Remember the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II? Both were announced two months ago, sans price or release date. Mary-Jo Foley from All About Windows said the Lumia 900 would be released on March 18th during episode 234 of the Windows Weekly podcast which aired in January. Now March 18th is just 11…
Nokia’s Lumia 800 has been out in India for barely three months, now it’s 20% cheaper
Nokia’s Lumia 800, the “first real Windows Phone” according to Stephen Elop, the company’s CEO, landed in India on the 16th of December. We’re barely three months out and the price has been slashed from 29,990 INR ($595) to 23,590 INR ($465). That’s a price drop of over 20% INR. Some sites like WMPoweruser are…
Nokia N9 gets a software update; PR 1.2 adds a ton of features, including video calling
Nokia’s MeeGo running N9, the one and only device that’ll ever run said OS, is getting a new software update according to the guys at Nokia Conversations. They say that 70% of N9 owners have already had the update pushed out to them, and that the next 30% will have to wait another couple of…
HTC Titan set to be the first Windows Phone released in China, will be called the Triumph
Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia, got under a lot of people’s skin when he said that the Lumia 800 was the “first real Windows Phone”. Samsung, HTC, LG, they were making and selling Windows Phones for a full year before Nokia brought their device to the table. Shit talking aside, Nokia prides themselves on…
Rumor: Two Nokia Windows Phones codenamed “Prodigy” and “AC/DC” are landing on AT&T
Windows Phone, and Nokia in general, are doing pretty bad in the U.S. right now. Both companies are hoping that’ll change when the Lumia 900 comes out. Said smartphone was announced at the Consumer Electronic Show in January, but we’ve yet to hear a concrete launch date or price point. Anyway, that’s just one device.…
Over 5000 people focusing on smartphones now work in LG’s R&D lab, one year ago it was less than 1400
LG’s performance at Mobile World Congress last week can best be described as underwhelming. The company announced a 5 inch smartphone/tablet that’s a terrible competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Note. They announced 3 new “stylish” smartphones that scream boring design. And of course they showed off yet another 3D enabled smartphone when no actually wants…
Rumor: Sony to release a Qualcomm S4 based Android superphone in June
Last week at Mobile World Congress Sony announced a handful of new Android smartphones that sadly run Android Gingerbread instead of Ice Cream Sandwich. The highest end product in their new portfolio, the Xperia S, has a 4.3 inch 720p display, which is awesome, but it’s powered by the year old Qualcomm S3 processor. Today…
Apple wants Motorola and Samsung to give them $5 to $15 for every Android device they sell
Newsflash: Apple hates Android and wants to do everything possible to wipe it off the face of the planet, regardless of how much money they have to spend to achieve that goal. The fight started in the courts, with Apple and Samsung trying to get each other products off store shelves, but then Google decided…
New Nokia Lumia 800 firmware “triples” battery life, Singapore only for now
Nokia’s first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, started shipping almost four months ago. A small percentage of early adopters who picked it up have had some issues with their battery. Either their device was burning through a full charge way too quickly, or worse yet they couldn’t even recharge their phone and had to replace…
Video: Pressure sensitive Bluetooth 4.0 enabled stylus for the iPad 3/HD
Apple’s iPad 3 or iPad HD or whatever the hell you want to call it is going to be announced in 30 hours as we’re writing this. We don’t know the exact spec sheet yet, but we’re pretty confident in saying that it’s going to gain a feature that was first seen in the iPhone…