Category: Windows Phone
Nokia have just announced the new Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 to the world at an event in New York The Lumia 920 features include a PureView 8 megapixel camera , Windows Phone 8, a 4.5 inch screen running PureMotion HD+, a 2000mAh battery, Snapdragon S4 processor …
Nokia are assembling in New York for a major Windows Phone 8 launch. This is a critical stage for them, and they’ll no doubt be hoping that it’s not going to turn out like the Lumia 900 launch just a few months back. That quickly turned into hefty …
Yesterday we mentioned that the Lumia 900 had been reduced in price. The Lumia 800 has been dropping in price for a while now on various giveaway contracts but sim free prices had mainly remained highish. UK retailer Clove have dropped their prices of the Lumia 800 in black …
September seems to be the month to hold a press event. We have Nokia, Motorola, Apple, the whole IFA thing and now HTC. Last night various websites received invites to a press event in New York on September the 19th. As most of the recent rumours surrounding HTC …
Another photo of the upcoming lumia 920 has been tweeted by evleaks. This time showing the available colours of the Lumia 920. Red, yellow, white, black and grey. No Cyan unfortunately. But we will soon know for sure what is happening. They have also just posted a picture …
UK retailer Handtec have posted details on their blog detailing a price reduction on all three colours of the Nokia Lumia 900. You can buy either the black, white or cyan models. The new reduced price is £335.99 Inc vat. No doubt we will see prices dropping on …
No I’m not referring to the Motorola event in New York. I’m referring to the Nokia event on the same day. I should have perhaps titled this “Why I’m looking forward to Windows Phone8” as that covers the bigger picture here. A few days ago at IFA we …
Nokia City Lens is another of those Lumia specific apps, this time round it is a augmented reality type thing, where you can hold your camera up and it will show what is around you. City Lens has been around for a few weeks in beta form and …
I have just had an email through from Nokia inviting us to attend an online webcast where something exciting will be announced on the 5th September but no information on what it might be. Anyone can view the webcast by visiting http://www.nokia.com/webcast from 2PM on the 5th September. Also …
Last night in Berlin Samsung announced a whole load of new devices. The new Galaxy Note II which looks like a big Galaxy SIII, a Galaxy Camera which looks amazing and the Windows Phone 8 Ativ S which again looks amazing. Here we have a quick look at the ATIV S Windows Phone …
Being one of the babies of the Coolsmartphone team my phone history is considerably less impressive than Jamie’s museum of mobile tech!!! The first phone I ever owned had a colour screen and if I remember correctly I saved up my £2 a week pocket money for ages …
HTC devices have always had a premium cost, the quality of the craftsmanship has always made this mandatory when buying a HTC. This may no longer be the case if those Chinese sources are to be believed. It’s being talked about that HTC are planning to lower the …
Over the past few weeks we keep hearing more and more about the upcoming Windows Phone 8 devices. We have a bright yellow Nokia Lumia and we have seen some varied specs for three different HTC devices. As far as Samsung was concerned we had heard some codenames …
Have you always liked the look of the Nokia Lumia 800? Well if you want to get your hands on one slightly cheaper than before today is your lucky day. Expansys have them in black for £249.99 today only. The Lumia 800 really is a gorgeous phone and …
The 5th of September is going to be make or break time for Nokia. They are due to announce their new range of Windows Phone 8 powered Lumias. A lot of people will be watching this event with great interest. We have most corners of the tech world …
What Car magazine have launched a valuation app for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Nokia. (nice cross platform support there!) The app allows you to get second hand valuations for your car, broken down into dealer price, trade price, part exchange and private sale. What’s more, …
Last week on the podcast we touched upon our old phones and how little they did. We decided to document our history of mobiles. Over the next week or so a few of the writers here will publish something similar. Starting with me. My first ever mobile I …
At the risk of sounding sexist, ask a man what his main interests are and outside of women and beer the answer for the vast majority would be gadgets and cars. Hopefully we here at Coolsmartphone bring you your fill of phone related gadgets and now we can …
One of the many repeated mantras surrounding lawsuits is “why do they not just settle”. IN the case of Apple vs Samsung it’s been revealed that Apple did at least try but Samsung did not agree with the terms. The proposed settlement can be seen here To break …
Earlier this week a new Nokia-made handset appeared on the web and many were quick to point out that the device was running Windows Phone 8. This device apparently called the “Nokia Phi” and will be the follow-up to the Lumia 800. It looks to have a larger …
Windows Phone 8 will soon be upon us. This excites me. Nokia have already mentioned that they shall be announcing their new devices on September the 5th and now it is HTCs turn to let us know what they plan. Apparently HTC plan to announce three new devices …
A couple of months ago I took my car to an Audi dealer for repair. The £20 job quickly turned into a £700 repair bill and, no matter how many times it was explained to me, I couldn’t fully understand what all the techy mechanical stuff meant. Now …
In-app purchases, a feature announced in June, will be restricted to Microsoft handsets running Windows Phone 8 only. Those using Windows Phone 7.5 won’t see in-app purchasing getting added to Windows Phone 7.8 and it now seems that the only “update” is the slightly modified home screen. If …
Go on. Guess who’s just earned themselves $792 million? Who has just bagged themselves over £507 million in only one quarter thanks to Android? Microsoft. OK, you may have guessed that one. Microsoft have always made money thanks to the royalties that Android has to pay for Microsoft-held …
Rumours are doing the rounds that Nokia may be about to launch not one but two new Windows Phone 8 devices in the month of September. The handsets are rumoured to be the Lumia 910 and 920 and will have multi core processors and high resolution screens, as …
Over the last few days Nokia have been publishing apps. Last week we had Camera Extras, yesterday we had Contacts Share and today we have Counters. So what is Counters? Basically it allows you to input the number of minutes for calls you get a month, the number …
The first retailer to bag the Samsung Omnia M looks set to be Phones 4u. The handset, which we covered back in May, has a 4″ WVGA Super AMOLED display, 4GB of storage, a 5 megapixel rear camera and VGA front camera. It’s powered by a 1GHz CPU …
Last week all of you lucky Lumia owners got another Lumia specific app, well over the last few days Nokia have released another one. This time it is called Contacts Share and it allows you to share your contacts with another person via vcards. The app is actually …
The other month Nokia announced a load of new apps that they would be bringing to the Lumia range. Microsoft then dropped their upgrade bombshell. From that point on I have wanted several things for my Nokia Lumia 800. I have wanted the Camera Extras app, the Counters …
Cloud Storage. Most of use it, Android users have it the easiest as the different apps available have more access to the file system. In the Windows Phone world things are a little more restricted. But that won’t stop Box.com who have recently released their app for Windows …
You may have seen a number of items recently surrounding the Nokia Lumia handsets. Powered by Windows Phone, there’s already some who have stuck together some numbers and calculated that 330,000 Nokia Lumia handsets have (probably) sold in the USA during 4 months of sales. There’s an element …
The chip designer Qualcomm has confirmed that they are still struggling to meet demand. Back in April they reported that they under estimated the need. The chips, 28 nanometre ones, are used in the most popular Android handsets including the Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X. This shortage, …
Nokia appears to have a surprise instore for us in September. At their flagship store in Helsinki which is currently closed for renovation the following posters have appeared in the windows. What Something Amazing could point to is anyone’s guess particularly considering the problems that Nokia are currently …
Something strange seems to have happened in our house recently. My wife has the HTC Desire S. She loves it, and she’s broken it more times than I can remember (insurance is a must). A few months ago she came to the end of her contract, but she’s …
Over the last few years I have been looking for a solution to my music storage problem. Recently whilst playing about with Windows Phone I have come close to finding my ideal solution. That solution was 7Digital. First of all I should let you know what the problem …
We all know SPB, they have been making software for mobiles since the days of Windows Mobile. Most recently they jumped onto the bandwagon that is Android and haven’t to date really got involved in Windows Phone. Well they have announced SPB TV for Windows Phone, so if …
Bought to our attention by HotUKDeals, you can now purchase a Nokia Lumia 800 for the princely sum of £200. A quick Google search reveals that the price is normally upwards of £300. The smooth one-piece body flows right around the floating 3.7″ ClearBlack AMOLED display. And the …
I’ll be honest, I’m not a big fan of iTunes. I don’t know why, functionality wise it’s actually pretty good. I moved from an iPhone 4 to the wonderful Samsung Galaxy Nexus back at launch in November 2011. Soon after, I started to miss iTunes… No longer did …
Nokia have announced a load of new apps and updates for the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710. The update is available on Zune and the apps will be available on the Marketplace. As usual some markets may be delayed and some carriers may interfere, just because. But now …
If you are involved in the development of apps or games then we want to hear from you. Regardless of platform, be it Android, Blackberry, iOS, Symbian or Windows Phone. We’d like you the developers to come to our forums and post details about your products. We can …
