Lumia News & Articles

Finnish mobile maker Nokia is holding its London launch event and has promised a summer of major launches. First up is the Nokia Lumia 925, an aluminum-cased design, plus the arrival of Hipstamatic on Windows Phone. 

Nokia has taken the wraps off the leaking-like-a-sieve Lumia 928 which will be available on Verizon for just $100. Aside from all the cool camera and video features, the slightly more conventional styling makes it look like a grown-up phone compared to some of the toy brick Lumia designs. 

Photos and video are so easy to shoot on phones, it is easy to overlook the quality differences, and few of us shoot enough video across devices to compare the results. So, Nokia is taking its message to the streets (well, YouTube) with direct comparisons against rival models.

 Leading Windows Phone maker Nokia is inviting the press to an event next month to show off the future of the Lumia range. Expect more than just the Lumia 928 as the company pushes out from its recent turnaround. 

Nokia has a lot of minus signs in its latest quarterly figures but its losses are far smaller than during the company's dark times, with Lumia sales firmly on the rise, but not enough to spark a Windows Phone revolution.

Anyone hoping for big new things from the next Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 device will be left wanting, as it looks like a modest upgrade in technology and power.

 Commercials are funny things, never more so than when one brand compares itself against another. So, here we see Microsoft trying to raise the profile of Windows Phones, and the Nokia Lumia 920, by challenging users of Samsung's current hero. 

 Starting off the big speeches on day one at Mobile World Congress, Nokia did some filling-in around its Lumia range, but left the high-end untouched. A shame, as rest of the show focuses on the future of mobile.

Nokia has been trounced in smartphone sales in recent years, but its continued success with feature phones and now budget smartphones around the world could see the next-generation of upgraders leaning toward the Finnish firm over Apple, Samsung and others. 

 In the fun old days of the Nokia 3310 you could have a different shell for every day of the week. The company is bringing back that custom feel by releasing a kit to allow users with access to a 3D printer or bureau, to make their own unique case design. 

 Nokia's fourth quarter stock update should put an end to the company's doom-sayers (for a while) as it sells nearly 4.5 million Lumia smartphones, suggesting Windows Phone 8 and Nokia are here to stay.

One thing became pretty clear in 2012, for all the bluster and hype over new features, smartphones are now a mature technology, leaving the seemingly ever-resizeable tablet to take up the slack.

 Google is putting out its lists of what the world searched for over the year, with the iPad 3 way ahead of other tech-based terms on the list. 

 At the LeWeb conference in Paris, Nokia has just shown off another model to broaden its Windows Phone 8 arsenal. The Lumia 620 packs most of its big brother's features, but without the cost. 

 Buried under the news of Hurricane Sandy and Apple's executive reshuffle, you might not have realised that Microsoft officially launched its biggest play in smartphones yesterday. Many models and makes are coming soon, with first releases in Europe, followed by the States.