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When Nokia’s executives meet with members of the press there’s always at least one person who builds up the courage to get out of their chair, grab the microphone, and ask the question that dare not be asked: “What happens if the Windows Phone strategy fails?” Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, has repeatedly said: “Plan B…
Two weeks ago Nokia announced that they would slash 10,000 jobs by the end of 2013. Buried in that press release was the terribly upsetting news that Nokia’s offices in Ulm, Germany would be shut down. According to the Finnish business site Taloussanomat, Ulm was where development on Meltemi was taking place. Meltemi was supposed…
While it was recently announced that existing hardware running Windows Phone won’t receive the next big update, some may still be tempted to grab a handset running the OS. If that is the case, we’d highly suggest the Nokia Lumia 900 over anything else, and today Amazon is offering up the phone in White, Cyan,…
The bean counters at Nomura Holdings have issued a report that says Nokia will ship just 34 million Windows Phones in all of 2013. To put that number into some perspective, during the last three months of 2011 Apple sold more than 37 million iPhones. Now yes, 34 million Windows Phones in a year is…
It seems that Nokia Lumia 710 owners on Rogers Wireless’ network are being blessed with the new software update for their smartphone of choice. Apparently users around the Interweb have started reporting they’ve found a software update after connecting their Lumia 710 to the Zune Desktop software. In other words, we don’t have this officially…
Ben Rudolph, the Microsoft employee you see in all those “Smoked by Windows Phone” commercials, has just uploaded a video to the official Windows Phone Blog where he demos Windows Phone 7.8 on a Nokia Lumia 900. What exactly is Windows Phone 7.8? That depends on who you ask. Nokia and Microsoft fans, for reasons…
Nokia Camera Extras is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace from where Lumia smartphone owners in the U.S. and China can download it free of charge, with folks in other parts of the world getting the same treatment later in July. As far as I’ve understood — couldn’t try it myself — after installing…
You’ve probably heard the bad news – existing Windows Phone devices won’t get updates to Windows 8. Rather, handset makers will release some sort of intermediary solution, Windows Phone 7.8, which will boast several features of Windows 8 (like the new Start screen). Meanwhile, Nokia will launch two small updates for Lumia 710 and Lumia…
Ben Peckett is probably going to get a ton of angry emails today from one of his clients, Nokia. According to his LinkedIn profile, his title is “Copywriter & Creative Planner” at a Finnish company called Luxus. What does that mean? It’s his job to come up with whiz bang videos that inspire companies like…
The first version of Windows Phone, launched in the fall of 2010, didn’t have a codename. The update that was released several months later, the one that added copy and paste support, was called NoDo. Then Mango came, and with it Nokia’s first devices to run Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Now the newest version of…