Windows Phone runs pretty damn zippy on Nokia’s top-end Lumia phones, and they’ve only got single-core processors. Maybe that’s why Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, told a Chinese newspaper that “the so-called dual-core, quad-core mobile phones can only waste batteries, but not be useful for consumers all the time”. What say you?
The Lumia 800 was one of the most beautiful phones ever built in the long history of phone-building. It is widely acknowledged as the best Windows phone around. The next version, the Lumia 900, is bigger, faster and is, ultimately a phone that every single person should consider owning.
Microsoft and Nokia are continuing their love-in, today announcing plans to invest a cool $US24 million into a new app development centre, to be based in Finland.
In the ‘90s, no nerd-debate was more contentious than that over the “best” computer operating system. Were you Windows, or were you Mac, or were you Linux? Rifts formed in communities, hateful epithets were hurled and friendships were destroyed. It was the geek equivalent of the abortion rights debate.
Good news, WinPho lovers: you can now use Skype on your handset. The beta is available to download now with the official release due in April.
Hot on the heels of the Nokia Lumia 800 getting an official release month in Australia, a Dutch online site has confirmed the rumoured specifications of the Nokia Lumia 910. Not just a 900 rehash; the Lumia 910 will boast a 12MP camera, 16GB of storage, HSDPA speeds and a 4.3 inch display.
We’ve wondered for a while which carrier would pick up the Nokia Lumia 800 in the Australian market, and Nokia’s just made it official. The answer is “all of them, and possibly others, too.”
The Titan II is the good kind of sequel: It doesn’t screw up anything that made the original a fan favorite, but it adds everything they want. Like a crazy 16-megapixel camera, LTE (at least on AT&T over in the States) and a massiver battery.
The Lumia 900 is a gorgeous phone — gorgeous enough to make waves if it hadn’t been beaten to the party by its little sister the Lumia 800. Or maybe two sisters, if you count the closely related N9.
Getting a firmware upgrade notification on your phone is like getting an early birthday present — you’re extra excited because it’s wholly unexpected. Now, Microsoft is ensuring that every new WP7 update gives you that “early present feeling” by borking their popular Where’s My Phone Update feature. But why?