Instagram for Windows Phone is just a few weeks away, Microsoft and Nokia have confirmed, with the much-anticipated photo sharing app one of a range of new titles for the platform. The Facebook-owned title joins Xbox Video, Flipboard, and a number of Nokia’s homegrown titles launching alongside the Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1320 today, with […]
Nokia is readying its next Windows Phone update, Lumia Black, which will build on Microsoft’s GDR3 with a number of new features for its existing WP8 range. The new software will bring features like Nokia Camera, which pulls together the previous Nokia Pro Camera and Smart Camera apps into a single interface, to the company’s […]
Nokia has launched the Lumia 1520, the company’s flagship phablet with a 6-inch Full HD screen, Windows Phone 8.1, and a 20-megapixel PureView camera borrowing the lossless digital zoom from the Lumia 1020. Nokia’s biggest Windows Phone to-date, the Lumia 1520 runs the latest version of Microsoft’s smartphone platform on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 2.2GHz quadcore, […]
Microsoft has created a bevy of “WebApps” for Windows Phone based on almost 50 popular and commercial websites like Southwest Airlines, Cars.com, TV.com, Listverse and Billboard. The WebApps live on the homescreen with the rest of the apps, but they are essentially the same as the websites they correspond to. The apps do not simply […]
Nokia used to be the de facto name when it came to mobile phones, but somewhere along the way, something went wrong – and they were knocked off their perch by the slew of smartphones that were released by other manufacturers. Well, the Finnish company has decided to throw their weight behind Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, and they have grown from strength to strength, with a reported 8 million plus Nokia Lumia smartphones sold in the previous quarter.
This would include a gradually increasing smartphone market share in both Europe and Asia, with a most recent report from The Wall Street Journal citing that the company could have sold over 8 million Lumia smartphones in the past quarter. It is certainly good news by any means, considering how the company has been struggling for quite some time already. Hopefully Nokia will be able to build and consolidate itself even further from four consecutive quarters of increased sales of Nokia Lumias.
It is tipped that the 8 million plus devices sold in the previous quarter is more than double the amount sold during a corresponding period last year, while marking an increase from its previous sales figure of 7.4 million for the second quarter of 2013. Are you happy that Nokia is doing better?
More Than 8 Million Nokia Lumia Smartphones Sold This Quarter, Says WSJ original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Here’s one more bit to add to the growing Nokia Lumia 1520 checklist, this time indirectly coming from Nokia itself. One of the company’s Chinese partners has inadvertently leaked some of the hardware and pricing details for Nokia’s rumored phablet. Our picture of this new Nokia smartphone, codenamed “Bandit”, is far from complete, but some […]
It would seem that one of the biggest names behind the touchscreens you use every day, Synaptics, have made the push for a next-generation solution for Windows 8.1 with Active Pen abilities. What this means for future Windows 8.1 device makers is that they’ll be able to say they’ve got pen support right out of […]
Nokia will bundle Netflix streaming video access with new purchases of the Lumia 1020 on select carriers, it’s reported, with the media subscription aiming to sweeten the deal in the competitive UK market over the holiday period. Purchases of the 41-megapixel Windows Phone on carrier Vodafone UK will get a year’s use of Netflix bundled, […]
The system update to Windows Phone 8 known as GDR3 is coming soon, and having been announced by Microsoft just this week, we’ll find it coming to developers as soon as tomorrow. The rest of the humble citizens of the Windows Phone 8 universe will have to wait a few more weeks – but once […]
Microsoft is certainly serious with their Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system, as they have introduced Update 3 for Windows Phone 8. Update 3 will bring with it additional live tiles among other improvements as well as new features, which should do its part to ensure that the smartphone platform would be able to make it through this holiday sales cycle without missing out on a single bit. Some of the new set of code would be additional support for faster processors, larger displays, higher resolution displays, and improved Internet sharing among others.
This is definitely the ideal way to celebrate Windows Phone’s third birthday as a public smartphone platform. Basically, you can drop the Windows Phone 8.1 moniker as its carries the official name of ‘Windows Phone 8 Update 3.’ Oh yeah, did we forget to mention that the update will also bring along with it accessibility upgrades, in addition to a brand new developer program which would ensure that this new firmware would end up in the hands of developers in a faster manner than ever before. It does seem as though Microsoft is hoping that new hardware is required to breath new life into its range of Windows Phone handsets, instead of dramatically revamped software, as part of its effort to increase their market share. Do you share a similar sentiment?
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