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Nokia Reader comes to Series 40 'touch and type' devices
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This week, everyone's favorite Finnish phone fabricator announced the availability of Nokia Reader for Series 40 touch and type devices. Those familiar with the software know that Reader provides a flow of local and international headlines -- customized by you -- directly to your device's home screen. Nokia boasts that users of its C2-02, X3-02, C3-01, Asha 303 and Asha 300 handsets will be able to stay abreast on all the news without having to worry about battery consumption, thanks to Nokia Notifications. If we've piqued your interest, mosey on past the break to see a video of the bits in action then hit the source link to grab the goods.
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Nokia Lumia 900 also available for pre-order at Rogers Canada
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All the Nokia Lumia 900 fun is not just to be had on AT&T in USA. The Nokia Lumia 900 is also coming to Rogers Canada, and the handset actually became available on pre-order there first.
The handset is available there for $99 on a three year contract, and will also be $450 unlocked (which would to me seem to be the better option).
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Nokia's Lumia 800 firmware update juices handsets, banishes battery issues
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Still holding out on Nokia to squash any lingering battery bugs lurking inside your Lumia 800's beautiful shell? For some of you, today's your lucky day, as Espoo's just released a fresh batch of bits, which bring "significant improvements in battery performance and power management." We've seen version 1600.2487.8107 make the rounds once before, but previously when it was a Vodafone-branded variant -- which you may recall WPCentral discovered was responsible for an impressive 3x improvement (!) in battery life. Enhancements to audio are present in the build as well, with the company tweaking bass for "better voice quality" and your music enjoyment. Those ready to update should peep the Zune...
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Microsoft and Nokia to Invest Up to 18 Million Euros in Mobile Application Development Program at Aalto University
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To drive innovation and business opportunities in Finland’s mobile ecosystem and beyond, Microsoft Corp. and Nokia will each invest up to 9 million euros into a newly established mobile application development program at Aalto University during the next three years. The AppCampus program has been set up to foster the creation of innovative mobile applications for the Windows Phone ecosystem, and in addition Nokia platforms, including Symbian and Series 40, to create a new generation of self-sustaining mobile startups.
Kicking off in May 2012, the Finland-based program will be led and managed by Aalto University, which has a growing reputation as a hotbed of new startup companies. AppCampus i...
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White Lumia 800 now available on Telstra, other Australian retailers
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NokiaAustralia has announced on Twitter that the white Nokia Lumia 800 will not be available at a variety of Australian retailers, including Telstra. Till now only the Cyan and Black version has been available.
The Lumia handsets have just become available in Australia at the beginning of March and appears to be selling well, with several reports of stocks selling out.
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Apple, Nokia and RIM nano-SIM designs leak, will fight to the death
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Apple is trying to outmaneuver Nokia, RIM, Motorola and others, and introduce its own design for the next generation of SIM cards. It is signing up subsidiaries with voting rights to overturn Nokia's majority in the crucial period before the ETSI board votes in favor of a nano-SIM standard. The rest of the industry was hesitant that Apple will try and impose licencing fees on its mechanism, but Cupertino offered it all for free.
Apple's tray-loading proposal basically strips the plastic from the current micro-SIM cards that are in the iPhone 4/4S, but Nokia is concerned that the remaining part has the same length as the width of the current slots, so users might try and jam the cards sideway...
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Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T to support Visual Voicemail, but other Windows Phone users may not get it
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As we fully expected, the comments on our recent post about AT&T's apparent decision to not push out the lastest bugfix version of Windows Phone, 8107, have expressed a good deal of unhappiness. However, one comment in particular caught our eye, from scrapplejoe, which points out a thread at neogaf suggesting Visual Voicemail is present on the Lumia 900. In fact, there's an even deeper backstory involving a method of forced updating and clever data plan switching first discovered at xda-developers, with which it's possible to get Visual Voicemail working on a Nokia Lumia 800, Focus Flash, or even other devices on AT&T. The trick primarily requires two things: enabling a 4G LTE plan on AT&T (...
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Nokia Play To brings DLNA streaming to Windows Phone
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Nokia has released the beta version of its new Play To app, which will allow its Windows Phone users to stream content from their mobiles to other DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) connected devices.
These days DLNA streaming is found in most mid and high-end smartphones, with both Android and iPhone handsets offering various ways to share content with other devices.
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Nokia confirms 1,000 job cuts in Finland as restructuring continues
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It’s definitely not the best time to be on Nokia’s payroll. The Finns have already outlined the huge job cuts in Europe, but today has talks have been finalized and it’s confirmed that 1,000 employees at Nokia’s Finnish Salo plant will be laid off. It’s all a part of a radical reform that is supposed to finally bring Nokia back to its glory, but there are no guarantees that it will succeed.
Slashing 1,000 positions won’t happen overnight, of course. Some employees will have to go as early as June while others will stay by the end of the year.
Those who remain at Salo will switch focus on installing applications and tweaking models for European Nokia models.
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Windows Phone outselling Symbian in the UK
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Microsoft’s market share in the United States may have been slipping as of late, but what about in the UK? According to market research firm Kantar Worldpanel, Microsoft and Nokia’s gambit may be paying off: Windows Phone 7 has outsold Symbian handsets for the first time, and the Nokia Lumia 800 is proving popular across Europe too.
According to the research, 2.5% of UK consumers bought a Windows Phone handset compared to 2.4% for Symbian over a three month period that ended on February 19th. Not only that, but the Nokia Lumia 800 accounted for 87% of all Windows Phone sales in Europe. Windows Phone apparently does best in Germany, with it accounting for 3.1% of the market.
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Nokia files US patent for vibrating magnetic tattoo
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Nokia has filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a magnetic vibrating tattoo that would alert the bearer of various activity that needs attention on their wireless handset. The idea is that the inked person wouldn’t have to interrupt others with a buzzing cell phone in a quiet environment or alternatively, wouldn’t miss an important call in a very loud setting.
The process would involve an individual being tattooed with ferromagnetic inks that react to magnetic fields. The inks would first have to be demagnetized, then the user would have a tattoo applied with said ink (just like any other tattoo) and finally, the ink would have to be remagnetized afterwards by br...
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Now Nokia Lumia 710 also sold out on Optus Australia
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First the Black Nokia Lumia 800 ran out on Australian carrier Optus, and now scarcely 4 days alter, the Nokia Lumia 710 has followed suit, becoming unavailable on Optus’s virtual store shelves (stock likely remains in stores).
Unfortunately we of course do not know how much stock Optus had, but what is clear is that demand has certainly exceeded supply, which is always good news for Nokia’s entrance to Australia with their brand new OS.
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Is this the Nokia Lumia 719c?
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China is getting even closer to its first taste of Nokia Windows Phone and it might include a new phone entirely. While we're still two weeks away from Mr. Elop's proposed March 28th launch, the leaked shot above is purported to be the Lumia 719c -- a previously unseen Windows Phone that could arrive in time for Nokia's latest smartphone push. It has that familiar curved shape and plastic build, but there's some slight design riffs to set it apart from both the Lumia 710 and 610 -- one of which it'll likely replace in Chinese stores. We only have Mr. Blurrycam's one-shot portrait to go on so far, but expect to see some price-constrained specs like those seen on Nokia's other entry-level smar...
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Lumia 610 to ship with internet sharing enabled, smartphone first-timers to be none the wiser
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Wireless tethering, free of any carrier-imposed data shackles, is something of a reward for the well-informed smartphone buyer. Save for a sprinkling of Android handsets that natively include the feature -- specifically, Google's Nexus line -- only Windows Phone Mango offers users that same option, should the operator and OEM choose to enable it. So, it wasn't much of a surprise when Nokia unleashed its Lumia 800 and 710 to the market without internet sharing switched on. Their lil' bro the 610, on the other hand, stands poised to be the first to offer that WiFi hotspot access right out of the box. From an operator standpoint, the move make sense -- power users are less likely to claim the l...
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Nokia Lumia 1000 concept phone – PureView, QWERTY, & Windows 8
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When it comes to concept phones, they really run the gamut from reality to fantasy. In the latest render to hit the web, Tasak gives us a glimpse of the Nokia Lumia 1000 the way his imagination dreams it up.
He envisions this device to be running an Intel Atom 1.8GHz dual-core even though Stephen Elop recently said dual- and quad-core mobile phones are a waste of battery. Aesthetically, the device features a 4.3-inch AMOLED display, a slide out QWERTY keyboard with joystick, and a 41-megapixel PureView camera on the back.
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