Camera phone shoot out: How does the iPhone 6 Plus compare?

Posted on by Adam Z. Lein

Since the new iPhone 6 came out, everybody’s talking about all the new features and especially the new 8 megapixel camera. Many are giving it some great praise, but as Micheal said in the “Here’s what the iPhone 6 camera can do” piece, it’s a good camera, but it ain’t no Nokia. In this piece we’re going to take a close look at how the picture quality of the iPhone 6 plus really compares to a few of the other smartphones out there, as well as a midrange DSLR just for ...

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MetroPCS phones: which phones should you consider?

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With all the smartphones available, picking your next phone can be a serious challenge.Each month, multiple new phones are added to the mix, all with varying levels of specifications, different software, new features, different degrees of build quality, and designs. To make it worse, a lot of the newer – and sometimes older – phones overlap one another. For instance, some of HTC’s newest smartphones (the Desire 610 and One mini 2, for instance), while slightly different, cover the exact same ground and target the same demographics.The other factor to consider is your carrier of ...

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Microsoft offering free Lumia 520/521 with year of Xbox Music

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Nokia’s Lumia 520 and 521 have become the best-selling Windows Phone 8 models around thanks in no small part to their incredibly affordable price tags. Not only did they launch cheap, but they’ve been getting even cheaper, and we regularly see them selling for well under $100. When you’ve got a smartphone phone going for $50 off-contract during one of these promotions, sooner or later someone’s going to ask, “why aren’t we just giving these things away?” As it ...

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Moto G vs Lumia 520 (Video)

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We spend a lot of time at Pocketnow talking about high-end luxury smartphones – but there’s a whole other side to the mobile market, a more affordable sector often dismissed as too laden with underperforming products to warrant much attention. Well, this year, Motorola and Nokia have done a very good job surprising us in this area, delivering the low-cost Moto G and Lumia 520, respectively. Our own Taylor Martin just

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T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 521 Review: Smartphone deal of the year

Posted on by Adam Z. Lein

When you see a smartphone available on the Home Shopping Network for $99, you might think that it would be something horrible that would fall apart after a month or it would be so slow and crashy that it would be unusable… unless it’s a Nokia Windows Phone. We went ahead and ordered the budget friendly Nokia Lumia 521 to see how it works.  It’s also available from T-Mobile, Walmart and other retailers, but the Home Shopping Network bundles a few extra accessories for a really great price.  Not ony is this Nokia Lumia 521 a really great deal, but there are a few things that ...

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T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 521 HSN Unboxing (Video)

Posted on by Adam Z. Lein

Last week you may have noticed that the Home Shopping Network had a little sale on the T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 521.  For only $99, we decided to hit the buy button especially since we didn’t give it too much coverage when it was first released and since then the phone has become quite popular.  It was just delivered so naturally we’re going to give you an unboxing video.  You might be surprised by just how much is actually included in the box if you

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Moto X event, Sony smartphone camera, VLC for iOS & more – Pocketnow Daily

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Moto X event finally becoming a reality on August 1st. Nokia’s Lumia 521 is next, as it may not be hot in specs or features, but it sure is hot for its $100 price tag on T-Mobile. New Nexus 7 leaks show hardware details, and another look at Android 4.3 on the Nexus 4 show significant improvements in performance. VLC for the iPhone and iPad is next, as Apple has finally approved it again, but hurry up and download it before Apple changes its mind. We end today’s show talking about Sony’s new idea of bringing their ...

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Lumia 521 price hits new low: on sale for $100, no contract

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Nokia’s Lumia 521 (and its sister the 520) may not wow us with blistering performance, super-thin hardware, or one hulk of a powerful camera, but we’re endlessly fascinated by just how inexpensive this phone continues to be. Even at $150, it was one of the best launch prices we had ever seen for an off-contract smartphone from a respected manufacturer. We’ve already seen discounts shave away at that $150, like how Walmart had it for just $130, but this ...

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8 reasons the Nokia Lumia 521 is better than the Samsung Galaxy S 4

Posted on by Adam Z. Lein

I know, I know, comparing the top-of-the-line Android phone with the bottom-of-the-barrel Windows Phone is crazy talk.  However, recently we saw Ben Rudolph’s video showing how much gear you could get for the price of an off-contract Samsung Galaxy S4; including the new inexpensive Nokia Lumia 521 Windows Phone of course.  Ben paid $750 for the off-contract AT&T version of the Galaxy S 4 from

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Final Details of T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 521 Launch Emerge

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Last month, T-Mobile announced the crazy-low “I can’t believe that’s for a smartphone” price for the Nokia Lumia 521, which is selling for a mere $150, free of contractual obligation. At the time, we got the scoop on early HSN sales, as well as the phone’s eventual arrival at Walmart and Microsoft retail stores. That was exciting news, but it wasn’t quite the whole story of the 521′s launch. Today we fill in a few missing bits, as ...

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Canada Matches T-Mobile’s $150 Lumia 521 Pricing for Lumia 520

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It’s no secret that we’re seriously jazzed about T-Mobile’s crazy-affordable pricing for Nokia’s Lumia 521, selling the Windows Phone 8 handset for a scant $150. As we’ve mentioned when discussing this bargain, that’s quite a bit less than what the international 520 has been going for, which we’ve seen more up around the $200 mark. Luckily for all of you not situated in the States, ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 042: HTC One-and-a-Half, Galaxy S 4 Octa, & Super-Cheap Windows Phones (Podcast)

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Not all of us have read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so not all of us were exactly qualified to make the lame joke that kicks off this week’s podcast. But we made it, and we stand behind it. Because as hundreds of fifth-rate “manufacturers” well know, sometimes you just have to fake it. But we’re not talking about secondhand knockoff products in this episode of the Weekly. Rather, we get serious about octa-core comparisons, the till-recently-mythical HTC M4, the insanely cheap new Lumia out of Finland, and just how tired we are or aren’t of the ...

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Nokia Lumia 521 on T-Mobile Is Going to Be CRAZY Cheap

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Nokia’s Lumia 521 is coming to T-Mobile. We heard earlier this month that the phone would launch sometime in May, and at the time speculated a little about the smartphone’s pricing. After all, this whole UNcarrier thing is new for T-Mobile, and we’re still learning what to expect. We guessed that maybe it might go for $50 upfront on the carrier’s installment plan, followed by some ...

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T-Mobile Killing Nokia Lumia 810 to Make Room for Lower-End Lumia 521?

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Back when Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 models were announced, T-Mobile got itself a special version of the Lumia 820, its own Lumia 810. That phone is only about six months old at this point, but it looks like it’s already being put out to pasture, with a new leak marking the handset as approaching its EOL date. According to the document, T-Mobile is assigning the 810 end-of-life status as of next month, but before then you should start to see it replaced with the Lumia 521. Just as T-Mobile got itself a custom 820 with the 810, ...

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Nokia Lumia 521 First Look (Video)

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T-Mobile has already announced that the Nokia Lumia 521 would be coming to their network twice. It should be showing up within a month or so, but we got to play with an early version at the Pepcom Digital Focus event the other night in New York City. It’s certainly smaller than the popular larger phones out there, and definitely smaller than T-Mobile’s Nokia Lumia 810. It really feels great in the hand, but it’s not quite as ergonomically designed as the Lumia 710 was. The thickness and weight feel just about perfect, as does the smaller screen size, but then again ...

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