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Amber Update Will Come To All Windows Phone 8 by September last,says Nokia.
Today Nokia promised owners of its Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices that its “Amber”update will reach all phones by the end of September. The Amber upgrade is a mix of feature improvements that will improve Nokia’s handsets, further setting them apart from devices built by other smartphone OEMs.
Amber contains a photo-editing tool, improved image processing, the ability to snag motion in sequence with “Action Shot,” the acceptance of double-tap input to wake the phone, and improved internal storage reporting.
However, the most important new piece delivered by Amber is “Glance Screen,” a tool that makes your phone’s inactive state more interesting. When your handset is inactive, it will display a clock and battery information. So, you can more quickly interact with your phone without having to do anything at all. You can turn off Glance, of course, or have it switch off after a set amount of time.
In past years, we would now discuss how Amber puts Nokia ahead of Samsung, HTC, and other Windows Phone OEMs (remember Dell?). We don’t have to do that anymore, as Nokia controlsessentially the entire Windows Phone market. Thus, the changes are not as much changes to Nokia’s Windows Phone handsets as they are adaptations to the Windows Phone platform itself. Given that Nokia sells nearly 90 percent of Windows Phone devices, any changes that it makes become de facto official changes.
This is a problem for Microsoft, as it initially ceded flexibility to make changes to Nokia in partial exchange for it adopting the platform. This saved Microsoft’s mobile life, but in the process cost it control: If Nokia can essentially skin Windows Phone to its own contentment, Microsoft is in a material way not in charge of the Windows Phone user experience and design.
Thus, Microsoft either builds a phone itself (there have been rumors), or it bolsters HTC (the only remaining OEM partner with more than a scrape of market share that isn’t Nokia) to get a better grip on its platform.
Whatever the case, if you are a Nokia handset owner, the Amber update will be rolling out depending on your handset and country and likely carrier over the next month.
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Nokia is launching new feature phone for $149 in September.
Nokia’s phone-launching onslaught continues today, with the news that an all-new Nokia 515 feature phone will be introduced to the world in September, starting with Russia, Germany, Switzerland and Poland.
The new device will be made of aluminum and will come in two variants – single and dual SIM. It will be available in black or white and comes in at 11 mm thick. So we’re talking slender here.
Running on the Series 40 (S40) operating system, it will also have 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, with a choice of image capture, editing and sharing options. And it will have 3.5G HSDPA connectivity, as well as an HD voice feature for clearer audio.
With a recommended retail price of $149 (€115), the handset won’t be aimed at the bottom-end of the market, unlike the 207, 208 and 208 Dual SIM handsets launched back in July, which represented the company’s cheapest 3G-enabled Series 40 featurephones.
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New Nokia Phone will have 6 inch screen!
Here not even a week after Nokia revealed that it had, indeed, been working on a smartphone larger that its hero 920 lineup, another – even larger – panel has appeared in China. This 6-inch panel has appeared via notoriously accurate leakster IC Tech who suggests that this panel rings in at 6-inches diagonally.Nokia codenamed the new Windows Phone Bandit.The 1080p smartphone may well be the first Windows Phone to pack a Full HD display,Bandit also expected to pack a quadcore processor from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon line-up. Meanwhile, while it falls short of Lumia 1020-style PureView optics, there’s apparently no shortage of megapixels.
In fact, according to the leakers, Nokia is supposedly equipping Bandit with a camera of “at least 20-megapixels”; that will demand “a slight hump” on the back panel, similar to the bump on the back of the Lumia 925. The chassis itself is tipped to be made from polycarbonate and described as “thin and lightweight”, and it’s unclear if that means the exposed metal structure of the Lumia 925 has been bypassed in favor of a full-plastic casing as on the Lumia 920.
Windows Phone has lagged behind rivals in terms of 1080p display support, currently topping out at 720p thanks to limitations of the OS itself. However, Microsoft is believed to be working on not only baking in 1080p support, but tweaking the Windows Phone UI so that it makes best use of the extra pixels.
For instance, there’s expected to be a new column for homescreen Live Tiles, meaning more can be seen on-screen at any one time rather than simply enlarging the interface.
So far, Nokia’s biggest screen handset running Microsoft’s platform has, ironically, been one of its lower-specified models. The Nokia Lumia 625 has a 4.7-inch screen but only runs at 720p, though it’s targeted at the more affordable end of the market.
Back in July, what was tipped to be a 6-inch display panel intended for a Nokia device and snapped at a production facility leaked out, though Nokia has been tight-lipped about its 1080p strategy. Nonetheless, the step up in resolution – and oversized phones to show it off at its best – seems an inevitability, after the success of devices like Samsung’s Galaxy Note series and the general increase in flagship handset size.
Meanwhile, Nokia’s tablet plans are also simmering through the rumor-mill, with suggestions that the company is finally readying a Snapdragon 800-based slate for launch. The tablet, currently unnamed, is believed to run Microsoft’s struggling Windows RT platform, the version of Windows 8 for ARM-based processors.
According to the sources, the Bandit is currently in testing at AT&T, and the carrier and Nokia hope to have it on shelves by the end of the year. Whether that precludes a release on other carriers – or merely delayed availability – remains to be seen; the same insiders suggest the Lumia 925 will soon be released on carriers other than T-Mobile USA.
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