Nokia Asha 302 review: E-serious

Introduction The Nokia Asha 302 comes between the Asha 300 and the Asha 303 in Nokia’s updated featurephone lineup, but it doesn’t quite follow the numerical order. Although obviously not a smartphone, this S40 messenger is nearly half-way there. It aims to bring good connectivity and more than reasonable processing power without unnecessarily complicating the interface. Touchscreen and dual-SIM support are the two extremes in the Asha lineup but the Nokia Asha 302 sticks to the middle, finding balance and ...

Nokia PureView 808 headed to Mexico soon

Nokia has just overruled its plans to exclude North America from the PureView 808 markets. Mexico is getting the camera/smart phone hybrid in a few weeks, probably in the end of May or the beginning of June. The confirmation comes straight from the Spanish version of Nokia Conversations. Recently we also noticed the PureView 808 passing through FCC, so the tiny hope that it might also make it to the United States has become a tiny less so.

Nokia PureView 808 enters FCC, gives US little hope

Back in March we learned Nokia PureView 808 wont be coming to North America understandable, given Nokias decision to pull off Symbian smartphones from this market. Since the N9 skipped the NA market, we had no reason to anticipate the Finns to have a sudden change of heart for the 808 PureView. Not to mention that the US is a key Lumia market, so Nokia prefers to focus all its attention that way. And then suddenly the Nokia PureView 808 ...

Nokia Lumia 900 vs HTC Titan II: Head to head

The two LTE smartphones, which we have on our hands today, could not be more different as far as the manufacturer goals and ambitions are concerned. The Nokia Lumia 900 for instance, carries the burden of turning the fortunes for the Finnish giant. The smartphone was launched with an aggressive price tag, and a big marketing budget. The Nokia offering has no other choice but to succeed. The HTC Titan II is on the other side of the urgency scale. ...

Nokia sues HTC, RIM, Viewsonic over patent infringement

By Mikael Ricknäs | IDG News Service Nokia has filed claims in the U.S. and Germany saying that products from HTC, Research In Motion (RIM) and ViewSonic infringe a number of the company’s patents, it stated on Wednesday. Nokia has filed actions against all three companies in Mannheim’s and Munich’s respective regional courts. [ Stay ahead of the key tech business news with InfoWorld’s Today’s Headlines: First Look newsletter.

Nokia Lumia 710, 800 to get world wide web sharing in WP 7.5 Tango

The Lumia series, the hallmark Windows Phone devices by Nokia, so far were left out in the cold as regards the Wireless Hotspot functionality. Every other WP smartphone has been enjoying that since the update to Mango, but not the Lumias. Previously, we have caught wind of rumors that the about-to-be released Nokia Lumia 610 finally has that feature. Now user reports suggest that the Lumia 710 and 800 will also have that featured enabled once the new Tango (WP7.5 ...

Nokia 808 PureView surfaces on pre-order in the UK

We’ve already seen Nokia 808 PureView pre-orders pop up elsewhere but now we are speaking the UK. We hope other UK retailers chime in on that one and make a more palatable offer for the Nokia 808. A Dutch retailer, for instance, has a pre-order listed at 565. Clove doesn’t mention a release date but the Nokia Italy pre-order had May as a projected time frame for the launch of the highly anticipated cameraphone.

Nokia announces the 103 – its most inexpensive phone ever

Meet the Nokia 103 – the most inexpensive phone the Fins have ever manufactured. Announced in Nigeria today, the Nokia 103 will cost just 16 and is aimed at developing markets. The Nokia 103 runs Series 30 on a 1,36-inch black and white display (how long has it been since you last saw a new device with this type of display?). And with its sturdy, anti-scratch covers and dust resistance the Nokia 103 will be pretty hard to break.

Free Xpress-on covers and discounts for the Nokia Lumia 710

Nokia have been busy revitalizing their brand image in the US, originally the with the introduction of their Windows Phone-endowed Lumia 710 and more recently its larger brother the LTE-capable Lumia 900. It looks as though people are forgetting about the phone that started it all however and as such Nokia have announced a pair deals for owners and prospective buyers of the 710. For starters, those who can prove that they recently bought a Nokia Lumia 710 will be ...

Nokia Lumia 800 gets a new battery-boosting update

Nokia will be pushing this update to various countries in four different increments, more specifically today, and again on April 4th, 11th and 18th. The reason for this being the various Windows Phone authentications the update has to go through, as well as the mandatory testing and approval procedures which each individual provider has to perform prior to releasing it over their network. You can see when exactly the update will hit your region using this site.