-contract pricing was made public by the Chinese carrier ahead of the phone’s release in just a couple of days. The Nokia Lumia 800C will be offered with contracts starting at 49 yuan per month (that’s approximately $8 or €6). To get [...]
Nokia Lumia 610C and 800C officially announced for China
Nokia has just confirmed that its first Windows Phone device that’s going to be launched in China is the Lumia 800C. The 800C will be released in early April via China Telecom, being just a CDMA version of the Lumia 800 that’s already available around the world. The handset will feature a 3.7 inch ClearBlack [...]