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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…
A leak from BGR suggests the Nokia Lumia 900 will land at AT&T on March 18th. This date isn’t surprising as earlier information pointed to a March release. What is surprising about this leak is the price point for the handset which could be as low as $99. This is much less expensive than most smartphones…
Let’s be honest, Windows Phone isn’t exactly a success. Everyone in the media says that it has incredible potential, that it’s beautiful, and that it’s the freshest take on a mobile smartphone operating system they’ve ever seen, but has that praise translated into actual sales? No. It hasn’t. Anyone remember the Palm Pre? Anyway, for…
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…
One of the banes of my existence has been the Microsoft Point system that’s used to purchase anything digital from a number of Microsoft’s online marketplaces including Zune, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Windows Phone Marketplace. According to a recent rumor published by insidemobileapps.com, it looks like Microsoft may finally be listening to its customers and…
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…
When Nokia first struct its partnership with Microsoft, the plan was to be the dominate provider for the Windows Phone platform. Well, that wish has come true as the Finnish-company is said to have taken up 50 percent market share of second-generation Windows Phone handsets, according to a new report from Occasional Gamer. While this…
Nokia has bet its future on Windows Phone, so how has its Lumia lineup been doing so far? Well, according to a report from Bloomberg, Nokia has sold roughly 1.3 million units through the end of last year. Nokia released the Lumia 800 and the 710 last year – roughly six months after it signed…