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by Stephen Schenck | June 18, 2013 2:22 PMRead OnRumors about a company looking to buy-up Nokia are nothing new. While nothing ever seems to come of them, those suggestions keep popping up again and again over the years, and it sure seems like more often than not, we're talking about Microsoft considering making the purchase. The subject is back on our mind today, but in a slightly different context, with Huawei voicing its interest in maybe snatching-up Nokia. Huawei execs are gathered in London for the P6 announcement, and Richard Yu, chairman of the company's consumer business group, took the opportunity to put forth the idea that ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 18, 2013 12:06 PMRead OnNokia announced the Lumia 925 at its May 14, 2013 event in London, and the phone was brought to the stage as "the most advanced smartphone" on the market. The buzz-word of the day was aluminum; the company emphasized the advantages of using aluminum for the phone's body, granting overall better reception and antenna performance. However, the Lumia 925 is not made completely out of aluminum. The back panel, non-removable, is still made out of polycarbonate: this time, a very soft-touch version of it. Nokia also slightly tweaked the design of the Lumia 925. While one can still instantly ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 18, 2013 8:41 AMRead OnSo far, Windows Phone has done an admirable job at avoiding temptations to get caught up in the hardware spec rat race, as so many Android OEMs do. WP hardware may not have the highest-end components around, but darn it – it gets the job done. Still, while the platform may not be racing to adopt the bleeding edge, it does need to modernize itself from time to time – just look at the addition of 720p support last year. We've already heard rumors that 1080p could be in the platform's future, along with support for new SoCs to help drive all those pixels. The latter's where our interest ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 17, 2013 3:40 PMRead OnWe've been talking about Microsoft's plans for the next big Windows Phone 8 update, GDR2, for months now. Some of the picture of how the update would arrive has been clear: for instance, we know that Nokia models will start getting their "Amber" updates next month, and that's going to be tied-in to the release of GDR2. But with how inconsistent Windows Phone update distribution has become, that's hardly confirmation that other OEMs would be working on the same schedule. While still incomplete, we can now put together a slightly more encompassing picture of update availability, thanks to ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 17, 2013 2:59 PMRead OnWith all the leaks we've been seeing in recent weeks, it's sure felt like Nokia's first 41-megapixel Windows Phone model, so far known by codename EOS, was nearly ready to launch. Last week, we learned of invitations going out for a July 11 Nokia event that sure seemed to hint that it could mark the announcement of the EOS. Today we add some more fuel to that launch fire, with an unknown Nokia handset passing through the FCC that sure could be the EOS. Nokia model RM-877 includes support for HSPA+ on the 850, 1700, and 1900MHz bands, as well as LTE on bands 2, 4, 5, and 17. Bands 4 and 17 ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 17, 2013 11:31 AMRead OnLast week, some new images arrived that showed a phone very similar to the leaks we've been seeing of supposed Nokia EOS hardware, only instead of a plastic construction, they showed a metal body for the handset. We wondered which, if either of these designs we might see in the final, commercial version of the hardware, but now a number of concerns have come to light that suggest this metal phone could be something else entirely. First up, a few new pics of this aluminum frame surfaced over the weekend, finally giving us a side view. The weird thing is, if we look at the button cut-outs, ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 16, 2013 11:01 AMRead OnIn today's Nokia Lumia 925 vs HTC One video we're taking a close look at the two flagships, side by side. They are very similar from several perspectives: they're both made out of aluminum, polycarbonate, and glass, and they both have fancy camera names: PureView and Ultrapixel. Of course, the similarities stop there. Since one is running Windows Phone and the other one is powered by Android, the specs couldn't be any different. That's not to say that the inferior, on paper, Lumia 925, delivers less. However, each has is pros and cons when compared to the other. So check out our Nokia ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 15, 2013 10:53 AMRead OnThe Nokia Lumia 925 vs Samsung Galaxy S 4 question might have a more difficult answer than you'd think. Let's take the Nokia phone. It is, undoubtedly, the best Windows Phone money can buy at the moment. For how long? Most probably until Nokia's next Windows Phone, the rumored EOS, becomes available. It also happens to be among the best camera-phones on the market. The Samsung Galaxy S 4 needs no introduction. It is among the best three Android devices you can get today (depending on who you ask). It also happens to have one of the best cameras on a phone today. So it is just normal we did ...
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by Michael Fisher | June 14, 2013 6:51 PMRead OnNot sure if you remember, but we've talked about Instagram around these parts before. We've gave you a guided tour of the photo-sharing app when it first came to Android last Spring, and the relative merit of the app has been disputed more times on the Pocketnow Weekly podcast than is probably necessary. But regardless of your personal feelings about the social photography title (looking at you here Taylor Martin), you'd have a hard time arguing that it's not a significant force in mobile. Instagram currently boasts 100 million active users posting 40 million photos per day - photos that ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 14, 2013 8:55 AMRead OnTake a look at our Nokia Lumia 925 unboxing! We've got Nokia's latest and greatest Lumia phone, the 925, in our offices, after we got some hands-on time with it at the launch event in London. The phone is made out of aluminum, at least the sides, top and bottom. The back is covered with a very soft-touch polycarbonate plastic and the front has a very good looking slab of glass that protects the screen underneath. As far as specs are concerned, you have a a 4.5-inch AMOLED screen with WXGA (1280×768) resolution and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. The phone has 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 14, 2013 4:17 AMRead OnThe Nokia EOS will hopefully become official on July 11, or at least we're hoping that's what the event in New York will be all about. After all the leaks we've seen, we're starting to believe that the phone allegedly depicted is real. Today, new images are trying to anticipate Nokia's next Windows Phone. In contrast with previous leaks that showed off a polycarbonate casing for the Nokia EOS, today's pictures are reportedly hinting at an upcoming Nokia EOS aluminum phone. Whether this was just a prototype or it will be the final material that Nokia will choose for the EOS is yet unknown. ...
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Pocketnow Weekly 048: Galaxy S 5 rumors meet Nokia EOS leaks in back alley, nasty knife fight ensuesby Michael Fisher | June 13, 2013 2:43 PMRead OnBefore we begin, we'd just like to say something to everyone who's going to call us out for click-baiting with that "Galaxy S 5" title: your allegations are completely founded and true. But look here: even though Galaxy S 5 rumors are (to say the least) premature and indicative of a serious problem with our nasty-fast industry -an issue we discuss on the air- they're also important. That's because, as unreliable and, frankly, stupid as they are, they also give us an opportunity to discuss the future of Samsung industrial design. And any opportunity we get to talk about the Galaxy family in ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 13, 2013 1:10 PMRead OnFollowing months of rumors, the arrival of June has really seen the floodgates open when it comes to leaks of the so-called EOS, Nokia's first 41-megapixel PureView Windows Phone handset. All those leaks should clue you in that this puppy's ramping up for its launch, and a new invitation Nokia just began distributing sure does look like it's talking about the EOS. As anyone who's used the PureView 808 can tell you, one of the big benefits of snapping pics with a smartphone packing a huge camera sensor like that is that the need for an optical zoom is mitigated by the ability to just ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 13, 2013 4:49 AMRead OnThe Nokia EOS leaks continue after we've reportedly looked at several aspects of the phone in the past weeks. Today's image claims to depict the upcoming Nokia EOS and we're looking at the phone next to the Lumia 920. In case you couldn't figure it out -- we won't blame you, they're almost identical -- you can spot the Nokia EOS on the right and recognize it from the clock in standby mode, as a Nokia Glance feature. Aside from that, you can also see that it does not lay flat on its back, because of the camera hump. The Nokia EOS is expected sometime next month. It should bring the Nokia ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 12, 2013 12:36 PMRead OnWaterproofing is definitely one of the hotter smartphone features around in 2013, and we're seeing it come to an increasing number of models. Today we may get a new handset to add to the ranks of the GS4 Active and the Xperia Z, as the new teaser image Huawei posted to one of its Facebook accounts sure seems to imply that the company has a waterproof Windows Phone handset nearly ready to launch. While Huawei doesn't name the phone, we're almost certainly talking about the Ascend W2, which we've seen in a number of leaks over the past several weeks. Specs for the handset have already ...
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