Nokia Launches Lumia 520: World's Cheapest Windows Phone 8 Smartphone [News]

After dozens of rumors involving the possible releases of Nokia Lumia series, the Finnish company took the MWC-2013 to end the rumors and launched the Lumia 520, which comes to the market with the title of world’s cheapest smartphone powered by Windows Phone 8 to compete with large appliances marks. The suggested retail price of the handset is €139 (about 184 USD), excluding local taxes and import duties. The gadget has hardware capabilities that surprises for its price: dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor at 1 GHz, 5 MP camera on the back, 512 MB RAM and 8 GB of internal memory (expandable via microSD cards up to 64 GB).

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Nokia Releases Maps Apps For All Phones With Windows Phone 8 [News]

It is undeniable that Nokia has invested heavily to make Windows Phone to succeed. One proof of this is the number of apps exclusive to the devices of Lumia series launched by Nokia, which bring several features that users would like to enjoy. Now, thinking about the development of the platform, the Finnish company released some of these apps to other devices with Windows Phone 8. Nokia announced that Maps, Transit Drive applications are available in Windows Phone Store, and you can download them via any smartphone with Windows Phone 8. Named as HERE Maps, HERE Transit and HERE Drive.

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Lumia 920 : Learn all about the new Nokia Windows Phone 8 With PureView, PureMotion & Qi Wireless Technology [Review]

Nokia and Microsoft are already in a partnership for some time now, but the most distinguished product from them is surly the Lumia 920, which will be the first of flagship Nokia's new Windows Phone 8 Marketplace (to be released commercially soon). Nokia showed that device can really impress and brought very interesting hardware features, that should be more than enough to ensure the proper functioning of the newest mobile operating system from Microsoft. But what really caught my attention was the revelation of something that many already expected - Nokia Lumia 920 will be equipped with the PureView technology. Besides, it has a lot other really brilliant features to compete against the most powerful smartphones of today like iPhone 5, HTC One X+ or Samsung Galaxy S3. We, today, have gone through deeper into the Lumia 920 and I found something that inspired me to write about it. So, I’ve decided to put up this article with my views about Nokia Lumia 920.

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Windows Phone 8 Will Have Real Multitasking Technology To Run Multiple Application Simultaneously

If you have a smartphone, must have realized that you can access multiple applications at the same time (not sharing the screen, but leaving several of them in the background). This is called multithreading (or multitasking), but not all operating systems offer a real support to the multithreading technology. Is the case of iOS, which freezes the status of applications in the background, causing them to actually stop from execution. But Microsoft has revealed that Windows Phone 8 will not have that same system, it will work with a real multitasking technology. One of the greatest examples of this feature is Skype, which can be used to make and receive calls without the need of closing a running application. While the connection is performed, the other software will continue running as well.

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Microsoft Announces The New Voice Recognition System For Windows Phone

Microsoft’s Windows Phone Summit at San Francisco yesterday (Wednesday, 20th June) only lasted 2 hours approximately but it had so much media resource. One that drew the most media attention was related to the latest voice recognition technology of Windows Phone. Starting from now, developers can have access to a new development kit to integrate the voice system to their apps. Although such use has only become famous with Siri of iPhone, from the earliest versions of Windows Phone voice recognition system is presented. Now, with technology of Audible, Microsoft plans to create a totally new featured technology, capable of interacting with consumers in ways never seen before. Easily, partnership with Audible should ensure more features for the voice control system.

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Microsoft Uses NFC To Create Wallet Hub Which Aims To Make Windows Phone As A Payment Method

If the NFC (Near Field Communication) drew everyone's attention during the conference from Microsoft for Windows Phone 8 (20th June), much of the surprise is on a specific resource presented: the Wallet. As the name suggests, this is a virtual wallet that you concentrate all your finances without having to carry cash, credit cards and debit cards or something. Your cell phone is the only currency you need to use. That means more than just centralizing this information, you can use your smartphone to pay bills, conduct financial transactions and even order a pizza. Thanks to NFC, just one specific equipment for which the payment methods we use today become a thing of the past. If you are already familiar with Google Wallet or similar other tools, this feature will change you vision about mobile currency completely.

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Microsoft Announces NFC (Near Field Communication) Technology In Windows Phone 8

This is undoubtedly the week of Microsoft. After surprising the world with the Surface, the company decided to show some of the features of Windows Phone 8, the new version of its operating system for mobile devices on the Microsoft Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco. And of all the new ideas presented, the most impressive was that the devices will support the so-called Near Field Communication (NFC). But what is this? As its name suggests, this is one of the latest technology of communication devices via a simple approach. In summary, it is as if you could send data from one smartphone to another only touching them. Although it may seem somewhat futuristic, Microsoft shows it's real and it will be on our hands soon.

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Windows Phone 8 Includes Support For DirectX & Havok With Simplified App Porting Feature

If you're looking for a new smartphone or tablet to enjoy the next generation gaming experience, can now look to Windows Phone 8 as one of the most featured competitor. As presented by Microsoft in the early afternoon of Wednesday (20th June), the new version of its operating system has native support for DirectX, which makes it perfect platform for game development. This means that the studios will have much more freedom to work on building their projects, giving a much more beautiful and realistic technology. Moreover, this also makes it easier to port apps between iOS and Android and can easily ported to Windows Phone 8.

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Microsoft Confirms: Existing Devices With WP7 Will Not Be Upgraded To The Latest Windows Phone 8

During the press event held yesterday (Wednesday, 2th June), Microsoft announced that soon the smartphones will start to hit the market with the new operating system Windows Phone 8. Many new features were revealed for appliances, including support for multicore processors and also the NFC. But there are bad news also for the current Windows Phone users. Those who already have smartphones with the Windows Phone 7 OS will not receive updates. Microsoft has mentioned that there are many reasons of not to upgrade old appliances because they do not have sufficient hardware compatible with the new features. But there’s a good news too for them, after Mango update (7.5), Windows Phone 7 users will receive yet another upgrade as Windows Phone 7.8.

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Windows Phone 8 Will Be Manufactured By Nokia, HTC, Samsung, Huawei With Qualcomm Processor

Smartphones with Windows Phone 8 should reach the U.S. market around September or October this year. And Microsoft has already announced who are the feature manufacturers of phones that will have Windows Phone 8. Besides the already expected Nokia, Huawei, HTC and Samsung (one of today's technology giants) will also have Windows smartphones. Other partners may be advertised in the future, but the first list already excludes some names that were in the past conferences, such as ZTE. And it's not just the operating system of these companies devices have in common, because they will all be equipped with processors from Qualcomm - probably the chosen model is the Snapdragon S4.

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Windows Phone 8 Will Come Integrated With Full Featured Internet Explorer 10

On Wednesday (20th June), Microsoft announced all the new features of Windows Phone 8, the operating system which will be the next generation of cellular partners of the company. One of the big news is the Internet Explorer 10, which will come integrated on Windows Phone 8. The best part is that it uses the same techniques seen in the Windows 8 to handle the HTML codes, ensuring the best quality when viewing your favorite sites on the handset screen. During the demonstration, even animations heavy canvas seemed to behave in smoothly.

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Windows Phone 8 Homescreen Gets New Personalizing Option To Resize Tiles

When Joe Belfiore (Manager of Windows Phone Program) took the stage of Microsoft Windows Phone Summit at San Francisco and said that the new home screen of Windows Phone 8 would be the "sexiest thing" the new operating system, few imagined that it would be based on personalization, but it is. From the next generation, the operating system interface will allow users to change the tiles size, based on your usage. For this, it will suffice to access the customization mode and then select the song of the "tile" to make it larger or smaller. There are three different sizes available in Windows Phone 8: small, medium (default) and Double Wide, which occupies a larger space on the screen of the smartphone and highlights applications or functions that the consumer considers most important.

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