Nokia is planning at least one top-tier Windows Phone using an aluminum body rather than the colorful polycarbonate of the existing Lumia range, with the handset – codenamed Catwalk – due sometime this year. Expected to be both thinner and lighter than the Nokia Lumia 920, the Nokia Catwalk will be part of a three device refresh, according to The Verge‘s sources.
RIM will pay Nokia around $65m in a one-off patent royalty payment, newly filed SEC paperwork confirms, though subsequent payments could amount to nearly enough if analyst predictions bear out. The deal to settle ongoing litigation between the companies was announced last week, though at the time neither would say how much the "one-time payment and on-going payments" would involve. A new Securities and Exchange Commission 6-K filing, however, spills the beans on the actual amount.
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The last time we spoke about a celebrity-like person working with a one certain kind of gadget or another, it was Kate Beckinsale with her LG flip-phone used during Total Recall - now it's time to speak about Mark Cuban's choices, starting with "the new Nokia with Windows" (aka the Nokia Lumia 920). Though the serial entrepreneur didn't specifically mention the 920 by name, his several mentions of the hero devices from each series of smartphone - the iPhone 5, he Samsung Galaxy [S III] - make the 920 a rather safe bet.
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We mentioned a few days ago that rumors continue to swirl that Nokia was hard at work on its own Surface RT tablet competitor. We still don't know a lot about the rumored Nokia Windows RT tablet. Rumors still insist that the tablet will debut in early 2013.
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Glad-tidings, peace, and goodwill: Nokia and RIM have gulped down some of the festive spirit, announcing a patent license agreement which has the holiday bonus of settling all ongoing legal action between the firms. The deal, specifics of which are being kept confidential, will involve RIM shelling out a one-time lump sum and then making ongoing payments to its new Finnish friends.
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Today several Nokia Lumia devices will be receiving a significant software upgrade that will have each of the devices gaining enhancements to features as well as fixing a collection of bugs you probably never encountered in the first place. This update is the one you’ve been waiting for in the photography department – that perhaps most important of all as the camera on the Nokia Lumia 920 is one of the most unique features on the handset. This update will be coming to your device over-the-air starting today!
The fine folks behind the camera software working with the Nokia Lumia smartphones on the market today have revealed a great boost for one of the odder features: Cinemagraph - the gif-maker. With this app made by Nokia to work directly with the camera built-in to the device you're able to create images called Cinemagraphs - still images (in .gif format) that have moving components. This app has been available for the Nokia Lumia smartphones working with Windows Phone 8 since their inception, today's update bringing on sharing like never before.
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The persistent rumor of a Nokia Windows tablet has reignited, with claims that a 10-inch model running Windows RT is in the pipeline for a February 2013 reveal. According to the insiders, Nokia has been in talks with Qualcomm around using the Snapdragon S4 processor for the slate, with a previous 2012 launch schedule put on ice, DigiTimes reports, after Microsoft itself waded into the Windows tablet market.
For the first time in 14 years, Samsung has overtaken Nokia to take the number one spot as the top cellphone brand in 2012. Previously, Nokia has sat comfortably at number one as the top handset brand on a yearly basis, but Samsung, which has seen strong sales thanks to their flagship Galaxy S III, has increased their market share lead over Nokia and Apple.
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There’s a brand new app out there today by the name of Twist, made for Android and working with GPS map data as well as real-time traffic information to give your friends and colleagues an idea of how long it’ll be before you’re at the place you’re headed to. Without revealing exactly where you are – this isn’t a hyper-tracking sort of situation, it’s just a bit of a guide. This app had been available before today on iOS, this release being unique in its implication of HTML5 for fabulous accuracy.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has teased “exciting things with Verizon” in the ilk of AT&T’s flagship Lumia 920, though the coy chief-exec declined to specify exactly what the CDMA carrier could be getting. “There might be another similar hero exercise with a different operator” Elop told CNET, referring to Nokia’s current strategy of picking a single carrier to push flagship devices in each country. “And we’re pleased to have just restarted our relationship with Verizon. We are planning a lot of exciting things with Verizon as well.”
One of Nokia's biggest selling points for it's flagship Lumia 920 smartphone is the PureView camera resting on the back of the device. It's the first handset to feature optical image stabilization, enabling stable video recording and great low-light capabilities, and Nokia has said that an update for the camera, as well other software aspects of the phone, is set to release sometime this month.
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