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HTC One vs Nokia Lumia 920 vs 808 PureView: technical comparison 21 Feb 2013, 07:50 296
“The myth that the more megapixels a camera has the better the pictures, is a big fat lie.” That is how...
Special hands-on with a couple Vertu luxury handsets 09 Jan 2013, 03:26 16
We took a brief detour from the lively CES activity and were afforded an opportunity to check out these...
Apple gains market share, passes LG and takes second behind Samsung 01 Dec 2012, 02:05 78
Android is still the top OS, iOS follows, and the next quarter is going to be really interesting...
The Burning Platform 10 Oct 2012, 08:37 143
Nokia is a remarkable company. It has walked the long, long road from being a single pulp mill in 1865,...
Apple won't be the big 2012 growth winner, despite iPhone 5, neither will Android 24 Aug 2012, 14:28 62
Digitimes has done some research and has put together some numbers for what the market share could look...
Ultra-low cost revolution Part 2: which platform wins? 21 Aug 2012, 22:05 50
Ultra-low cost devices are the biggest segment that no one talks about, but that doesn't mean that the...
The best dual SIM phones 24 Jul 2012, 08:57 27
If you want to take advantage of two good carrier plans at once, use one number for family and friends...
Nokia shipped 4 million Lumia smartphones in Q2 2012 19 Jul 2012, 05:15 26
Nokia has just unveiled its financial results for Q2 2012 and in the past three months it sold 4 million...
The most important events in tech in the first half of 2012: here's what happened 11 Jul 2012, 06:07 29
Time just flies - we still feel like the year has just started, but reality is that 2012, believe it...
PureView coming to Lumia "Very Soon" says Nokia VP; Verizon and Sprint to soon have Lumia models 08 Jul 2012, 10:43 43
Nokia's VP of Worldwide Developer Relations, Richard Kerris, says that not only is the PureView camera...
ComScore round up: See Q2's winners and losers 02 Jul 2012, 16:26 49
The latest market share numbers are out from comScore, and it looks like more of the same, which is great...
10 cheap smartphones from makers you've actually heard of 18 Jun 2012, 04:07 21
Today we have for you a selection of 10 cheap smartphones – smartphones that can be bought for anything...
Teasers from Nokia can mean just one thing: Nokia 808 PureView coming to the U.S. 16 Jun 2012, 11:17 46
Ok, thanks to our loyal readers, we finally get it; the area code for Hawaii is 808 and another teaser...
iOS closing the gap with Android in the States says latest comScore report 02 Jun 2012, 01:42 112
Based on the latest data from comScore, iOS cut into Android's leading OS marketshare in the U.S. by...
Nokia World 2012 announced: new format, will kick off earlier than usual in September 23 May 2012, 08:15 6
Nokia World is traditionally the biggest single Nokia event for the year - it’s a forum that usually...
Platform wars: Symbian losses turned mostly into Android gains, bada outgrows Windows Phone again 16 May 2012, 07:51 54
Over the first three months of 2012 some remarkable events happened - Symbian plunged in market share,...
At what point do "smartphones" become just "phones"? 07 May 2012, 20:37 59
Earlier today, we learned that smartphones have finally hit the magical point where more than half of...
Google Drive vs SkyDrive vs iCloud vs Dropbox vs SugarSync: cloud services comparison 25 Apr 2012, 07:46 32
Now the big three in Silicon Valley - Apple, Google and Microsoft - all have their own clouds to go along...
Nokia reports 5% loss from the handset business in Q1, smartphone ASP up thanks to Lumias 19 Apr 2012, 06:10 5
Nokia just sent us its interim Q1 report, and it shows 5.2% loss in the January-March period from its...
Nokia sold over 2 million Lumias in Q1, lowers outlook as margins evaporate 11 Apr 2012, 07:41 94
The first Nokia Windows Phone sales numbers are in: Nokia sold 2 million units of its newly launched...
10 memorable Nokia handsets that will never be forgotten 30 Mar 2012, 09:09 57
Ranging from barebones handsets long discontinued, to some smartphones that have made their impact, there’s...
Damian Dinning narrates the Nokia 808 PureView story - noisy optical zoom phone prototypes to blame 07 Mar 2012, 07:11 6
Nokia's camera guru Damian Dinning finally spilled the beans how the company got to the mammoth 41MP...
Nokia 808 PureView Specs Review 06 Mar 2012, 03:58 44
The Nokia 808 PureView is among the smartphones that generated a lot of buzz during MWC 2012, and is...
Vote for best phone and tablet of MWC 2012 02 Mar 2012, 06:56 39
The Mobile World Congress is the biggest show dedicated to mobile and in 2012 it was intense. We witnessed...
Nokia 808 PureView 41MP sensor explained to us by Nokia's camera gurus (video) 28 Feb 2012, 12:18 42
We wanted to have some more professional demonstration of the amazing 41MP sensor crammed into a Nokia...
Nokia 808 PureView 41-megapixel camera magic explained 27 Feb 2012, 13:13 21
The Nokia 808 PureView - for a lack of better word - is magical. Most if not all of users would be shocked...
Nokia 808 PureView Hands-on Review 27 Feb 2012, 04:42 148
Alright, so here it is, probably the last (or one of the very last) Symbian smartphones ever – the Nokia...
Nokia 808 PureView will be the cameraphone to beat with whopping 41MP sensor, to arrive on Windows Phone too 27 Feb 2012, 02:12 54
Well, the nail-biting wait is no more, we have a new claimant for the best cameraphone category, and...
Nokia teaser hints of new high MP camera to be announced at MWC 2012 21 Feb 2012, 22:04 18
Nokia has released a teaser video for MWC 2012 which highlights certain "pure" characteristics of outstanding...
Skiing this weekend? Don't forget your smartphone apps! 03 Feb 2012, 05:34
'Tis the season to head for the slopes, and smartphones have wiggled their way even into such a dynamic...
"Predictions" that need to stop in 2012 - Windows Phone, BlackBerry and the rest 30 Jan 2012, 09:55 28
When we started this journey, the framing for the articles seemed clear enough: the rumor mill around...
How to make international calls with your smartphone on the very cheap 27 Jan 2012, 08:44 12
We compare the international calling rates of a few VoIP smartphone apps, and find that you can pretty...
Carrier IQ tracking scandal escalates: it’s not the manufacturers, blame the carriers 01 Dec 2011, 04:15 22
Carrier IQ is a simple telemetrics company but there’s one thing that makes it stand out from the rest...
Nokia 701 announced as the smartphone with brightest screen, Nokia 700 as the most compact 24 Aug 2011, 07:48 7
Nokia 701 got outed today with the claim that its ClearBlack LCD display is the brightest one in terms...
12 week smartphone sales numbers have surprises from around the globe 08 Aug 2011, 23:38 19
Market research firm Kantar Worldpanel has released the new numbers for the past 12 week sales of mobile...
Nokia goes deep in the red in the second quarter, smartphone sales collapse to 16.7 million 21 Jul 2011, 05:54 73
Nokia, the company which shaped the smartphone market back in 1996, swings deep in the red in the second...
Nokia Connection 2011 to bring new devices on June 21st, aims to become Nokia’s biggest event 31 May 2011, 02:23 6
Nokia Connection has traditionally been a local Nokia forum that could hardly compete in significance...
First details about Nokia's WP7 handsets leak out: Qualcomm chips, AF cameras 14 Apr 2011, 02:52 16
Nokia's decision to adopt Windows Phone 7 as its main platform shook the cell phone world two months...
Nokia adds the media-centric X7 to its smartphone portfolio 12 Apr 2011, 05:30 9
Nokia has been making headlines today and it is not only because the Finns are hosting a company event...
Nokia E6 continues Nokia's business E series in style 12 Apr 2011, 03:55 4
Nokia promised to let us know what's new in the Symbian world and it did. More of the good old portrait...
Nokia E6, X7 confirmed, coming with all-new Symbian Anna 12 Apr 2011, 03:23 5
Minutes before the start of the official Nokia event in London, the Finns have uploaded a promo of the...
New Symbian UI stars in a Nokia X7 promo video 11 Apr 2011, 02:11 12
Prematurely leaked promo videos made for 3 UK show for the first time the new Symbian UI running on actual...
History of mobile gaming 07 Apr 2011, 06:03 3
As phones are becoming more and more feature-rich, mainly due to their enhanced hardware capabilities...
Samsung Galaxy S II Mini leaks out: 3.7-inch screen, 1.4GHz CPU, coming this April in UK 21 Mar 2011, 04:25 6
The Samsung Galaxy S II Mini is probably the least miniature of handsets pretending to be “mini,” but...
Display battle: NOVA Display vs Super AMOLED vs Retina Display vs ClearBlack AMOLED 01 Mar 2011, 10:07 56
PhoneArena examines the real-life performance of LG's newfangled brightest NOVA mobile display, comparing...
Goodbye, Lenin, hello new MeeGo phone and tablet 03 Dec 2010, 09:35 9
It's reported that Intel held a conference in Moscow, where it presented in flesh a MeeGo-powered tablet...
Nokia N8 Hands-on 01 Oct 2010, 12:57 18
Before we head off and live with it for a short while so we can give you a comprehensive run-down on...
Nokia N8 is on the delivery trucks, some lucky souls might get it before the weekend 30 Sep 2010, 01:59 7
Those who pre-ordered the flagship Nokia N8 might see it on their front steps before the weekend has...
Nokia E7, C7 and C6-01 get announced at Nokia World 2010, all with Symbian^3 14 Sep 2010, 05:43 11
The Nokia E7 is a QWERTY communicator with 8MP camera, C7 is a Cseries version of the N8, and C6-01 bumps...
Hands-on with the Nokia N8 26 Jun 2010, 15:46 8
From what we've been reporting numerous times, Nokia is surely banking on this Symbian^3 powered device...









