After months of conjecture, previews, missed targets and more, Microsoft is finally ready to roll out Windows 10 Mobile to existing handsets. Many smartphone owners with Lumia devices rocking Windows Phone 8.1, will be able to update from ...
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Microsoft is working on a number of new gestures for Windows Phone OS, and has released a new app to start testing them. The new gestures will allow users to interact with their phones without even having to touch the display. The first ...
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By design, Nokia's new Android smartphones will underwhelm users of high-end phones. The Nokia X line was created with emerging markets in mind, so the company emphasized keeping prices low, meaning the user interface is relatively simple. ...
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Nokia is targeting emerging markets with three low-cost smartphones that use Google's Android operating system rather than the Windows Phone software from Microsoft, which is about to take over Nokia's handset business. Nokia will ditch ...
Apple has capped a summer of speculation with the launch of two new iPhones - an iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5. But with most of the pre-launch rumours proving to be true, the two main surprises were the inclusion of a 64-bit microprocessor ...
Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia smartphones in the second quarter, its best yet for sales of the Windows Phone devices, but still made a net loss. Net sales totalled a!5.70 billion (US$7.48 billion), down 24 percent year-on-year. The company ...
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Nokia's new Lumia 925 phone has an aluminium frame that functions as an antenna, and is lighter and thinner than the Lumia 920, but otherwise offers similar performance to its predecessor. Nokia revealed the Lumia 925 on Tuesday, hoping ...
Nokia today announced the Windows Phone 8 Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 smartphones,focusing on the 920's superior camera and its map and driving features that use augmented reality,as well as the phone's built-in wireless charging. The ...
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Samsung shipped nearly twice the number of smartphones as Apple during the second quarter, as potential buyers of Apple's phones and operators hold off purchases in anticipation of a rumored new iPhone 5 by October, research firm Strategy ...
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Nokia reported a 39% year-on-year drop in the number of smartphones it sold in the second quarter, to 10.2 million, while its net loss more than trebled. The company's total revenue for the quarter fell 19% year over year, to 7.54 billion ...
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Android was on over two-thirds of smartphones shipped in the second quarter, with Apple's iOS on around a sixth of them -- more than all the remaining smartphone OSes combined, IDC said Wednesday. Windows Phone's share of the market ...
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Nokia's dismal earnings report announced Thursday has left smartphone industry observers looking for better news at the Nokia World conference Sept. 5-6 in Helsinki. There are hints that Nokia could launch Windows Phone 8 on its Lumia ...
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Nokia has posted another near-€1bn loss following a collapse in sales in its key market of Greater China in a third quarter report,published today. The mobile phone handset maker's results had been eagerly awaited as a key indicator ...
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