Nokia has bet big on Windows Phone 7 as the smartphone operating system to help pull the company back into the black. Windows Phone 7 isn’t the most popular smartphone OS by a long shot, but analysts are predicting that Windows Phone 7 has a lot of growth coming this year. Much of that growth and many of the most popular devices are from Nokia.
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Nokia Lumia 900 hits UK in June says retailer, sans LTE
UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has yanked a pre-registration page for the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900, indicating the 4.3-inch Windows Phone will go on sale in non-LTE form come June 2012. Beyond the lack of LTE, the Lumia 900 details - previously found here but now only a memory in Google's cache - were identical to the AT&T model announced earlier this month, with an 8-megapixel camera along with a front-facing camera for video calls.
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Nokia Lumia 710 review
In the Nokia Lumia 710 carried by T-Mobile comes the first push by Nokia to re-enter the United States mobile market with Windows Phone in tow, and with this little gem comes a broad sweep for the middle market including those switching from other operating systems to Microsoft’s mobile OS for the first time as well as those brand new to smartphones. What you’ll find is that this device which has already been released with heavy discounts down to absolutely free on contract is a solid smartphone, complete with all the bits you’d expect from a top-of-mid-range device. Will this little beast be the first herald for the oncoming storm of Nokia power?
Nokia Windows Phone sales top 1.3m in 2011 tip analysts
A shortage of rival flagships and ambitious promotional work could have seen Nokia sell 1.3m Lumia Windows Phones in 2011, according to analyst averages, though the MeeGo-powered N9 could still have outsold its Microsoft-running siblings. Bloomberg took sales estimates from 22 analysts surveyed around Nokia's Windows Phone launch, with figures ranging from as many as 2m down to just 800,000. However, the estimates are over sales into the retail channel, and don't necessarily mean that many of Nokia's devices have ended up in users' pockets or bags.
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Sales Silence Speaks Volumes
Microsoft’s quarterly financial results today make for great reading if you’re a shareholder, with a record $20.9bn in revenue, but are less reassuring if you’re a Windows Phone fan. The big software company broke down Windows 7 licensing numbers, spilled its Bing search share and gleefully detailed Xbox 360 and Kinect sensor sales, but Microsoft’s smartphone OS merited little more than a vague mention of “a lot of excitement.” This was Microsoft’s most obvious opportunity to hammer home whatever dent Windows Phone had made in the mobile market; that it didn’t leaves us more than a little concerned.
Nokia takes second go at Lumia 800 battery fix
The battery woes of the Nokai Lumia 800 have been going on for a while. Nokia issued a software update in December that it hoped would fix the battery issues, and it didn't fix the problem. Nokia is taking another stab at fixing the battery issue and is ready to release another update for the Lumia 800. The new software update targets the battery and WiFi issues.
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Nokia pressured by mobile carriers to cut Lumia prices
All the way over the pond in the UK there's pressure being pushed down on Nokia to lower the price of the Lumia line, specifically the Lumia 710 which launches there in the next few weeks, as its first devices with Windows Phone have, perhaps, not performed as well as they'd liked. This could be seen as the exact opposite of what we've seen with Apple and their ultra high command over carriers working with the iPhone since its inception. Nokia has held more than a few discussions with UK operators on what it'll do with the Lumia 710 as is launches in the market there, this perhaps reflecting what's happened in the USA.
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Nokia CEO blasts rivals as “hedging” on smartphone strategy
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has accused the company's smartphone rivals of "a lot of hedging", being unwilling to pick just one platform to champion until Nokia with Windows Phone. "We're going to step aside from the pack and say we have an opportunity for differentiation ...We're not doing a little bit of everything" Elop told Wired. "This is what we're doing."
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Is Skype the Windows Phone Wildcard?
That Windows Phone lacks a Skype app is, like Apple’s fixation on the word “Magical” and the rampant popularity of Justin Bieber, one of life’s great conundra. Microsoft is desperately seeking “must have” apps to showcase its smartphone platform, and yet it already owns a VoIP company putting out what could legitimately be described as just that on iOS and Android. Delivering Skype for Windows Phone would certainly answer one great criticism of the OS, and cross a further reason off the wait-and-see list for many buyers. Still, it’s the promised deeper integration of Skype into future iterations of Windows Phone, however, that could signal the turning point for the “third platform.”
T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 710 now free
T-Mobile USA's Nokia Lumia 710 is now available free in the US, having already been something of a bargain at just $49.95 with a new agreement. Put on sale just last week, the 710 has already been discounted down to free-with-contract by Walmart, as carrier and retailers attempt to get as many sales in as they can before the AT&T Lumia 900 goes on sale.
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Nokia hawks 450 patents for wireless and video to Sisvel
Nokia has taken 450 of the patents that it holds and sold them off to another firm called Sisvel. The patents that were sold have to do with wireless and video technology. Sisvel is an Italian patent licensing firm. It's more than a little interesting that at a time when many other tech firms are buying patents, Nokia is selling.
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UK to get Nokia Lumia 710 in February
UK Windows Phone 7 fans will get their chance to own a new smartphone from Nokia in February. The Lumia 710 will hit the UK in February according to Nokia UK. We spent hands-on time with the Lumia 710 in the past, and it's not a bad smartphone at all. The device has been in the US for sale already and with the UK getting it now the global rollout is starting.
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