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SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: May 25, 2012
LG dumps Windows Phone for Android focus
Microsoft and Nokia might be making a big push for Windows Phone in the United States, but other OEMs haven’t been quite so active as of late. LG was one of the original launch partners, and the company has now said it has no plans to introduce any new Windows Phones onto the market. LG will instead focus its efforts on Android, as said during its earnings call last week.
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Nokia N8 gets Orange HD Voice support
Another day, another HD Voice enabled device on the Orange UK network. The carrier has just confirmed that not only will the Nokia N8 arrive in their stores this coming weekend, it will also be the latest handset to support the higher-quality audio system promising improved voice calls.
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Orange HD Voice promises crystal-clear audio (if you have the right phone)
Orange UK has officially launched High Definition Voice, a new voice technology that claims to dramatically reduce background noise and increase audio quality. Available only on select handsets - initially updated versions of the Nokia 5230, Nokia X6, Nokia E5 and Samsung Omnia Pro - the carrier is hoping that more manufacturers jump on board with their own compatible hardware.
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Android market share swells 886% year-on-year in Q2 2010; RIM and Apple trail behind
Smartphone demand is up, and the winner is Android according to market analysts Canalys. They've been tracking US and global trends, and reckon that in Q2 2010 Android sales rose 886-percent from last year (851-percent in the US), giving them the number one market share in the US with 34-percent; they're trailed, supposedly, by RIM at 32-percent of market share and Apple at 21.7-percent.
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Nokia: misguided or misunderstood?
Of all the mobile device companies out there today, you could make a strong argument for calling Nokia the most misunderstood. Fresh to the table this morning comes the Nokia N8 – capably specified and distinctively “of” the company – a device that on the face of it should slot somewhere in among the Droid Incredible, iPhone and Nexus One for lustworthiness. While the company press machine will happily tell you that more than 1.2bn people, worldwide, use Nokia devices every day – and Nokia enthusiasts can legitimately rival Apple fans for their rabid levels of devotion – there’s already a sense among many that the N8 is just the latest flawed icing on a misguided corporate cake. Where is Nokia going wrong?
Nokia Comes With Music gets DRM-free Chinese launch
If you were to believe the hype, China is a hotbed of counterfeit software and fake products, and now Nokia are throwing Comes With Music into the mixture. The Finns have announced that their Comes With Music service is launching - as Yue Sui Xiang - in China, with no DRM on downloaded tracks; subscriptions range from twelve months to two years, and once that period is up you can keep any songs you've downloaded from them. Of course, thanks to the absence of DRM this time around, you're also free to load up the tracks on other media playing devices.
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Nokia 5230 Nuron gets reviewed: needs to be cheaper
Nokia smartphones offered by US carriers are still relatively rare, so it's with no small amount of interest that we checked out the Nokia 5230 Nuron for T-Mobile review over at SlashPhone. The handset, known as the 5230 XpressMusic in Europe, is designed to give entry-level smartphone users a cheaper bite of the touchscreen pie, but in return for the $70 sticker they'll have to make do with a resistive display and no WiFi.
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T-Mobile HTC HD2 promo material leaks ahead of launch
Curious to know how T-Mobile USA will be pushing the HTC HD2 - a phone already available in Europe for several months now, and guaranteed not to get an official Windows Phone 7 update - when it goes on sale come March 24th? Over at Pocketables they've a stash of in-store T-Mobile promotional material sent over from an anonymous tipster, and it looks like the carrier will be leaning heavily on the HD2's media playback abilities.
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T-Mobile Nokia 5230 Nuron gets official
Only yesterday we were hearing leaked pricing details about the Nokia 5230 Nuron, and now T-Mobile USA have made the handset official. The touchscreen candybar - which we've known as the 5230 XpressMusic - has a 3.2-inch resistive display, Ovi Maps and 3G.
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T-Mobile HTC HD2 price leaks, plus CLIQ XT and Nokia Nuron details
While we've pretty much known that T-Mobile plan to launch the HTC HD2 in the US sometime this month, what we haven't been aware of is what sort of pricing we should expect. Thanks to a nifty leak from Tmonews, however, we now know figures for not only the HD2 but the CLIQ XT and the Nokia Nuron (aka the ExpressMusic 5230). Best news? The HD2 isn't as expensive as we feared it might be.
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1.4m Nokia Ovi Maps downloads: people like free stuff
Nokia have announced that, in just under two weeks, its free Ovi Maps Navigation app has been downloaded 1.4m times. In fact, the company broke the 1m barrier at the end of last week. Unveiled in its new, subscription-free form on January 21st, this latest version of Ovi Maps includes spoken turn-by-turn directions together with formerly-premium content such as Lonely Planet guides.
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