Image Source: The Verge The ongoing battle over nano-SIM designs is heating up. This week at CTIA, designs from both Nokia (and friends) as well as the Apple-led, backwards compatible version were shown off. Specifically, SIM card maker Giesecke & Devrient was waving the Apple designed nano-SIMs around giving us a good glimpse at what the near future will bring to SIM cards, and on a larger scale, mobile devices. The most surprising update to the whole story is that...
If you’re a proud owner of a Lumia 900 device and thought that purplish keyboard exhibited when display brightness is turned down to its minimum setting was created on purpose, we’re sorry to say it isn’t. It’s a sign of a faulty display – the keyboard text background is really (and always should be) gray. But fret not. All is not lost. Nokia claims to have identified the issue and has said a software update to correct the purple keyboard...
It’s sad when a once great company stoops to patent trolling to remain relevant. And while it appears on the surface that Nokia is doing alright after the launch of their highly anticipated Lumia devices, it appears that behind the scenes, money is getting tighter. Nokia has just announced that they are suing RIM, HTC and Viewsonic over 45 patents the trio allegedly infringes upon. The patents cover a multitude of technologies including dual-function antennas,...
Most normal human beings still focus on a smartphone camera’s megapixel count as a measure of comparison between devices. While it does help a tad in determining which camera is “better”, megapixel count is but one factor; other things such as aperture, lens quality, glass type, flash type and software optimization all come into play. That said, over the course of the last ~10 years, Nokia has been known to focus more heavily on their phone cameras than...
What Microsoft and Nokia needed with the Lumia 900 was a grand slam. Instead it looks like they’ve got a 3-base run. And now a foul on top of it. The data connection problems (specifically to AT&T’s LTE network) that we’ve been hearing across the web over the last few days are in fact now a real problem. Nokia confirmed to The Verge that the Lumia 900 issue is real. The upside is that it is strictly a software issue. Nokia says new hardware with the...
