Microsoft is set to unveil its Windows Phone 8 mobile platform on October 29 and we already have a couple of devices to choose from: Samsung ATIV S, Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 820, HTC Windows Phone 8X, and HTC Windows Phone 8S and their carrier equivalents, to name a few. A recent Changewave research unveils that nine percent of those interviewed are inclined to purchase a Windows Phone 8. Two percent out of those find it very likely and seven percent somewhat likely. As far as the preferred OEM is concerned Samsung is leading the pack with 51% followed by Nokia's 35%; HTC is third ...

Nokia "Atlas" was the codename of this phone when we first saw a leak of the Lumia 820 variant for Verizon. At that time it was a press render and many of our commenters opined that it was not among the prettiest phones out there. Today we're seeing the first real-life pictures of the device which goes by the model number Lumia 822, according to the latest reports. The specs are on-par with the global variant which means a 4.3-inch screen with WVGA resolution and an eight-megapixel camera at the back with Carl Zeiss optics. Of course there's reportedly LTE for Verizon under that matte ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Microsoft's press invites for their official Windows 8 announcement on October 25th along with the first day of sales for their Surface tablet. Then we go through their other press invites for the Windows Phone 8 launch on October 29th. We then talk about the rumors of an LG Optimus G-based Nexus device in the making. Later we go through AT&T's decision to serve as the guinea pig for the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Camera. We end today's show by talking about the launch of the Nokia Lumia 920 in the US, and sadly, as an exclusive to ...

We just shared word with you of AT&T's announcement of the Nokia Lumia 820 and 920. While we didn't see any images of the new hardware at first, leaving us unable to confirm or deny rumors that Nokia had managed to arrange for the release of its new phones without any sort of carrier badging, iPhone-style, those pictures have subsequently turned up. Sorry to let you down, but the new Lumias at AT&T will most definitely arrive with the carrier's logo, front and prominent. At the least, news of the phone coming to AT&T has managed to confirm the presence of a cyan 920, which ...

Tis the season for competing OEMs to build ads that will try to drive attention away from the iPhone 5. Not that we praise the practice, but it's just what they do for reasons we find unnecessary when their products don't need to be compared to be great. Nokia has just followed Samsung’s footsteps in publishing a video ad where they try to prove the iPhone 5 as a stale product because it’s only sold in black or white, where by contrast, you can buy a Lumia 920 or 820 in lots of variable colors. What’s funny about the ad is that it tries to make Apple look like big brother as many of ...

Excited to see the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 getting ready to make their retail debut? We are too, but so far we've been pretty in the dark on the smartphones' launch details. Now that October's nearly here, we expect to start seeing the pieces fall into place, and one of the first truly confirmed of info arrived this week, upon Nokia announcing details of the two phones' European launch. Both the Lumia 920 and 820 are coming to Germany this November. Unfortunately, Nokia wasn't ready to go into more detail than that regarding the actual timetable, but it did have a little bit to say about ...

When HTC made its new Windows Phone 8 lineup official last week, one of the first thoughts to cross our minds when seeing all those bright, bold colors and eye-catching designs was how Nokia-esque the Windows Phone 8X and 8S appeared. Well, apparently we weren't alone, as now at least one tipster is claiming that Nokia is gearing-up to launch a legal volley at HTC, with the hopes of preventing sales for at least one of its new models due to allegations of copying Nokia's look. What PC-Tablet calls an "internal reliable source" says that Nokia thinks HTC's 8X looks too much like the Lumia ...

This time on the Pocketnow Weekly: SO MANY NEWS. "It's been quite a week" is something of a tired phrase when it comes to mobile technology, and we've used it, verbatim, for the past month or so -- because it's true. From Windows Phone 8 to Android to iOS 6 to ... heck, even BlackBerry had some news this week. We did our best to get to most of it on the podcast, but there's only so much time in a morning, especially when some of the news is so finely detailed. Tune in to this week's Pocketnow Weekly podcast for in-depth discussion of HTC's new Windows Phone 8 handsets, new Android phones ...