Nokia

920 Stock Levels Continue to Disappoint – UPDATED

November 27, 2012 | Jamieson Dean 17

Demand for Nokia’s Lumia 920 (what many consider to be the flagship WP8 phone) continues to be extremely high worldwide. Today was the launch of the device’s retail availability in Australia and not only were stock levels extraordinarily low, it appears there was only choice of colour (or not colour, as it were). Read More

Nokia camera guru logs out

November 26, 2012 | bishnoo

In another blow to the once-reigning cellphone giant Nokia, its Lead Program Manager for Imaging Experience – Damian Dinning has decided to call it a day and move on for “personal reasons”.

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Design and Differentiation: Interview with Nokia’s VP by TechRadar

October 5, 2012 | Jamieson Dean 1

TechRadar have posted an insightful article on the design principles used in the Lumia line of phones, informed by an interview with Kevin Shields, Executive Vice President of Nokia.

It’ covers some interesting ground and really highlights the dedication Nokia have to designing beautiful hardware; a dedication that many of us are soon to reap the benefits of. Read More

Nokia announce the Lumia 820 & 920

September 6, 2012 | CrisRowlands 10

Earlier today, Nokia streamed a keynote out across the interwebs where they showed off their new Windows Phone 8 devices and let me tell you, if you liked the Lumia 800 and 900, you’re gonna love these. Read More

Nokia promises changes at Sept 5th – “Nokia World”

August 30, 2012 | Yanko Andreev 4

As you might know Sept 5th is the date when Nokia is holding a joint event with Microsoft in New York City. And that can only mean one thing: Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 devices are coming. And the only … Read More

Nokia Navigation Concept – Drive, Maps, Transit and City lens in one place

July 12, 2012 | Yanko Andreev 12

When it comes to mobile mapping services, Nokia is the king. Nokia Maps has been Nokia’s killer location based service for years and now and together with Nokia Drive is offering free navigation for everyone. With the new Windows Phone 8 update Nokia Drive will become in every Windows Phone device. The new Windows Phone 8 will support offline maps, turn by turn directions, and will give developers access to map control and use the high quality global NAVTEQ mapping data. The basic idea in my concept is the availability Nokia Maps, Drive, Transport and City Lens to work together as one application. I named this app – Nokia Navi. Enables rich, customizable location-based navigation system with complete functionality for Maps, Positioning, Places, Directions, Traffic and more.

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Build an idea #20 – Nokia Drive Next Level

June 29, 2012 | Yanko Andreev 8

When it comes to mobile mapping services, Nokia is king. Nokia Maps has been Nokia’s killer location based service for years now and together with Nokia Drive is offering free navigation for everyone. With the new Windows Phone 8 … Read More

Goal.com 2012 Finals FREE for Nokia Windows Phone

June 9, 2012 | Saijo George 1

Euro 2012 is here and if you were waiting for the official Euro App on Windows Phone you are in luck if you are in a country where Orange is operating because it’s developed by them. But if you are a proud Nokia Lumia owner you can get the official Goal.com 2012 Finals app for free from the Nokia Marketplace which should cover you for all the Euro 2012 news and results.

The app offers you the Euro 2012 content from Goal.com , When you launch the app you get the info regarding the current or next upcoming match. It will tell you wime the game will begin. ( the app did give me info on when the game will begin in Australia, I am not sure it will do that for all region ) You can click on it bring up some stats about the teams past encounters and if the game is currently in progress you will get minute by minute progress report !! You can also check out the stats for upcoming games and full report for completed games.

Goal.com 2012 Finals Video

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Nokia Trailers released for Windows Phone

June 3, 2012 | Saijo George 3

After an exclusive Dark Knight app for Windows Phone, Nokia is pushing on its exclusive app lineup .. this time we have a movie trailers app called Nokia Trailers ( genius name don’t you think !!! ). As you can imagine it’s an app to view Hollywood movie trailers. You can stream the latest trailers or download them to your phone. There are some extra settings you can enable by letting the app access to location services and push messages.

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The Dark Knight Rises App exclusive for US Lumia Devices ?

June 3, 2012 | Saijo George 15

Nokia is at it again with another exclusive this time it’s a promo app for The Dark Knight Rises. I used to see promo apps for movies on the iPhone and I think this might be one of the first ones for our beloved platform. We have seen exclusive hardware for Lumia Dark Knight with Lumia 800 and the 900 and now we have an app / game to build up hype for a move that is downright the most anticipated title this year. The app is free and available via the Nokia Marketplace and now on to the bad news.

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Nokia to Launch Lumia 900 Batman Edition

May 29, 2012 | Vishnu Sudheendran 3

Batman fans are here for a treat from Nokia. You may remember that back in December Nokia launched Lumia 800 Dark Knight Rises limited edition handsets. Now Nokia is doing the same with Lumia 900 and will be launched in the coming weeks.

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Free Nokia Longboard Prop for your Avatar

May 22, 2012 | Saijo George 6

We have seen some Windows Phone related props in the past Beards & Beaks Avatar Prop and there was a Windows Phone one as well. Now Nokia and xBox has partnered to bring out some cool new Windows Phone props. Its available for free when you signup for the Windows Phone Insider Newsletter. You will get an email with a unique Redeem Code which you can claim on Xbox.com or on your xbox 360.

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Nokia Reading available for Download

May 21, 2012 | Saijo George 1

Nokia’s Reading for Windows Phone app is an ebook reader app / store for Nokia’s Lumia devices which allow in-app purchasing of ebooks. With similar apps from Audible very close to being released other OEM users need not worry too badly about this offering. You might also want to check out Spreadsong’s ebook app that offers books from the public domain. France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and the UK will receive the app first, with other countries speculated to get access later this year.

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[Developers] AppCampus is now accepting app submissions

May 15, 2012 | MSicc

A few weeks ago we reported about the AppCampus from Microsoft and Nokia.

Of course I registered for the AppCampus newsletter. Today I received a message that they are now accepting app submissions. Read the full mail below: Read More

Nokia Lumia 900 ads showing up across Europe

May 15, 2012 | MSicc 1

As we learned earlier today, the Nokia Lumia 610 is in delivery state in Europe. But that´s not all. As covered by several European Windows Phone news sites, the first Lumia 900 ads are showing up. Read More

Nokia starts delivery of Lumia 610 in Europe, up for pre-order in Russia

May 15, 2012 | MSicc 1

Today we received news from Europe and Russia about the Nokia Lumia 610. Read More

Siri more intelligent than we thought, explains which phone is the best ever [ video ]

May 12, 2012 | MSicc 12

Of course we would think Siri is going to tell us the best phone ever is the iPhone. We are wrong!

Just have a look on this image:

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Nokia adding its own Branded Marketplace Logo on Windows Phone Tango

May 11, 2012 | Saijo George 5

Nokia was given special privileges for coming on board the Windows Phone train, they have not really been pushing the boundaries other than adding some custom tiles and ringtones which even other OEMs have provided. Now TheVerge is reporting that Nokia is pushing out a Nokia branded Windows Phone Marketplace logo. The functionalities of the marketplace stays the same its just a pretty logo on top. Now this Nokia device is running on tango a.k.a Windows Phone 7.5 refresh so we are not yet sure if other OEM’s can bring out something similar.

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Nokia Lumia 900 now available in the UK, has Tango updates on board

May 10, 2012 | MSicc 2

From today on, Nokia’s flag ship device Lumia 900 is also available outside the US. The international version has no LTE but comes with HSPA+ on board. Read More

Nokia US president tells us: “Lumia 900 sells faster than we can make them” and testing AT&T stores personally

May 10, 2012 | MSicc 4

Nokia´s US president Chris Weber recently told the PCMag that they are winning over AT&T sales people. The Lumia 900 is sold faster than they can produce it.

On one part this is great news to hear. Read More