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Every time I visit Facebook my browser asks me if it should go ahead and translate the website. That’s what happens when you’ve been living in a foreign country for over four and a half years and nearly everyone you know speaks English as a second, and in most cases third, language. During my time…
Nokia reported its quarterly earnings today and while most of us are wondering how many Windows Phone handsets it sold last quarter, our friends at PhoneScoop picked out an interesting fact: Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million in the quarter for “Platform Support Payments.” We had heard that Microsoft was paying Nokia billions to adopt Windows…
Nokia pulled a little trick when reporting their Q4 2011 financial results this afternoon. They said Lumia sales topped 1 million units “to date”. Now what does “to date” mean to you? To me it includes everything until today, which in this case happens to be the 26th of January. Chris Davies, from SlashGear, saw…
Nokia has just posted their Q4 2011 financial results and the numbers aren’t exactly what one would call pretty. Regarding sales of the Nokia Lumia lineup, they topped 1 million units, but that number is deceptive since it includes devices sold after the end of the quarter. In other words, 1 million Lumias were moved…
AT&T is going to start its new year off with a bang, as the second largest wireless provider plans to release a slew of impressive handsets during its first quarter. Earlier it was speculated that Ma Bell would launch the Nokia Lumia 900 March 18 with a $99 price tag. Well, it turns out the…
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we saw Nokia unveil their first “real Windows Phone” for the U.S. market, the Lumia 900. It’s basically the Lumia 800, but with a larger 4.3 inch screen, front facing camera, and AT&T 4G LTE connectivity. Those of us living on the other side…
Nokia may not be doing so hot in the smartphone market, but when it comes to feature phones they’re still kicking ass and taking names. The Finnish handset vendor has just announced that they’ve sold 1.5 billion feature phones running their proprietary S40 operating system. The 1.5 billionth device was purchased by Mayara Rodrigues, age…
Nokia just got slapped with a $57,000 fine for spam texting Australian customers. The world’s largest maker of mobile phones agreed to the payment after being investigated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), according to a statement on the government entity’s website. The ACMA is responsible for regulating Australia’s Spam Act, which makes it…
Late last month we reported on a rumor that said Nokia was going to introduce two new color variants of the Lumia 800. The French website MonWindowsPhone said that white and yellow will soon join the existing color choices: black, cyan (blue), and magenta (pink). What they failed to say was when those color variants…
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we saw Nokia unveil their first high end Windows Phone device for the U.S. market, the Lumia 900. On the surface it’s pretty much exactly what we were expecting it to be, nothing more than a blown up Lumia 800. Under the hood there’s…