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Archive for June 23rd, 2013

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Lumiappdates: Metrotube, YouTube player updated

Lumiappdates: Metrotube, YouTube player updated

| June 23, 2013 | Reply

Advertisements MetroTube got updated to v4.0.3.0. It’s one of the beautiful, slick, Metro style YouTube apps for WP. Like several of the cool WP developers, you can have the app fully free and unrestricted, but if you like it enough to show your support you can buy it. Can’t seem to see any notes of […]

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Nokia Exclusive Apps temporarily available to Non Nokia Lumia by glitch

Nokia Exclusive Apps temporarily available to Non Nokia Lumia by glitch

| June 23, 2013 | 2 Replies

The picture above might look like another pre-emptive move from Huawei to get ever closer to Nokia but no. A glitch in the Windows Phone store has recently meant that Non-Nokia devices get access to Nokia exclusive apps. The glitch requires you to put your store through a proxy, which might seem like a huge […]

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Weekend Watch: Nokia Asha 501 Nokia India Ad

Weekend Watch: Nokia Asha 501 Nokia India Ad

| June 23, 2013 | 7 Replies

Here’s a promo for the Nokia Asha 501 from Nokia India, featuring that remixed Nokia tune.

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July 1st may see Windows and Windows Phone division merger?

July 1st may see Windows and Windows Phone division merger?

| June 23, 2013 | 50 Replies

  A couple of weeks ago we heard that Microsoft maybe merging the Windows and Windows Phone division. There’s more legs behind this as TheVerge and AllThingsD report this may take place as soon as July 1st. It would be one of four main sectors at MS. AllThingsD via TheVerge Ideally a unified Windows division will […]

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Confirmation: Windows Flag on Lumia 925 Does Act as a Notification Light (of sorts)

Confirmation: Windows Flag on Lumia 925 Does Act as a Notification Light (of sorts)

| June 23, 2013 | 29 Replies

There’s been a fair bit of confusion regarding the Windows/Home button on the Lumia 925, and whether it can act as a notification light or not. Well it seems that it does indeed “breathe” to show off new notifications as seen in the video below; kindly demoed by Ellen on her Lumia 925 with Firmware revision number: […]

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Weekend Read: Business Insider – “Maybe there’s hope for Microsoft yet”

Weekend Read: Business Insider – “Maybe there’s hope for Microsoft yet”

| June 23, 2013 | 4 Replies

Here’s a random article from the Business Insider about normal non-techies switching to Windows Phone. The dentist looked over at my puny iPhone and said (paraphrasing), “You still have an iPhone?  Ugh. Best move I ever made was ditching that thing. “My IT guys gave me this,” he said. “I love it. So simple. Everything […]

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Weekend Watch: Nokia Asha 501 Hands on (GSMArena)

Weekend Watch: Nokia Asha 501 Hands on (GSMArena)

| June 23, 2013 | 37 Replies

GSM Arena have a little play with the new Nokia Asha 501 which has the new S40 Asha Touch (N9 like) interface. They talk about the hardware at first and then software. GSM Arena

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Weekend Watch: Nokia 808 PureView vs Samsung Galaxy SIV Zoom

Weekend Watch: Nokia 808 PureView vs Samsung Galaxy SIV Zoom

| June 23, 2013 | 62 Replies

Watching this video, I’m feeling the original purpose of the 41MP sensor (of which is the largest ever on a mobile device, not in terms of just MP count but the actual sensor size) is lost. Zooming ‘lossless’ is awesome but the biggest thing is PureView – SuperPixel, combining several pixels into one perfect pixel […]

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Weekend Read: Why Microsoft Shouldn’t Acquire Nokia

Weekend Read: Why Microsoft Shouldn’t Acquire Nokia

| June 23, 2013 | 20 Replies

Last week we heard a bunch of stories/rumors regarding potential buyouts of Nokia; namely from Huawei and Microsoft. When the story of talks between Microsoft and Nokia fell through I felt something was off, especially since Microsoft didn’t seem to gain anything from purchasing a company that was already 100% committed to their platform (and […]

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