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Nokia China is going to hold an event on the 28th of March according to All About Windows Phone. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what’s going to be announced at said event. Nokia’s been saying that they’re going to bring Windows Phones to the Chinese market in the first half of…
Nokia Maps is a native navigation solution exclusive to Nokia’s Symbian and Windows Phone smartphones. It’s also available to iOS and Android owners as an HTML5 app that was introduced last year. The mobile version is a full-featured web app that give you high quality directions and access to a large directory of local interests. Starting…
Way back in November of last year, Paul Amsellem, the former Head of Nokia France, said that the Finnish handset maker would be releasing a Windows 8 tablet in June 2012. Seems that he was off by a quarter if this latest rumor from DigiTimes is to be believed. Our favorite Taiwanese rumor site says:…
On December 13, 2011, Nokia announced the launch of “Nokia Money” in India. The service was created so that people living in rural parts of the country could conduct financial transactions digitally instead of using hard currency. Today, one day before turning three months old, ZDNet reports that the service will be shut down. Why?…
We’ve seen a lot of cool stuff at SXSW 2012 but the Nokia Lab domes deserves some extra credit for being extra cool. The company says that it tried to bring a bit of its research lab from Espoo (I’ve been there!) and transport it to the rainy streets of Austin and I think it’s…
All the signs have been pointing to a March 18th release date for the Lumia 900, the flagship device in Nokia’s Windows Phone Lumia series on its way to AT&T. A placeholder page on the AT&T site still has a secretive coming soon placeholder for some device, long after its new iPad page has gone…
Last year, on the 11th of February to be precise, Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, got up on a stage in London and told the world that the Finnish handset maker was going to throw Symbian under the bus, kill off MeeGo, and bet the future on Microsoft’s Windows Phone. It’s been almost 13 months since…
It appears low-end Windows Phone devices are going to be more crippled than we’d originally thought. Lost in the hullabaloo of Apple’s next iPad announcement yesterday, Microsoft put up a blog post on its Windows Phone Developer Blog which gave Windows Phone application developers guidelines for how to make their applications play friendly on devices…
Forget about the phones Nokia announced last week at Mobile World Congress, there’s two applications they demoed at the show that I want to highlight: Nokia Transport and Nokia Reading. Starting with the first one, it’s a Windows Phone app that will tell you how to reach your destination using nothing but good old walking…
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…