The Lumia 900 Is So Tough, You Can Use It As A Hammer

When Siri unfaithfully proclaimed the Nokia Lumia 900 the best phone ever, she may have foreseen this.
Kidding aside, the Lumia 900 is apparently one tough smartphone as a new video making the rounds actually shows the phone passing a nail-hammered-to-screen test and it being used as a hammer.
In the video, TechCraver’s Jason Harris took a nail, a hammer, and started “banging around the screen” of the Lumia 900 to see if it will break.
“No cracks, glass is still intact,” he said after …

Angry Birds Space on Windows Phone: Nokia and Microsoft Bring Exclusive Titles on Windows Phone

Angry Birds on Windows Phone: Nokia and Microsoft Bring Exclusive Titles on Windows Phone / image via AngryBirdsOnline.com

In a period when any statistics generator confirms Nokia’s pitiful condition, while drawing attention to the lack of popularity faced by Microsoft with its Windows Phone, the two companies seem to want to change their destiny.
Nokia and Microsoft have won a few exclusive partners to develop several apps for Windows Phone only, more precisely for Nokia Lumia handsets …

Samsung Takes Nokia Crown As World’s Top Mobile Phone Vendor

After reporting a record first quarter performance, Samsung has now also taken the title of being the world’s biggest vendor of mobile phones, two research firms have confirmed.
This achievement marks the end of Nokia’s reign as the world’s biggest mobile phone vendor, a title it managed to hold on to for almost one and a half decades or 14 years to be exact.
The data comes from IHS iSuppli and Strategy Analytics.
According to iSuppli’s data, Samsung has shipped 92 million mobile phones …

Love Magenta? You’ll Soon Have A Lumia 900 For Your Taste

Wanted to get the Lumia 900 but was disappointed that it did not come in Magenta? Worry no more as Nokia will also release a magenta-colored Lumia 900 for those of you who love this color for the Nokia flagship windows Phone.
The information came from a leak from Finnish phones store Gigantti in the form of a posting on their site.
The post for the Lumia 900 in magenta – or known more popularly as pink – has since been taken down as it is not yet really available for people to buy but Nokia …

Earnings Show Microsoft, Nokia Desperately Need Windows Phone Success

Microsoft and Nokia have both posted their latest quarter results and the results show one interesting consistency, both companies desperately need Windows Phone to succeed. On the other hand, Microsoft, which is the largest software maker in the world, posted less than satisfactory results in the consumer PC business, something attributable to the rise of smartphone devices and tablet computers.

Nokia Lumia 900 – Image via Shutterstock

This has been a concern for the Redmond, …

Nokia Sales Head Resigns After Phone Giant Posts Disappointing Q1 2012 Results

Struggling Finnish phone giant Nokia announced on Thursday that Colin Giles, its executive vice president of sales, will be leaving the company at the end of June.
The official line is that Giles “after many years of travel…has decided to leave the company to be closer to his family.”
However, the resignation comes after Nokia announced very disappointing Q1 2012 results culminating in a $1.7 billion loss.
Nokia said in its Q1 2012 results that its smart device (smartphones) sales fell 52 …

Nokia Posts Massive $1.7Bn Q1 2012 Loss

Nokia has published its Q1 2012 financial performance and its loss was massive: $1.7 billion (€1.34), to be exact.
The struggling Finnish phone giant posted the operating loss even though it actually had sales of $9.7 billion (€7.4 billion).
The loss comes as the company recorded a 52 percent decrease in its sales of smartphones when compared to the same quarter of last year.
Nokia sold 11.9 million smart devices for the just-ended quarter compared to 24.2 million in the same quarter last …

Nokia Still Not Good Enough In EU Operators’ Eyes

Mobile operators in Europe say that in their eyes, Nokia still is not good enough to once again storm the phones market, a new report says.
Speaking to four wireless carriers in the region, Reuters reports that the sentiment is the same: that Nokia still has to do more if it wants to compete and beat the Apple iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy line of smartphones.
According to Reuters, these four “major” carriers say that the Lumia line of Windows Phone smartphones fall short if the Finnish …

Nokia Lumia 900 Hit By Bug, Fix Expected by April 16

Nokia Lumia 900 Hit By Bug. Fix Expected by April 16 (Image: Nokia)

A software bug has hit the world’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia’s new Lumia 900 smartphone, reports users in the US who said they suffer occasional data connection loss.
BBC said Nokia, now struggling mightily to recover its market supremacy over giant rivals Apple and Google, immediately announced that a fix for the issue, which involved the device’s memory circuits, would be issued as early as April 16.
Nokia …

AT&T Lumia 900 Now Effectively Free

Planning to get the AT&T Lumia 900? You might as well do it as soon as possible as the new flagship Windows Phone is now effectively free.
This is thanks to what could aptly be called a blessing in disguise as it is actually caused by a bug with the AT&T Lumia 900.
Nevertheless, Nokia is said to already be working on a fix for the bug.
In fact, those who would buy a new AT&T Lumia 900 can even look for updated versions of the new smartphone which has a fix for the bug.
Furthermore, …