Former Nokia Money crew kicks off iKaaz mobile payments

Former Nokia Money crew kicks off iKaaz mobile payments, lets shops go with or without NFC. This Day for mobile payments. Multiple former Nokia Money veterans have formally launched iKaaz, a two-pronged strategy to phone commece where choice is the order of the day. The first components, M-POS and its accompanying Tap & Pay, are rough equivalents to familiar NFC-based services like Google Wallet that rely on an NFC tag and matching app for in-store sales.

Consumer Wallet for Enterprises occupies more familiar territory for the ex-Nokia crew[ it provides a mobile account that doesn't require NFC or even an app, letting those in developing countries exchange funds through SMS or USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) if they're sporting basic handsets. Us end users will need to wait for actual implementations before we see iKaaz for ourselves, but the sheer flexibility could have us paying through our phones in some unexpected places.]

source: iKaaz

Nokia Lumia 920 dengan PureView dan 820 WP8 bocor

Nokia Lumia 920 with PureView and 820 WP8 devices leak . Kita semua tahu ini akan terjadi cepat atau lambat - baris berikutnya dari smartphone Lumia, olahraga Windows Phone 8 OS dengan sejumput PureView. Dua kebocoran menunjukkan Nokia Lumia 920 dan 820 yang diduga telah muncul di Twitter courtesy of evleaks @. Para 920 Lumia dikatakan olahraga kamera PureView-kelas, yang 4,5 "layar dan terlihat menjadi goyang tubuh polikarbonat (mungkin tergantung pada skema warna). Kita bisa bertaruh pada chipset Qualcomm menjadi S4 dengan dual-core CPU Krait di heartand nya layar offerng resolusi HD.

The Lumia 820 dikatakan memiliki 4,3 "layar (ada kata pada resolusi yang sebenarnya). Sejauh yang kami tahu dari citra resolusi rendah, itu juga calo Carl Zeiss optik.

TERBARU: Kami hanya menemukan beberapa gambar hidup dugaan Lumia 820 dan mereka tidak ada hubungannya dengan membuat bocor. Perangkat ini memiliki layar datar, dan lensa kamera di bagian bawah yang sangat berbeda, yang dapat menunjukkan bahwa keduanya adalah perangkat terpisah atau setidaknya salah satu gambar adalah wajah.

Juga titik WPCentral ke Lumia 820 memiliki bukan 4,3 tapi 4,65 "layar AMOLED (mungkin HD) dan dual-core 1,5 GHz prosesor bersama dengan LTE, NFC dan slot kartu microSD.

Kami melaporkan pada dua WP perangkat Nokia yang terlihat sangat mirip dengan Lumia 920 dan 820 beberapa minggu lalu, jadi ini mungkin real deal. Kami kira kita akan tahu pasti kapan acara 5 Nokia dan Microsoft bersama.

Nokia AIR cloud service promo video leaks, shows cool devices

Encouraging news for Symbian users, from nokia. Because Symbian will run almost the entire plamfromt nokia. This can be seen from some of the concepts nokia.

Nokia Air is designed to synchronize applications, contacts, media across the Nokia tablet and smartphone. By the looks of it, Belle is a Symbian OS Nokia destined to receive the first air.

On the device in as well, the video also features some very cool looking devices. Symbian-running tablets, smartphones and mobile mini slider. They will probably continue their life as a concept, but if Nokia managed to actually deliver air at Nokia World this Fall rolls around, it will draw fresh air for Symbian  Belle users.

[Nokia] E-Book Reading App

Nokia reveals The E-Book Reading App, has now issued by nokia, and it is very special because, users can read electronic books via the mobile phone joy. Windows Phone application that is used to read e-books on the Lumia. This application works for all four models Lumia, 610, 710 800, and 900.

Nokia has some element of discoverability, where Nokia users provide information about e-books and selling new books. The device is also equipped with predictive search function, re-size text, audio book function, news aggregation and fonts are friendly to the small screen.

According to Nokia, the countries will get first taste of Nokia Reading including French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and English, with others following later this year.

[Nokia]PureView torn FCC 808

Nokia PureView torn FCC 808 - In March of last Nokia PureView 808 will not be coming to North America, given Nokia's decision to withdraw from the market of Symbian smartphones. Impassable after N9 NA market, no reason to expect Finland has a sudden change, for PureView 808. Not to mention the U.S. is a key market Lumia, so Nokia would prefer to focus all the attention.

Nokia PureView torn FCC 808 - And then all of a sudden Nokia PureView 808 landed at the FCC and securing permission to enter the U.S. market. So however small, there is the possibility of entering North America (or at least the U.S.) market after all.

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Nokia 808 PureView new samples arrive, look stunning

id Gadget ; Nokia took the time to PureView 808 cameraphone monster. Some fresh samples from 41 megapixels. This is not the first time they did it, but you will not hear us complaining.

        "Nokia 808 PureView sample". Photo has been downsized to 5 megapixels, which should allow us to see the best of this PureView technology is really impressive. Dynamic range and amount of fine detail completed beautifully and while we can not say anything about its accuracy, the color looks good. Not to mention the depth of field, which is usually almost impossible to achieve with a camera phone.

      Where the (per-pixel) sharpness level is quite impressive, but overall detail is very impressive. There are many who say that the full-res samples as sharp when viewed at 100% as the best camera phones today.

Example pict : Nokia 808 Pure Cameraphone

OS and Nokia apps Nokia Lumia 900

id Gadget Today--> Because of the close partnership between Nokia and Microsoft, Lumia 900 capable of running the latest iteration of Windows Phone OS, version 7.5 Mango. The result can be viewed, Lumia 900 capable of performing any task that runs the software on Windows Phones do.

In contrast to Android, Microsoft made ​​its OS, it makes the Nokia has a bit of space to add their own flair on the software side, this is a tribute to unify experience in the phone, but there is one thing that makes it difficult for manufacturers to stand out. However, Nokia does not make a special mark with a nice blue color theme Nokia "is a standard 900 Lumia" and in the presence of an application suite that includes Nokia Marketplace Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Transit, and the Nokia Transfer Contact. In this section also highlights the third party partner applications, such as ESPN and CNN. Lumia 900 does not have a Nokia music applications, Music Radio Mix, such as European counterparts. No App, to serve streaming radio and create a mixture, similar to the features of Windows Phone, but these alternatives can give Nokia some additional credibility.

Nokia does not have a long way from the outside of the application software. 

Battery fix for Nokia Lumia 800 starts rolling out today

Last year it was apparent that the Nokia Lumia 800 had array accompanying issues and Nokia's analysis appear that they were acquired by acomputer application glitched. They promised a fix for aboriginal this year and they aloof delivered on that promise.

Battery fix for Nokia Lumia 800 starts rolling out today

The amend is accessible and it starts rolling out today. Nokia say the amend is accident in stages over the abutting two weeks - bisected of the Lumia 800s will get it this anniversary and the added bisected are accepting it abutting week.

Note that not all Lumia 800 phones are afflicted by the array issue, but if castigation is (here's how to check) you can apprehend the amend some time in the abutting two weeks.

Battery fix aside, the amend (version 1600.2483.8106.11500) additionally includes some Wi-Fi connectivity enhancements.

Battery fix for Nokia Lumia 800 starts rolling out today

The Nokia Lumia 800 will automatically analysis if an amend is accessible and will acquaint you back it is. To amend the phone, you'll charge to angle it up to Zune (or Windows Buzz 7 Connector for Mac users).

If you get the update, don't balloon to bead us a band in the comments about any changes in array activity you've noticed. Our own tests shows that pre-update Lumia 800 isn't decidedly impressive.

MeeGo PR 1.2 seeding developers, out in a month

We've got some abundant account for the MeeGo admirers out there. The accepted Nokia N9 PR 1.2 amend has completed yet addition date of its change and has now started seeding.

Unfortunately, it's still alone a developer-preview version, so you'd charge to be a registered MeeGo developer who owns the N950 developer belvedere to get it, but the final absolution shouldn't be too far abroad now. Normally, it takes a ages or a ages and a bisected of testing, afore such beta versions graduate.
MeeGo PR 1.2  seeding developers, out in a month
The changelog for PR1.2 includes app folders, video calling support, more acceptable camera and arcade and bigger copy/paste functionality with brackets. As you see this is absolutely a above footfall advanced for the Nokia N9, so the action is absolutely understandable.

Nokia is acutely activity to booty acceptable affliction of the N9, which is abundant account for all the owners, but it's bringing mostly anguish to the blow of the beatnik apple cerebration what could accept been had Nokia ashore with the platform.

Nokia Lumia 900 expected to launch on March 18-19

Nokia appear the fresh Lumia 900 at CES they alone said it will be appear in the abutting few months after giving a able date. WMPoweruser has now abstruse that the buzz will in actuality be launched some time in March.

Nokia Lumia 900 expected to launch on March 18-19

If that's too ambiguous for you, again Windows bloggers Paul Thurrott has gone one footfall advanced and affianced March 18 has the absolute date of launch. Considering Thurrott's clue almanac with Microsoft-related news, we would booty this account with far beneath grains of alkali than we usually do.

So there you accept it then. March 18 seems to be the day you would be able to get your easily on the Lumia 900 in the North America. If you anticipate that's too continued from now again Nokia has some fresh videos of the buzz to accumulate you entertained till then.

Nokia expected to sell 37 million Windows Phones in 2012

this year is activity to be a actual acknowledged one for Nokia and its WP smartphones. The Finns fabricated a accelerated change an accomplishment alteration their focus and administration and now is the fruits of their adamantine assignment are activity to pay off.

Atleast that's what analysts think. In 2012, Morgan Stanley expects Nokia's Windows Phone shipments to hit 37 actor units and bifold to 64 actor in 2013. This agency that in the abutting two years Nokia's Windows Phone accessories will beat their Symbian smartphones' sales.
Nokia expected to sell 37 million Windows Phones in 2012
Just for comparison, Morgan Stanley says that HTC will address 6 actor Windows Phone smartphones this year and 10 actor in 2013.

Those numbers complete appealing able-bodied because that Windows Phone 7 OS hasn't been about for as continued as its iOS and Android rivals. Maybe 2012 will be the year back Windows Phone assuredly makes an impact. We apperceive the forecasts don't complete appropriate accustomed the accepted accompaniment of the platform, but things advance at abundant acceleration in this business, so they ability about-face out true.

PR1.2 update spotted on Nokia N9, to bring video calls and folders

Nokia N9 is already active the accessible PR1.2 update. The changelog for the amend promises video calling support, app folders, improvements for the camera and arcade (we've already gotten a aftertaste of the active interface for the camera and the face acceptance in the gallery).
PR1.2 update spotted on Nokia N9, to bring video calls and folders
Tamerbatar, a Talk Maemo appointment affiliate was affectionate abundant to allotment some screenshots with the blow of us who are still active PR1.1 and actuality they are.

Screenshots of PR1.2 amend for Nokia N9

Samsung expects Nokia top maker title this year

The time of Nokia's absolute administration in the adaptable buzz bazaar is cartoon to a abutting it seems, as the Finns absent the smartphone addition chase aftermost year. Samsung are reportedly gunning for the top, assured they can outsell Nokia in all categories in 2012.

Samsung expects Nokia top maker title this year
They've baffled their 2010 sales records, affective the absorbing 300 actor phones in 2011, which seems to set them on the appropriate track. They were on top in agreement of smartphone volumes, but still aisle Nokia back you accede all phones.
Samsung expects Nokia top maker title this year
Analysts from Gartner are beneath assertive that the South Koreans can abduct the crown, adage that Nokia's able position in arising markets will acquiesce it to advance its lead. Especially, because the advance of the smartphone bazaar is accepted to apathetic bottomward this year, except in arising markets area Nokia reigns supreme. This is article Samsung will charge to abode if they absolutely appetite the top spot, analysts say.
Samsung expects Nokia top maker title this year
Reuters is admiration Nokia will advertise 388 actor phones in 2012, with Samsung afterward abutting by with 359 million. Their predictions for 2011 were 418 actor and 320 actor respectively, so predictions aren't consistently exact.

We'll see how things go. Samsung is blame advanced with Android, Bada and maybe Tizen, while Nokia is authoritative Symbian (now Nokia OS, ahead the top OS by bazaar share) comedy additional dabble to their fresh adulation Windows Phone, which both Nokia and Microsoft apprehend to absolutely aces up this year

LTEpacking Nokia Lumia 900 finally official, exclusive to AT&T

 Nokia acclimated their CES 2012 columnist appointment to advertise their most recent Windows Phone smartphone – the Nokia Lumia 900. Coming with LTE connectivity and a 4.3” ClearBlack AMOLED, the Lumia 900 is activity to be an AT&T absolute at launch.

Nokia Lumia 900 official photos

Despite beforehand rumors, the Nokia Lumia 900 comes with a polycarbonate unibody aloof like the Lumia 800. The two added big-ticket Lumia smartphones additionally allotment the aforementioned 8 megapixel camera with its 28mm wide-angle F/2.2 lens and a 1.4GHz Scorpion CPU.
LTEpacking Nokia Lumia 900 finally official, exclusive to AT&T

Nokia Lumia 900 advertisement event

However, the Nokia Lumia 900 packs a front-facing camera, clashing its sibling. The Lumia 900 additionally runs on a beyond 1830 mAh battery.

LTEpacking Nokia Lumia 900 finally official, exclusive to AT&T

Nokia Lumia 900 advertisement event

According to Nokia, the Lumia 900 is the aboriginal absolute WP smartphone advised for the US market. Unfortunately, the Finns didn't say back it will hit the shelves or how abundant it will cost

Images of Nokia Ace for AT&T

Images of Nokia Ace for AT&T:
his is absolutely one of the best analytical cases of leaked artefact images we've encountered in 2011. Pictures of Nokia's accessible Windows Phone smartphone for AT&T's LTE arrangement popped up in a Christmas card, acknowledgment to an ever artistic Microsoft partner.

The handset, dubbed Ace, is best acceptable activity to barrage as Nokia Lumia 900 in regions added than the United States. It will assuredly accompany a front-facing camera to Nokia's Windows Phone calendar - a nice accession to its LTE arrangement compatibility.

Nokia Ace will best acceptable breach awning at CES 2012, which begins in beneath than two weeks time. We will be accoutrement it alive from Las Vegas, so apprehend an amend as anon as we get the abounding scoop.

Nokia Lumia 800 still selling greatly

       id-Gadget Today's - : Nokia Q4 address will be one of the best absorbing things to attending advanced to at the alpha of abutting year. The aggregation took a huge action by action on Windows Buzz for their smartphone portfolio and the anniversary division sales should appearance if it will pay off.

       And alike admitting the division that saw the bazaar absolution of Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 is advancing its end it's still absolutely adamantine to acquaint if they are actuality able-bodied accustomed by the bazaar or not. We are accepting all kinds of letters about their sales, so we are not alike abiding what to apprehend in the end.

     For example, according to the analysis done by adaptable allegory arcade armpit MobilesPlease, the Lumia 800 accounted for a bald 0.17% of the UK smartphone sales in November. That's abutting to 100 beneath than the bazaar allotment of the best accepted buzz according to the analysis - Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II.

     However, in the Lumia 800 appears to still be accomplishing abundantly in the Netherlands. The smartphone was the additional acknowledged accessory on KPN Netherlands (the country's better carrier) at the end of November, than rose to aboriginal abode at the alpha of this ages and has been blockage there anytime since.

   The O2 Germany best accepted phones blueprint tells a agnate story, with the Nokia Lumia 800 application the aboriginal atom for absolutely some time now. Over at T-Mobile Germany the Lumia 800 ranks 6th, abaft three of the iPhone 4S versions, the atramentous Galaxy S II and the atramentous Galaxy S Plus.

Samsung aims to address 374M phones in 2012, to battling Nokia

Samsung had an accomplished year in appellation of buzz sales in 2011, and it hopes to carbon its success in 2012. According to Korea Economic Daily the aggregation expects to see a advance in absolute sales by as abundant as 15%.

This agency that the Koreans achievement to advertise about 374 actor phones (including 150 actor smartphones) abutting year, which should be abundant to about according Nokia as the top corpuscle buzz manufacturer. The Finns are accepted to address about 399 actor phones abutting year, so the gap amid those two is as basal as it gets.

Just two years ago Nokia had about alert the bazaar allotment of Samsung (36.4% vs 19.5%), so the Koreans are absolutely authoritative cogent advance appear their ambition of acceptable the world's cardinal one manufacturer.

And we additionally shouldn't balloon that Nokia bootless to accommodated its sales ambition in 2011, admitting Samsung exceeded it, so we ability see a changeabout of roles alike eventually than expected. Then again, 2011 was a capricious year for Nokia and things should be abundant altered now that it has assuredly started affairs its aboriginal WP smartphones.

Nokia 801T gets unveiled in China, sports a TV antenna

Nokia Quite frankly, our aboriginal anticipation back we saw the afresh appear Nokia 801T was that we are attractive at a cautiously fabricated Chinese clone. The aloft anticipation did not go to blow until we saw the accessory featured in Nokia's official Chinese blog.

Nokia 801T is a TD-SCDMA newtwork device. Its accepted blueprint area is rather deficient for the time being. We apperceive that it runs the ageing Symbian^3, has NFC connectivity and a 4" display, arranged in an all-metal unibody. The icing on the block however, is the attendance of a scope TV antenna on board. It allows the accessory to accept TV arresting after borer into the adaptable network, appropriately extenuative a baby affluence for its users.

Pricing and barrage date for the Nokia 801T are not accepted yet. As always, we'll accumulate you posted.

Nokia Lumia 900 first official picture?

iD-Gadget Today's -:  When we aboriginal saw this account of a Nokia WP-running smartphone a few hours ago we anticipation it was depicting some fresh blush adaptation of the Nokia Lumia 800. A afterpiece analysis and a few accessible tips afterwards and we apperceive that we are attractive at a absolutely altered device.

It appears that the photo is the aboriginal official angel of the accessible Nokia Lumia 900, which is to become the abutting Nokia WP flagship. Apprehension how the touch-sensitive keys are amid abundant afterpiece to the basal bend than they were on the Lumia 800 - a bright adumbration for the beyond screen.

And if you attending absolutely carefully, you'll apprehension there's a front-facing camera at the top larboard bend of the smartphone - article that's not accessible on the Lumia 800. So we are attractive at a Nokia smartphone with a beyond awning and a advanced adverse camera that has a architecture agnate to the Lumia 800. It will be a above abruptness if this turns out to be annihilation but the accessible Nokia Lumia 900.

The smartphone will acutely booty a blade from the handbook of its adolescent affinity and will appear in a array of colors alignment from bourgeois atramentous to active purple. Let's achievement that Nokia will advertise the Lumia 900 clearly appropriate afterwards the anniversary arcade bacchanalia is over (we can't realistically apprehend any announcements afore that) and we won't accept to delay continued to apperceive added about the smartphone's specs.

Nokia Store now has over 100K apps

We haven't been audition abundant about the Nokia appliance abundance lately, but this doesn't beggarly it hasn't been authoritative cogent progress. According to the advisers from Distimo, which specialize in app abundance analysis, the official Nokia app athenaeum has surpassed the 100,000 mark.

The exact count, according to Distimo, is 116,583, which is abundant to achieve the Nokia Abundance (formerly accepted as Ovi Store) the third better app athenaeum in the adaptable world. It took Nokia two and a bisected years to achieve this (the abundance launched on May 26 2009), which isn't absolutely as absorbing as the bazaar leaders.

To put things into angle it took Android a year and a bisected (from March 2009 to October 2010) to do the same, while the App Abundance went from 500 to 100,000 in a year and 5 months.

There's one important affair to agenda actuality though. While the Nokia Abundance does accept all those apps, they aren't attainable on any distinct accessory as some of them are for Symbian, others are for S40, while others still are MeeGo-only.

Still, 100,000 agency that there are affluence of apps in there, added than anyone could possibly download in their lifetime. Now if they could accompany the affection up a cleft and actuate developers to accompany their apps there anon afterwards they are accessible (as against to months and years later) it would be aloof great.