Mobile

The Nokia Lumia 900 press event video from CES

Nokia has just posted the 23 minute video of today’s press event from earlier today at CES.  If you want to relive all the details (it wasn’t webcast live), or if you’re just a big Stephen Elop fan, here it …

Nokia announces 900 for AT&T, available “in the coming months”

At a press event at CES in Las Vegas today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage to announce the Nokia 900, the widely anticipated first “re-entry” for Nokia into the US smartphone market.  The new phone, available “in the …

Good news for Nokia and Windows Phone in the new year: will they sell 80 million phones in 2012?

nokia-logoThe beginning of a new year is always a hopeful time, and two reports coming out this week are buoying the hopes (and the stock prices) of Nokia and Microsoft.  First up, a report from Reuters that a Nokia handset …

Windows Phone update coming: can Microsoft leverage the 0.6%?

freepizzaOn the heels of news that Microsoft, Nokia, and the other hardware partners are ready to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, promotion, and payola, Windows Phone is getting ready to roll out another update, this …

Is the Windows Phone story “starting to come together”?

windows_phone_logoMicrosoft and Windows Phone have taken center stage this week, admittedly during one of the slowest tech news weeks of the year, as quite a discussion broke out about the fate of Windows Phone.

It started with a post by …

Can Microsoft and Nokia win in indoor location services?

mobile mall mapWe’re just beginning to see a new generation of services appear that will take advantage of the rapid consumer move to smartphone technology, rare only a few years ago, and still in its early stages.  GPS positioning services can provide …

Hell: Frozen over–iJustine prefers Bing to Siri on iPhone

iJustine, the self professed Apple fangirl and internet personality, just tweeted out to her almost 1.4 million Twitter followers something almost unthinkable – she prefers Bing voice search on the iPhone to Siri:

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Siri, which debuted with …

It’s official: Nokia 710 to launch in US, on Jan. 11th, for $49.99

Squarely positioning itself to appeal to the “150 million Americans who do not yet have a smartphone”, T-Mobile is set to announce that the first Nokia Windows Phone to go on sale in the US will be the Nokia 710.…

It’s here! Windows Phone SkyDrive app is now live

This morning, Microsoft announced new SkyDrive apps for both Windows Phone and iPhone, the only problem being that the Windows Phone version wasn’t live yet.

We just got word via tweets from @withinrafael that the app has appeared on the …

SkyDrive apps for iPhone (now) and Windows Phone (soon) released

ms-SkyDrive_h_rgbMicrosoft announced new SkyDrive apps for both Windows Phone and iPhone this morning in a blog post on Inside Windows Live.  We pointed out a hint of just such an app on the way last week via a comment by …