Nokia Lumia with Pure View coming soon

According to Nokia,Windows Phone is not yet ready to compete with Symbian in the multimedia industry, which is why the first PureView not based on Microsoft. But things may soon change.

As was reported by the Finnish newspaper Aamulehti, Nokia is working hard to bring the Pure View technology to the Nokia Lumia range. The announcement was made by Jo Harlow, Executive Vice President of Nokia Smart Devices, without specifying an indicative period of output.

"I can not say PRECISELY when, but it will not take very long." / "I can not say precisely when, but it will not take much time."

It is possible that Windows Phone 8, then in the second half of the year, Nokia will bring a new standard of optics inside the Microsoft ecosystem.

Source Aamulehti ; Via Esphoneblog

White Nokia Lumia 900 hands-on video

The White version is identical to the black, cyan and magenta versions of the Windows Phone 7 smartphone, albeit with a glossy rather than the matte shell launched at CES in January.

The White Nokia Lumia 900 packs a 4.3-inch, WVGA 800x480 AMOLED display, an 8-megapixel camera boasting Carl Zeiss optics and a f2.2 aperture lens.

It is powered by a 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon processor with 512MB of RAM, and has 16GB of storage

Via WPCentral

Report:Huawei will begin to develop Windows Phones in the first half of 2012

According to DigiTimes and its sources, Huawei in China would like to spread the new Microsoft OS in the first half of 2012, during which time Nokia also will attempt the same maneuver with their devices Lumia. 

Unfortunately (for Microsoft), the Chinese territory is dominated by the bitter battle that ZTE, Huawei itself, Coolpad and Technology Xiaomi are "fighting" for dominance in the low-cost market segment, where the open policy of Android that law.

MWC just around the corner, where Microsoft could officially declare the new partnership with manufacturers to increase sales in China and other markets in Asia

Via Digitimes

Summary of the challenge launched by Microsoft at CES 2012, 88% of wins for Windows Phone

Ben Rudolph, senior manager of Microsoft, at CES 2012 had issued a challenge to present performance and ease of use of smartphones.Ben Rudolph, knowing the power of Windows Phone and its immediate accessibility and ease of use, at CES 2012 has wanted to challenge the present and several smartphones based on non Windows Phone. 

The challenge, as we have seen announcedpreviously provided to program in concert with the challenger of the operations to be performed with the terminals and who finished first shared victory. If the challengers win the victory, Ben Rudolph gave them $ 100 if lost while in return receiving a prize of "consolation" that could also be a Windows Phone. Of the 34 challenges, 

Windows Phone has made the following verdicts:

• 30 wins
• 3 losses
• 1 draw

Here is a video that summarizes what happened at CES regarding this aspect:

Microsoft exec admits Windows Phone was response to Apple's iPhone

The head of the software design of Microsoft Windows Phone has admitted that the company has decided to focus hard on redesigning its mobile operating system entirely in response to the success of Apple's iPhone and the "sea change" that has brought to market.

Joe Belfiore, one of the first engineers who joined the team of Microsoft Windows Phone when he created him, has exposed some remarks in an interview to open The New York Times :

"Apple has introduced a sea change in the market and the industry in terms of the kinds of things that are able to offer the customer, which fascinated him. We wanted to respond with something that could be competitive at the same level, but that was not quite the same. "

Joe Belfiore , then continued:

"Once the iPhone has exploded on the market, Microsoft knew that the directors of its software, as it was, could never compete against Apple's new product."

In December 2008, Microsoft gathered his engineers to decide the fate of its Windows Mobile software, now rather dated. After seven hours of meetings, Myerson and his team decided to completely renovate the mobile operating system from scratch, from the roots.  

After years of work and effort (not too many actually saw the debut in September 2010), Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, was still undecided after giving a glance at the very first version of the new Windows Phone, but the team development, according to Myerson, was able to make changes suggested by him to make it up to its main competitors.

Price Busters: Lumia 800 for $520 in Italy, $560 Elsewhere

An Italian website is offering the Black 800 for € 399 (520 dollars0- same as Amazon’s Cybermonday sale)- HURRY Offer ends in 9 hours!!! Meanwhile SGbest.com is offering the Lumia 800 with your choice of color (First time I’ve seen anyone actually offering you all colors for the same price-or any color choice at all) for a reasonable $560. 

On a side-note this is bitter-sweet news, as the phone prices are dropping meaning more people will buy; on the other hand could this mean that the 800 isn’t selling all that well?? Compared to it’s twin sister the N9 which was released almost 4 months before, the N9 is Just starting to sell below the 600 dollar mark; I’m probably over analyzing considering it’s Christmas season and all, but it’s definitely something to think about. 

Source:MyNokiaBlog

Bazaar, A Homebrew App Marketplace For Windows Phone

Bazaar for Windows Phone is a free of charge application that allows you to browse applications by categories, share, download and install them directly from your device without the need to connect your device to your PC. Basically, Bazaar allows us to share our Windows Phone applications faster and easier through a reliable platform. 

Bazaar will host and share only free Homebrew applications. Bazaar will not encouraging piracy in any way. Note: Bazaar is currently available only in a Beta release. That means that all the repository is based on the actual Marketplace repository and currently you cannot install applications on your phone.

They will release the next Beta version in the next few days which will contain actual Bazaar application data that will allow you to install applications.

More information on this link

Windows Phone 7.5 Already Supports NFC

In an interview with TechRadar, Will Coleman, developer evangelist and product manager at Microsoft UK believes that the current build of Windows Phone 7.5 does, in fact, support Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. The thing is that manufacturers have yet to take advantage of the feature. According to Coleman:

“As far as I’m aware, NFC is supported by [Windows Phone], but needs to be enabled by the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer). So, if any OEM wants to enable it, that can be done by all means.”

Coleman also believes that we will soon see some exciting things happening around NFC technology:

“Think it’s about just about timing, in the not too distant future there are some exciting things that will be coming through with NFC from Microsoft.”

Nokia’s head of apps partnerships also chimed in on the future of NFC in their own devices:

“NFC isn’t an if, it’s a when, it will happen. Obviously there’s no NFC on our launch devices, so it’s difficult to comment too much on that, but the main divisions between secure and non-secure [NFC] mean there’s bags of opportunity for the technology [on our phones] especially with so many operators launching services.

“We need to get a [Windows Phone] device into the marketplace with NFC capabilities, and when we do we can really start to showcase our services.”

With Android iterating over and over again at the speed of light, it will become increasingly important for WIndows Phone to stay at feature parity with other platforms. NFC is considered by many to be the future of mobile computing, so it’s good to hear that it’s supported in Windows Phone 7.5, but we need the OEMs to begin to take advantage of that capability.

Source:Windows Phone Metro ; TechRadar