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When the upcoming Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 devices were announced back in early September, the two notable pieces missing from the picture were the pricing and release date for Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 headsets. Today, we’re starting to see these details emerge for some locales across Europe, with Nokia’s Germany, Italy, and Russia divisions…
Nokia unveiled two new members of its Asha family – Asha 308 and 309, with former rocking two SIM card slots while the latter supporting Wi-Fi connectivity. Rest of the specs are identical and include a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen, 2-megapixel camera on the back, 800MHz processor, 20MB of built-in memory and a microSD expansion slot.…
There is a growing battle for smartphone customers in emerging markets, where the companies who tend to win out are those that offer the best and cheapest devices. In countries such as China, low-end Android devices have ruled the roost, though a recently spotted Lumia 510 complete with Windows Phone 7.8 may make inroads into the…
Two high-end smartphones have been caught at the FCC’s website. The first one is international version of the Nokia Lumia 920, which comes with support for five LTE bands used outside of the US and zero within. Hopefully, the U.S. specific model will follow soon so that AT&T could launch it on October 21st. The…
It looks like AT&T could launch the hot-new Nokia Lumia 920 as early as October 21st. The information comes from two different sources, BGR and WPcentral, both of which have been tipped by a different person. The problem, however, is that Nokia said its new Windows Phones will launch in early November so what gives?…
Earlier we wrote about Amazon ditching Google Maps in favor of its own Map tool. Many speculated that the giant ecommerce company formed a partnership with Nokia, but no one knew for sure if this was in fact the case. Now we have gotten confirmation that this is really going on. The Finnish based manufacturer…
The windowsmania.pl forum admin posted photos and a video of the Nokia Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7.8, which (as we described before) will bring many of the Windows Phone 8 features to the existing Lumia Windows Phone 7 devices. According to a thread at windowsmania.pl, this is the real deal though we can’t see…
For a company who goes nuts over patent infringement, and was just awarded $1+ billion dollars from Samsung for just that, the new iPod Nano revealed at the Apple event today looks remarkably similar to the Nokia Lumia. While they may look similar however, “thugtacular” on Reddit.com has pointed out that it just looks “like…
Despite launching new phones a week ago, Nokia has no plans to abandon its existing customer base. In fact, the Finnish company will be releasing additional software updates for all of its Windows Phone devices, including Lumia 610, Lumia 710, Lumia 800 and Lumia 900. While they won’t get the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile…
During its announcement of Lumia 820 and Lumia 920, the Finnish company also demonstrated Nokia City Lens, its augmented reality app designed to help users discover interesting places nearby. Up until this point, it was available in beta and now everyone with the Lumia 710, Lumia 800 or Lumia 900 can try it out and…