GigaomHello, Cortana: Microsoft begins Windows Phone 8.1 rollout
The wait for Windows Phone 8.1 and all of its improvements is over now that Microsoft has started to roll the software out around the world. Also included is the Lumia… Read more »
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The wait for Windows Phone 8.1 and all of its improvements is over now that Microsoft has started to roll the software out around the world. Also included is the Lumia… Read more »
Based on its Kinect hardware for Xbox, Microsoft knows a thing or two about gesture-based interfaces. A report suggests that upcoming Windows Phones could use gestures and sensors to simplify smartphone… Read more »
One of the senior engineers on Nokia’s PureView camera team is headed to Cupertino. While Nokia has many patents on the PureView technology, Apple could gain some imaging expertise to help… Read more »
Who has the largest music streaming collection? If you said Spotify, Rdio or Rhapsody, you’d be wrong. Surprisingly, it’s Nokia’s MixRadio which now boasts 30 million tunes, right in time for… Read more »
Since it doesn’t yet own Nokia’s handset business, Microsoft couldn’t squash the Android-powered Nokia X phone. Should it do so when it can? There are definitely pros and cons, but I’m… Read more »
More Nokia Normandy details leaked on Tuesday, showing an Android phone that runs on meager hardware: Exactly what I’d think would take the place of Nokia’s current low-cost Asha line with… Read more »
In the final quarter of 2013, Nokia Lumia sales actually fell from the prior quarter, leaving the company with 30 million Windows Phones sold just as Microsoft prepares to take ownership… Read more »
No longer just for phones carrying the PureView label, Nokia’s new Camera app is now available in beta to all Lumia phones running WP8. Read more »
Need room for more tiles on a Windows Phone? Nokia’s 1520, a reported 6-inch handset, could be just the thing based on this leaked image of the phone. Read more »
The NYT has published an interesting piece about the negotiations leading up to Microsoft(s msft)’s takeover of Nokia(s nok)’s handset business. Of particular note: Nokia’s insistence on hanging onto its Here… Read more »