Category: Windows Phone

Nokia has launched its new Lumia 930 smartphone in the market and it offers absolutely high end equipment for the first time in a reasonably compact form. The Lumia 930 has a lot to offer. Nokia has packed everything that is good and expensive.

For almost 480 euros, the customer gets a Windows Phone with five inch large AMOLED display which is very bright – almost like no other Nokia smartphone so far.

It is therefore also easy to read outdoors. Under the hood lies the Snapdragon 800 with its four 2.26 GHz cores and 2 GB of RAM.

For storage you get 32 GB of flash memory, which unfortunately can not be extended.

LTE and Qi wireless charging are also integrated and there is the powerful Pure View camera with 20.7 megapixels and Zeiss optics on the back.

Nokia Corporation will be shutting down Desti on September 3 2014. Desti has already started issuing notifications to its users about about its permanent shut down, following the closure of deal with Nokia.

The Finnish company acquired the personalized travel planning app in May and said that the Desti app will be closed forever after 90 days.

The users using Desti service should save the schedules and share this news with others to access it later after the app shuts down permanently.

However this is a good new for the HERE Maps/Drive users as Nokia will be incorporating Desti’s technology in HERE location search to make it better and more personalized.

Their technology makes use of natural language processing technology and artificial intelligence to offer information to the travellers on the trips base on their choices. So a user will not have to check the hotels, shops and restaurants before planning the holiday.

• Learn more at desti.com

A new graph has been released by Kantar which shows the UK market share of smartphone operating systems over the 10 year period from March 04 – March 14. In the beginning we see Windows Mobile and BlackBerry being the leader until Apple’s iOS comes out in late 2007 and poses itself as big threat to the two dominant operating systems.

In the year 2009, Android operating system enters the picture and squeezes the marketshare of Windows Mobile (which was on its deathbed) and BlackBerry (that was churning out atrocious phones like Curve 8520).

As of this past March, BlackBerry’s marketshare in UK is still higher than Windows Phone and to make things look worse, the graph shows only consumer data and not enterprise market which BlackBerry’s main market.

Source: Kantar

It shall, however be noted that if you notice the last 10 percent of the graph, the BB’s share is shrinking as more and more consumers become aware of the excellent windows phone platform.

Micromax has launched two dual SIM windows phones W092 and W121 both of which have been rumored from quite long time. First is the Micromax Canvas Win W092 which comes with a 4 inch display and Snapdragon 200 quad core processor. RAM is 1GB that will ensure that you get access to all windows phone store applications.

On the back there is a 5MP camera and there is a VGA webcam on the front. For storage there is 8GB of flash storage that is expandable via micro SD card slot. This phone will compete with the Lumia 520 and 525 that are being sold for INR 6000-8000 now.

W121 on the other hand is bit more expensive but that gets you a bigger 5 inch display with HD resolution and 8MP camera.

However what worries us the most is the atrocious build quality that Micromax is so infamous for. People often complain about their handsets failing in less than 3 months. So the support is horrendous and so is its built quality.

Nokia X and XL come with 512MB and 768MB RAM respectively and that is not a lot of memory for running big apps. Fortunately there is a way to free around 300MB RAM. You can do this by using a script called TweakDrypt which decreases memory usage. This is what it does:

{} Less RAM usage through zipalign
{} Graphics Enhancement
{} Overall Better Performance
{} Less lags through LMK Tweak and Various VM
Tweaks
{} Faster SDCARD Read/Write Speed
{} CWM / TWRP Flashable
{} Increase touchscreen sensitivity
{} System cleaner script for regular cleaning of system
{} better battery performance
{} Ad blocking
{} Entropy (optional)
{} GPS optimization script
{} BUILD.prop tweaks (optional)
{} Kernal tweaks
{} Sqlite optimization

Here are its installation instructions:

1. Delete all others ram scripts you have installed in "/system/etc/init.d"
2. Download the flash able zip.
3. Reboot into recovery mode.
4. Install the ZIP file
5. Reboot your phone when finished installation
6. Done

This script has an uninstaller script with it. For that open Terminal emulator
Type ‘su’ [enter]
Type ‘uninstall’ [enter]
Reboot for the clean uninstall

Micromax to launch its first Windows Phone handset on June 16 in India if the words of the people associated with the country are to be believed. The company has also sent out invitations that suggest they will be launching a Canvas branded phone on Monday.

Microsoft has also made the WP platform free for phones to encourage more and more companies to make windows phone.

No price or specifications have been released about this upcoming phone.

On another note, Karbonn and Lava are also planning to launch their own Windows Phone handsets in coming months.