We have received another scoop that the rumored Nokia Orion will be released as Nokia Asha 500. This is another indication that Microsoft is not killing the Asha brand and will, in fact, be using “Nokia’s” name to launch its Asha phone that runs Symbian S40.
Nokia Lumia 925 Available on EMI in India
Last month, Nokia started offering its yester year’s flagship on EMI (easy monthly installments) and today, Nokia India has announced that it will be offering an EMI scheme for its latest smartphone, Lumia 925. Interested people will be able to pay its price, which is INR 33,499 ($530), in 6 equal monthly installments at 0 percent interest.
Continue reading “Nokia Lumia 925 Available on EMI in India”
Dual-SIM Nokia Lumia 720 may be on the way
Nokia is working on a dual SIM variant of the Lumia 720 windows phone. This phone will have same specs as the current Lumia 720 but will be capable of handling two SIMs.
Continue reading “Dual-SIM Nokia Lumia 720 may be on the way”
Samsung Updates RSS times, MangaCamera, Calling Setting, Photo Editor, Mini Diary
Samsung has rolled out updates of its exclusive windows phone 8 apps. As expected, these updates are only for Samsung smartphones running Windows Phone 8. These apps include RSS Times, MangaCamera, Photo Editor and Mini Diary.
HTC One max is Sprint-bound
HTC T6, dubbed as HTC One Max will soon be making its way to the Sprint network. Its smaller sibling, HTC One is currently available on over 6 networks in US, but One Mini was launched as AT&T exclusive.
Best Windows Phone 8 Xbox Games
I’m going to judge this based on only xbox live games that I have bothered to get 200 gamerscore. After all if you can be bothered playing the game to completion it must be fairly compelling right?
* The first game that got me really excited about Xbox Games was ilomilo – it’s a little bit on the childish side but its actually a really good puzzle game.
* Glyder is a very fun exploring/ adventure game which involves flying around. It’s an obvious iOS/ android port but worth the money.
* Kinectimals has a very childish gameplay but for some reason I was compelled to collect all of the animals. Not so much replay value once you’ve finished it – great for (young) kids though.
Continue reading “Best Windows Phone 8 Xbox Games”
Samsung Copies Windows Phone UI on Tizen Phone
I knew from the moment I saw Windows phone that Metro UI was the future of design language, this is never going to stop, companies are going to keep ripping Metro UI and looking more and more like it, its up to Microsoft to draw the line and say this is enough and there protect their design language, everyone from HTC one with Blinkfeed /panorama UI to Samsung and its Galaxy S4 hubs which is a blatant copy of WP music hub etc to iOS 7 and Moto X with its stock WP camera UI even Android since ICS 4.0 has been copying Windows Phone, WP has the most desired design language even app developers and websites have mimicked Metro aka Modern UI OS, Metro has spread like wildfire. They even used the same messaging icon! What on earth is Samsung smoking!
Continue reading “Samsung Copies Windows Phone UI on Tizen Phone”
Xbox Music now Available for Android
Microsoft has released Xbox Music for Android operating system for the first time. This app, as expected requires an Xbox music account to work but it gives you access to all same music that Windows, Xbox and Windows Phone users have been using for some time.
However, the application lacks in some areas compared to its Windows Phone version, for instance lack of artist based radio. In other words, you are limited to searching for music to listen to. Other omission is offline music. This means Xbox music will only if you are connected to Internet. Microsoft confirmed that iOS version is in the tunnel.
Windows Phone GDR3 Details Revealed
Windows Phone’s upcoming update, GDR3’s details were uncovered by a craiglist shopper that bought a phone on the craigslist and got it with GDR3 upgrade pre loaded on the windows phone 8 handset. He has posted the details on wpcentral website. We already know that this update will bring the much needed support for full HD screen, which was confirmed by Tom Warren, editor of The Verge last month.
Nokia Lumia 1520 Press Shot
Images of the upcoming Nokia phablet, codenamed Bandit was previously leaked by evleaks, but now we have press shot of it. Of course, it will not be released as Bandit, but as Nokia Lumia 1520. Pictured in yellow color, the 1520 includes a camera that is same as the one found in Lumia 925.
