Here’s a surprise bombshell to liven up your day; Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei’s consumer group has mentioned that they are actively looking at the possibility of buying out Nokia. Although they haven’t made an offer to Nokia nor approached them with the idea, he said: We are considering these sorts of acquisitions; maybe the combination has [...]
The HERE maps mapping database has just received another hefty overhauling bringing more roads, buildings and traffic to your phone, the update brings: Better map coverage for Tunisia, Senegal and Cyprus 1.86 million building outlines in Croatia Public transit for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (would HERE Transit work there now?) Trucking routes and other changes [...]
First up, the RM-877 passess FCC, now the RM-875 gets a pass too. The dimensions and antenna layout is identical to the RM-877 and was also tested with a camera grip accessory and wireless charging cover Source: FCC Via: Engadget Cheers Prashant for the tip!
Gameloft have a bunch of games on sale at the WPStore. I think I picked up Assassin’s creed for free in another promo in February. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/mobile/promotions/gameloft Annoyingly, Splinter Cell Conviction is still for WP7 only. What gives? As soon as my WiFi returns, I think I’m going to get The Dark Knight Rises The Amazing [...]
For anyone interested in the Lumia 928 Amazon have it for $29.99 on contract (of course), so you can grab one from the link below (white or black): Nokia Lumia 928, White (Verizon Wireless) Nokia Lumia 928, Black (Verizon Wireless) And hey while you’re at it, you really can’t go wrong with a 52 cent [...]
Hot on the heels of Huawei saying they’d consider buying Nokia; then changing their minds all of a sudden; new details have emerged showing that Microsoft was actually talking with the folks at Nokia regarding buying out the devices division of the company. Apparently the deal fell through sometime last month after Nokia asked for [...]
Quick comparison between the HTC One and Nokia Lumia 925. Note, if mentioning marketing stuff like ‘ultrapixel’ for HTC, then might be fair mentioning ‘PureView’ for the 925, eh? Kudos on Basil for chatting about both devices on the fly though. Nokia Lumia 925 performs better than the HTC One camera apparently. Just not as [...]
Another swarm of updates for my Nokia Lumia 920: Tube Map – Edgware Road is closing until december so the map is updated for that. They also snuck in some bug updates. v1.4.0.6 V2.5 gets facebook login to play with friends, share scores over FB/Twitter, improved stability/performance/15 supported puzzle languages, more on the way, Themes [...]
The Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 925 are pitted against the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One. Each the respective flagship of the brand. The Nokia Lumia 925 is bar none the absolute best performer in low light, but also captures great detail in day time too, limited this time it seems by the [...]
In case anyone had any doubt what would be revealed in New York on July 11th 2013, well worry no more. Nokia Conversations have just outed the 41 MP camera, by way of 41 million reasons. It’s also the ‘zoom reinvented’ thing. http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/06/19/41-million-reasons-to-zoom-in-to-nokia-conversations-on-july-11th/ Exciting stuff peeps. Cheers arts, pshoot, adam, jayadeep, beyazid, amish and karl [...]
We’ve established that WP8 runs pretty smoothly even on the lowest device on the hardware spectrum, but what about actual gaming performance. True WP8 doesn’t have the more taxing games (but it’s getting there, with the inclusion of some of the more graphic intense games such as N.O.V.A 3). The other issue facing these limited hardware devices [...]
Yesterday, Chairman of Huawei’s consumer group supposedly indicated that Huawei was actively looking to buy out Nokia. Reuters now reports that is not the case. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/18/us-nokia-huawei-idUSBRE95H15S20130618 Via Reddit (bit of a redditception there as that post is from here too haha) Bill Plummer, Huawei’s VP for external affairs denies considering buying Nokia and has apparently [...]
Whilst looking up Pelican Imaging, the start up which Nokia has investment in for its Lumia range, I came across a new video. Below, instead of showing off the Lytro style imaging where you can capture and alter the depth after taking a picture, it shows off 3D video. 3D video has been done before [...]
Is this that deceptively slim Nokia EOS we’ve heard about? From the shells we’ve seen so far, they look pretty much like the 920 but with a hump. This one looks decisively slimmer or is that just the white and lighting? Reading the comments, it may be that the Aluminium EOS are said to be Nokia Phablets [...]
Nice little promo for the youthful and vibrant Nokia Lumia 520. Good local direction here, where the 520 is said to be going quite strong. Whilst this is about Nokia music, there are also subtle hints on what else the 520 can do (e.g. exchangeable shells).
You may remember a parkour video shot entirely on the Nokia Lumia 920 which involved in some scenes, an octocopter. Here’s a behind the scenes look at how Nokia filmed it. Message from Nokia: Hi My Nokia Blog, We wanted to put the video capture capabilities of the Nokia Lumia 920 to the test – so we filmed Red Bull’s freerunning World [...]
According to reports from WPDang, Microsoft is going to be giving final control over updates to Nokia (and other OEMs). Microsoft will do the basics, i.e. GDR2. Then there’s the handset specific stuff, either the handset itself or the chips inside them, plus any additional firmwares that need testing. This is then processed by carriers [...]
Quite a wave of updates arrived on my 920 this morning. Blink, Baconit, Storage Check, Indigo, Royal Revolt and Ringtones. There may of course be more but it is limited to updating apps I have installed. Blink has a whole bunch of camera options Has an animation bit (almost like cinemagraph) Storage check gets bug [...]
Here’s a surprise bombshell to liven up your day; Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei’s consumer group has mentioned that they are actively looking at the possibility of buying out Nokia. Although they haven’t made an offer to Nokia nor approached them with the idea, he said: We are considering these sorts of acquisitions; maybe the combination has [...]
From Nokia Connects: We wanted to get in touch to let you know about an awesome competition Nokia and Burton are running as we’d love to get you and your community involved! We’ve partnered with Talenthouse and Dazed & Confused Magazine to give three aspiring photographers the chance to join Nokia’s official AAA team at [...]
These are the AKG-551 (White) ‘Reference Class’ headphones (by Harmann) that we received last week. Due to exams I’m only posting about it now. Cheers to the folks from Bite. AKG Reference-Class Over-Ear Headphones (Silver) Over-Ear Passive noise cancellation (prevents sound leakage from headphones quite well) in line microphone (haven’t got it to work with [...]
On a few of developer pages related to Nokia it appears that Nokia are testing out the Snapdragon 800 SOC which comes with the Adreno 330, one of if not the fastest chip available at the moment. The Snapdragon 800 series supports up to 55MP, “ultra HD capture” and displays up to 2560×2048 (nice for [...]
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