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French website Mon Windows Phone, which translates to My Windows Phone, recently posted snippets from an article in a local newspaper that they failed to name Les Echos. Said article has several quotes from Paul Amsellem, Head of Nokia France, that confirm what many of us have been feeling ever since we saw Nokia unveil…
As part of its “strategy” to kill the Ovi brand, Nokia has renamed Ovi Suite to Nokia Suite and has released a new version of the PC software (for Windows). The new release is out after “spending” a month in beta and is now ready for the prime time. Aside from the name change, this…
Microsoft’s next version of Windows Phone is going to be called Tango. Calling it a whole new version isn’t really fair though, because it’s really just a service pack. Remember when Windows Phone first launched in the fall of 2009? Less than half a year later Microsoft issued an update to the OS called “NoDo”…
So you want to know what happened behind the scenes during Nokia’s development of Lumia 800, their first Windows Phone device? Well the Espoo-based company thinks it has a story to tell, hence the following video has been released through popular video sharing sites. It’s an 8-minute long clip, so you better set aside a…
If you were hoping to get a Nokia Lumia 800 but live in the United States, you’re out of luck this year unless you want to pay an arm and a leg for the thing. Fear not though, as an exclusive report from The Verge says that the Nokia Windows Phone should be landing on…
Nokia’s decided to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their Research Center by releasing a concept video for a device that they’re calling GEM. It’s a phone that’s basically all screen. The whole thing. There is no bezel, no metal, no plastic, the whole handset is a touch screen surface. The Finnish handset maker thinks that…
Telefónica, one of the world’s largest operators, better known as O2 in some territories, doesn’t have too many nice things to say about Nokia’s first Windows Phones. The Lumia 710 and Lumia 800, which were introduced at Nokia World last month, are “too expensive” according to Simon Lee-Smith, European General Manager for Devices. He feels…
RIM made its debut in the Greenpaece Guide to Greener Electronics this month, and it’s not a good start. The maker of BlackBerry is dead last among other electronics manufacturers, including LG, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, and Apple. RIM gets a beating in the ratings for not providing external verification of its greenhouse gas emission…
Say what you want about iOS, Android, or Windows Phone, and how each of those platforms have their respective strengths and weaknesses. For those folks who simply want the best camera phone on the market, Nokia’s been targeting that audience since the N90 started shipping in Q2 2005 thanks to the combination of the company’s…
Nokia showed off a cool concept in bendable smartphones last month, but there was another device along the same vein called HumanForm which we only saw briefly in our video demo. Besides being able to do the stuff like twist to browse and bend to zoom, the HumanForm would include gesture interaction, so you could…