Microsoft today launched the Nokia Lumia 730 Dual SIM, Lumia 930 and Lumia 830 in India. In addition, the company has launched its recently announced Lumia HD 10 Screen Sharing accessory in India for Rs 5,999.
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Earlier this month, it was reported that Nokia is planning to to launch a free maps app on Android and iOS by the end of 2014. APK for the beta version of Android HERE maps was posted to Mediafire last week and was spotted by Spanish Android site El Android Libre.
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Microsoft has started phasing out the Nokia branding. In the latest move, the software and tech giant is redirecting the visitors of Nokia.com UK site to its own mobile website.
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Microsoft is phasing out the Nokia and Windows Phone branding as per a latest report from Geek On Gadgets. The company acquired Nokia’s mobile division in April for $7.2 billion but devices launched still bear the Nokia branding.
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Nokia is planning to further get deeper into the mapping business. The company already offers HERE Maps for Windows Phone 8 and 8.1. Now, the company is planning to launch a free maps app on Android and iOS by the end of 2014, as per a latest report from the The Wall Street Journal.
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Microsoft is expected to announce Lumia 730 and Lumia 830 at the IFA event tomorrow. Meanwhile, a new leak of the Lumia 830 has surfaced online with a set of images.
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Microsoft is working on a Chromecast like dongle for Windows Phone user, according to documents filed with the FCC. The Miracast dongle under the model number Microsoft HD-10 has been seen at FCC and WiFi Org too.
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Last week, Nokia Lumia 730, a selfie focused phone surfaced in a new leak. Today, Microsoft has sent out press invites for its IFA 2014 event which will take place on September 4th.
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Nokia Networks has topped China Mobile’s quality assessment of its commercial TD-LTE network. The company is touted to report best network performance as well as the fastest network implementation across the top 10 provincial capitals in China.
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Nokia rolled out Z launcher for Android in June that predicts apps and brings them in the front depending upon user usage pattern and preferences. Today, the Z launcher has received an update that will allow you to configure the way you want your favorite apps to appear on your home screen, using drag and drop.
HERE Maps on Windows 8.1 has just received a bunch of new and important features. For starters HERE Maps get manual positioning which adds the ability to manually set your position even thought the app detects your location automatically. Users will simply have to tap on the green dot on the map or in its setting panel to indicate their position.
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Microsoft just announced 4-inch Lumia 530 and 530 Dual SIM, its latest budget smartphones. The company has also launched colourful Bang mini speakers (MD-1C) by Coloud. The rechargeable speakers are portable and compact can play upto 8 hours of music on a single charge with its 680 mAh battery.
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Stephen Elop’s e-mail to Microsoft employees in the devices and services division and an internal e-mail from Jo Harlow, acquired by BGR, have officially made clear the future of Nokia’s feature phones and the recently launched X range of Android devices. Microsoft will no longer make the Android-based Nokia X devices, but “select designs” from that range will be running Windows Phone in the future. This is understandable, as the company had never been approving of this effort from the Elop-era Nokia, but the axing of the feature phone business, which Jo Harlow details as it being under “maintenance mode” is a tacit admission of the smartphone business completely taking over, and a failure of conversion that Nokia had wanted.
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“Starting to Evolve Our Organization and Culture” reads Nadella’s latest mail to his employees which details Microsoft’s 18,000 job cuts next year. The Redmond based software giant has just announced that it wants to go lean and agile, in an effort to re-align with the company’s new vision, a product of the new leadership headed by Satya Nadella. Out of the 18,000 job cuts, 12,500 are from Nokia’s devices and services division the company acquired recently. This completely sends home the point that Microsoft is no longer interested in making phones, as the majority of Nokia’s full time working staff are from manufacturing facilities the company has, around the world.
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Nokia Camera app has been updated with few tweaks. The version 4.8.1.1. brings improved Inline Video Playback and living images playback in Camera Roll. In addition, the camera has got improved focus indicator on devices with continuous Autofocus. Other than this the app gets bug fixes and improvements.
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