Advertisements TheVerge have an editorial by Vlad about how Microsoft has put the nail on Nokia’s coffin. With the exit of Elop and Harlow, Vlad says: Any glimmer of hope that Nokia wouldn’t be subsumed into the Microsoft monolith and would continue along its own path, albeit under a different name, has today been extinguished. […]
At E3, Microsoft built a pretty cool Halo 5 Hololens experience. They’ve built the inside of a UNSC ship and with Hololens, mixed digital with the physical reality. As opposed to VR where you’re looking completely and only at a screen, Hololens superimposes objects into your real life surroundings. Your eyes have a direct line […]
OK, just reiterating quite an important thing that seemed to take less prominence here because of the Elop news… Microsoft is merging both Hardware and Software divisions into ONE Unit.Windows, Windows Phone/Mobile, Surface, Xbox, Lumia, HoloLens, Surface Hub and Band. Terry Myerson is getting this even bigger responsibility, essentially the next top guy after Nadella, […]
There’s another shift to the positions at Microsoft. Quite a big name is heading out for retirement. Stephen Elop! Once from Microsoft, he took the helm at Nokia as the first non-Finnish CEO with much controversy. Burning platform, Feb 11 Partnership with MS Lumia No more MeeGo The results were not to everyone’s expectations to […]
LG Electronics and Nokia Technologies agree on smartphone patent license Espoo, Finland – LG Electronics has agreed to take a royalty-bearing smartphone patent license from Nokia Technologies. The Korean company is the latest of more than 60 licensees for Nokia’s 2G, 3G and 4G mobile communication technologies and the first major smartphone manufacturer to join […]
Peter Skillman was Head of Design for HERE up until today. Amongst Nokians, we knew him better as the guy who came from Palm back in the fall of September 2012. Skillman was then the new Nokia guy involved in the fantastic looking WebOS (as VP of Palm design), and then as Nokia’s VP MeeGo […]
If the Nokia and Microsoft partnership continued independently as per original plans, Nokia would have unveiled their own smartwatch. After the D&S purchase, Nokia’s smartwatch project was cancelled (though Microsoft did continue to release their “band”. The boxiness of Metro kinda fits the smaller screen of a smartwatch. I think it probably doesn’t need the […]
For a long time after all the Nokia rebranding to Microsoft, one of the publicly named Nokia things remained the same – the Nokia Theatre in LA. Usually when looking up Nokia videos on YouTube, there’d often be videos unrelated to Nokia handsets but performances at the Nokia Theatre. Source Via
On this link is a video showing Windows 10 Mobile, build 10134. http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/4VqeTHhBj7g/?resourceId=401989366_06_02_99 Search is now a text box instead of an icon You can now swipe through People, Phone and Alarms/Clock as if they were hubs. 768P and above screens now have tablet/PC UI for Settings in horizontal orientation. You can now access non-universal […]
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