Pocketnow Daily: Pocophone X2: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?!(video)

On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the upcoming Poco X2 with amazing specs, the succesor of the Galaxy Fold and more

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Windows Mobile camera chief moves back to Nokia for Ozo project

As Microsoft continues to de-emphasize its mobile hardware operations through mission revisions and layoffs, one particular employee’s move through the revolving door seems to have made waves.Juha Alarkarhu, who most recently directed Microsoft’s Phones Imaging unit, has announced that he has moved back to Nokia as Head of Imaging and Presence Capture, working on the ...

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Lumia 830 vs Lumia 1020: a matter of pixels (Video)

When the Lumia 830 broke cover at IFA 2014, we were struck by its resemblance to the earlier Lumia 1020 – a device which, thanks to its huge 41MP camera, stands alone as the only true super-shooter in the Windows Phone lineup. Microsoft touted the 830 as a kind of affordable successor, a so-called ...

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Mobile photography as art: an interview with the MPA’s Daniel Berman

Image credit, left to right: John Gamble; Clay Butch Benskin; Helen Breznik • Since its invention, photography has gone from being a complex craft mastered only by experienced professionals to being easily accessible to all. Pretty much everyone these days carries a smartphone in their pocket, with an always ready-for-action camera. The rise of mobile photography and the ability to shoot and share instantaneously has revolutionized the field and created what has been called a ‘democratization of photography’. While many are still wondering about the possible implications of ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 094: Fitness, Photography, and Fidelity with Myriam Joire!

Nimble hops between short subjects, or longform plumbing of deep depths? We don’t like to make you choose with our podcast, so we occasionally hop across formats between episodes. This here is one of the deeper variety. This week’s special guest is Myriam Joire (aka tnkgrl), Engadget alum and current product evangelist at Pebble. She brings her considerable expertise in optics and audio to a discussion ranging from the best high-end headphones ...

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Microsoft still needs 41 megapixel camera phones

Microsoft has completed the deal and brought Nokia’s Devices and Services division under its Cloud First, Mobile First umbrella. It seems natural that a discussion popped up amongst us tech folk about the merits of the 41 megapixel sensor that made Nokia a king among camera phones. There are a number of factors to consider when looking at this technology so I wanted to make my case about why Microsoft should continue to push the image-sensing envelope. It’s worth noting that the 41 megapixel sensor is nothing new. The 808 Pureview had that and it didn’t exactly take off like a rocket ...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 vs Nokia Lumia Icon (Video)

One of the hallmarks of our review process is the comparison video, and one of our favorite comparisons to make is the cross-platform faceoff. That’s especially true when the two competitors are powered by Android and Windows Phone: there are so many disparities to cover, so many philosophical differences to delve into, that it can be a bit daunting – but the payoff, whatever it is, is usually worth it. In today’s comparison, that satisfaction comes in the form of surprise. Because the Icon, like most Nokia Lumia devices, is built largely to support its camera, we expected ...

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Nokia Lumia 1020 – After The Buzz, episode 27 (Video)

Most new device launches go the same way: usually the press gets review units before they’re widely available, and we get to use them for a few days -or a week if we’re lucky- as we work on our review. Then press day arrives. The embargo on media coverage lifts, and everyone posts their reviews and videos at the same time. It’s a huge frenzy, commenters go nuts, and it’s a giant explosion of frantic opinion-sharing activity. For about … a day. And then it all goes away. Sure, there’s followup coverage as people find bugs and hidden features, but after that initial blast, not ...

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Yellow Alert: my New Year’s Eve smartphone for 2014 is the Lumia 1020

The smartphone you carry on New Year’s Eve has a big say in how the night will be remembered. (And not just because it’s an opportunity to show off your newest holiday acquisition to your friends, you materialistic fop.) If you take pictures with your smartphone even semi-regularly, you’re bound to do it twice as often on a landmark event like New Year’s Eve – and so the phone you carry will play a big role in how well the evening is documented. As tech reporters, the Pocketnow review team is lucky enough to have access to a slew of purchased and loaner ...

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