Nokia’s puzzling Android announcement: Nokia X
Nokia has announced the X range: Android smartphones connected to Microsoft/Nokia services including Bing search, OneDrive cloud storage, Nokia Here maps, and Nokia Music. The phones, according to...
View ArticleX is for Xamarin: One company that is pleased to see Nokia X
Xamarin, which provides cross-platform development tools for targeting iOS and Android wtih C#, is not exhibiting here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but does have a presence for meetings, and...
View ArticleFarewell Nokia X? Not quite, but the signs are clear as Microsoft bets on...
I could never make sense of Nokia X, the Android-with-Microsoft-services device which Nokia announced less than a year ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: If Nokia X is a worse Android than...
View ArticleMicrosoft Financials show cloud growth, Nokia loss
Microsoft has announced its financial results for the quarter ending June 30th 2013. How is it doing? Quarterly revenue is up to $23.38 billion from $20.49 billion year on year, though $1.98 billion of...
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Smartphone Camera fun: Nokia Lumia 1020 vs Sony Xperia Z2
Sony has announced the latest Xperia, the X2, here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Z2 boasts “a pro-grade camera far beyond smartphone class performance”, and captures images at 20.7MP, as...
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Review: Nokia Lumia 630 – a lot of smartphone for the money
Microsoft/Nokia has released the Lumia 630 Windows Phone in the UK. It is notable for two reasons: The first phone on sale with Windows Phone 8.1 installed A budget contender with a full range of...
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A tale of two Lumias: snaps on a Lumia 630 versus a Lumia 1020
I spent a morning in Oxford taking some snaps and thought it would be fun to compare what a budget Windows Smartphone – the new Nokia Lumia 630 – can do versus the king of photography smartphones, the...
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The Microsoft Screen Sharing for Lumia Phones HD10: silly name, nice product
How many committees does it take to come up with a name like Microsoft Screen Sharing for Lumia Phones HD10? Who knows, but the product is a nice one. It lets you project from your phone to any TV with...
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Why Microsoft is hard to love
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated last week that “We want to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows to loving Windows. That is our bold goal with Windows.” It is an understandable goal....
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Nokia 8: a phone from the new Nokia brand that you might actually want
This morning I attended Nokia’s press breakfast here in Berlin, where the main product on show is the Nokia 8 smartphone. It is not quite a new launch – there was an event in London a couple of weeks...
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