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The latest crop of Nokia’s Windows Phone handsets are known for their fantastic Pureview cameras. Besides stellar hardware, the phones also ship with a suite of photography apps including a Panorama app that’s perfect for photographing your surroundings. It’s a wonderful app that takes fantastic landscape photos, with one glaring omission — it fell short…
Vodafone is blessing those of you who live in New Zealand by offering the Nokia Lumia 925. The 925 is a respected device that carries that same beautiful polycarbonate hardware with the added aluminum edges. As a reminder, the Nokia Lumia 925 is a thin piece hardware that packs a 4.5-inch AMOLED screen with Gorilla…
While the GDR2 Windows Phone update has rolled out earlier this year, some Lumia 920 customers are still wondering where their update is. AT&T had promised both the GDR2 and Amber updates for the Lumia 920 and 820 handsets before the end of September, so where are they? An AT&T representative on the AT&T forums has…
Maybe those dead batteries aren’t so dead. Most discarded batteries have an average of 400 milliamps of power left in them, which means that we’re throwing out a lot of already purchased energy. Vitamilk, Thailand’s leading soymilk brand has created an interesting way to power smartphones by using what would be considered to us just…
Nokia is relying on its powerful mapping service and augmented reality to help college grads equipped with a Lumia smartphone land internship. It is estimated that 54% of recent U.S. college grads are either out of work, or underemployed. Presuming they have a compatible Windows Phone (made by Nokia), they get to benefit from this…
Nokia will be launching six new devices at its Innovation Reinvented event in Abu Dhabi next month on October 22nd, according to The Verge. Along with the new devices will come a host of new accessories. One of the devices to be released is assumed to be the Nokia Lumia 1520, which is rumored to…
It’s an annoyance that anyone who flies has to deal with, powering down your devices at take off and landing. The polite but firm voice of the flight attendant telling you “All the way off, please!”. It’s a pain more than ever now, as most of us travel with electronics to entertain us, or to…
New York state is taking texting and driving very seriously by introducing dedicated “texting zones” on New York highways. Here’s the interesting part though; New York will not be constructing new areas, just rebranding current rest stops and parking areas as safe places to text, check a Facebook status or put a new pic up…
An infographic showing pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about the state of mobile is here! The infographic comes to us from Supermonitoring.com and shows everything from mobile adoption, vendors and platforms, e-commerce, mobile payments and advertising. According to the infographic, around 50% of internet users worldwide are using mobile devices as their…
Microsoft announced the new and improved Surface 2. This was after the company came out and lead the event by unveiling the Surface Pro 2. Similar to the Pro 2, the next generation Surface RT didn’t change anything major with the hardware as it kept the same 10.6-inch display and overall look. However the hardware…