Category: Nokia (Windows Phone)

Nokia Lumia 710 Now On Vodafone

Vodafone have today put the new Nokia Lumia 710 on sale with it’s online store and will also be available over the phone or in a Vodafone retail store. No news on PAYG pricing we will find out and then update this post once we have it. There …

White Lumia 900 Outed accidentally?

Want another white phone? This snap of what looks to be a white Nokia Lumia 900 has just appeared on the Nokia Facebook page. The image is listed as being a Lumia 800 but looks to have been posted accidentally-on-purpose. What are your thoughts on colours when buying …

Fancy a White Lumia 800?

Phones 4U have put up a page offering pre-orders on the recently announced White Nokia Lumia 800. You can have a look at the page here. They are offering the phone on Vodafone, Orange or O2. The white Lumia doesn’t offer any new hardware differences, it’s just white. …

Nokia Lumia 710 Now On Three

Recently we broke the news that the Nokia Lumua 710 was going to cost £199.99 on PAYG with Three as confirmed by a member of staff in store even though there were no price guides or dummy phones out on show. Today on checking the Three site the …

Editorial: Android User to Windows Phone – How Does That Work?

Upon opening the Lumia 800 quick guide, I’m pointed to the Zune software……..”Well that’s one plus for Android already” I quietly say to myself before navigating to Zune.net to get the aforementioned software. Firstly, I think it’s only fair to warn you all now before you continue reading. …

White Lumia teased by Nokia

It’s been rumoured for a while now, but now the Nokia Facebook page seems to confirm that a polar white Lumia 800 is on the way pretty soon. According to what we’re hearing, it should arrive to the UK later this month. Either that or Nokia are trying …

EXCLUSIVE: Nokia Lumia 710 £200 PAYG On Three

Whilst shopping yesterday I went into a Three store and asked about the Nokia Lumia 710 which was on a massive poster at the front of the shop but there was no dummy on display, the new brochures had not come into any stores yet and the phone …

Nokia Lumia 710 Unboxing

Want a closer peek at the new Nokia Lumia 710? Check out this video, added by Nokia today, it features a geezer with greasy hair showing you around the phone. There’s 8GB of storage, 1.4GHz CPU and a 3.7″ 480×800 screen with 5 megapixel camera. If you want …

Nokia publish Q4 financial figures

Nokia have published their quarter four figures for 2011 and they make for slightly depressing reading. You can find the figures here at the Nokia press site. Some of the most interesting points from this are as follows. Nokia have sold “well over 1 million lumia devices” Operating profit …

Nokia Lumia sales figures calculated using Facebook

Yesterday we posted an article about Nokia and how an analyst firm had decided that Nokia had sold between 800,000 and 2 million handsets globally. Well today some slightly more solid evidence has come to light and it’s via Facebook of all places. All Windows Phone handsets have a …

Nokia Lumia 910 Arriving soon?

 If Eldar Murtazin speaks, we usually listen. He’s just added a very interesting tit-bit to his Twitter timeline which states.. Who needs lumia 900 in june if they want to launch lumia 910 (12mpx) in may? Europe It comes just a day after Carphone Warehouse accidentally added a …

Nokia Lumia ads upset Ofcom

Remember these adverts? They appeared a few months ago to promote the Nokia Lumia 800 and used “break flashes”. This was picked up in our earlier article and consists of advertisers showing a very brief (half a second) message between the other commercials. Ofcom found Channel Five to …

Nokia Lumia sales looking promising

An estimate from 22 Bloomberg analysts puts Lumia sales to operators and retailers at between 800,000 and 2 million units globally. Not bad projections when the Lumia only went on sale in Europe in November 2011 and the figures are up to the end of the year. These …

Nokia Lumia 900 Hitting the UK in June!

Carphone Warehouse have put the Nokia Lumia 900 on their Coming Soon section of the website with an estimated launch date of June 2012! The 900 was announced at CES in Las Vegas with AT&T exclusivity but now it seems that this hot new device will be coming …

Lumia 710 Available to pre-order at Carphone Warehouse

Ten days ago we spotted that the Nokia Lumia 710 would be arriving on February 1st. Now Carphone Warehouse have joined the dealers offering this new Windows Phone with an expected February arrival date and a pre-order page for you to fill in should you want one. No …

Nokia Lumia 800 software update, what’s inside

Lumia 800 owners should notice an update appear on their phones shortly. Version 1600.2483.8106.11500 includes the following battery and WiFi enhancements. It’s a gradual two week roll-out process, so don’t panic if you’ve not received yours just yet. Nokia Conversations states that … Around half of owners will …

Rumour: Other Carriers to get the Nokia Lumia 900 Mid 2012?

If you have been watching the news from CES you’ll have noticed that the Nokia Lumia 900 was getting a fair amount of interest. The problem with this is its exclusivity to AT&T. Currently there’s been no announcements from either Microsoft or Nokia on if / when this …

Nokia 710 to arrive on February 1st

Looking to get the new Nokia 710 ? Well, it should be arriving on Three pretty soon and we thought it might pop up this month but now February is being mentioned – the 1st to be precise. You can pre-order the handset through Clove for £300 and …

Nokia Announce Lumia 900

Nokia have just announed a new handset at CES in Las Vegas in their new Lumia range running Windows Phone. The Nokia 900 features LTE, Carl Zeiss 8 megapixel camera, front facing camera for video calls, 1830mAh battery, 1.4Ghz Processor, 4.3 inch Clear Black Display and is available …

Nokia Lumia 900 Specs and pictures appear again

The Nokia Ace, aka Nokia Lumia 900, has show it’s top-half over on Pocketnow. It’ll arrive on US-network AT&T later this month after an announcement at CES and it looks to be an exclusive too. At launch the Lumia 900 will run Mango but will shortly get a …

Nokia Lumia 710 Coming To Orange

Orange have added the new Nokia Lumia 710 to their coming soon range with January looking the most hopeful for this new Windows Phone from Nokia. Orange are only showing that this will be available on PAYM (Pay Monthly) contracts there is no word on if a PAYG …

Early Lumia sales stats – A slow starter?

Sales figures for Windows Phone devices have always been a little hard to quantify. For the new Nokia Lumia 800 it’s still early days, but we do have some info from Mobiles Please. Their stats, which are based on 5377 sales during November, show that the Lumia made …

Nokia Lumia battery issues to be addressed

Got yourself a Nokia 800? If you read our review and bought yourself one then you might have a few battery issues. We’ve not been swamped with emails moaning about it, but Nokia have confirmed that there’s a potential problem… On Monday 12 December some of our customers …

Three To Stock Nokia Lumia 710!

Just added to the Three UK coming soon page is the Nokia Lumia 710 which is the ‘other’ Nokia phone running the Windows Mango OS. Not quite as feature packed as the older brother the Lumia 800, the Lumia 710 should be available at a lower price for both contract …

Nokia Lumia 710 to be released in January. Maybe.

Over the weekend UK retailer digital-phone.co.uk have put a new product page on their website. It is for the upcoming budget Nokia Windows Phone the Lumia 710, where it shows a release date of the 6th of January. Not a lot has been heard about the 710 as the …

Nokia Lumia 800 Now At O2

O2 have now released the Nokua Lumia 800 on their network through the official website and should also be in stores any day now if not in stock already. Pricing below is based on the 500MB allowance but you do have more options such as 100MB and 1GB …

Update for Lumia 800

Just in the process of downloading an update for the Lumia 800 but can’t find out what the update does but I am assuming this is the improved battery performance. Will let you know how it goes. Update 1: Have run the phone for a day now and …

Cyan Lumia 800 Now On Vodafone

Vodafone have started to sell the Nokia Lumia 800 in Cyan. We’ve just received information from the network via email. This now means you can pick up a Lumia in both Black or Cyan depending on which you like the look of more. The Lumia 800 is free …

Nokia Lumia 800 finally lands on O2

Welcome to the party O2. You’re a tad late, but if you’ve brought some champagne we’ll let you in. Yep, a number of weeks after the other networks added it, O2 have finally plonked the new Nokia Windows Phone on their site. We’ll have a thorough review of …

Nokia Lumia event now available for download

We’ll try to ignore the rather unwelcoming noises made by some of the crowd at the Nokia event earlier this week because now you can watch the whole thing in crystal clear HD. Although the actual event only lasted around 30 minutes they’ve covered every angle on this …

HTCs banned in Germany for Christmas?

Another day, another legal battle over patents, and another one HTC has lost. HTC has withdrawn its appeal against the defeat it suffered to patent company IPCom, meaning it is now open to having to pay IPComs costs, as well as a handset ban on any that involve …

Nokia Lumia Live feat deadmau5

In just a few minutes you’ll be able to watch Nokia Live featuring deadmau5. They’ll be taking over the Millbank Tower in London and the whole thing is going to get streamed on live.deadmau5.com and you can get instant news and images facebook.com/nokia.uk. Update – Live feed starting …

Nokia N900 shown running ICS

Well, there’s not a great deal I can say about this is there? Here’s the Nokia N900 running Ice Cream Sandwich, aka Android 4.0. It’s a quick little video and things are very much in the early stages, but it does show what’s possible 🙂 It shows what …

Nokia – “We are off to an excellent start”

We heard just the other day how analysts were pouring cold water over the Nokia Lumia 800 sales predictions. Nokia have told BGR that.. Lumia 800 sales in the U.K. are off to an excellent start. Based on earliest data the sales start of the Lumia 800 is …

Lumia 800 battery life to be improved

Just found this quote from Nokia Support on the WMPoweruser web site addressing the reported issues with the Lumia 800 battery life. “We understand that some people have expressed concerns about battery life on the Nokia Lumia 800.  Early investigations show that most people are enjoying the full …

Nokia Lumia sales predictions appear

With adverts popping up everywhere, positive reviews and pre-order numbers looking good, you certainly wouldn’t think there was anything to worry about. However, a Forbes story quotes Pierre Ferragu, an analyst from Bernstein Research, who casts doubt on the Lumia handsets. With no breakthrough innovation, we believe Nokia’s …

Galaxy SII wins Phone of the Year.. yet again

I’m meeting a lot of people at the moment who are planning to upgrade to the rather excellent Galaxy SII. I always agree with them because, in all honesty, it’s an absolutely fantastic device. Just to confirm that, the Galaxy SII has won another award. This time it’s …

Nokia Lumia 800 – Where to get it

OK, status update. The Nokia Lumia (which you may have seen advertised if you’ve been near a paper, TV, magazine or … anywhere ourside) appeared in shops on Wednesday. It’s available on the following networks here in the UK.. – Orange – Three – Vodafone The guys at …