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Windows Phone, and Nokia in general, are doing pretty bad in the U.S. right now. Both companies are hoping that’ll change when the Lumia 900 comes out. Said smartphone was announced at the Consumer Electronic Show in January, but we’ve yet to hear a concrete launch date or price point. Anyway, that’s just one device.…
We’re just a few hours away from the unveiling of the next iPad and it’s clear that Apple will reassert its dominance in the tablet market with this new device. While we expect the iPad HD/iPad 3 to have some incredible new features, this may be the year that Apple finally finds some real competition…
Nokia has officially announced the dates for the 2012 Nokia World Conference. The annual conference for all things Nokia will take place September 25th and 26th at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre in Helsinki, Finland. The timing of Nokia World at the end of September lines up quite nicely with the expected Q4 2012…
Nokia’s first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, started shipping almost four months ago. A small percentage of early adopters who picked it up have had some issues with their battery. Either their device was burning through a full charge way too quickly, or worse yet they couldn’t even recharge their phone and had to replace…
Niklas Savander, Executive Vice President at Nokia, recently gave an interview to the folks at Pocket-lint where he told them that the Finnish handset maker needs to make some seriously low end smartphones if they have any chance of competing with Google’s Android ecosystem. His exact words: “We have a lot riding on the fact…
Let’s set the scene: June 23, 2007, the first generation iPhone has been out for less than a month, Nokia issues a press release announcing that they’re going to blow an undisclosed amount of money (rumored to be $97 million) on a web service no one has ever heard of: Twango. See, Nokia isn’t a…
A rumor is spreading that Verizon has canceled plans to offer a Nokia Windows Phone 7.5 device. This handset, codenamed Om, was shelved by Big Red following concerns over Windows Phone’s lack of LTE support. Speculation of an imminent launch of a Verizon Windows Phone has been swirling for weeks, with the company rumored to…
Earlier today, we reported that Nokia’s PureView technology, which took the press world by storm at Mobile World Congress last week, will be landing in Windows Phone 8 devices later this year. While we would certainly have to wait until around the holidays to get our hands on Windows Phone PureView goodness, little was known…
One of the most groundbreaking downloadable titles on XBLA, PSN, PC, and Mac has got to be Playdead’s Limbo as its simplistic gameplay mechanics and graphics delivered an experience that everyone who played it understood and loved from beginning to end. It kept the player guessing what would happen next as it didn’t reveal itself…
Nokia’s PureView camera technology captured the hearts of the tech bloggers at Mobile World Congress last week. The camera technology featured in Nokia PureView results in images far better than we’ve ever seen in a camera phone, especially in the standard 5 to 8 megapixel output modes that occur when PureView mode is engaged. Interestingly,…