Smartphone names, as a rule, are pretty awful. Some manage better than others, yet for every iPhone 5, there's another HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE. There a number of things a company can do to make things work, including keeping things simple, using descriptive terms where appropriate, and making it clear where devices fall as part of a larger lineup. Nokia's been skating around a real promising idea with its Lumia models, ditching a lot of the confusing branding we see from other manufacturers and giving each device a simple number. I've sure I've mentioned it before on a few occasions, ...

Those of you who have either one of the Lumia 920, Lumia 820, or Lumia 620 Windows Phones should be happy to find out that Nokia has prepared a software update, according to a Support forum post. The Lumia 920 and 820 will get version number 1232.5957.1308.00xx which should bring improved automatic display brightness adjustment, fix for intermittent screen blanking during a call, as well as additional performance and stability improvements. The Lumia 620 should be getting version 1030.6407.1308.00xx with improved touch screen functions, including corrections in multi-touch actions, ...

Back in December, we talked to you a little bit about the dormant FM radio hardware that resided in the chipsets of some Nokia Lumias. In fact, it was Nokia itself that pointed this out, which seemed a little odd to do when Windows Phone 8 didn't offer any kind of FM radio hardware support. Did Nokia know something we didn't? That's what we're wondering now, after hearing rumors about the WP8 GDR2 release, which will supposedly enable the FM radio on models like the Lumia 820 and Lumia 920. Beyond those two, any other WP8 models with the necessary hardware will see the feature enabled, and ...

Have you ever seen a 3D printer? If you haven't yet, chances are you will over the course of the next decade or so, as these rapid prototyping machines continue moving out of engineering schools and industrial plants and start giving everyday people the ability to quickly and easily create tangible 3D objects from plans they find on the internet. Nokia has its eyes on the 3D printing early adopters, and has just released a set of files to help anyone who's interested get started printing some custom shells for the company's Lumia 820. Nokia already offers a number of color options for the ...

You know, the touch screen isn't new. It was actually developed for the first time in 1965, and one of the first companies to ever use the technology on a mobile device was Apple with their first Newton PDAs. Sadly, as you remember, that didn't work so well and Apple killed the project just a couple of years later. Still, even after one company failed in making it a mainstream, along came Palm and Microsoft and completely shaped an industry that now powers the reason for being of this website. Who would've thought that a technology that was so cool even back then would fail until somebody ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Nokia's Possible Tablet to be launched at MWC 2013. After that the rumor mill moves-on to Samsung which has begun talking about a Galaxy Frame device we're having a hard time understanding. T-Mobile later teased with an update to the Windows Phone 8X which was sadly pulled before this video was filmed, though Nokia did release the upgrade for the Lumia 920 and 820. The iPad mini makes the news again as more rumors on the Retina Display variant loom closer. And we end today's show talking about HTC and their new desperate measures to stay ...

The Galaxy S III's barely old enough to warrant an After The Buzz episode, but we're already talking about the Galaxy S IV. In any other venue, that would be a sign of jumping the shark; on the Pocketnow Weekly, it's just business as usual. Tune in for our best speculation on what Samsung might include in its next sensational superphone, from unbreakable screens to bone conduction. Then keep on listening for an extended debate about the merits of Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 versus iOS, drilling down into their UIs and design philosophy. Finally, after some extended talk about how useful ...

SO MANY LUMIAS. We don't know about you, but that's what's been going through our minds recently. Here at Pocketnow, our familiarity with the midrange Lumia 8xx series has skyrocketed over the past few weeks. We've given the full-review treatment to the Lumia 810 for T-Mobile USA, launched a new review format with the Lumia 822 for Verizon Wireless, and now we've got a new mid-tier Lumia in our hot little hands: a Nokia Lumia 820 for AT&T. We already unboxed this unit last week, taking you on a little hardware tour before promising more videos "in the next few days." Those days have ...