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Last week, as you’re probably aware, news vastly spread about how Siri on the iPhone 4S not-so-secretly recommended the Nokia Lumia 900 as the best phone using data from Wolfram Alpha. As of yesterday, it appears Siri has flip flopped worse than presidential candidates at GOP debates and now informs users upon request that the…
When it comes to customer satisfaction, Apple dominates and RIM struggles. The 2012 ACSI report was the first time Apple, RIM, HTC, and LG were included in the cell phone manufacturer satisfaction category, making for an interesting inaugural cellular satisfaction report. The 2012 report shows that Apple has amassed a staggering 83% customer satisfaction ranking, becoming…
Not many folks know this, but Nokia actually has two dumbphone platforms. There’s Series 40, which has been powering most midrange dumbphones for at least a decade, and then there’s an even lower end OS called Series 30. That operating system has traditionally been used for ultra low end devices, the type that normally don’t…
Nokia has been making “touch enabled” dumbphones for a while now, but they’ve never actually made dumbphones that have nothing but a touch screen. Enter the 305, 306, and 311, which were discovered by Jay Montano from My Nokia Blog. Starting with the 305 and 306 (pictured above), they’re the exact same device, except that…
Nokia announced that its ebook service Nokia Reading is now open for business in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK, with other countries to follow later in the year. Available from the Nokia Collection in Marketplace, the new offering can be used by owners of Nokia Windows Phones, including Lumia 900, 800, 710…
Since Apple released the iPhone 4S in October, its flagship feature Siri has been able to help tremendously in users’ daily lives with productivity and even offering advice. In fact, I bet you didn’t know it can help you with buying or recommending a smartphone. So what’s the best phone out there? According to Siri,…
Nokia announced their decision to bet the farm on Windows Phone roughly 15 months ago. They’ve had their Lumia devices out on the market since November 2011. We know they sold 2 million Windows Phones during the first three months of this year, and now we’re waiting until July to hear how many they sold…
Mail for Exchange, for those of you who have never heard of it, is what many business rely on to provide their employees with an integrated email, calendar, and contact solution. It’s something that’s been exclusive to smartphones for a while now, but Nokia’s looking to change that by introducing Mail for Exchange for their…
LG has recently said that they’re going to focus on Android and that they have no Windows Phones in the pipeline. They didn’t say they’ll abandon Microsoft’s platform altogether, but just read between the lines. According to FierceWireless, who interviewed Chris Weber, Nokia’s President for the Americas, LG’s decision isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He…
Nokia is partnering with several big-name developers to release their apps exclusively for Nokia’s Lumia handsets. The smartphone maker is partnering with ESPN to launch the ESPN Hub and an ESPN Fantasy Football app, only on the Lumia. The Hub app, an exclusive until May 2013, will feature sports scores as well as coverage of…