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Mobile World Congress, the largest wireless exhibition on the fact of the planet, is set to kick off in just two weeks. We’ll be there trying to cover the glut of smartphone and tablet announcements, of course, but thanks to Pocketnow our job may have just gotten a whole lot easier. Apparently they just got…
ZTE’s upcoming Tania Windows Phone is a smartphone we’ve known about since September of last year. For those of you who may not remember the device, it sports a 4.3 inch screen that pushes 800 x 480 pixels and has the specs of just about every other Windows Phone on the market: 1 GHz Qualcomm…
China, the world’s second largest economy comprised of over a billion people, hasn’t been very nice to Nokia. When the Finnish handset maker reported their Q4 2011 financial results late last month, they said that handset sales in China fell 33% year on year to less than 15 million units. What’s a phone maker to…
We’re just two weeks away until Mobile World Congress kicks off, the largest mobile exhibition on the face of the planet. Everything that gets announced there usually ends up being talked about for the next 12 months, case in point the Samsung Galaxy S II. This year we’re sad to report that Samsung isn’t going…
That sexy lookin’ white Nokia Lumia 800 is now available for pre-ordering in the UK. The retailer offering it is MobileFun, which lists the device for whopping 429.95 GBP, which translates into $681. Now we know Europeans are used to paying more for unlocked devices (when compared to the U.S.), but that’s still a lot…
Victor Saeijs (pictured above, center), Senior Vice President at Nokia Europe, told Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri that Nokia doesn’t have a backup plan should their marriage with Microsoft fall to produce any meaningful results. His exact quote: “Plan B is for Plan A is to succeed.” Victor goes on to say that the recently launched…
Some enthusiastic Nokia fan out there put together a pretty incredible concept design of what a Lumia tablet would look like. The mock-up incorporates elements from both the Lumia 800 and N8, as the camera isn’t in the middle but in the top left corner which is a unique place to put a camera on…
Microsoft has sent out invites for a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event Feb. 29 and this will take place during the Mobile World Congress trade show, which indicates we may see multiple ARM-based tablets running this operating system. Microsoft introduced Windows 8 in September of last year as a developer preview and this included a…
If you’re looking for a new smartphone or tablet on T-Mobile, you should probably go into your local store this Saturday (Feb. 11) because T-Mobile is having a Valentine’s Day sale which includes free 4G devices with a new contract. All of the smartphones or tablets will be “free” with a mail-in rebate and a…
Nokia’s Lumia 800, which was announced in late October of last year, then hit the market a few weeks later in mid November, is finally coming to the United States. It’ll be available from Microsoft’s retail stores starting next Tuesday, otherwise known as Valentine’s Day, for $900. Now that price tag might seem a bit…