Despite being well received by critics (us included), Nokia’s long-awaited Windows Phone devices aren’t quite making the impact the company would’ve hoped. According to a survey by Exane BNP Paribas, only two percent of Europeans in the market for a smartphone said they would go with the Lumia 800. This as Apple and Google continue

It’s amazing what a little takeover talk can do for a stock price. Yesterday news came out that Amazon had considered buying Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the infamous BlackBerry line of smartphones.  Apparently RIM turned down the offer after at least some talk had happened between the two companies.  This was later

Following complaints from a large proportion of early Lumia 800 adopters, Nokia has finally acknowledged in an official statement issued today that there is indeed a software bug affecting its new device, and it has promised to issue a fix in early 2012. It also states that the Lumia 710 does not suffer the same

Wondering when Nokia’s new Lumia line will be launching in the United States? Well, the company has fueled speculation that the Windows Phone handsets will make their U.S. debut early next year by announcing that it is to hold a press event at CES 2012 in January. While the Finnish company has not confirmed that its

Noah K. tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! What is Nokia’s project Rolling Thunder all about? Will 2012 bring Retina Displays to Apple’s MacBook Pro line? And isn’t it time we all hung up and paid attention to the road? Nokia Brings the Rolling Thunder New MacBook Pro coming with Retina Display? NTSB

Interesting things have been happening in the smartphone technosphere this year. Android, once the young upstart, is now a juggernaut with an army of devices stomping all over the mobile scene. Although Apple‘s iPhone is still the one to beat, the company seems more interested in suing everyone than refreshing its stale, gridded UI. Meanwhile, BlackBerry (RIM) is

T-Mobile has not only announced the Lumia 710 — a 1.4 Ghz single-core Snapdragon device with 512 MB RAM, 5 MP camera and 8GB of storage — but the carrier even threw a party in New York City in its honor. That’s where I got a chance to check out the Nokia Windows Phone/Mango handset

Nokia is calling the announcement of its Lumia smartphones a comeback, a new beginning for the company, and the beginning of its new partnership with Microsoft – a partnership that both companies hope will put Nokia-branded Windows Mobile devices in more pockets around the globe. The first of those phones, the budget Lumia 710 will

While we haven’t received any concrete evidence to suggest when we might expect the Lumia 900, its release date could be much closer than originally thought. Per an innocuous conversation on Twitter, Swisscom, a Swiss-based carrier, seems to have accidentally shared information that wasn’t meant to be divulged. According to the carrier representative, the Lumia

T-Mobile announced this morning that the Nokia Lumia 710 is coming to its network in black and white … the shells that is, not the screen. The fact that the Lumia 710 is the first of Nokia’s Windows Phone devices to come to T-Mobile isn’t a huge surprise as we saw it pass through the

The Nokia Lumia 800 is famous for its good looks, but just as you thought the Finnish company couldn’t produce a cooler device, this limited edition Batman The Dark Knight Rises handset appears. It’s identical to the existing Lumia 800 in black, only it has an awesome Batman logo laser-etched into its rear casing. It also has limited

According to Nokia, the youth of today are done using the iPhone and are unhappy with the experience they’re getting from Android. Or so said Niels Munksgaard, director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global in an interview with Pocket-lint. “What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up with

AT&T and Verizon are reportedly testing a 4G version of the Lumia 800. According to CNET, both carriers have a 4G version of the handsets in their labs. While the carriers testing the phone is promising, it doesn’t guarantee that either will decide to ultimately carry the handset. Windows Phone currently does not support 4G

Noah K tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! Is the Nokia Lumia coming to T-Mobile next week? Is Verizon prepping a video streaming service to battle Netflix? And is ZTE making the leap from budget cells to high-end smartphones in order to conquer the US market? Nokia and T-Mobile Hosting Event on Dec

Have your Android friends been mocking you because your Windows Phone device doesn’t support NFC technology? Well, that’s about to end, because Microsoft has revealed today that its latest Windows Phone Mango operating does support NFC technology, it’s just manufacturers haven’t enabled it yet. Will Coleman, developer evangelist and product manager at Microsoft UK, disclosed Windows Phone’s little

The storm clouds are further gathering over the RIM headquarters. A week before the company is set to reveal its Q3 results (December 15, next Thursday), Citigroup’s Jim Suva is offering up 10 more ways the company can further wreck its image and make 2012 extra special. Frankly, 2011 was a horrendous year for RIM. News that it can

While the Nokia Lumia 800 has been dubbed one of the best Windows Phone devices currently available by a whole host of technology pundits, it hasn’t been without its issues. However, a new software update from Nokia hopes to change that, with fixes for some of the most common problems reported since its release. Nokia

Wondering what T-Mobile and Nokia will announce at its December 14 media event in New York City? Well, according to a new FCC filing, the new Windows Phone-powered Lumia 710 will be at least one of the devices on show. WPCentral has discovered a listing for Nokia’s entry-level Windows Phone handset on the FCC’s website, which

While we’ve all been drooling over the Nokia Lumia 800 since its release, it’s easy to forget that Nokia also announced another Windows Phone device earlier this year. The Nokia Lumia 710 is — at this point —  the company’s entry-level Windows Phone handset, and it’s great for the budget conscious who want to get

It seems that T-Mobile and Nokia have something up their sleeves that they’ll be ready to tell the world about on December 14. No word yet on what exactly they will be announcing, but seeing as Nokia is just about ready to work exclusively with the Windows Phone operating system, we’re thinking the safe money

The Chinese smartphone maker Meizu has officially unveiled its flagship Android smartphone for 2012 called the Meizu MX. And apart from being an absolute stunner, this baby’s got some pretty impressive internals. The device is powered by Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, but it has a custom user interface called “Flyme OS” that’s just as pretty as

Those in the U.K. have been enjoying the Nokia Lumia 800 for a few weeks now, but it seems the Finnish phone maker may have something even better up its sleeve for those in the U.S. According to one source, the Lumia 900 — said to be Nokia’s high-end Windows Phone device — will launch

I recently wrote an article discussing the survivability of multiple platforms within the smartphone industry. I opined that there is ample market share to capture, if the struggling platforms were willing to work to differentiate themselves in a meaningful way. One of those platforms is Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Windows Phone occupies an interesting niche in

It’s no secret that our data and usage behavior on our phones are eminently loggable. But its another thing entirely to see it in action. That’s just what we get to do, though, thanks to one crafty Android dev. Renowned developer Trevor Eckhart has recorded a vid that shows the workings of some hidden software

Back in the day I used to love Nokia phones, mainly for their superior hardware but never for the operating system. When the likes of the iPhone came onto the scene, my relationship with Nokia went a little sour – using Symbian became very stale indeed. History seemed to be repeating itself more recently with