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Skype for Windows Phone 8 updates with HD video

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [1]

The newly Microsoft-bought Skype video-chat service has received an update for Windows Phone 8. Users will now be able to call their loved ones and stream over high definition video, so make sure your hair looks good and you have your best smile on. The app also received People Hub integration, meaning that all of your Skype contacts will be available in the Windows Phone People Hub. Read The Full Story

Microsoft details Windows Phone 8′s ticking clock (but Nokia disagrees)

, Mar 18th 2013 Discuss [12]

Microsoft has confirmed the dates it will end official software support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8, with both smartphone platforms set to run out of mainstream support in mid-2014. In fact, both phone OS versions will get eighteen months of Microsoft love in total, the company says, with Windows Phone 7.8 ironically outlasting its more capable successor because of its delayed launch. Read The Full Story

Nokia Lumia 928 tipped for Verizon with aluminum body

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [2]

This week the folks at Verizon and Nokia appear to be closer than ever to releasing a Windows Phone 8 machine to beat the rest - an upgraded version of the Nokia Lumia 920 with 4G LTE. This new model will have 4G LTE as the AT&T version did, but with Verizon backing it up it'll have a whole new aluminum body, Xenon flash for its back-facing camera, and a new name, as well. Welcome today - unofficially, for now - the Nokia Lumia 928. Read The Full Story

ComScore: Samsung rises as Android falls

, Mar 6th 2013 Discuss [9]

This month's ComScore results for Smartphone Platform Market Share and Smartphone OEM Market Share show first that Apple is rising while Android falls. That much is easy to see as the three-month average ending in January of 2013 is compared to the three-month average ending in October 2012 in the Smartphone Platform arena - Apple rose 3.5 percent in the market while Google (with Android) fell 1.3 percent. Next you'll find that in the Top Smartphone OEM list for those same two three-month periods, both Apple and Samsung grew - at the expense of HTC, Motorola, and LG. Read The Full Story

HTC bets the farm on HTC One: company hits 3 year low

, Mar 6th 2013 Discuss [18]

It’s just not getting any easier to be an HTC investor these days as their monthly report of earnings numbers shows their lowest sales since January of 2010. This is not new news, so to speak, as HTC has been taking some rather public downward tumbles over the past few years – but there is one shining, gleaming hope. That hope is embodied in the HTC One – the company’s newest and perhaps brightest shining star in their entire smartphone-making history.

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Nokia Lumia 720 USA release imminent: FCC tapped

, Mar 5th 2013 Discuss [1]

Today the Nokia Lumia 720 has been spotted running through the hoops at the FCC, this being one of the prerequisites for a USA release and a generally OK indicator that a launch here in the states is imminent. We got to take a peek at the Lumia 720 just a week ago at Mobile World Congress 2013 and found it to be a rather impressive machine - especially considering how inexpensive the company aims for it to be. We're to understand that this device may be heated to AT&T first, with the other major carriers coming up quickly behind. Read The Full Story

Nokia “Catwalk” and “Lazer” bring Windows Phone 8 a full metal jacket

, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [3]

Though Nokia’s Lumia lineup hasn’t thus far been called the thinnest or most hardcore on the market at any point in its short history, it all might change soon with two new models named “Catwalk” and “Lazer”. Spoken about under-cover over this past week internationally, both handsets are being tipped to take the bits and pieces in the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia 808 PureView that people don’t like and toss them out. Left will be a couple of handsets that set the minds of the consumer public on fire – wildfire!

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Nokia EOS to sport aluminum body, waterproof nano coating

, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [5]

We've heard ramblings of Nokia's upcoming rumored flagship before, known as the "EOS" or "Catwalk." This time around, we're hearing some really interesting tidbits of about the phone, most particularly that it'll come with an aluminum outer shell, and will be waterproof thanks to a special nano coating from P2i, which is a partnership that the company's allegedly worked out at Mobile World Congress last week. Read The Full Story

Microsoft to release major Windows Phone update around holidays

, Mar 3rd 2013 Discuss [19]

It seems that Microsoft's own job's board is the best place to find out what the company has planned in the future. In a new job posting, Microsoft has leaked information that their new, major update to its Windows Phone series should be coming here just in time for the holidays. The job posting also confirms that there is a "current release" for Windows Phone 8 devices that should be released sometime soon. It may be referring to the Windows Blue update. Read The Full Story

Nokia Lumia 928 spotted in Verizon Wireless’s inventory

, Mar 3rd 2013 Discuss [3]

Those of you on contract with Verizon Wireless may be excited to hear that the Nokia Lumia 928 has been spotted on Verizon's inventory log. The Lumia 928 has actually been placed there way back in January 17th, and it should be coming out sometime in the near future. Verizon's customers have been waiting anxiously for the Nokia Lumia 920 to make it to their carrier ever since it launched on AT&T's network, and while there is the Nokia Lumia 822 on Verizon's Network, it doesn't have the same aesthetic appeal as the Lumia 920. Read The Full Story

Photosynth panoramic app arrives on Windows Phone 8

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [3]

Microsoft's ever-popular panoramic app Photosynth has arrived on the company's own Windows Phone 8 platform. The app had previously only been available for iOS devices (as well as WP7), but after being absent from Microsoft's new mobile platform for several months after its release, Windows Phone 8 users can now capture Street View-esque panoramic images with their new Windows Phone devices. Read The Full Story

Nokia “Head Up”: How Lumia’s future is sharper than Glass

, Feb 28th 2013 Discuss [18]

Are wearables like Google Glass the inevitable future for smartphones? Not if you ask Nokia, where simply floating a display in your line of sight doesn’t quite satisfy the self-imposed “head up” challenge its designers and engineers are facing. The evolution of Lumia isn’t just bigger displays or faster chips, it’s a new way of interacting with the digital world. SlashGear sat down with Jo Harlow, EVP of Smart Devices, Marco Ahtisaari, EVP of Design, and Stefan Pannenbecker, VP of Industrial Design at Mobile World Congress this week to talk “people versus robots”, rolling back the clock on convergence, and how the Finns want to pry our eyes away from smartphone screens, even if we’re looking at a Lumia.

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