At the long awaited extraordinary meeting in Helsinki today, shareholders have approved the deal that will allow the sale of Nokia’s Devices and Services unit to Microsoft. The deal was met with near unanimous approval with close to 99.7 percent of holders agreeing with the sale. The sale represents four-fifths of Nokia’s shares and the deal is worth around $7.2 billion. Continue reading “Shareholders approve sale of Device & Services division in Nokia – Microsoft deal”
BlackBerry might be having a lot of trouble selling their existing line of BlackBerry OS10 based products but that hasn’t stopped them from teaming up with Porsche to create a high end luxury variant. The all touch BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 smartphone features high end materials including a stainless steel satin frame and a hand wrapped Italian leather back door. As with other limited edition variants, the BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9982 will ship with a special series of PIN numbers.
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Over the past few months, Oppo has come up as one of the most notable smartphone brands emerging out of China. The company had trumpeted their appreciation for CyanogenMod and made it easy for users to shift to the third party ROM on their phones. However it looks like the company’s VP Pete Lau will be leaving Oppo to launch a new brand in association with Cyanogen’s Steve Kondik. The two are all set to create a new smartphone that will be powered by the CyanogenMod ROM and have high end specifications. Continue reading “Oppo’s Pete Lau teams up with Steve Kondik to create the perfect Android flagship”
Bought yourself a spanking new Galaxy Gear? Then you’ll want to update to the latest edition of the Gear Manager application as it brings with it a very major improvement. You can now enable practically all notifications from your phone to be displayed on your wrist. This has been a major issue for early adopters and it is good to see that Samsung has fixed this with the update. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Gear Manager update lets you display all notifications”
AT&T customers in the US will be able to get their hands on the all new Lumia 2520 tablet starting 22nd November. Nokia’s first Windows RT running tablet will go on sale and will be priced at $399.99 with a two year contract. The price further drops down to $199.99 if you also bundle in a Nokia Lumia 925, 1020 or 1520 smartphone in your two year agreement. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 2520 to go on sale on 22nd November, priced at $399 on AT&T”
Spice is known for making quality hardware at affordable prices. With the Pinnacle FHD, the company is aiming for the upper reaches of the mid range device market. The specifications line up well enough for the handset but is it enough to earn our recommendation? Read on to find out. Continue reading “Spice Pinnacle FHD Mi-525 Review”
BlackBerry has just pushed an update for the BBM app on both iOS and Android. While the Android app brings with it some bug fixes, performance improvements, most of the feature additions lie on the iOS side of things. The biggest change with the update is that BBM is now supported on non cellular enabled iOS devices. This means that you can now install BlackBerry Messenger on your iPad as well as the iPod Touch. Continue reading “BBM now available on iPad and iPod Touch”
Google Now is a major part of the Android 4.4 KitKat update and some of these features are now making their way over to phones that run on a lower version of the smartphone OS. Google has been working on de-linking various parts of the operating system to make them easily available as packages that can be individually updated. Because of this, several of the features that might have been termed as core OS features can now be ported back to older versions of the operating system. Continue reading “Google Now update adds Waze traffic reports, KitKat features to older versions of Android”
Open source advocates have a date to look forward to as Jolla has announced that it will start selling its device on 27th of November. In partnership with the Finnish operator, DNA, the much awaited phone will be sold at a pop up shop in central Helsinki for a single evening. Continue reading “Jolla’s Sailfish based smartphone to go on sale on 27th November in Helsinki”
The Moto G announcement last evening was a pleasant surprise where the erstwhile smartphone giant showed off a compelling new entry level product. The Moto G brings mid range specifications coupled with solid build quality and Motorola’s reliability at an unprecedented price point. The Android 4.3 running handset will get an upgrade to Kit Kat (Android 4.4) by January 2014. During the launch it was confirmed that the handset will be making it over to India. Continue reading “Dual SIM Moto G heading to India in 2014”
Earlier this year, it was announced that the very popular game, Asphalt 8, would be making its way over to the Windows Phone 8 platform soon. The arcade racing game is now available on both the Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 platforms. The USP of the driving game is the ability to perform dynamic, high speed aerial stunts in an intense driving experience. Continue reading “Asphalt 8: Airborne for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 now available”
Helsinki based smartphone startup, Jolla, has announced that it will be integrating a mapping solution powered by Nokia’s HERE Maps division in its upcoming operating system dubbed as Sailfish OS. The partnership will involve licensing up to date map data and location information such as restaurants for over 190 countries. Continue reading “Jolla smartphones to ship with Yandex app store for Android apps, HERE mapping onboard”
The official Android twitter handle just let loose some information that a lot of you having been waiting for. Both the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Nexus 7 will be getting the Android 4.4 update starting today.
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Via a blog post on the official Internet Explorer Blog, Dean Hachamovitch who previously headed Internet Explorer development detailed that he will be switching over to a new team at Microsoft. What is even more interesting is that Joe Belfiore will now be taking over some of the responsibilities previously handled by Dean. Joe Belfiore who is well known for his work on Windows Phone will be leading a team focussed on the app side of Internet Explorer as well as the user experience development. Continue reading “Joe Belfiore, Windows Phone Manager at Microsoft to head Internet Explorer app development”
Been wanting to install the very popular after market ROM, CyanogenMod on your phone but don’t know how ? Your worries might be a thing of the past as CyanogenMod has just pushed out the first version of the CyanogenMod Installer app to the Play Store. Continue reading “CyanogenMod Installer exits beta, now available on Play Store”
