AT&T is ready to bet big with the Windows Phone flagship from Nokia, the AT&T Lumia 900, allotting an even bigger budget for the phone’s launch on the network than when it launched the AT&T iPhone 4.
The information comes from Ad Age which says that AT&T will spend “as much as $150 million” to launch the AT&T Lumia 900 on its network.
The publication says that “$150 million isn’t small change even for the No. 2 biggest spender in the country, which wielded $3 …

The Nokia Lumia 900 is perhaps the most talked-about smartphone after the iPhone 5, maybe even more so. The successor to the Lumia 800 has generated quite a bit of buzz and there is good reason why.
The metro-style UI is one thing that cannot be compared to any other smartphone as well as the fact that Nokia has put in a whole bunch of gee-whiz specs in the phone to offer one of the best smartphone experiences on the market today.
The big question, however, is whether the phone will perform …

New Internet Battle Looms as Apple and Nokia Lock Horns Over New SIM Cards / image via Gizmodo

A report from Europe yesterday said there could be a delay in the decision regarding the new format of mobile SIM cards as industry giants Apple and Nokia remained locked in dispute over patents governing the proposed new “nano-SIMs”.
BBC tech reporter Dave Lee said Apple and Nokia, together with other manufacturers, have failed to reach agreement on several proposals for the introduction of …

BlackBerry Maker Confirms Focus On Investors Rather Than On New Devices

Research In Motion, the Canada-based maker of the popular corporate favorite BlackBerry smartphone, is confirming that its focus is now on its corporate customers, admitting that it is experiencing difficulties in competing with the current mobile device leaders led by Apple and Android OS-using devices.
In a report from Toronto this morning, the Associated Press quoted RIM CEO Thorsten Heins as saying that the …

If things turn out just right for Nokia, your next text alert or your next call ringtone may reach you through your skin—your skin tattoo that is.
BBC reports today that the Finnish giant cell phone maker and innovator Nokia has filed for the new cell phone alert technology with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
The report said Nokia is filing a patent for a system where ferromagnetic material will be tattooed or sprayed directly onto a user’s skin as part of an entirely new link to the …

Huge Battle Shaping Up for Hardware Manufacturers: Who Will Build Windows 8? / image via Google

Lennovo and four other biggies in the computer manufacturing world are girding for battle as to who will first build the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system, the latest version of the popular Windows 7 OS.
CNN reports Monday that Lenovo is planning to be the first to break into the new Windows 8 system with a tablet as early as October this year. While no details of the Lenovo plans are available, …

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. is developing its own Tablet PC, reports MarketWatch citing an interview given by chief designer of the company Marko Ahtisaari to magazine Kauppalehti Optio. “We are working on it,” Ahtisaari has been quoted as saying.
According to Ahtisaari, a third of his working time is devoted to the development of the new tablet. He is said to have confidently talked about Nokia Tablet while adding that their gadget will stand out among all the competitors in the …

Nokia has presented its yearly fiscal report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and quoted a €1.4 billion loss for last year.
The Finnish phone maker, however, need not tell the SEC with actual figures on its filing for the whole world to see how awful 2011 was for the company.
The attached negative figure did not help subdue critiques on Stephen Elop’s bold move to switch the flagship smartphone platform from Nokia’s Symbian OS to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 on his …

Nokia is at No. 1 position in Indian mobile market, says a report of PTI based on a study conducted by CyberMedia Research study. According to this study, Nokia’s mobile phone shipments toIndiawere 183.4 million units in 2011, up 10% compared to 166.5 million units a year ago, making it No. 1 mobile phone seller inIndia.
Nokia’s smartphone segment grew with shipments of 11.2 million units in 2011, compared to 6 million units in 2010, a growth of 87%.
Nokia has captured 31 per cent share of …

Nokia 808 PureView: Camera With 41-Megapixel Sensor / image via Nokia

Nokia raised the standards even since the first day of the 2012 Mobile World Congress with the launch of the new smartphone Nokia 808 PureView that features a camera with a 41-megapixel sensor. The smartphone that runs Nokia Belle OS is thus revolutionizing the portable camera.
Nokia 808 PureView debuts with a camera that is without doubt one of the most impressive on the smartphone market. If we think that the standard for …