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Mobile
The recent announcement of the HTC One Android based smartphone, has gotten Nokia all riled up and ready for serious competition. The HTC device, which incorporates Optical Image Stabilization similar to the Lumia 920, could prove to be a problem for Nokia in the months to come.
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Recently, Sony began a series of videos on its YouTube channel titled Evolution of PlayStation. These videos look back at the history of PlayStation while highlighting each console's impact on the gaming industry.
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The Microsoft-branded Surface Pro with Windows 8 is available for consumer purchase, and is apparently doing fairly well thus far. However, there are some folks who would rather to own a different brand of Windows 8 tablet, or it could be that the Surface doesn't quite meet their needs.
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With Apple gearing up to leave Samsung in the dust, it would appear Nokia is considering the same tactic of dumping the Korean giant as a mobile device parts supplier. This is due to Nokia and Samsung being bitter rivals, and who wants to put more money in the pockets of your main competitor?
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On February 13, O2 UK listed the Nokia Lumia 620 low-end Windows Phone 8 device for the cool price of GBP 119.99 contract free, a day after, every single unit was sold out, which is a sign the promotion was a success.
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Mozilla has been promising a Windows 8 Metro styled Firefox browser for a long time, now it seems the company is ready to own up to its words. Mozilla released a new build of it browser recently; this build follows the design of a Windows 8 app.
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Nokia Music+ is up and running in full force for folks living in the UK, and it's only GBP 4 per month. At the moment, Nokia's offering is the cheapest when compared to Spotify and Microsoft's Xbox Music service that is built into every Windows Phone device.
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Back in September of 2012, Nokia classified the Series 40 platform as a smartphone operating system, despite some Android OEMs saying otherwise. The newest Series 40 smartphone member coming out of Finland is the Nokia Asha 310, a device that only costs a meager $102.
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If you're in Germany and have the need for a Windows Phone 8 device on the cheap, then you're in luck.
Vamien McKalin email: v.mckalin@mobilenapps.comWindows Phone might not be doing well compared to Android and iOS, but the platform is rising quickly and could be in a commanding position come 2014.
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The latest AdDuplex Windows Phone market share report is in, and the findings it contains are not in any way surprising. The data comes from 294 Windows Phone apps, and they all say the same thing: Nokia is in full control, with 78 percent share of the market.
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Four hackers, who go by the names MuscleNerd, Planetbeing, Pimskeks and Pod2G from the Evad3rs Jailbreak Team, released their evasi0n untethered jailbreak tool recently to massive success.
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On Friday, Microsoft announced a massive milestone for its cloud storage service, SkyDrive. According to the announcement, SkyDrive now accounts for over 1 billion office documents, and to celebrate, Microsoft added a new feature.
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