Waterproofing 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 ...

Ever since Nokia hitched its wagon to Microsoft and Windows Phone, it's been difficult to think of the two companies as wholly independent entities; after all, Nokia's carrying the bulk of WP smartphone sales, and Microsoft gives the OEM some special access that other Windows Phone manufacturers aren't similarly able to enjoy. As such, it's no news to learn that the two are working closely together, but some new comments from Nokia reps have us wondering if specific could be in the works for this summer. At a recent UK Lumia 925 event, Nokia talked about "working even closer" with ...

Sometimes, a purported render of a new smartphone really leaves us scratching our heads. Maybe it's totally legit, but the design is so off-kilter that we can't help but wonder if it's a fake – like what happened when we got an early look at the HTC One. Other times it's a really well-done fake that hits enough of the right notes that we can't quite tell if it's real or not. And then there are those times when we're just left wondering how anyone could think a sloppy fake is anything even approaching a real image – that's the boat we find ourselves in today, with a supposed HTC Tiara ...

Damian Dinning is the person responsible for many awesome camera innovations at Nokia. Before leaving the company -- his place was taken by Juha Alakarhu -- he brought PureView to the world, first, in the form of the Nokia 808, then, the Lumia 920 with PureView stage-two. The Nokia 808 PureView features, among many other camera innovations, a mechanical shutter. While the Nokia EOS is nothing but a (recurring) leak at the moment, it is rumored to have a camera system which heavily relies on the one used in the 808. A recent leak tries to depict the same construction, including a ...

The rumored HTC Tiara Windows Phone handset first popped-up back in February. Later, we heard from Sprint that it would get a late start on Windows Phone 8 with a pair of smartphones, and a rumor suggested one would be the Tiara. Eventually, we caught wind of a phone identifying itself as "HTCP0881_Sprint" and wondered if it this was the Tiara we were looking at. Now that same model's back, getting its FCC certification and preparing to launch on Sprint. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to match up the HTC model PO88100 which just saw its FCC paperwork go public with that HTCP0881_Sprint ...

What's the deal with Instagram on Windows Phone? We've been hoping to see this app arrive for what feels like ages, and while we've seen the arrival of some workable substitutes, we'd really love to avoid yet another off-brand WP app experience and have a full-on, official solution. Nokia's been busy campaigning with its #2InstaWithLove app, and today we get word that a proper Instagram client could actually soon be on its way to the platform, with rumors suggesting a launch this month. The details are a little unclear, but the release date is supposed to fall on a Wednesday in June, with ...

Sometimes you get listener mail that asks how the band got together in the first place. Sometimes that happens the day after you drop some nostalgic sentimentalism all over the internet. Sometimes, simultaneously, there are some sweet, juicy rumors and leaks about a top-of-the-line camera phone with what looks like a moon crater on it. Sometimes you gotta put all that into a podcast with the original cadre of Pocketnow 'casters, and see what comes out. All that, plus the longest outtake reel in the history of Pocketnow, more Nokia EOS rumors than you can shake a stick at, the first-ever ...

As more and more images of Nokia's rumored 41-megapixel PureView EOS emerge, we're finding ourselves dialing-back the skepticism a little. Granted, there were some explicit signs of image manipulation in some of what we saw yesterday, but that need not necessarily speak to the illegitimacy of the hardware being depicted, and with similar images arriving from multiple sources, all of this is starting to seem very real. So far, we've had a number of looks at incomplete shells, as well as some at the assembled EOS, but now we get to take things one step further and get to see a powered-on ...