Nokia Corporation announced the Nokia Lumia 925 smartphone on Tuesday. The Lumia 925 has a metal-finished design and works very well in low lighting. The Lumia 925 has a new AMOLED display and has advances in PureView imaging technology for capturing sharp pictures.
A couple of days ago, Nokia confirmed a new device called the Lumia 928 was coming soon. The details have been officially announced today. The Lumia 928 is coming to Verizon Wireless on May 16th. The Lumia 928 will come packed with a 1.5GHz dual core processor, 4.5-inch display (1280 x 768 resolution), and 8.7-megapixel camera with a Xenon flash.
Nokia has refreshed the Asha line of handsets with the introduction of the Nokia Asha 501. The Asha 501 is coming to India, Latin America, and Africa in late June with a price of $99 pre-tax with subsidies. The Asha 501 has a new user interface with a twin-pane home screen. The UI allows you to pull apps into one view and then you can see notifications and recently-used items simply by swiping. This feature is known as the FastLane view.
At the annual general meeting in Helsinki, shareholders of Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) told the CEO Stephen Elop that their patient is wearing thin as the company is struggling to compete against companies like Samsung and Apple. The shareholders said that Elop should reconsider the decision to switch to Microsoft Windows Phone. Elop used to be employed by Microsoft.
The Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 928 has been confirmed as it was outed in an ad placed in the recent issue of Vanity Fair. Although details about the phone are vague, we know that the Lumia 928 is coming to Verizon. Nokia is promoting the Nokia PureView camera technology, the Carl Zeiss optics, and the device’s ability to capture images in “low light” within the ad. There are rumors floating around that the Lumia 928 will have a full-metal body, a 4.5-inch touchscreen, and an 8-megapixel camera.
As you may have noticed, Samsung is notorious for airing advertisements that poke fun at “Apple fanboys.” Apple also won a $1 billion lawsuit award against Samsung, which was recently dropped to $600 million. Microsoft decided to poke fun at Apple and Samsung by releasing a new ad featuring a wedding.
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Nokia Corporation has announced their Q1 2013 results. The company sold 5.6 million devices, which is up from 4.4 million in the previous quarter. Two-thirds of the Lumias sold in Q1 were running on Windows Phone 8. In the same quarter one year ago, Nokia shipped two million Lumia smartphones. Nokia has shipped a total of 19.9 million Lumias since the first Windows Phone device (Lumia 800) was introduced in November 2011.
Nokia has announced several new phones today which include the Nokia 105, the Nokia 301, the Lumia 520, and the Lumia 720. The two Lumia phones are powered by the Windows Phone operating system. The other two have a low cost and are intended to connect “the next billion and beyond.”
