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The Smartphone Industry Pledge That Could Stop Your Phone Being Stolen

The likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft and other major figures in the smartphone industry have signed a pledge that will make it harder to steal cell phones—from July 2015, at least. The pledge sees the companies promise to enable every smartphone user with the ability to remotely brick and wipe their phones when they’re stolen.…

Nokia’s Adorable New Bluetooth Speaker Is Just $55

To match its new Lumias, Nokia has announced this cute little Bluetooth speaker, too—with 15 hours of playback and as asking price of just $55. Available in the same colorful palette as the new phones—including, obviously, this bright orange—the MD-12 (no idea either, sorry) measures about the size of a hockey puck. Nokia claims its…

Nokia Lumia 930: The First Flagship for Windows Phone 8.1

Nokia just announced the first phone for Windows Phone 8.1. Meet the Nokia Lumia 930. It’ll be available in starting in June for about $600 before carrier subsidies. Think of this as the Lumia Icon for the whole world—except the United States. The Lumia 930 has a 1080p 5-inch screen. It looks like a Lumia…

Nokia’s Lytro-like Refocus app is now available for all Lumias running WP8—not just those with PureView cameras.

Ever since Microsoft bought Nokia, there’s been speculation about what role Stephen Elop would assume in Seattle. And now we know: he’ll replace Julie Larson-Green as Head of Devices & Studio. Gadgets and games, then.

Nokia XL Hands-On: A Lumia-Flavoured Android Phablet on a Budget

As well as the 4-inch X phones, Nokia’s testing the Android waters with an entry-level phablet, the Nokia XL. Is this the first truly-affordable big-screen phone for emerging markets? Set to be priced at roughly $150 when it launches in Q2, it certainly looks that way. Measuring 141.3 x 77.7 x 10.8mm and weighing 190g,…

Nokia X Hands-On: It’s Android, But Not as You Know It

The rumours were true. As if there was ever any doubt, Nokia now has a range of entry-level Android smartphones. The 4-inch Nokia X and Nokia X+ handsets are aimed at emerging markets, and feel quite different to any other Android handsets on the market. Rest assured, these are by no means high-end phones. Priced…

Nokia X: The First Nokia Androids

After much heavy rumor, Nokia has just announced that it’s launching its first Android handsets: the X, X+ and XL. https://gizmodo.com/rumour-the-nokia-x-will-be-a-super-cheap-android-1510549625 All the phones are built on the open source Android OS forked especially for Nokia. The X and X+ feature a 4-inch screen, while the XL packs a 5-inch IPS display. The X+ is…

Nokia has confirmed that BBM is coming to its Windows Phone range.

Nokia’s $30 Tag Could Mean You Never Lose Your Keys Again

Forgetful types rejoice: Nokia has just announced a new Treasure Tag, which uses Bluetooth and NFC to try and help you keep track of your possessions. First rumored last July, the neat little colored tag pairs with a Lumia Windows Phone and acts as a sensor to help you locate whatever it’s attached to. So,…

Nokia Lumia Icon: No Time For a Review, But the Box It Came In Is Nuts

Well this is was an interesting mail call. Nokia just delivered the Lumia Icon to our doorstep, and while we weren’t given enough time to do a proper review before Nokia’s embargo lifted—that’s coming later this week—the glowing red $150 armored case it came in sure is something! The 5-inch Windows Phone arrived in a…

Rumour: The Nokia X Will Be a Super-Cheap Android

New specs have appeared giving us a look inside the Nokia X Android model, suggesting it’ll be a very low-spec budget phone. Conspiracy theorists might even suggest Nokia’s making a rubbish Android phone on purpose, to make its WP models look better in comparison. According to popular and usually on-the-ball Twitter news source EVLeaks, the…

Rumored Nokia Android Phone Gets a Rumored Windows Phone UI

We’ve been hearing for months about “Normandy”, the rumored Android phone that Nokia’s supposedly got in the works. @evleaks, the source of many of those rumors, has a fresh one for us: A UI that looks a lot like Windows Phone. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-supposedly-nokias-rumored-android-phone-1480728910 On Monday, @evleaks posted a photo of the phone showing a homescreen complete…

A Rainbow USB Cable With Every Charging Adapter You Need—Also Nokia

It may seem a little opulent, but a lot of us won’t leave home with at least our smartphone—maybe even two—and a tablet. And eventually one of them is going to need a battery boost, so instead of carrying charging cables and adapters for every single device, toss this single colorful USB adapter in your…

The Most Important Gadgets of 2013

Every year, we’re hit by yet another wave of new gadgets. Some of them are good, a lot of them are bad, but a very select few manage to be important. Here are the gadgets that had the biggest impact on the technological landscape in 2013. The following are listed in no particular order, and…

This Is Supposedly Nokia’s Rumored Android Phone

A few weeks ago, @evleaks popped out another very real-looking image of a handset nobody had ever seen before. This time it was an odd, red Nokia phone. According to the Verge, it’s not just any old Lumia Windows Phone: It’s Nokia’s long-rumored entry to the Android market. Say wah? The Verge’s Tom Warren cites…

Nokia’s Lumia 525: A 520 With (Slightly) Beefed Up Specs

Nokia has just quietly announced the arrival of its new Lumia 525 handset. It looks remarkably similar to the 520—but beneath its skin lurk some (slightly) bumped up hardware specs. There’s a 4-inch WVGA display, dual-core 1GHz processor, 8GB of storage and now 1GB of RAM. The rear-facing camera retains the same 5-megapixel sensor, though,…

Now Available: Lumia 1520, Lumia 2520 . . . Oh Yeah, and Xbox One

A few new gadgets hit the shelves this week. Two of them are glossy and colorful, and one of them is black and came with tons of hype. You know which one we’re talking about. Nokia Lumia 1520 Is a device with a 6-inch display even a smartphone anymore? The Lumia 1520 is so comically…

Lumia 2520 Review: Not Much More Than a Pretty Face

Up until now, pretty much your only option for a Windows RT tablet was the Surface 2. But now Nokia is giving you another choice, in the form of the Lumia 2520, a colorful line of tablets that look even larger versions of its rainbow phones. https://gizmodo.com/surface-2-review-one-step-forward-two-steps-behind-1448865506 What Is It? A colorful Nokia tablet running…

​Nokia MixRadio Is the Easiest Streaming Music Service Yet

Sometimes all you want to do is press play on a magical big red button and hear the music you like. That one-touch startup has never been done as simply as has been in Nokia Music’s overhauled Windows Phone app, MixRadio. You turn it on, and it plays a station that’s perfectly tailored to all…