Heyyo, names Ali- Currently a fourth year Dental Student from Chicago; studying in Jordan. I love all sorts of gadgets almost as much as I love my cookies! (Have: Green Nokia N8, Cyan Lumia 800, Black N9, Stormtrooper White Lumia 900, Black 808 PureView, Red Lumia 920). Follow my twitter handle '@AliQudsi' - no pressure. Thanks.
(Rant that was delayed due to exams), Ok let’s start….. This past month alone Nokia launched two new “Hero/Flagship” devices, the 925 being the one with the larger spotlight. One consistent comment I’ve read is “they’re the same damn phone!!”; and let’s face it, short of an extra lens in the 925 and a Xenon flash [...]
Back when the Lumia 925 launched some thought that having the antenna in the metal band around the phone would affect the reception, leading to a death grip as was the case with the iPhone 4. Thankfully as Jay demonstrated in one of the hands on videos, that is not the case with the 925 [...]
The one and only thing keeping me from using the Lumia 720 as my absolute daily driver is the ram limitation, the 512 Mbs although capable of running WP8 as an OS smoothly becomes an issue when some apps can’t run on the device due to it. Or even worse, some apps fail to resume [...]
So yesterday I watched Fast & Furious 6 at the movies, and at first I thought I was imagining things. I caught a glimpse of the plastic end caps of a N8; nothing too suggestive, but after that I knew something was up; without fail almost every single phone in the movie was a Nokia… [...]
According to multiple user reports, the newly released Lumia 928 on Verizon is shipping “sim unlocked” for GSm (4g not LTE) networks; meaning you can use it on At&t, T-mobile and other networks if you decide to travel. This is great news to everyone who is on the network (and has a 928) because it [...]
For some reason or the other Nokia have always insisted on NOT including “HDR” in pretty much all their phones, the 808 has “bracketing mode” but that’s about it. Of course HDR is kind of useful sometimes, and sometimes people have no idea what it is, but constantly have it set to on, on their [...]
Although it’s been obvious for quite some time, Nokia have officially announced their partnership with WarnerBrothers and the Man of Steel movie. This of course means loads of teaser material, exclusive wallpapers and fun apps. Using the Lumia 925 on the new site will let you see “More than your eyes can see” thanks to [...]
Nokia has a thing for superhero movies (or so it would appear), strongly associating themselves with the Dark Knight franchise and now the new Superman Movie “Man of Steel”. In their latest trailer/teaser they have a snippet of the new Man of Steel trailer playing inside a steel bodied Lumia 925 (I see what you did there). [...]
Although at the end of the day the only thing that really matters in the smartphone race is the number of phones you ship/sell, these numbers are of course influenced by a number of factors including customer satisfaction. In the latest poll Nokia have risen to 76% (tying with Samsung), while Apple who still hold first place slipped [...]
In another (actually impressive) video promo by Verizon, they show off the Lumia 928′s abilities to take the perfect low light picture. plain and simple no bashing of the S3 or the iPhone, just showing how much better pictures come out; and I thought it was actually really nice: What do you guys think? Via [...]
One of the things that impressed me about the Lumia 720 back at MWC was the video quality, sure it only captured 720p but it was impressive, especially the front facing camera. The FFC on the 720 has the same 1.3 mp sensor/720p capable as the Lumia 920 (with the same wide angle lens). So I thought [...]
So I’ve been playing around with the Lumia 720 for a couple of days now, and I’m absolutely in love with the design. The way the phone just fits in your hand, and the beautiful screen it is the perfect Lumia in terms of design in my opinion. Here’s a quick gallery comparing it to the Lumia 920; and a [...]
You know the saying “when it rains it pours”? Well it’s pouring Instagram clients right now, as yet another one has joined the tables. #2InstaWithMassiveLove (not to be confused with Nokia’s own #2InstaWithLove) has just hit the marketplace, and it delivers in the simple terms of allowing you to upload photos (after filtering them with the usual tones) directly [...]
It’s always interesting to look at how far technology has progressed, and although with the latest Lumia 925 we can see that obviously in terms of actual performance (blowing away the S4, One and everything else). It’s also nice to see what’s inside the device (which is what counts); the picture above is a side by side of the camera [...]
One of the most irritating things about the Windows Phone marketplace (besides the missing apps) is the fact that your purchase options are VERY limited, Paypal is only supported in a few countries, and I’m not even sure if carrier billing is an option. Even worse is the fact that there *was* no such thing [...]
Instagraph, Windows Phone’s first option to share photos to Instagram has just been updated with a few major updates, most importantly the fact that it now supports Windows Phone 7. Rejoice! Other features include a cheaper price tag (now $.99) and unlimited uploads unlimited uploads + 0.99$ for wp7 version too new crop page (without border limits, [...]
In the latest Nokia Conversations post comparing the Lumia 925 to the competition, they added a final note about the Lumia 920′s imaging performance: We’ll show you what difference the Nokia Lumia Amber Update makes to the photos from the Nokia Lumia 920 in the coming weeks… So hopefully we’re set to get some greater software optimization [...]
The folks at the official Nokia blog have posted a quick simple comparison of the Lumia 925 vs. the competition (Xperia Z, iPhone 5, S4, HTC One). Of course the 925 wins hands down (no surprises there) but check it out at the link below: http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/05/16/so-how-good-is-the-lumia-925-camera/
Our buddy Sam got a quick video showing off the double tap to wake feature on both the Lumia 920 and the 925, some were skeptical about it coming to the 920 due to needing some “hardware optimization” but it apparently works just fine. The real question is how will an always on screen fair? [...]
With todays announcement of Hipstamatic for WP Lumia users have one more option to share to instagram via. But they might not need it for much longer, in the latest Instagram for WP saga a new twitter account @InstagramWp was opened today; and the first person to follow it was the official @Nokia on twitter. Intriguing…… [...]
For some time now Lumia users have been calling for an improved camera UI experience on Windows Phone, and apparently that’s what someone did in the lumia 920 render above. The image above is from one of the slides displayed at today’s London event, rocking a sleek, clean new UI that adds more functionality to [...]
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