Nokia and Microsoft have been partnered closely on Windows Phone smartphones for a while now. The two companies partner on more than smartphones alone. Those other partnerships include working together to bring improved location-based services and apps to Microsoft users. Microsoft and Nokia have announced improvements for Bing Maps.
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Nokia PureLambda device pops up in WP Bench
Nokia has been firmly committed to Windows Phone since the company partnered with Microsoft last year, and has pushed out four Lumia devices since then. Its latest phone the Lumia 610, is due to be released in the UK at the beginning of June, but does the Finnish smartphone manufacturer have something else on the horizon? A new Nokia device spotted in WP Bench suggests that may be the case.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: May 24, 2012
Happy Thursday, everyone. It's almost time for that holiday weekend. You can almost feel it, right? But for now, we've still got plenty of news to discuss so let's get to it. First on the plate today - Foxconn, Sharp building new iPhone display plant. And moving onto corporate news, more on the bad HP news - HP to cut 9000 jobs by October, 27000 jobs by 2014. And in the government space, here's a punch to Microsoft - EU court to rule on $1.1 billion Microsoft antitrust fine.
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PureView: The Tech Behind Nokia’s Salvation
Nokia has big plans for PureView, including thinner handsets and Windows Phone support, though there’s more than just branding that’s getting in the way of slimming the smartphone camera tech. We grabbed some hands-on playtime with the Nokia 808 PureView in Germany this week, at the headquarters of long-time photography partner Carl Zeiss, where we not only discovered just what the camera is capable of, but some of the decisions – technical, product and otherwise – behind the PureView concept. And make no mistake: if any one thing signifies Nokia’s potential salvation in the mobile industry, PureView is it.
Nokia Lumia 610 to be free in June UK launch
This week Nokia have let it be known that the Nokia Lumia 610 will be launched in the UK in the first week of June - for free! This launch will have the Nokia Lumia 610 set up to cost £15 per month and will come in a variety of colors as well. This device is one we were able to see in a hands-on experience earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
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Nokia 808 PureView Explored: Hands-on Samples
Nokia gave us no small surprise when it launched the Nokia 808 PureView and its new camera-phone technology. Promising a headline-grabbing 41-megapixel sensor, paired with image processing systems more akin to what you’d find in spy satellites than smartphones, it’s the first fruit of a project five years in the making. Until now, though, all the sample images we’ve seen have been produced by Nokia’s own hand, so we understandably jumped at the chance to join the PureView team at the headquarters of lens supplier and imaging specialist Carl Zeiss in Southern Germany to take some shots of our own. Read on for the full sample gallery – together with some comparison shots with the Nokia Lumia 900 – along with the full story as to why PureView is so special.
SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: May 23, 2012
This morning it's time to get serious about the Facebook IPO - litigation serious. Next you'll find that there's a bit of a block when it comes to running Siri on your IBM networks if you happen to be hanging out there. For you science lovers, have a peek at how scientists are currently working with cryptozoologists to decipher cryptic species across the earth - they might be finding bigfoot!
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Nokia World to be split into several “intimate” events
Nokia World is typically a big event for the Finnish smartphone manufacturing, a chance to showcase the latest and greatest developments while making lots of noise. Nokia has posted to the Nokia Conversations blog saying that Nokia World will be scaled back. Instead of a big event once a year, there will be several more “intimate” events held over the course of the year instead.
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Nokia pulls Skype for Lumia 610
Microsoft’s latest update to Windows Phone, Tango, allowed phones running lower hardware specifications to run on the platform. The Nokia Lumia 610 is one such phone, but is the strategy backfiring already? Nokia has told users has told users that the Skype experience on the Lumia 610 isn’t up to par, and in the future the app won’t be available for download from the Windows Marketplace for that particular model.
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SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: May 21, 2012
This morning we're in a wake again, heading off the cooled tips of the splasher that was last week's IPO - don't let that fool you though, we've got fabulous new news galore along with a pack of features already early today that'll have you spitting out your morning milk. Have a look first at our review of the mobile Battleship - and if I don't say it enough in the review itself, here it is again: don't go in without popcorn and a big cup of soda pop. Then check out Nokia's newest teardown of the 41 megapixel 808 PureView. And don't forget our look at Leap Motion - cheaper than Kinect and much more accurate, too.
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Nokia details 5yr development of 41MP 808 PureView
Nokia is talking high-megapixels and optical zoom alternatives again with its latest 808 PureView video, this time fully filmed on the 41-megapixel smartphone itself. The eight minute film details the development process of the innovative handset from its back-of-a-napkin inception five years ago to the Nokia Belle product hitting shelves later this month.
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Nokia Lumia 900 gets hammer and nails stress tested
This week a couple of engineers from Tech Craver busted out a hammer, some nails, and their own Nokia Lumia 900 review unit to do some stress tests. While what you're about to see isn't technically as scientifically viable as we'd normally like to see in a hammer-to-smartphone test, we'll accept it - if only because they added what appears to be Stephen Elop calling them on the phone at the end of the video before the video stoppers up. This story has also been picked up by Nokia official Jason Harris of Conversations by Nokia - they're fairly impressed by the whole situation too, to be frank.
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