In addition to the 1,850 jobs that are scheduled to be cut from Microsoft’s mobile unit, 2,850 positions will be cut over the course of fiscal year 2017.The move was revealed a week from its fourth quarter earnings announcement in the company’s Form 10-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission.We periodically evaluate how to best deploy the company’s resources. In ...
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Cellphones have been difficult for Microsoft to not only get into, but to maintain its presence in. The acquisition and subsequent disposal of Nokia’s mobile hardware division was characterized as sad, mismanaged, misguided and inevitable, depending on who you talked to. Still, taking a $7.6 billion hit on the balance sheet and 7,800 cubicles had to be addressing a weakness somehow.It may prove to have been ...
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Like it or not, Microsoft is up to a ton of changes. At the moment we’re having a hard time trying to call out on the ones that have been popular, but change usually comes with that. Microsoft is in desperate need of reinvention at times when ...
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We’ve been crossing some very conflicting rumors with the Microsoft’s Lumia 830. Some of us have speculated that the leaked photos that we’ve seen aren’t of the Lumia 830 because of the 1020-style camera hump, and then there are other rumors that claim that there is a
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Microsoft has already given us a couple of teasers on what to expect for its IFA press event in Berlin. Yes, we are expecting the rumored Lumia 730 selfie phone, but another device in our radar is the Lumia 830. It’s easy to assume that this is just the evolution to Nokia’s ...
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Microsoft is already teasing what to expect for its IFA 2014 event. We know that devices like the rumored Nokia Lumia 730 might be part of the show, and its “selfie phone” capabilities will be the big news here. Still, Nokia is famous for not launching just one device at its events, and another device ...
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Microsoft’s launch of Windows Phone 8.1 has proven to be as cool as it is odd. We do praise everything we’ve seen in our extensive review coverage, but that doesn’t change the fact that the company has only launched a few devices running ...
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As with the Lumia 520, Nokia is trying to prove something with the announcement of its successor, the Lumia 530. This isn’t just your average budget phone, but also a very powerful budget phone that fits perfectly in the hands of those that have never owned a smartphone, and that would like to start conservatively. Still, that doesn’t change the ...
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The Nokia Lumia 530 has been on our radar for the last couple of weeks. Surely it’s not the next Lumia flagship that many of us would dream about, but after the success of the Lumia 520 last year, it’s clear that a lot of people are looking forward to a Nokia Lumia 530 reportedly teased ahead of launch appeared first on Pocketnow.
The Nokia Camera has gained a lot of popularity for being one of the best smartphone camera apps in the market. In addition to giving you full manual controls of your smartphone, it’s also done a great job in keeping itself updated. Microsoft has just launched update version 4.8.1.1, and the changes ...
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Before Microsoft’s acquisition, Nokia’s mobile device division didn’t become famous just because of the great flagship smartphones that it produced, but also because of the entry-level devices that were pushed at amazing price tags. Such is the case of the Lumia 630 that we recently reviewed, in addition to the Lumia 520 as well. Still, we’ve been following the rumors of the
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The Nokia Lumia 635 is probably one of the most anticipated phones of the year. Surely it’s not the most powerful or good looking phone in the market, but the fact that costs between $99 to $129 off-contract, and even better, the fact that it runs Windows Phone like a champ, are all reasons to make this phone a success. Recently the device was
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Microsoft Mobile, since hey, we can’t really call it Nokia any more, is still hard at work with its transition to Redmond. Still the division is hard at work in making its Nokia offering something that speaks more of Windows Phone, and not necessarily the Nokia branding as a separate entity. Some updates that were pushed today could prove that there is more work happening in this effort, though we can’t deny that it is confusing.Microsoft Mobile has just pushed updates to a lot of services that are dug within “Settings” on Windows Phone devices. Obviously this is ...
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What exactly qualifies as a “remix?” How deluded do you have to be to believe in all these “Prime” rumors? Why are we so transfixed by the notion of lasers on smartphones, and so easily taken in by a smartphone commercial, if it’s shot like a trailer for Inception? We tackle these questions, and the biggest announcement section in the history of the podcast, in episode 096 of the Pocketnow Weekly. No, that’s not bragging – it’s just an unavoidable symptom of a month packed with unboxings, hands-ons, product launches, and reviews (both ...
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Ever since the calendar flipped over to 2014 a few months back, we’ve been anxiously awaiting news of Microsoft completing its acquisition of Nokia’s Devices and Services branch – the one responsible for those Lumia smartphone we dig like we do. But even after getting all the regulatory approval they’d need, it’s felt like Microsoft and Nokia were dragging their feet a little in completing the deal; when would Nokia the smartphone company cease to exist as a separate entity and finally become ...
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