Nokia, Haven’t You Learned Anything From HTC or Samsung?

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In the mobile space, while most hardware OEMs are multi-million dollar corporations with tens of thousands of employees, only a select few are turning a profit and thriving. Even some of the most reputable brands in the industry – HTC, Motorola, LG, Huawei, etc. – are struggling to get a foothold in the smartphone realm. With major re-branding and a fresh start in 2011 and the beginning of 2012, we didn’t exactly expect Nokia to recover from years of turbulence overnight. But we did hope it would impact the company … positively. Now, over one year later, the company is still ...

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The Nokia Lumia 925 Omits The 920′s Most Futuristic Feature

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Well, we’re about six hours past the announcement of the latest Windows Phone out of Finland, the Nokia Lumia 925, so it’s about time to start armchair quarterbacking. Everyone ready? Good. Let’s hit it. What do you do when your flagship Windows Phone (indeed, your only flagship phone, period) is well-received by the marketplace, but draws criticism for a few elements of its design? Well, you correct those deficiencies in the next flagship, of course. But what if you want to address those concerns sooner, ...

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Lumia 925, Lumia 920, Lumia 928: Comparison (Video)

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Nokia added two new Lumias to its lineup this month, first with the announcement of the Lumia 928 for Verizon, and just now the Lumia 925. As descendants of the stalwart Lumia 920, these phones all share some basic hardware, and for this group that means packing some serious camera hardware. Still, these three aren’t cookie-cutter copies of each other. Decisions Nokia’s made, both in regards to hardware and software, have shaped how each ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 043: The Post-Galaxy S 4 Tech Podcast You’ve Been Waiting For

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At Pocketnow, we have a responsibility to try the new, the fresh, and the weird – and that latter swamp is exactly the one Managing Editor Anton D. Nagy waded into with his recent review of the ASUS Fonepad – the tablet with an earpiece. Or the phone with a tablet screen. Whatever you want to call it, we’ve covered it – and Tony has some thoughts about using a seven-inch smartphone in this edition of one of your favorite tech podcasts. After we clear the giant-phone convo, we’ve ...

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Galaxy S 4 vs Lumia 920 (Video)

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You’ve been asking for it: a head-to-head matchup of the best of Windows Phone with (one of) the best of Android. We had to get the hotter comparisons out of the way first, but here for your viewing enjoyment is the latest piece of Nokia versus Samsung hotness to come out of Pocketnow. Why the delay? Funny you should ask. We’ve been churning out quad-vs-octa, Samsung-vs-HTC, and

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Microsoft Releases Fanboy-Bashing Video, While Samsung Prepares Cringe-Worthy GS4 Song

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Promotion can make or break a smartphone, so let’s take a moment to checkout two recent entries from some of the industry’s heavyweights: a new Lumia 920 ad from Microsoft, and a clip from the Galaxy S 4′s Indian launch that makes even the over-the-top US event seem restrained in comparison. The Microsoft ad really pulls no punches, and in just a short span of time manages to fire off plenty of volleys at all the quirkiness of both Apple and Samsung designs, as well as some ...

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The Pocketnow Weekly Podcast, Episode 040

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We didn’t expect to run the Weekly with a skeleton crew two weeks in a row – and it’s a good thing we didn’t have to. Mere minutes into this week’s Tony-and-Michael-only podcast, Taylor Martin arrives to save us from the spectre of a fun, but low-energy, two-man show. In its place: jokes, laughs, and a lot of industry insight you’re gonna wanna put your ears on. We talk phone batteries that can jump-start your car, what place Twitter has in music, whether we should be excited about Motorola’s X phone or Nokia’s aluminum Catwalk, and the ...

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Nokia PR 2.0 Firmware Distribution Given Tentative Date

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Some new features are on their way to Nokia Lumia smartphones, or so a few recent rumors and leaks have been suggesting. We’ve heard about things like a flip-to-silence mode, and looked at a video demo apparently revealing a tap-to-wake option. Beyond that, other bonuses like enhanced display settings have been mentioned. When’s all this getting here, though? If we’re to believe one carrier, this new firmware could be arriving this July. On Twitter, ...

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Galaxy S 4 US Launch Dates, iPhone 5S A7 Chip, Nokia Lumia 928 vs 920 & More – Pocketnow Daily

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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Pantech Vega Iron leaks and the fact that companies still don’t understand what a phone without a bezel means. Then we move to the Galaxy S 4 as rumors have the launch dates for the US already set for the end of this month. The iPhone 5S is next as we’ve got leaked images of an A7 quad-core chip powering the next generation device. Then we talk about the Nokia Lumia 928 and how it was compared to the Nokia Lumia 920. We end today’s show by talking about the Nokia EOS project and the possibility that this will be the ...

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Samsung Galaxy Mega, Microsoft 7-inch Surface, Optimus G Pro for AT&T & More – Pocketnow Daily

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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the Nexus 10 Cover finally arriving at the Google Play store. Later it’s Nokia talk as we go through their software updates and also the leaked video of the Lumia 920 getting tap to wake in the near future. Microsoft follows as we talk about a possible Surface 7-inch tablet. The LG Optimus G Pro is next as it’s rumored for an AT&T launch soon and we’ve also got news of the software Value Pack reaching current customers with some major enhancements. We end today’s show talking about the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 ...

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Video Demos Forthcoming Lumia 920 Tap-to-Wake Feature

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Some rumors from a couple weeks back discussed the possible new features that could arrive with a new Windows Phone 8 update, including a handful specific to Nokia models. One of those was a neat ability to wake the phone from sleep by double-tapping on the handset’s screen. Today, we get to check out how that would work, thanks to a video purporting to demo the feature. Sure enough, you can see the Lumia 920 in this clip waking from sleep following a gentle double-tap on the screen. That’s pretty much what we had ...

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Nokia Announces Software Updates for Lumia 920, 820 and 620 Windows Phones

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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, ...

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Dear Nokia, Please Reboot Your Phone Designs

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Oh no! Just how many variations on the same design can the market take? I guess the fair answer to that is different from person to person and there’s always the good old saying according to which you shouldn’t fix something that is not broken (or, in this case, that still sells). Apple’s iPhones look fairly the same; of course there are differences from one major iteration to the other (3, 4, 5) but the design principle is alike. Before Samsung launched its Galaxy S 4 I was praying for a new design because the current pebble-like aspect has been used and abused like a ...

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HTC One vs Nokia Lumia 920 (Video)

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The newest and finest in the Android collection versus the not-so-newest … but still finest … in the Windows Phone category. How does the HTC One’s UltraPixel shooter match up against the Nokia Lumia 920′s PureView camera? Moreover, how does that unibody aluminum casing from Taiwan fare placed up against the solid polycarbonate from Finland? And how involved are the similarities between Sense 5 and Windows Phone, anyway? It’s all covered in our latest comparison, so dive on in and check it out as we put the HTC One (Sprint) head-to-head with the Nokia Lumia ...

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Latest Lumia 920 Firmware Hits a Snag; Nokia Halts Distribution

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Windows Phone has seriously not been having good luck with phone updates recently. There was that whole business with Microsoft stopping the distribution of Windows Phone 7.8 updates back in February, and now we’ve learned that another release has had to be withdrawn, this time with Nokia and its most recent Lumia 920 update for AT&T. 920 firmware 1308 started going out last week, delivering a bunch of fixes and tweaks that make ...

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