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Nokia 1520 Review: A Burden in My Hand

Is a device with a 6-inch display even a smartphone anymore? The Lumia 1520 is so comically large that doing ordinary smartphone things with it feels like you’re making a joke. At its best, the 1520 is a funny party trick. At its worst, it’s absurd. What Is It? A Windows Phone with a 6-inch…

Nexus 5 Camera Battle: Welcome to Photography, Google

Last year’s Nexus 4 was a wonderful phone paired with a miserably subpar camera. By contrast, the Nexus 5 is loaded with all the excellence Google and LG could muster, including a camera that can almost keep up with the big boys. Here’s how it stacks up. Just how good is the camera on the…

Nokia’s Lytro-like Refocus app is now available for all its PureView Lumia smartphones.

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Nokia’s 6-inch Lumia 1520 will be available from November 22nd—the same day as the Xbox One!

Shooting Challenge: Use Your Smartphone

A new wave of smartphones is here, with a new wave of powerful optics behind them. (41 megapixels, anyone?) And to both celebrate and document the new wave of phone photography, we want to photos that have been shot and edited on nothing but your phone. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-1020-review-at-last-a-terrific-camera-in-a-great-886123042 The Challenge Take and edit a photo on…

Rumor: Nokia Is Readying an 8-Inch Lumia Tablet for 2014

Two independent sources— Evleaks and Verge—are reporting that Nokia is in the process of preparing a second, smaller Windows-based Lumia tablet, which might be available next year. https://gizmodo.com/lumia-2520-nokia-is-making-a-10-inch-tablet-now-too-1449587263 According to both sources, the project is currently codenamed the Illusionist. The tablet would, apparently, ship with Windows RT 8.1, a Qualcomm processor and an 8-inch screen.The…

Report: This Is the Best Look at Nokia’s Supercharged Lumia 929 Yet

We’ve been hearing reports that Nokia will add the Lumia 929—a 5-inch 1080p device—to its growing fleet of phones with big screens sometime soon. Now Windows Phone Central has gotten its hands on images, which, if real, give us the best look at the phone so far. https://gizmodo.com/nokias-massive-new-6-inch-lumias-my-god-its-full-of-1449558877 The pics show us a phone that’s…

Nokia’s ‘Black’ WinPho Update: RAW Photo Support, New Apps and More

The latest update to Nokia’s Windows Phone build (which expands upon Microsoft’s GDR3 release), named Black, brings with it some features you may be surprised to learn Nokia handsets didn’t already contain…but here’s a big one for you: It also brings RAW support, not available on any smartphone before. Both the 1020 and 1520 will…

Hands-On With Nokia’s Lumia 1520 and 1320 Phones and 2520 Tablet

The phablet world just saw two new monsters roar into town — Nokia’s mammoth 6-inch, 1080p resolution-screened phone, the Gorilla Glass 2-displayed 1520, and a lower-specced 1320. We’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on ’em. While I’m really partial to Nokia’s Lumia design, the fact that they chose glossy polycarbonate for a 6-inch…

AT&T has announced that it’ll be the exclusive carrier for Nokia’s 6-inch Lumia 1520 smartphone when it arrives in the US.

Windows Phone Finally Gets Instagram (And a Bunch More Apps)

Instagram is finally officially coming to Windows Phone via Nokia Lumias, Nokia just announced at Nokia World. Yes, you can finally stop using that silly Hipstamatic workaround. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-just-got-instagram-sort-of-744346543 The photo-sharing app will launch on Windows Phone in the “coming weeks.” And to sweeten the deal, Windows Phone is also getting Flipboard, Vine, Temple Run 2,…

Nokia’s Massive New 6-Inch Lumias: My God, It’s Full of Tiles

Just like pretty much every other smartphone maker that isn’t Apple, Nokia is sizing up. Today it took the lid off two new, six-inch display Lumias—the 1320 and the 1520. You might have seen these larger Lumias coming; last week Microsoft updated Windows Phone to support 1080p for 5- and 6-inch screens just in time…

Lumia 2520: Nokia Is Making a 10-Inch Tablet Now, Too

Nokia just revealed its very first tablet, the 10-inch, Windows RT 8.1-running Lumia 2520. As far as tablets go, it’s pretty standard fare. Here’s what we’re working with: 1080p video, a 6.7-megapixel Zeiss lens on the back and a 2-megapixel shooter on the front. It supports 4G LTE and has Microsoft Office built-in. The 2520…

Nokia Leaks Details of Its First Oversized Lumia Handset

With Windows Phone 8 now geared up for larger displays, you can expect to start seeing correspondingly large handsets. Like, for instance, the much-rumored Lumia 1520—which Nokia has now leaked details of. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-gigantic-nokia-windows-phone-we-might-never-1263159607 The company has prematurely posted details of its first larger Windows phone on its official Chinese Tmall store. There are no images,…

Nokia’s ‘Facet’ Smartwatch Concept Is an Insane Multi-Display Bracelet

By now we know that basically every manufacturer in the world has been trying—and failing!—to develop a smartwatch that people might actually want to wear. From the depths of this struggle has emerged this Nokia concept for a bracelet with multiple displays. The Facet is so weird that you will have trouble fitting it inside…

Is This Nokia’s Lumia 2520 Tablet?

Nokia’s will-they-won’t-they relationship with the tablet form factor looks to finally be coming to an end, with the Finnish company getting a big old “THEY WILL” badge, if news of the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet is to be believed. Serial leaker @evleaks has snapped a shot of what he claims is Nokia’s first Windows 8…

Nokia’s Actually Researching How To Charge Phones With Lightning

If there ever was a corporate stunt that deserved a ‘do not try this at home’ warning, this is it. Working with scientists from the University of Southampton—translation: people who know what they’re doing—Nokia has successfully charged a Lumia 925 using lightning generated in a laboratory. All of a sudden that knock-off smartphone charger you’ve…

Rumor has it that Stephen Elop refused to take a payout smaller than $25 million from Nokia in order to fund his divorce settlement.

A Love Letter to My First Four Phones

Last month was spent in a state of upheaval. After seven years in New York I was heading back to the opposite coast, which had led me to go though the hundreds of pounds of accumulated junk one accidentally collects in boxes over the years. Shifting my focus to a plastic tower that has sat…