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Is Microsoft Manufacturing its Own SmartPhone?

June 22, 2012 0 Tassavur

Research firm Nomura has revealed that Microsoft might working on manufacturing their own Windows Phone smartphone. Analyst Rick Sherlund of Nomura has indicated in a note that Microsoft will be taking this step to enhance the sales of Windows Phone…

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Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 8, Not Upgradable for Mango Devices

June 20, 2012 0 Tassavur

Microsoft finally announced its much awaited Windows Phone 8 at an event in San Francisco, though the announcement came with a disappointing news for the current crop of Windows Phone users that their devices would not be upgradable to Apollo,…

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Cheaper Windows Phone in the Offing as Nokia Competes with Androids

June 16, 2012 0 Tassavur

We were very clear since the start of the Nokia Microsoft partnership that it is the mid low segment where Windows Phone needs to hit in order for Nokia to create any chance of competing with the Androids.

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Nokia Gives Vertu Away; To Layoff 10,000 Employees by 2013

June 14, 2012 0 Rahul S

Once the biggest mobile phone maker on the planet, Nokia is struggling to keep its head above water amidst rising competition. The company which once led the smartphone world with its Symbian OS has long lost its dominant position to…

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Nokia Announces Budget Range of Touchscreen “Asha” Phones

June 7, 2012 0 Rahul S

Nokia has taken covers off three new budget handsets from its Asha range earlier today. The new handsets to be introduced are named the Asha 305, Asha 306 and the Asha 311. All the three devices are targeted at emerging…

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OG Exclusive: Nokia To Launch PureView 808 on June 9!

June 6, 2012 0 Rahul S

Nokia’s flagship camera phone, the much talked about PureView 808 will be launched in India on the 9th June – a little birdie tells us. The phone would be initially made available at Nokia Priority Dealers giving them exclusivity for…

Leaked / Spyshots

Exclusive: Nokia Gearing To Launch Lumia 900 & 610 In India, Photos

May 28, 2012 0 Tassavur

The launch of Nokia’s flagship device the Lumia 900 and the promising entry level Lumia 610 is long pending in India. But we have reliable news from our industry sources that the they are due to launch in June in…

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“Nokia Lumia is the Best Smartphone Ever”: Siri

May 11, 2012 0 Tassavur

Yes, you read that right. As per a report from The Next Web, when asked, “Which is the best smartphone ever?” Siri, Apple iPhone 4S’ virtual assistant will recommend you the Nokia Lumia 900. Well, at first we thought this…

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Nokia To Roll Out the PureView 808 in May, Includes India

May 4, 2012 0 Tassavur

Well, the much hyped 41 MP camera toting Nokia PureView 808 is finally set to see the light of the day and will be launched in select markets, which interestingly includes India as well. The Nokia PureView 808 will be…

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Nokia in Talks to Sell Off Vertu to Permira

April 30, 2012 0 Tassavur

Nokia as we all know is on its way down and this was emphasized even further when Standard & Poor downgraded Nokia’s stocks to the status of “junk”. Now as it seems, Nokia is trying everything it can to minimize…

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Nokia Launches new Asha 202 Handset with “Free Internet”

April 30, 2012 0 Rahul S

Expanding its portfolio of affordable handsets and the “Asha” range in India, Nokia India has announced the launch of the Asha 202 in the country. The Asha 202 is a touch and type handset featuring a full-fledged keypad as well…

Market Watch

Nokia Loses 14 Year Old “Market Leader” Crown to Samsung

April 14, 2012 0 Tassavur

Well Nokia has finally lost its title as the market leader in the global mobile phone market to Samsung in Q1 of 2012. As per a recent poll of analysts done by reuters suggests that Samsung have sold around 88…

Apps

Microsoft and Nokia Announces App Development Program – AppCampus

March 28, 2012 0 Hakimuddin

In a bid to create a friendly ‘app’mosphere for the Mobile Windows platform, Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up for an app development program termed as AppCampus. The AppCampus program has been set up to help the creation of innovative…

Market Watch

30 million units of NFC enabled handsets sold in 2011

March 27, 2012 0 Hakimuddin

If reports from the research firm Berg Insights are anything to go by, the global sales figure of Near Field Communications (NFC) enabled phones has surpassed 30 million units mark in 2011. This increase in the sales figures, is almost…

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Nokia Asha 303 Now at a Store Near You

March 20, 2012 0 Hakimuddin

On Monday, Nokia India, announced the fourth phone in the Asha series – the Nokia Asha 303. The budget feature phone is based on the S40 operating system and with dual input system of touch & type, 1 Ghz processor…

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Quick review: Nokia Asha 200

March 18, 2012 0 Tassavur

Nokia has been a market leader in terms of sales of the dual SIM handsets in India for the last year. And Nokia is in no mood give away even an inch of that lead to its competitors in the…

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Nokia Working on Tablet, Confirms Design Chief

March 15, 2012 0 Rahul S

If we are to believe a latest report that’s coming from Finland, Nokia is apparently working on a new tablet which if all goes well might see the light of the day by the end of 2012. This would be…

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Nokia issues update for Lumia 800; Claims Increased Battery Life

March 7, 2012 0 Rahul S

Nokia has issued a fresh new update for the Lumia 800 which reportedly fixes the battery life of the device. The widely acclaimed Nokia Lumia 800 has been criticized for its rather mediocre battery life ever since it was announced…

MWC

Nokia 808 PureView Runs Symbian; Has a 41 megapixel sensor!

February 27, 2012 0 Rahul S

No, that’s not a typo. I did not mean to type 14 megapixels in that headline there. It indeed is 41 (forty one) megapixels. Anyway, let me inform you all what this is all about. At the on going Mobile…

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Nokia Lumia 710 Review

February 7, 2012 0 Team OG

Early on when Nokia announced that it would be launching not one but two Lumia devices in India, we were slightly bit more excited about the Lumia 710. This was basically due to the fact that it was a phone…

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Nokia Hits Back, Leads Sales of Dual SIM Devices in India

January 25, 2012 0 Tassavur

Stats from a research project of Cyber Media Research Ltd reveal that out of the 166 million handsets sold in India in the first 11 months of 2011, a massive 54% were dual SIM handsets. And Nokia has managed to…

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Nokia Lumia 710 – The Dark Horse

January 24, 2012 0 Annkur

 “Nokia has given more than 4000 ad spots to the Lumia 800 on TV” – complained the promoter of a rival brand. “If only our products were equally promoted ….”While the jury is out, I am certain that the Lumia…

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Review: Nokia Lumia 800

January 24, 2012 0 Tassavur

Nokia has long lost the lead when it comes to sales revenue to Samsung towards the end of last year, though they have managed to hold on to the largest manufacturer tag by the skin of their teeth. And we…

Concept / Educative

Nokia Lumia 900 Sans Pentile Display, What’s the Difference?

January 13, 2012 0 Tassavur

Recently Nokia made a clarification that their new flagship Windows Phone 7 device i.e. the Nokia Lumia 900 will boast of an AMOLED screen which will be non PenTile.

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Nokia Paints Jet Airways Plane with Lumia Colors

January 10, 2012 0 Rahul S

It is no secret that Nokia has spent tons of money on promoting its Windows Phone devices worldwide. Closer home, we have seen concerts being held all over India, Lumia branded vehicles roaming the streets of our cities and TV…

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Nokia announces the Lumia 900 for AT&T

January 9, 2012 0 Rahul S

While Nokia is busy promoting its flagship handset the Lumia 800 in the rest of the world, it has just announced perhaps its most essential release in the US since the past few years. We are talking about the newly…

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Is Nokia Working on a Windows Phone Successor of the N8?

December 20, 2011 0 Tassavur

The Nokia N8 didn’t do much in sales and wasn’t even close to being one of the best smartphones in 2011. It still had one of the best cameras loaded with a mechanical shutter, large sensor, Carl Zeiss optics and…

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Symbian’s Last Stronghold Breached; Android now Top Smartphone OS in India

December 19, 2011 0 Rahul S

While it is clear that Nokia had taken hands off Symbian ever since Windows Phone took over as its primary smartphone focus, its fall from the top spot was nothing less than dramatic. Within a year, it has gone from…

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Nokia Lumia 800 vs Apple iPhone 4 – Camera Samples

December 16, 2011 0 Annkur

Nokia is all set to launch the Lumia 800 (and 710) with Windows Phone 7 in India and Apple is out with the iPhone 4S. Both devices sport a 8MP camera. While the Lumia manages 720p video recording, the 4S…

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Official Symbian Belle Update coming February 2012: Nokia

December 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the latest version of Symbian, the Belle has been around for the past few months on newly launched handsets including the likes of the Nokia 603, 701 and the 700, Nokia has for some reason not released an update…

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Nokia Lumia 800 (Windows Phone) – First Impressions

December 5, 2011 0 Team OG

Just over a year back Redmond re-invented itself with the Windows Phone 7 and the same has done well to brand Microsoft that was being referred to as the dinosaurs of the mobile / internet era. What Microsoft created with…

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Nokia Asha 200 Launched in India

December 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

It was back in October that Nokia first showed off its Asha series of low to mid-range handsets to the world. A little over a month later, the first of the Asha series have made it to India. It was…

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Nokia Announces the X2-02 Dual SIM Music Phone

December 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has announced the launch of its newest dual SIM music phone, the X2-02. The handset, a successor to the X1-01 which was launched earlier this year packs in quite a punch when it comes to features. Some of the notable…

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Nokia Brings White N9 With Software Update

November 30, 2011 0 Tassavur

Though, the Nokia N9 will soon be discontinued by Nokia that doesn’t stop the Nokia fans from still craving for the “could be” device. And Nokia too seems to be teasing the fans of the N9 as they have released…

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RIM & Telefonica To Bring Mobile Wallet Next Year, Trialing NFC

November 27, 2011 0 Tassavur

RIM will soon begin their foray into the NFC league starting from Iberia and have announced their partnership with Telefonica of Madrid, Spain. Blackberry and Telefonica will be testing the mobile wallet and the ID card system in Spain. The…

First look

Nokia Asha Series Headed To India, 303 Priced At Rs 8150?

November 27, 2011 0 Annkur

Lumia 800 and 710 aren’t the only two devices that Nokia is pushing into India, the Symbian powered Asha series is also said to be launching alongside the Windows Phone offerings from Espoo. Asha series phones run S40 OS and…

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Will The Lumia Lift Nokia?

November 17, 2011 0 Annkur

Over the past few years, we have seen a major disruption in the mobile market. 5 billion mobiles, 1 billion smartphones, the usage has shot up many folds. Many dominant players (hey RIM, Nokia) have taken a beating, while others…

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Nokia Windows 8 tablet Coming Next June?

November 16, 2011 0 Tassavur

Talk about how successful Apple is at guarding their unreleased product secrets, this time Nokia seems to have followed a similar path. Though, the only difference being that instead of a leak or lost prototype you have a country head…

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Nokia Debuts the Lumia 800, Lumia 710 in India

November 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

Just weeks after they made their international debuts, Nokia has decided to launch its Windows Phone powered devices from the Lumia range the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 here in India. At a launch event held at Delhi yesterday,…

Future WIP

Smudge Free Touchscreens by Nokia

October 29, 2011 0 Team OG

No matter what the Touchscreen technology present in your phone. Be it SLCD, AMOLED, S-AMOLED, S-AMOLED+ (Samsung Galaxy S2), they all have been smudge-magnets. No matter how you use the phones, they are prone to dirty & ugly smears of…