Category: Nokia

Nokia 130 and 130 Dual SIM affordable phones with video player announced for 19 Euros

Nokia 130 Dual SIM

Microsoft just announced the Nokia 130 and 130 Dual SIM, most affordable Nokia phones with built-in video and music player. These have 1.8″ (160 x 128 pixels) TFT displays, run on Series 30+ OS and features FM Radio, similar to the Nokia 108 Dual SIM that was launched back in October in India. These have Bluetooth 3.0 with SLAM that enables multimedia content sharing between phones equipped with Bluetooth, but lacks a rear camera. These are ‎13.9mm thick and weighs just 68 grams. Continue reading “Nokia 130 and 130 Dual SIM affordable phones with video player announced for 19 Euros”

Nokia Lumia 530 Dual SIM pre-booking begins in India, launching August 3rd week

Nokia Lumia 530 Dual SIM

Microsoft unveiled the Lumia 530 Dual SIM, the latest budget Windows Phone 8 handset last month. Snapdeal has started taking pre-orders for the smartphone in India exclusively. The Lumia 530 has a  4-inch FWVGA display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor, runs on Windows Phone 8.1 and has a 5-megapixel fixed focus rear camera, but lacks a front-facing camera. It has Dual SIM support that offers call waiting and call forwarding between two SIM cards. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 530 Dual SIM pre-booking begins in India, launching August 3rd week”

Nokia India head P Balaji leaves the company

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P Balaji, Managing Director of Nokia India, now called Microsoft devices Group has quit the company. He joined Nokia from Sony Mobile Communications back in July 2012. He will be Advisor to MDG and Ajey in the transition till October 2014, said the company. Current Head of Sales Operations, India Middle East and Africa, Ajay Mehta will be acting as the Area head for India. He will also continue in his current role at the same time. Continue reading “Nokia India head P Balaji leaves the company”

Nokia Networks tops LTE performance in China

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 Z launcher receives significant update, pre-beta program opened for new users

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.

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HERE Maps for Nokia X updated with global navigation and voice directions

HERE Maps got a major update for Windows 8.1 yesterday with manual positioning, city pages and more. Today, they are being updated for Nokia X devices. HERE Maps on Nokia X now allows global navigation with voice directions.

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Nokia X Software Platform 1.2 update starts rolling out for Nokia X, X+ and XL

Nokia X Software Update 1.2

Microsoft’s mobile division today started rolling out Nokia X software platform 1.2 update for the Nokia X, X+ and XL When the company launched the Nokia X2, based on Nokia X Software Platform 2.0, it announced that older Nokia X devices would not get the 2.0 update due to hardware constraints. Continue reading “Nokia X Software Platform 1.2 update starts rolling out for Nokia X, X+ and XL”

Microsoft introduces Bang by Coloud portable speaker

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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Celkon Millennium Vogue Q455 with 4.5-inch qHD display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 7999

Celkon Millennium Vogue Q455

After launching the Millennium Elite Q470 and the Millennium Power Q3000 in the new Millennium series, Celkon has launched Millennium Vogue Q455, its new budget smartphone. It has a 4.5-inch qHD screen based on one-glass-solution (OGS) technology, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Broadcom BCM23550 processor with VideoCore IV and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It is just 7.9mm thick, comes with dual SIM support and 3G connectivity. Continue reading “Celkon Millennium Vogue Q455 with 4.5-inch qHD display, Android 4.4 launched for Rs. 7999”

Nokia Lumia 530 and 530 Dual SIM with 4-inch display, quad-core Snapdragon 200 SoC announced

Nokia Lumia 530 Dual SIM

Microsoft devices has just announced the Lumia 530 the company’s latest budget smartphones. It has a 4-inch FWVGA display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Windows Phone 8.1. It has a 5-megapixel fixed focus rear camera, but lacks a front-facing camera. It also comes in Dual SIM variant called Lumia 530 Dual SIM with Smart Dual SIM that offers call waiting and call forwarding between two SIM cards. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 530 and 530 Dual SIM with 4-inch display, quad-core Snapdragon 200 SoC announced”

Microsoft just killed Nokia’s feature phones and X Android devices

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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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Microsoft announces 18,000 job cuts next year, 12,500 are from Nokia

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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 Lumia Cyan with Windows Phone 8.1 update roll out begins

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Nokia has announced that they have started rolling out Lumia Cyan update with Windows Phone 8.1 along for their Lumia devices running on Windows Phone 8. This would bring a lot of features for Lumia devices including, updates to Nokia Camera, Creative Studio and Storyteller apps, better audio quality when recording videos on Lumia 1520 and Lumia Icon and more. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia Cyan with Windows Phone 8.1 update roll out begins”

Nokia Camera updated with few improvements, likely to be renamed as Lumia Camera

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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