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That giant 6-inch Lumia 1520 that was targeted to launch this month is supposedly being delayed until late October because of the Microsoft and Nokia deal. That is, if we see it at all.

Nokia Was Testing Android Lumia Phones Before Microsoft Swallowed It

It’ll never happen now but the dream of beautifully brawny Nokia hardware loaded with dominating Android software was an idea that Nokia had been toying around with before Microsoft swooped in and bought Nokia’s phone business. In fact, Android-powered Lumia phones actually existed inside Nokia. You heard it right, ANDROID LUMIA PHONES. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-microsoft-is-buying-nokias-phones-business-1243005211 The NY…

Rumor has it that the super-sized 6-inch Lumia 1520 should see an official launch announcement on September 26th. Let’s wait and see!

Now Nokia and Mercedes Are Trying to Build a Self-Driving Car

Self-driving cars stand to be the next piece of technology that shakes the foundations of modern life. It’s not hard to see why—it’s basically science fiction come to life. Since it seems like everybody wants to be involved, news that Mercedes and Nokia were teaming up didn’t come as a huge surprise. The German automaker…

The Lumia 1020 is getting a nice price drop to $200 on contract from AT&T. It’s still a little pricey, but not as absurd as the original $300, and if you pick one up at the Microsoft Store, you’ll even get a camera grip. Tempted?

Here’s the Gigantic Nokia Windows Phone We Might Never See

There’s a new leaked image of Lumia’s gigantic phone-tablet, the Lumia 1520, and it looks pretty nice. It comes from @evleaks, a historically reliable source for advance shots of phones. It looks pretty nice—if it ever comes out. Evleaks posted the image as “Nokia Lumia 1520, 2013”, but it’s unclear what’s happening to all of…

Why Microsoft Bought Nokia (And What It Means for You)

By now you’ve no doubt heard today’s surprising news; Microsoft has gobbled up Finland’s finest phone division in a $7.2 billion deal. On the surface, it’s a takeover that doesn’t make much sense. But when you look closer, it… still doesn’t make much sense. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try. Let’s start with what…

How Nokia Employees Are Reacting to the Microsoft Takeover

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are mixed feelings among Nokia employees—current and old—about the news that the phone manufacturer has been taken over by Microsoft. They vary from positive to negative, but are all being voiced loudly on Twitter. Largely, plenty of people are emotional: Though there’s some anger floating around, too: And more than a hint…

Will Stephen Elop Be Microsoft’s Next CEO?

Stephen Elop is no longer CEO of Nokia, and is instead heading up Microsoft’s newly acquired mobile wing. But will he soon be elevated to position of Microsoft CEO? Late last month it was announced that Steve Ballmer would be stepping down as Microsoft CEO. Now, Ballmer has stated that Elop is on the internal…

Breaking: Microsoft to Buy Nokia Phones Division, Make Its Own Phones

Microsoft has agreed to buy Nokia’s hardware division for $7.1 billion in cash. Microsoft’s a company that makes its own phones now. Specifically, the deal is for Nokia’s Devices and Services division. Microsoft will also license Nokia’s patent portfolio. 32,000 Nokia employees will join Microsoft as part of the deal. It comes about two and…

Nokia took the wraps off its Here Auto connected car platform today. Consisting of in-car software, cloud services and a mobile app, the system lets users instantaneously share planned routes between computer, smartphone and dashboard nav system. Next step is to start courting car manufacturers, but Here Auto will be demoed at Germany’s International Motor…

This Huge Thing Is Allegedly Nokia’s Lumia 1520 Phablet

That huge thing to the right there is alleged to be the Nokia Lumia 1520, the phone company’s first go at entering the monster phone/tablet hybrid space. According to WP Central, the Lumia 1520 features a 6-inch display running at 1080p resolution, with previous leaks suggesting it’ll arrive powered by a leading edge Qualcomm Snapdragon…

Mark Zuckerberg Explains How He Plans to Get the Whole World Online

Having teamed up with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson, Mark Zuckerberg has plans to make the Internet available to the entire world (of course he does). If you were in any doubt about how Internet.org plans to do that, you should watch this video interview from CNN’s New Day show. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wants-to-get-everybody-in-the-world-on-the-int-1175829249 If you wanna read…

You can now snag a Nokia Lumia 928 for free on Verizon when you take out a two-year contract. That’s a pretty sweet deal.

Rumor: Nokia to Launch a Bluetooth Tag to Keep Track of Your Stuff

The Verge is reporting that Nokia is planning to launch a new proximity sensor to tie in with its Lumia range, which will combine NFC and Bluetooth 4.0 to track items from your phone. You may never lose your keys again. According to “sources familiar with Nokia’s plans“, the so-called Treasure Tag will ship with…

Nokia 1020 Review: The Best Smartphone Camera in a Pretty Great Phone

The Nokia 1020 represents something fairly remarkable: the nearly flawless melding of a smartphone and a camera. The assumption up until now was that while such a mash-up wasn’t strictly impossible, it would surely require a laundry list of unpleasant compromises. Instead, what we’ve got is an entirely new kind of gadget. One that, most…

Nokia’s Lumia 625: A 4.7-Inch Windows Phone on the Cheap

Nokia’s follow up to the mid-range-to-budget Lumia 620 has gone bigger than ever, taking Windows Phone to an Android-like 4.7-inches. Shame about the resolution. The budget phone will come packing an 800 x 480 IPS 4.7-inch LCD with “supertouch” so you can use it with gloves on; great, I guess, but it looks decidedly low-res…

Full-Resolution Lumia 1020 Sample Shots (Mostly) Live Up to the Hype

Nokia has posted some sample images from its new half-camera, half-phone Lumia 1020. Since we weren’t allowed to shoot and keep any photos of our own during yesterday’s hands-on, for now we’ll have to draw conclusions from these official samples. If they’re at all reflective of real-world shooting conditions, we could be looking at something…

How Good Does Your Phone’s Camera Need To Be?

Yesterday, Nokia announced to some fanfare its new Lumia 1020: a 41-megapixel, Xenon-flashed, highly tweakable camera that, y’know, also makes phone calls. But how good does the camera on your phone really need to be? Of course, it depends on your usage. Only interested in posting pictures of sandwiches to Instagram? Your humble 5,6,7,8-megapixel camera…

Nokia’s Pro Camera App Is Headed to the Lumia 920, 925, and 928 Too

Along with the launch of Nokia’s new Lumia 1020, the first proper camera-phone hybrid that seems to make sense, came an amazing piece of photographic software in the shape of Pro Camera. The good news: it’s coming to other Lumias, too. Our very own Kyle Wagner was certainly impressed when heused the new app yesterday:…