Oct 22
Smartwatch rumors seem to a dime-a-dozen these days, and now here’s another: Bloomberg is reporting that HTC has been working on an Android-based smartwatch,
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Oct 22
The not-so-secret project that Nokia has been working on for over the last year and a half (if not longer), the company’s Windows 8.1 RT tablet, is now official as the Lumia 2520. We had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with the slate, and we came away rather impressed with the hardware. The …
Oct 22
Nokia Lumia 1320 hands-on: a huge 720p Windows Phone with a budget-minded price
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We don’t know what it is about Nokia’s obsession with the caped crusader, but the Lumia 1320 — which was given the codename of Batman — isn’t the first time we’ve seen the superhero associated with the Finnish company. No matter: what’s important here is the fact that the 1320 has been officially …
Oct 22
AT&T will have exclusive on Nokia 1520 in the US, will sell the 2520 tablet also (update)
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All that fun over in Abu Dhabi, and all you really want to know is which of the new goodies can you buy? Well, if you’re in the US, and you fancy the new Nokia 1520, you’d better be on AT&T, as the network’s just announced it’s got the exclusive on it. It’ll also be adding the 2520 to its tablet …
Oct 22
Don’t act like you didn’t know this was coming. Nokia has finally removed the see-through shroud covering its latest high-end device, known as the Lumia 1520, at Nokia World in Abu Dhabi. Thing is, it’s not like any Windows Phone you’ve gazed upon before — it’s a top of the line smartphone with …
Oct 22
Nokia has two phablets to launch alongside Windows Phone 8.1, the flagship Lumia 1520 and the more affordable Lumia 1320, a 6-inch smartphone for the mainstream. Using a 720p display rather than the Full HD of the 1520, the Nokia Lumia 1320 keeps the LTE of its more expensive sibling but scales back on the […]
Oct 22
Finally, Windows Phone 8 gets true leading hardware: with the Nokia 1520, the Microsoft platform obtains its first high-end large-display smartphone equipped with a 1080p display and the latest Snapdragon 800 processor from Qualcomm. This couldn’t have come fast enough and Nokia is making history here.
This time, Nokia didn’t hold back on the specification, and we are finally going to see a Windows Phone that can go head to head with Android handsets without feeling “last-gen”. This is going to help Microsoft and Nokia quite a bit. No matter what one can say, specs do matter, especially in a competitive market like we have today.
Nokia Lumia 1520 Leads Windows Phone Hardware original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 22
Microsoft is dead-set on keeping Windows RT with devices like the Surface 2, but now that it’s committed to shelling out $7.2 billion for Nokia’s devices business, the folks in Redmond have yet another source of hardware know-how to tap. Perhaps the earliest fruit of that reinforced partnership is the $499 Lumia 2520, Nokia’s newest tablet and its first to run Windows RT.
As a slew of leaks have already suggested, the 2520 doesn’t stray too far from the existing Lumia smartphone formula. The trademark polycarbonate Lumia body has been carried over, and with it comes much of the same design language – think gently curving midsections and tapered edges. Meanwhile, the whole shebang is powered by the same 2.2 GHz Snapdragon 800 we saw in the Lumia 1520.
But of course, there’s one thing you’ll probably notice before all of that. Nokia has outfitted the Lumia 2520 with a 10.1-inch IPS LCD panel that runs at 1080p and is swathed in Corning’s Gorilla Glass 2. Some of Nokia’s mobile DNA has carried over into this tablet too: unlike what other companies have done, all Lumia 2520s will ship with LTE radios for mobile connectivity… whether or not their owners choose to fire up them is another question entirely.
But RT? Really? The platform has been critically derided, and at this point nearly every OEM of note save for Microsoft itself has publicly moved away from it. Considering its tight (and now tighter) relationship with Microsoft, it’s perhaps no surprise that Nokia is finally getting roped into building RT hardware. Thankfully, in typical Nokia fashion, the resulting device is as consumer-friendly a Windows RT tablet as I’ve ever seen.
I got the chance to play with the Lumia 2520 in New York while Ifi Majid (Nokia’s head of North American marketing) looked on, and one thing is for sure – the Lumia formula feels just right when applied to tablets. The Surface’s angular design and metallic chassis seemed tailor-made to evoke feelings of mechanical awe, but the 2520 is its friendlier, more colorful counterpart.
The 2520 is impressive on a technical level, too. The display is plenty crisp, and it’s capable of showing off Windows RT’s myriad colors without getting too lurid and in-your-face – its great viewing angles were only icing on the cake. And swiping through the start screen and firing up apps was as snappy as you’d expect considering the chipset running the show. If you’re an RT devotee (there’s bound to be a few of them, right?), make it a point to play with one. I suspect you’ll find a lot to like.
But can this be the sort of crossover device that Nokia and Microsoft really need? Nokia’s unveiling comes hours before Apple is set to show off some new iPads, and at this point there’s little question which device people will flock to more. With the Lumia 2520 though, Nokia seems intent on fighting Windows RT’s perception problem – Majid noted to me that if RT was originally positioned as a strong competitor to the iOS than as a me-too kid sibling of Windows 8, things may have turned out very differently.
Maybe the Lumia 2520 will be the device to finally turn things around for RT. Maybe it won’t. Either way, it seems clear that RT isn’t dead just yet.
This is a developing story, please refresh for updates.
Oct 22
If you have heard some rumors about a Nokia Tablet, they were true. Nokia just launched the 2520, a 10.1” Windows RT tablet that comes with a 1080p IPS display low reflectance (+Gorilla Glass 2). Unlike many other Windows tablets that have been launched recently, the Nokia 2520 will feature 4G LTE from the get go (along with WiFi of course). Interestingly, this could also be a tablet that comes with a good camera. In the back, there is a 6.7 Megapixel camera equipped with a Carl Zeiss lens that Nokia likes so much. It can capture 1080p video at 60FPS and we’re looking forward to seeing it in action. The front camera is a more regular 2 Megapixel.
Nokia Lumia 2520 Tablet Becomes Real original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 22
BAMAKO, Mali — When radical Islamists surged across northern Mali last year, temporarily seizing control of major cities and imposing a harsh form of religious law, they earned a stern public rebuke from an unexpected religious source.
“What right do they have to take up arms to tell us how to practice Islam in our country?” Mahmoud Dicko, the head of Mali’s High Islamic Council, said in an interview at the time. “What right do they have to impose the Shariah here?”
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