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Find all of our CES 2012 coverage here Check out the major mobile devices announced at CES 2012 Well, it’s been a heck of a week but CES 2012 is over and there’s no doubt that mobile is becoming a bigger part of the show every year. We’re still going to have more videos and…
Nokia and Microsoft’s ambitious marketing push in the US is about to begin. After a CES where Nokia CEO Stephen Elop hit not one, but three presentations in one day, the Finnish handset maker is now rolling out new commercials for its first two US handsets- the Lumia 710 and the Lumia 900. The 710 is Nokia’s entry-level Windows Phone handset. It’ll debut…
A couple of days ago we posted a story which had Morgan Stanley predicting 37 million Nokia handsets will ship in 2012. I wrote my concerns about numbers I felt were potentially too optimistic. Well, the folks over at TechRadar spotted a completely different spin on the story, which brings some validations to such a lofty prediction.…
In a Nokia developer newsletter sent out on Thursday, the Finnish handset maker confirmed the Lumia 900 will launch in March. It’s abundantly clear as the newsletter reads, “The Nokia Lumia 900 phone runs Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5. It is the biggest and fastest smartphone yet. And it will become available exclusively through AT&T in March.” It’s nice to know that the handset is…
When it comes to news about Microsoft, there’s really only two names I trust: Mary-Jo Foley from All About Microsoft and Paul Thurrott from the SuperSite for Windows. Now Paul’s been doing a weekly podcast with Leo Laporte from the TWiT.tv network for what feels like ages called Windows Weekly, and sometime last year Mary-Jo…
Earlier this week we saw Nokia announce not only their first 4G LTE smartphone, but their first smartphone to launch on America’s largest GSM operator. Yes, we’re talking about the Nokia Lumia 900. It’s pretty much the Lumia 800 that’s already out on the market in Europe and Asia, except is has a larger 4.3…
When we look back at CES 2012, we will be able to see if this was the critical moment where Nokia and Microsoft started to gain some traction in the U.S. smartphone market with the introduction of the Lumia 900. We sat down with Nokia Senior VP Kevin Shields and Microsoft’s Windows Phone head honcho…
Samsung had a great 2011, a year which had the Korean-based manufacturer becoming the number 1 smartphone maker in the world. Now, the company is poised to surpass Nokia as the top cell phone maker in the world, a place Nokia has held for a remarkable 14 years. Samsung’s chief executive Choi Gee-sung is confident…
Like existing 50,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace isn’t enough, Nokia announced few exclusive apps from major content providers like CNN, Univision, ESPN and Sesame Workshop. Under the deal, the apps will be available exclusively to Nokia consumers before they are made more widely available to all Windows Phone users. Here’s what they got:…
Nokia is bringing two of its Windows Phone devices to Canada. First we have the Lumia 710 which will be available exclusively from Rogers Communications this February for $49.99 on select 3-year plans. The second device is Lumia 800 and it’s “coming soon” (whatever that means) to TELUS. The carrier will offer the fancy Windows…