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We’ve already heard that Nokia is planning to bring its monster camera technology to the Windows Phone platform. As a result, we should get a device with a 808 PureView-like camera sensor and modern mobile OS. However, we still don’t know when that will happen… According to an article at The Guardian, this summer Nokia…
Samsung ATIV S is now available in Germany. The ATIV S is Samsung’s flagship Windows Phone device that resembles the style and look of the Korean manufacturers Galaxy S line with Android. This handset carries a few interesting features such as today’s standard 4.8-inch display, SD support, and SAMOLED screen technology. According to WPArea, potential customers…
Nokia, the mobile phone vendor that has been focusing on Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS more than any other hardware manufacturer, hinted in an interview that Windows 8 tablets might be in its future. Specifically, CEO Stephen Elop told Australian Financial Review the company is examining how other form factors beyond just smartphones would play out for…
In one of its newer studies, ABI Research is looking at the smartphone market and the various platform shares. Android is leading the pack, accounting for 57% of all smartphones, while iOS is second with 21% of the market. When it comes to tablets, the situation is opposite, with Apple’s iPads dominating the market and…
Looks like HTC and Microsoft have started rolling out Windows Phone 7.8 updates in select parts of the world, with users in Italy reporting getting the goods. As you can see from the image above, the HD7 received the latest version of the platform it can handle, running firmware version 7.10.8858.136. The new software is…
T-Mobile is going to send a special update to its Nokia Lumia 810 so it can support LTE. According to Engadget, the Lumia 810 is one of three handsets (the other two include the Galaxy Note II and Nexus 4) the network will add LTE support via this software update. However, no one knows exactly when…
Google’s original idea was to cutoff Exchange ActiveSync support at the end of January. The plan, however, is changed and the date is now extended through July 31st. According to a statement sent to TheVerge, the search giant will “start rolling out this change as planned across all platforms but will continue to support Google…
The beads of sweat might be coming a little less swiftly for Microsoft surrounding Google’s cutoff for Exchange ActiveSync support for Windows Phone. Microsoft’s extension request to Google has proven fruitful, and the new cutoff date is now July 31st. This is after Microsoft had announced that it would begin working on support for CardDAV and CalDAV. For…
LG has released it’s earnings report for Q4 2012, revealing that it pulled in a revenue of $2.58 billion by shipping 15.4 million devices, with 8.6 million of those devices being Android smartphones. Compare that to Q3 2012, in which LG sold only 7 million smartphones. That means that LG saw a 23 percent increase…
A spokesperson for Microsoft confirmed today that the 64GB flavor of the Microsoft Surface Pro, which goes on sale February 9th, will have a dramatically low amount of storage that buyers can actually utilize. Only 23GB of the 64GB is available to users to store their own content. That’s less than half of the total…