Microsoft recently announced its intentions to acquire Nokia's Devices division. That means, eventually, smartphones won't necessarily be branded with Nokia's name on them. Instead, that will be reserved for feature phones and Asha devices. Even still, Nokia's executive vice president of sales and marketing Chris Weber promises that great stuff is still coming and that the confirmation...
It looks like one of the final devices that will employ Nokia's Lumia numerical naming scheme (Ballmer promised us the names would get shorter) was just leaked. Evleaks on Friday published a photo of what is allegedly the Lumia 1520. As we can see from the software, there's room for three medium-size icons across the display. Windows Phone, right now, only offers enough room for two...
Kantar Worldpanel published its most recent ComTech report on Monday, which details smartphone sales around the globe for the three months ended in July. The report still found that Android is crushing competitors on a global scale, particularly in China and Europe, but that Windows Phone saw really solid growth. Kantar Worldpanel said Android had a 70 percent of all smartphone...
Microsoft acquired Nokia's device business this morning for about $7.16 billion. There's more to this news than is visible on the surface. First, we probably won't see a Nokia smartphone again since, as The Verge pointed out, the deal takes away its ability to sell smartphones under its own name in the future. That's a weird pill to swallow, especially for the leagues of us who grew up...
Sprint is preparing to launch its latest Windows Phone device. The carrier announced on Wednesday that it will begin selling the Samsung ATIV S Neo on August 16 for $149.99 with a new two-year contract. The phone is almost identical to the ATIV S, which was announced almost a year ago, so it seems like it’s a little overpriced compared to much newer smartphones that cost only $50 more...
This morning the Internet was abuzz with reports that Instagram was tracking and deleting photos uploaded to its servers from third-party Windows Phone app Instance (curiously, similar third-party apps including Instagraph and Hipstamatic Oggl never stopped working). The reason, it turns out, is that Instagram wasn't blocking Instance uploads on purpose at all. A company representative...
Microsoft needs to entertain the mobile masses with a new update soon. It has been more than a year since the company announced Windows Phone 8 – it was in June of 2012 actually – though phones for the platform didn't arrive until this past fall. That's far too long in the mobile landscape. We love Windows Phone, but Microsoft can't afford to sit around while Google and Apple move...
AT&T recently announced that it would soon carry the Nokia Lumia 520 through its pre-paid GoPhone plans, and the device is now officially available. It’s a steal, too: $99 will get you a brand new Windows Phone 8 device without any need for signing a contract. The Lumia 520 isn’t a high-end device, though we can’t imagine how much better a $99 phone could get. The device is...
Sprint’s HTC 8XT has officially arrived online and in retail stores. The Windows Phone 8 device costs $99.99 with a new two-year contract and features a 4.3-inch 800 x 480-pixel display, a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, a 1,800mAh battery, BoomSound speakers, Beats Audio, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, 4G LTE support and more. Sprint will also soon carry the ATIV S Neo Windows Phone 8 device...
Nokia updated its official blog today, revealing an incoming announcement with the mysterious headline, “Something BIG landing here tomorrow.” That’s not much to go on, but the focus on the word “big” has us thinking we may get a first official look at the rumored 4.7-inch Lumia 625 that leaked last month. The biggest Lumia handset ever is expected to sport mid-range specs and target...