Nokia is preparing Windows Phone Champagne?

Nokia has apparently engaged in the development of the new smartphone operating system Windows Phone, which is lit up in the application I'm a WP7 called Champagne. From the logs of the application can be found that the machine is running an operating system Windows Phone version 7.10.8711, which is presumably the future release of the Tango. But it is necessary to point out that the application logic itself does not indicate the origin of the device, and it may not be a commercial machine, but only the test sample, which is used to verify that the operating system. To date, Nokia has not to publish any information about what machines and how much it intends to produce in 2012, except that the reported intention to penetrate the U.S. market by supplying low cost, entry-level smartphones. Also, representatives of Nokia noted that in mid-2012 may appear smart phones running Windows Phone 8, which will support communication NFC. According to unofficial information is known about what version of Windows Phone Tango will focus on a simple entry-level vehicles, the minimum hardware specifications which will be lower than the market model.

Cyan Nokia Lumia 800 UK release Dec, pink coming early 2012

The cyan Nokia Lumia 800 will be launching in the first week of December, while the pink version won’t be available in the UK until after Christmas sources familiar with the matter have told Pocket-lint.

We’ve always known that the cyan and pink versions of the Nokia Lumia 800 wouldn’t be with us on the 16 November launch day in the UK, however Pocket-lint can now confirm when exactly they will be launching in the UK.

According to a very trusted source, the cyan Nokia Lumia 800 will launch in the first week of December, two weeks after the official launch of the new phone, while the pink Nokia Lumia 800 will be in shops early 2012. Those hoping for a pink Nokia Christmas will have to wait a little longer it seems.

Earlier in the week Nokia confirmed to Pocket-lint that the black coloured Lumia 800 was still on schedule to launch on 16 November as planed and that it would be available via contract and SIM free via selected retailers.

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New Yahoo! Mobile/Razorfish Study Finds Smartphones Are Most Popular Home Device, and Growing Scapegoat in Many Social Situations

In an always-on, connected world with a surplus of new devices fit for every function, location and context it's no surprise that mobile phones are helping people multi-task and even duck out of awkward situations. A recent Yahoo! Mobile/Razorfish study reveals interesting gender differences in usage and ranks the smartphone as the highest rated device in the home with 75% of votes.

The more than 2,000 U.S. respondents that participated in the study were asked questions on their multi-tasking habits and device preferences, bringing to light some interesting trends and valuable insights.

Mobile phone scapegoat: The study found 52% of consumers use their mobile device to escape awkward situations. Women are more likely to use their phone as an excuse than men.
No need to stop & ask for directions: Overall men (59%) are using their web-enabled mobile devices most frequently for navigational purposes.
Are you ready for some football?: Men were almost twice as likely to say that checking their mobile for sports news causes arguments with their significant other (29%) compared to women (17%).
Smartphone is the new fact checker: 58% of men are ‘fact checking' on their mobile web browser while at a live sporting event, with nearly half (47%) checking out scores of other games and players.
Did you see that?: An overwhelming 90% said that multi-tasking on their smartphone (while watching live TV & commercials) was to communicate with others (via text or phone).
Laptop vs. tablet: Over three quarters (77%) of content searched for on laptop/desktop devices while watching TV is NOT related to the show they are watching. However, over half (57%) of people multi-tasking on tablets are searching for related content.
The more inquisitive female: Young women are the prime demographic to surf the Internet related to what they're watching (65% of women under the age of 35, compared to 47% of men of the same age).
The gender divide: Men are more likely to use their mobile device as a functional, all- in-one tool; whereas women are more likely to use it as an extension of the traditional phone, to update and connect with friends across their social networks on the go.
Mobile shopping is a man's world: Online purchases on smartphones are more popular with men (70% under 35 years) than with women (64% under 35 years).

According to Yahoo! Shopping the top searched mobile phones are:

1. iPhone 4s

2. Samsung Galaxy s2

3. Samsung Galaxy Nexus

4. Motorola Razr

5. Nokia n9

For more information about the Yahoo!/Razorfish study, go to: Forget Mobile - Think Multiscreen

To learn more about Yahoo! Mobile, check out mobile.yahoo.com and ymobileblog.com/blog. Search for "Yahoo!" in the iTunes App Store or Android Market to discover industry-leading apps, such as Livestand, IntoNow, Yahoo! Messenger, MarketDash, Flickr, Sportacular and dozens more. With more than 100 mobile partnerships, you can find your favorite Yahoo! experiences on nearly every mobile device and platform.

Nokia GEM: 21st century mobile jewel

This is the new Nokia GEM concept device. What if *every* part of your next phone was a touchscreen?

Nokia's Smart Data Analytics - Understanding You and the World

The world lives and breathes and has a central nervous system: You. Where you go and what you do when you get there, leaving digital traces that are subtly captured around us.

Data that makes it possible to paint a digital picture of the world and the people in it, every second. Data collected from everywhere that connects to everywhere.

Infinite data points that only make sense, when they're transformed into intelligence. Built on smart data principles, and the digital footprints of hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. The Nokia Platform understands: Who, what, where, when, why, and how. To help answer, what next?

Smart data gets smarter over time. Smart data makes it possible to personalize services that speak to who we are, and help us make the most of the moment. The world lives, breathes and changes constantly. Smart data, to make sense of that change, changes everything.

Nokia Lumia 800: in-depth 8-minute video documentary

We go behind the scenes at Nokia's London design studio with Stefan Pannenbecker, VP of Industrial Design at Nokia, Chris Linnett, Head of Lumia UX design and Kate Freebairn, Creative Director for Lumia UX design to explore the story behind the creation of Nokia's first Windows Phone.

Nokia Lumia Music app running on unlocked HTC Trophy Windows Phone - Boz @

HTC Trophy Windows Phone unlocked running the Nokia Lumia music application, XAP available from smartphonegurus.com

Nokia limits sales of its Lumia 800

Delayed until next year for some

FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has confirmed that it is allowing only selected partners to sell its Lumia 800 smartphone.
Nokia has confirmed with THE INQUIRER that only Vodafone, Three, Orange and T-Mobile will sell the handset among mobile operators in UK. The only retailers to get Nokia's flagship Windows Phone 7.5 smartphone will be The Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U, which will sell it SIM-free as well as on contract.
All other retailers including big names like Amazon will have to wait until next year to sell the device SIM-free. Online retailer Clove said that its stock has been delayed until January 2012.

Clove said, "It's bad news on the Nokia front this afternoon unfortunately. We can now confirm that the Nokia Lumia 800 will not be available SIM-free in the UK until January 2012, although it will still be launched in the UK on November 16th with a contract and will be available from selected stores."
Mark Squires, communications director at Nokia told us, "The fact is though that the vast majority of the operators and major high street retailers have taken up the product and are throwing their support behind it. Therefore we are making sure that by using these channels the Lumia 800 will be available to our customers in the widest variety of outlets from SIM free to contract. We have also worked extensively to train these channels to support the product. From Q1 next year we will be supplying the product to our wider UK distribution network."
The handset is Nokia's first Windows Phone 7.5 device and the firm is due to launch it next week on 16 November. We wonder what impact forcing consumers to go to only a handful of retailers might have on sales.
This comes as a disappointment to smaller retailers such as Clove, which told us, "Very frustrating, we've had loads of interest!"
We asked if Nokia is confident that the phone will sell well even though it is limited to a handful of retailers. Squires said, "Yes. The most important thing is that folk who go to purchase in person can clearly see the differences and capabilities of what they are buying. Anyone who wants a Lumia will find it online and in store at a wide variety of price points and bundles very easily."

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Nokia Maps for Series 40

Nokia Maps for Series 40 http://nokia.ly/vhBzsT A complete improved coverage to find all the places around the world. Now, twice as fast -- optimized for device performance. More routes and places.

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help out nokia and join the feedback program when it asks you the first time it starts up.

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Nokia is preparing a new flagship camera phone

The network has information about the new smartphone, which is currently being developed by Nokia. While it is not known, as is a novelty, but it is clear that it would continue the idea of a flagship camera phone Nokia N8. At the same time, just not reported what kind of camera to get a device (the Nokia N8 is 12 MP), but promised a larger sensor and even optical zoom. The new model runs on the Symbian operating system and equipped with a 3.5-inch touch screen Clear Black with a resolution of 480x800 pixels. It is covered with a durable glass Gorilla Glass. Other features of the device reported a processor with 1 GHz and 512 MB ​​of RAM. The remaining details of the source has not led, apparently, they appear within. It should be noted that the new flagship camera phone Nokia will only appear next year. It will be announced, probably in February at Mobile World Congress, and the sale will go in the second quarter of next year.

Nokia Lumia 800 Uncovered: Drive

The second in a series of in depth videos looking at the Nokia Lumia 800 and some of its best features: http://nokia.ly/unuRGU. This one is all about Nokia Maps on Nokia Lumia - specifically the Nokia Drive feature.

Presented by Jay, from http://mynokiablog.com we see how simple it is to navigate from place to place and how sleek the maps interface is. Also, another amazing feature of Nokia Drive is how you can pre-load the maps to save on data charges!

[Sneak Peek] What's coming to your N9 Firmware Update

Konttori (the Coach for Harmattan Applications Framework) hinted in a recent post about upcoming update for our beloved N9 and we can read "around 3500 improvements (fixes or features) to be in the release" (PR1.1 and PR1.2 combined i guess) , i didn't want to post about that until having some "facts" about what can we expect really to be addressed, and here we are with some of them, but first of all, you should know there'll be like 3 future firmware updates for the N9 in the future PR1.1, PR1.2 and PR1.3, maybe more, but that's for know and it's enough to use the device for daily use for 2 years ;)

Anyway, 308 task or features were completed for 1.1, you should know that PR1.1 is all about being faster, stronger, better. It succeeded on all metrics, reliability, use time, performance, long period use. All metrics for 1.1 are simply outstanding based on Konttori comments and hints !

- Low power mode enhancemens, battery charging and silent profile are now shown in there.
- Tons of NFC and connectivity improvements.
- Performance enhancements.
- Visual tuneups (e.g. toolbar has a shadow now).
- Splash screen has been taken to wider use.
- Color management is less nervous than before (neutral sRGB space color palette is now used always, except in clearly outdoor situations, when oversaturation is applied to adjust how eye desaturates content in brightness).
- Lock screen music controls has been added (It's in the top of the screen and at least I'm pleased with how nicely a nuance the controls look. Currently playing song is on big friendly letters, replacing clock when you are playing music).
- Swype keyboard has been added.
- Keyboard switching is very smooth with swipe gesture.
- Battery notification was tuned for 1.1 and should come every 2 minutes while in call, every 5 minutes when display on and every 30 minutes when display off.
- Turning device to landscape is supported allover UI it seems.
- Double tap was re-tuned a bit for 1.1. It's a bit more reliable again.
- Tons of exchange fixes
- Facebook starts faster and has tons of fixes in both 1.1 and 1.2. I'd say it's bearable in 1.1.
- wifi in general has been improved by leaps and bounds in 1.1.
- Magnifier works in 1.1 much better than in 1.0.
- Swipe-to-close is enabled by default in 1.1
- Top status bar lag has been fixed
- Browser has been improved heavily for 1.1, but not on the UX front. 1.2 has some feature improvements.
- LED bug that has been fixed for 1.1.
- 1.1 also includes a battery charging indicator in low power mode (LPM)
- A lot of work has been put to better interoperability of BT with cars
- pulseaudio issue has been fixed

For the PR1.2 it is officially feature enhancement release, so, it contains a lot of new things. :

- Universal copy paste is coming in.
- Swipe-to-close and more logical and visual in 1.2.
- Implementation of decoder enhancements for h264
- Folders will come in 1.2 to home screen. And it's not only apps that need it. If you start using bookmarks a bit more, it's really irritating to not to have bookmarks. Guys in Oulu say that the work should be complete for the feature, so it's about 3 weeks to have decent polish on it. It's one of the "big" features of 1.2
- 1.2 has some sweet camera improvements though (but no comments on what, sorry)
- Lock screen has the support for full screen avatars for incoming call. 1.2 at the earliest
- Deeper integration of maps with the core applications (contacts and favorites)


Not sure yet if this could make is way on a future update :

- More games will definitely come, but none is HD, as the screen is WVGA
- Somebody should do numeric T9.
- Not sure if the birthday support is coming or not. I think it is, but not sure
- No comments on video call (included skype)
- Bigger avatar on calls perhaps coming in 1.2
- Push notifications (on mentions and retweets in the Twitter app) were supposed to come
- Contacts as shortcuts is possible, simple to be done, but not in the books at the moment. Please write to nokia care about that. And create a bug.
- Java support is not going to come officially.
- Flash support may come.
- Voice control was in the cards, but we eventually dropped it. Not coming, sorry.
- upcoming calendar notifications has been discussed a lot. I can't remember why it's not there, but there was some reason for it...
- Browser toolbar in landscape should indeed be at the bottom. We are planning to get it to autohide in 1.2, but no promises (it's not on the top of the to-do list)
- Video player won't have usability improvements. Better get a 3rd party app for those. It takes probably 200 LOC with qml and qt-mobility/gstreamer to create a better video player (usability wise) than the currently shipping one. It would be a nice hobby project for somebody. Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly OK video player if you have 10 videos, but it certainly doesn't work well enough if you have a lot of videos.

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Nokia N9: Update software over-the air

Learn how to update device software.

Nokia Lumia 800 Uncovered: Camera

The first in a series of in depth videos looking at the Nokia Lumia 800 http://nokia.ly/snyau4 and some of it's best features.

In this video, we look at the camera in the Nokia Lumia 800 and how easy it is to use! The video is presented by Vinu, a mobile tech blogger writing for http://myportableworld.com/

Motorola Pro + Hardware Comparison with BlackBerry Bold, HTC ChaCha, Nokia E72 & More

A comparison video that shows the Motorola Pro + against the likes of the HTC ChaCha, Nokia E72, BlackBerry Bold 9700 and 9000.

WP7-Nokia smartphones will have processors NovaThor

Processors of ST-Ericsson NovaThor models U9500, U8500 and U5500 will be the basis for future smart phones of Nokia, running the operating system Windows Phone 7. This information was officially confirmed the CEO of ST-Ericsson. These three chipsets are based on dual-core ARM Cortex A9, including core NEON, ARM Mali graphics cores and 400 RAM LP-DDR2. U9500 and U8500 models can record video with resolution up to 1080p, obtaining a 20-megapixel photos. When you work with one screen they provide permission to 1280h768 pixels, while working simultaneously with two screens to 1024x760 pixels. more budget and more simple ST-Ericsson NovaThor U5500 provides a record of a resolution up to 720p, a 12-megapixel images and work with screens having permit no more than 854h480 pixels. It is not clear whether the company will completely switch over to Nokia dual-core products from ST-Ericsson, or simply add them to the product line based off chipsets from Qualcomm. Timing devices are also not yet known. Besides the characteristics of these systems-on-chip while ahead of the operating system of Windows Phone 7 and, according to unofficial roadmap, for quite some time will be.

Nokia cancels out Nokia 600

Announced in August Symbian-smartphone Nokia 600 with OS version Belle likely will not appear on the market. The device, presented together with models of Nokia 700 and Nokia 701, had to go on sale until the end of the third quarter of this year, but this is obviously not going to happen. Official reports from the Finnish company and the reasons for delay were received, but the mention of the official apparatus of resources now available, as well as the timing of its release. Also it mentions on the site of application developers for Symbian-smartphones have been removed, along with videos on the Nokia official channel on YouTube. Vanished press release announcing about the model. Nokia pretended smartphone Nokia 600 has never existed and was not supposed to be. After various users are interested in why the unit of real-announced models into a figment of the imagination, there was a semi-official comment. In the social network Facebook on the question: "Is it true that abolished the NOKIA Nokia-600" the best phone nokia "?» Reply was received: "The fact is that after careful consideration, we decided not to supply phones Nokia 600".

Nokia N9 - how to disassemble the phone and what it is

Detailed video instruction with a description of parsing a mobile phone Nokia N9: how to disassemble the smartphone Nokia N9 own hands and make repairs.

Nokia selects ST-Ericsson as supplier for future Windows Phone devices

NovaThor platform to enable Nokia to extend Windows Phone devices to new price points and geographies

Nokia has selected ST-Ericsson as a supplier for future devices it plans to introduce based on the Windows Phone mobile platform.

"We are pleased to have been selected by Nokia as a key partner for Windows smartphones, in line with our goal to be present in all segments and major operating systems," said Gilles Delfassy, president and CEO of ST-Ericsson. "Our NovaThor platforms continue to gain traction as they enable customers to bring great smartphones to the market."

About ST-Ericsson

ST-Ericsson is a world leader in developing and delivering a complete portfolio of innovative mobile platforms and cutting-edge wireless semiconductor solutions across the broad spectrum of mobile technologies. The company is a leading supplier to the top handset manufacturers and generated sales of $2.3 billion in 2010. ST-Ericsson was established as a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics STM +3.39% and Ericsson ERIC +2.48% in February 2009, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.