Windows 10 updates for existing Lumias begin in December

Plenty of time has elapsed since the first whiffs of Windows 10 phone have floated around. Turbulence and truncation has turned into a triumph of sorts at the

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AT&T Lumia 830 soon to get Denim camera update

Wow, we’ve lapsed a good length of time since our last coverage of anything to do with the Lumia 830 and the Denim update. We haven’t see much progress on the special flavor of Windows Phone we saw Nokia-turned-

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AT&T comes clean about Lumia 830 Denim update (or lack thereof)

Every new smartphone stops getting updates eventually; maybe hardware requirements have gone up, or the user base has moved on to new handsets, but at some point it just stops making sense to allocate resource towards updating old phones. But even when it’s not explicitly stated, many of us assume there’s some level of grace period baked-in there – that we can expect a steady flow of updates for at least a year (and two if we’re lucky). Sadly, that’s just not the case in reality, and we’re finally getting formal confirmation of one smartphone that’s ...

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T-Mobile Lumia 640 coming June 17

A little more than a week from now, on June 17, 2015, T-Mobile will be launching the Lumia 640. If you haven’t already, go ahead and read our review so you’ll know whether you should be excited about this, or not. The information that next Wednesday, the T-Mobile Lumia 640 will become available comes from two different unknown sources that Windows Central is quoting in this report.By the looks of it, ...

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O2 Lumia 930 Denim update comes without “Hey Cortana”

“Lumia 930, 1520 and Lumia Icon will get “Hey Cortana” voice activation as part of the Lumia Denim update”, says the official wording from Microsoft. This feature would basically allow certain Denim-powered phones to be on the lookout for the “Hey Cortana” keyword, which would activate the functionality to further improve the user experience. This is based on chipset features which enable the phone to listen to certain keywords (in this case, ...

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Lumia 930 – After The Buzz, Episode 40

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 many ...

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Microsoft’s Lumia Denim update begins rollout

The past few days, editor Jaime Rivera has been sharing his thoughts on Microsoft’s new Lumia Denim update, mainly the camera improvements to be specific. Spoiler alert: he can’t get enough of the improvements. Now, if you want to get in on the improvements yourself officially, you’ve been out of luck. But finally, today, Redmond has flipped the switch, and the wider Microsoft Lumia Denim rollout is underway.If you’ve got a ...

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Lumia Denim: Camera Improvements Tour (Video)

Microsoft’s Lumia Denim is probably one of the most anticipated Windows Phone updates since the inception of the operating system. On its own, Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 does a good enough job at setting Microsoft’s mobile operating system on par with competition, but

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OnePlus One mini, BlackBerry Classic, Windows Phone ups & downs | Pocketnow Weekly 127

Updated with links to the high-quality version of the podcast (both to stream and download it), as well as timecodes to let you jump through the podcast. As always, thanks for listening, and we’ll see you right here next week!“Bring us alternate topics,” you said. And boy oh boy, have the waning days of December delivered.On today’s podcast, we’re joined by Daniel Bader of MobileSyrup for a firsthand account of the BlackBerry Classic launch and an acoustic retelling of MobileSyrup’s BlackBerry Classic review, told as only a true Canadian can tell it. ...

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Microsoft issues Lumia Denim update statement (while taking an axe to availability charts)

Yesterday we saw Microsoft prepping for wider distribution of the Lumia Denim firmware update for Lumia smartphones, following word of limited availability in select markets. It was progress, sure, but we craved more information: just when could the rest of us hope to see Denim arrive. Today Microsoft speaks up and shares an update about Denim’s progress, but at the same time removes its fine-grained update status pages.The new statement gives us another overview of the Denim features to expect, but we ...

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Microsoft preps for Lumia Denim with intro vid, support docs

All the way back in September, when Microsoft was introducing new Windows Phone hardware like the Lumia 830, it also had an announcement to make about new firmware on the horizon: Lumia Denim. The update was set to deliver features like 4K video recording – when it got here, that is. Word was that Denim would hit WP8.1 Lumia handsets starting sometime this quarter, but it’s been seriously slow to arrive; so far, ...

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Lumia Denim to bring 4K video recording to some devices soon

One of the coolest Windows Phone features is also one of the least famous among existing customers. The fact that Bluetooth LE didn’t originally work on Lumia smartphones was a bummer, but it was great to see this happen after the Lumia Cyan update. That option to see hardware improvements through software updates is great, even though it does make some of us wait for features to reach specific devices at times. Such is the case of 4K video recording, but one that will be solved very soon.The

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Nokia Lumia 830 specs: peeking inside the affordable flagship

It’s supposedly one of the first affordable flagships, but is it really a flagship in the first place? We decided to tackle that question by rounding up a list of official specs for the Nokia Lumia 830, and looking at it under the lens to see how well this Windows Phone will theoretically perform. The answer, in our full Nokia Lumia 830 specs list below.IFA 2014 is certainly not over, so you can check out our continuing coverage of the Berlin trade show right over at this link. For more on the Nokia Lumia 830 (and trust ...

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Lumia Denim Windows Phone update announced

“OK Google” is the keyword that wakes up specific devices running Android from stand-by, hands-free, so you can be more productive. Well, “Hey Cortana” is the hot word that will activate Cortana on Windows Phone, once Nokia’s Denim update, coming after the Cyan update. Users will no longer need to activate Cortana; with the new hot word detection, Cortana will be activated hands-free, getting ready to answer your questions. Additionally, Cortana will also become location aware, as it will get geofencing capabilities for location-aware reminders.However, ...

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