Nokia may still be struggling to sell its Lumia branded devices when compared with the huge numbers of iPhones Apple manages to shift, but that hasn't stopped the Finnish company from having a pop at its Cupertino rival in an advert for its newly-released Lumia 925. The ad focuses on, as you'd imagine, the Lumia's superiority in the camera department, and while the iPhone 5's snapper holds its own against most of the smartphone arena's most popular handsets, the Lumia 925 was always going to win this one.
Usually, the utility of torrent downloaders remains limited to desktop computers, and the concept of downloading torrents on smartphones and even tablets remains somewhat alien. The whole idea of grabbing torrent based content on the move also gets bogged down by the fact that there isn’t much variety of torrent clients available for major smartphone platforms, such as iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
The blogosphere has been abuzz with reports pertaining Nokia's big announcement today, with some speculative suggestions that the Finnish outfit may even come through with a Windows 8 tablet. While we continue to wait for Nokia to expand its mobile product range to explore the tablet market, the company has delivered another mid-range smartphone in the Lumia 625. The device, which doesn't cost an arm and a knee, features a palm-friendly design, and with a 4.7-inch display, it offers yet another option to those seeking substantial quantities of real estate.
My biggest beef with Windows Phone is the lack of quality apps, and it’s no hidden truth that in comparison to iOS (or even Android), the quality and quantity both for Windows Phone apps is hardly stellar. With that kind of prevailing scenario, it’s always refreshing to see a recognized developer brining a highly-polished and feature rich app to the masses on the said platform, and that’s exactly what Microsoft’s Fresh Paint feels like. It’s a newly released app exclusive to Windows Phone 8 that allows you to create beautiful artwork right there and then on your Windows Phone 8 smartphone.
One of the biggest challenges faced with using a Windows Phone device is the lack of customization options. The operating system is beautifully designed, there’s no denying that, but there’s pretty much nothing that you can do to spice up your Windows Phone experience. In Microsoft’s OEM partners, Nokia remains the only one that has had any luck changing some aspects of the operating system, but only within certain limits. Now, it seems that independent developers have taken it upon themselves to come up with concept apps that could actually serve as a guideline for Microsoft (or Nokia, for that matter) to understand how it’s properly done. Meet Nokia sWiPe, a new app debuted for free on the Windows Phone store that vitalizes the concept of a notification center on Windows Phone, as well as borrowing certain features from the likes of MeeGo. More past the jump.
Although the vast majority of Windows Phone 8 apps found over at the WP Store are available to any and every consumer in ownership of a Windows Phone 8 device, the same cannot be said for those thrown out by OEMs. With the exception of Nokia Maps and one or two others, those without the OEM-branded device have had to survive without the apps that particular manufacturer has thrown out for its handsets. Thankfully, there's a workaround at hand, and it arrives courtesy of none other than XDA-Developers in the form of Nokia Portal.
As anticipated, Nokia has announced its follow up to the 808 PureView with the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020. The Finnish outfit's main selling point in the Lumia range has been its record of solid camera's but the Lumia 1020 looks to take things up a few gears with a device that looks, in many respects, like a thinned-out pocket camera.
Facebook 5.0 for Windows Phone has finally crawled out of beta, and is now ready for the consumption of WP users far and wide. The tiled interface, as many of you will probably know, has made way for a much more universal appearance, although the app in general still offers a look very much suited to the Windows Phone platform in general. All of the details, as well as that all-important download link, can be found after the leap!
What with Nike and Apple being pretty big pals - the Cupertino company's CEO Tim Cook is, after all, a board member at Nike - the FuelBand is heavily supported by iOS devices and not much else. The official FuelBand app for iPhone can only be found over at the iTunes App Store, but third party developers have been hard at work in bringing support for those wielding devices on other platforms. Here, we take a look at Fuelboard, an unofficial FuelBand app for those languishing on Microsoft's fledgling Windows Phone platform. More details and download link can be found right after the jump.
As soon as iOS 7 beta was announced and subsequently revealed by Apple on the introductory morning of this year's WWDC, many onlookers took to the blogs, forums and social networks to note of the incredible similarities in design between it and another major mobile OS - Windows Phone. The motif of clean lines and vibrant colors has long since been a set of values associated with Microsoft's smartphone platform, of course, but as you will see in a comparison video by tech fan Sean Rosairo, it would seem as though the fruit company has ripped more than a few segments directly from Windows Phone.
