Microsoft’s Windows Phone inches past BlackBerry for #3 in IDC’s global rankings

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone is making modest but steady progress in the smartphone market, according to the latest numbers from the IDC research firm. Shipments of Windows Phone reached 7 million units in the first quarter, the firm says. That gave Microsoft 3.2 percent market share and put Windows Phone ahead of BlackBerry, which came in… Read More…

Lumia 925: T-Mobile scores U.S. exclusive for Nokia’s sleek new Windows Phone

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Nokia unveiled its new Lumia 925 Windows Phone at an event this morning in London, and it’s getting a mostly positive response from the media who were there to try it out in person. At 8.5 mm thick, the Lumia 925 is even thinner than the recently unveiled Lumia 928 (a Verizon phone). The 925… Read More…

Nokia touts Lumia 928 camera against competition with roller coaster video

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Nokia has yet to officially announce its newest flagship Lumia 928 smartphone, but that isn’t stopping the manufacturer from touting the device’s features against industry competition. In a new promo video on the landing page for the phone, Nokia shows video footage from the Lumia 928, iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3 — interestingly not the Galaxy… Read More…

Study: Windows Phone hits highest U.S. market share yet

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Maybe there’s some truth to the hilarious and equally ridiculous ad Microsoft put out today, which attempts to differentiate Windows Phone from Apple and Samsung by poking fun at stereotypical users of the leading smartphones. The first quarter numbers from Kantar show Windows making consistent gains in the U.S. smartphone market, as evidenced by growth of 1.9 percentage… Read More…

Nokia’s Windows Phone shipments reach 5.6M units, but Nokia is still struggling

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Nokia reported a 27 percent quarter-over-quarter increase in shipments of its Lumia line of Windows Phones, rising to 5.6 million units in the first quarter from 4.4 million in the fourth. But the company overall slipped back into the red due in part to slumping sales of traditional cell phones. The company’s quarterly operating loss… Read More…

Report: Lumia 920 rises to top of Windows Phone market

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Nokia’s Lumia 920 is now the most widely used Windows Phone device, reaching 14 percent of usage, and Nokia is by far the biggest maker of Windows Phones, with upwards of 80 percent of the market for Microsoft-powered devices. That’s the word from AdDuplex, an app-promotion service for Windows Phone and Windows 8, drawing from its latest… Read More…

Pendrell buys dozens of patents from Nokia covering SD cards and flash storage

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Pendrell Corp. has made another big patent purchase. The Kirkland company led by former Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff announced today that it has acquired 125 patents and patent applications from Nokia, most of which cover technologies around SD cards and flash memory. Pendrell said that the combined market for the flash memory business is expected… Read More…

Video: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop tosses TV journalist’s iPhone across the room

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Nokia is in a dogfight with Apple and Samsung, trying to regain some ground in the ultra-competitive smartphone market. Is this the best way to do it? Nokia CEO Stephen Elop recently appeared on the Finnish TV show Hjalliksen kanssa, and after getting pressed by the iPhone-wielding interviewer about the Lumia 928, things took a bizarre… Read More…

Nokia begs Instagram for a Windows Phone app, creates #2InstaWithLove

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Nokia is getting creative to show how badly it wants an Instagram app for Windows Phones. “We’ve been listening, and we know you all love Instagram,” writes Nokia’s Paul Coombes. ”The only way for us to show how much the Nokia community really care about bringing this world class app to Windows Phone, is by having a little… Read More…

Nokia’s new Windows Phones aim for affordability

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Nokia announced two new Windows Phone 8 models during its news conference this morning at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona — aiming to expand its market share by appealing to smartphone buyers on a budget and those in developing countries. It’s part of a broader effort by Nokia and Microsoft to gain traction in the… Read More…