Mobile

Those million pre-ordered Nokia X’s in China don’t add up, sorry.

Earlier today Nokia “weibo’d” that the Nokia X had received over a million pre-orders for the first Android powered Nokia phone, and indeed it had, but that doesn’t mean that Nokia will sell anywhere near that many of the new …

Nokia X launches on Mar 24th in China, pre-order begins now

Today Nokia and JD.com jointly announced the pre-order of Nokia X phones begins today in China. The Nokia X phones, Nokia’s newly announced Android family, will exclusively be selling through JD.com JDPhone program and be available on March 24th.…

Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone available for download

facebook messengerLast week at the Mobile World Congress, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore announced that Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone would be available soon, and sure enough, it’s available now through the Windows Phone Store.  Facebook Messenger has been available …

More Nokia X devices on the way this year, says Nokia VP

nokia_x_front_yellow_home1We may be confused as to the logic behind Nokia’s push into Android, especially just as the phones business is about to be acquired by Microsoft, but according to Nokia Vice President for Mobile Phone Marketing Jussi Nevanlinna, it all …

Does the Nokia X make any sense to you?

Nokia-X-Dual-SIM1This week, Nokia officially announced the “X” series of entry level smartphones powered by an open source version of Android.  The three phones: the Nokia X, the X+, and coming later this year, the Nokia XL, not only introduce “popular …

Windows Phone 8.1 icons provide clues to Cortana, dual sims, more

cortana star Ever since the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, provided early to developers, leaked last week, we’ve been learning more and more about what’s upcoming for Windows Phone’s next OS update.  So far, the SDK has revealed a long list of new …

Bing Health and Fitness Beta comes to Windows Phone 8

When Windows 8.1 was delivered last October, Microsoft released two brand new Bing Apps, Bing Health & Fitness and Bing Food & Drink, to extend already existing Bing Apps family . At the same time, Microsoft Bing AppEx team …

The Windows Phone 8.1 features you haven’t seen in the leaked SDK

If you had been following the news lately, a preview version of Windows Phone 8.1 SDK were distributed to selected beta testers earlier this week, which were then inevitably leaked to the internet. The SDK included not only development tools, …

Android on Nokia: Microsoft’s Asha problem

The Android on Nokia story, which has been percolating ever since word first leaked out about a Nokia “Normandy” device, boiled over yesterday with a Wall Street Journal post reporting that Nokia is indeed planning to announce a Nokia

First peek at the Samsung Huron Windows Phone 8.1 device, thanks to @evleaks

Mega-leaker @evleaks has posted what appears to be the first render of a Windows Phone 8.1 device, the Samsung “Huron”, said to be coming to Verizon. The Samsung device, which has been showing up here and there in user agent …