If you’re Canadian and lusting after the Nokia Lumia 1020 and it’s 41 megapixel (!) camera, then these Tweet will interest you:
Nokia Lumia 1020 coming to Canada through Rogers and Telus http://t.co/9dVTsgh11P
— Nokia Update (@NokiaUpdate) August 31, 2013
Rogers and Telus will be carrying the phone that has gotten the attention of many in the smartphone universe. Now I’ve requested one for review from both Rogers and Telus. The first one who gets me one gets the review.
🙂
This is not going to put Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the best mood if this is true. A report from Digitimes claims that HTC is “drifting away” from the Windows Phone OS:
Prior to the tie-up between Nokia and Microsoft, HTC had been the number one vendor for Windows Mobile- and Windows Phone-based smartphones. HTC then shifted its strategy to focus on Android phone along with the increasing popularity of the Android platform.
Why have they done that? Nokia pretty much owns the Windows Phone market. So it’s likely to be a steady diet of Android phones going forward for HTC. After all, the HTC One is right up there with the Samsung Galaxy S4. Thus, they can expand on that if they really focus in on growing in that space.
Microsoft is trying to get back into the smartphone game, but postings like this won’t help:
Hi, just to have a separate thread. I bought here in Prague where I am coming from black 8X on the launch day (1st of November) and so far within 3 days of use I had 2 random reboots. Device just suddenly reboots itself ending in PIN screen. Quite annoying, but not sure whether go for service or is it a software issue. Can you share if you have same experience. So far both reboots happened when in car connected to bluetooth.
Nor this:
Hi,
I have my Nokia Lumia 920 three days now and it already became unresponsible twice. I could not start the phone or anything. Only a hard reset (all three buttons at once) started the phone again. Should I turn back the phone for a replacement?
Or this:
I’ve had my 8X for a couple of days, and it’s been having multiple reboots. Lots of people over on WPCentral seem to be having the same problem (http://forums.wpcentral.com/8x/200872.htm)
BBM Coming To Windows Phone “In The Coming Months”
Posted in Commentary with tags BlackBerry, Windows Phone on February 24, 2014 by itnerdIt’s available on BB10 devices, along with iOS and Android. But BlackBerry has never had BBM available for Windows Phone. That changed today with this announcement:
BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB), a global leader in mobile communications, today announced that BBM™ will be made available to Windows Phone and Nokia X customers in the coming months.
BBM is a premier mobile messaging platform that offers best-in-class collaboration tools such as BBM Groups, BBM Voice and BBM Channels. BBM users rely on the privacy, immediacy and control that are at the core of BBM.
“BBM continues to grow in popularity as millions of people use our mobile platform for chatting and connecting with friends or colleagues, and we are very excited that we will soon welcome Windows Phone and Nokia X users to the BBM community,” said John Sims, President, Global Enterprise Solutions at BlackBerry.
“Today marks an exciting moment for Nokia,” said Bryan Biniak, Vice President and GM of Developer Relations, Nokia Corporation. “By bringing BBM to the Windows Phone and Nokia X communities, our customers will be able to experience this popular global messaging app.”
From the press release, it looks like it will be feature complete which is a good thing. I’m not sure what “In The Coming Months” means, but one would imagine that it would be before this summer.
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