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NOKIA’S FIRST METAL WINDOWS PHONE ARRIVES. MEET THE SEXY LUMIA 925

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Nokia’s pattern group is upon glow lately. Just days after phenomenon a neat brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new further to a Windows Phone 8 flagship line—the Verizon-bound Lumia 928—the association currently took a wraps off an additional innovative brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new indication during a highly-anticipated London press eventuality today. (Watch a replay.)

There’s a lot to contend about a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Lumia 925, though let’s begin here: The initial Windows Phone to soak up aluminum in to a pattern is something to reason as good as behold. The second thing to know is which a phone will come with a ultimate Windows Phone 8 refurbish which adds FM air wave await as good as a handful of alternative goodies—extras which existent Windows Phone 8 owners will in conclusion be offered, too. (More upon which in a moment.)

The Lumia 925, which additionally includes an modernized brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new camera, will entrance in Jun upon Europe’s Vodafone network, afterwards conduct to China Mobile as good as China Unicom. It’s scheduled to launch upon T-Mobile in a U.S. after this year, Nokia said. In Europe, a phone will price around 469 euros prior to taxes as good as subsidies.

Nokia Lumia 925

Why metal?

All of Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 models to date have been done with stout polycarbonate plastic. Adding steel to a brew non-stop up a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new universe of pattern possibilities for Nokia engineers. Metal reserve strength, saves weight, as good as allows designers to carve a thinner, some-more slim edge. It additionally helps broach improved receiver performance, Nokia says. (Learn some-more about a construction.)

The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Lumia 925 sports most of a same specs as good as hardware which helped consequence a sibling, a Lumia 920, Smartphone of a Year honors from Engadget this year. It has a 4.5-inch AMOLED WXGA touchscreen with winding Gorilla Glass 2, 1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, sixteen GB of inner memory, as good as a brawny 2000 mAh battery. Nokia Lumia 925 will be accessible in white, grey as good as black matte. Wireless charging snap-on covers will come in white, black, yellow as good as red. Here’s a tiny look during how it all comes together.

Introducing Nokia Smart Camera

But a genuine star of a uncover is a phone’s 8.7 megapixel PureView camera with visual picture stabilization as good as twin LED flash. The Lumia 925 continues to develop this critically-acclaimed camera as good as pull a bounds of what’s probable upon a smartphone, interjection to a modernized brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new lens pattern as good as brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new imaging algorithms.

I never satisfied which a smartphone lens is essentially a sandwich of glass, though a Lumia 925’s camera right away includes a sixth earthy lens—an attention first. This equates to a phone’s Carl Zeiss optics have been means to take in 5 times some-more light than competing smartphones for sharp, naturally-colored images as good as 1080p HD video, even underneath severe conditions. The video upon top of offers a glance of how this brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new lens is constructed. The Lumia 925’s onboard imaging program algorithms have additionally been tweaked to assistance have a camera perform even improved in low light, as good as to urge tone facsimile as good as revoke sound in shots.

Another cold creation in a Lumia 925 is a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Smart Camera feature, which captures 10 5-megapixel shots in a reduced detonate as good as afterwards lets you revise them regulating one-touch modifying options identical to Best Shot, Action Shot, Change Faces, as good as Motion Focus. Check out a video next to see what you mean. Then conduct over to a Nokia Conversations blog, which has an even some-more minute post today display how Smart Camera works. Another good touch: The Lumia 925 lets you set Nokia Smart Camera as your default camera interface so you can open true to it only by pulling a camera button.

Nokia says Smart Camera—as good as a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new under-the-hood imaging algorithms—will hurl out to all a Lumia models with Windows Phone 8 as partial of a destiny refurbish a association is job Nokia Lumia Amber.

Windows Phone 8 refurbish entrance this summer

Speaking of updates. As you referred to earlier, a Lumia 925 comes with a ultimate refurbish to a Windows Phone 8 handling complement which includes a tiny series of improvements as good as upgrades. (It’s identical in distance to a a single we delivered progressing this year, which brought brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Wi-Fi as good as messaging improvements identical to a capability to content a reply to an incoming call.)

The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new update, which is approaching to begin rolling out to existent Windows Phone 8 phones after this summer, brings behind await for FM air wave (we listened you!) as good as creates a Data Sense underline of Windows Phone 8 accessible for some-more carriers to offer. The refurbish additionally creates it simpler to select, download, as good as pin tunes in Xbox Music as good as improves a correctness of strain info as good as alternative metadata—something you know song fans will appreciate. (FM Radio as good as Data Sense accessibility rely upon your phone indication as good as carrier.)

The refurbish includes hundreds of alternative tiny peculiarity improvements. One last a single value highlighting, as you announced earlier, is which a refurbish additionally ensures Windows Phone continues to work with Google services by adding await for a company’s newest sync protocols—CalDAV as good as CardDAV.

Make certain to check out Nokia’s central blog for some-more coverage as good as photos of a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Lumia 925.

Windows Phone May 14th 2013

“THE WAIT IS OVER”: LUMIA 928 FOR VERIZON WIRELESS LAUNCHES MAY 16 FOR UNDER $100

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If we were profitable tighten courtesy progressing this week, we might’ve picked up upon a little clues—buzz over a poster advertisement speckled here, a repository ad there—that a friends during Nokia had something special brewing. A impulse ago, all was revealed.

Meet a Lumia 928, a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new further to Nokia’s award-winning Windows Phone 8 flagship lineup as well as a initial to a single side for Verizon Wireless. Available in black or white, a phone goes upon sale subsequent Thursday for $99.99 (with $50 mail-in remission and two-year contract). Pick a single up as well as for a singular time you’ll additionally get $25 to emporium during a Windows Phone Store, which right away has 145,000 apps as well as games (read a excellent print).

“Verizon Wireless customers: we listened you,” pronounced Matt Rothschild, clamp boss of Nokia North America. “The wait for for is over.”

The Nokia Lumia 928 arrives upon Verizon Wireless May sixteen for $99

One pull of a camera symbol or explosion of a speakers as well as you’ll assimilate because online hum around this brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Lumia has been building. While a phone sports many of a same innovative facilities as well as specs which warranted a sibling, a Lumia 920, Smartphone of a Year honors, we can discuss it Nokia designers longed for to give Verizon’s initial flagship a singular spin. (Nokia likes to call it a “new expression” of a Lumia 920).

So, for example, a Lumia 928 has a super-fast Xenon peep which creates a 8.7MP PureView camera—widely considered a many appropriate low-light camera upon a market—even some-more beneficial in low conditions as well as for frozen fast-moving objects. The phone additionally comes preloaded with Nokia’s accessible Smart Shoot app for stealing photobombers as well as alternative spoilers from a picture.

The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new phone has a 4.5-inch OLED arrangement shade for simpler observation outdoors. The device’s in vogue polycarbonate physique feels skinny as well as light in a hand, as well as a potion extends to a really edge—a pointed though sharp pattern touch.

Some innovations have been reduction seen than heard. Tucked inside a Lumia 928 have been 3 high-audio-amplitude-capture (HAAC) microphones as well as a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new speaker, which Nokia says is a single of a many modernized accessible for smartphones. These brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new audio components have been written to jot down as well as playback a receptive to advice some-more fairly as well as with reduction distortion—all a approach up to a whopping 140 decibels (the equivalent ruckus of a jet engine). we can’t wait for for to listen to it take upon my AC/DC pick up or, say, a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Vyclone collaborative video app which additionally strictly launched today.

Need some-more petrify explanation of a Lumia 928’s awesomeness? Check out Nokia’s brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new teaser videos, similar to a a single next shot during a late-night drum coaster float which compares a 928’s camera with a iPhone 5 as well as Samsung Galaxy S3. And don’t skip all a one more coverage of a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new phone—including this hands-on video Nokia put together—on Nokia Conversations, a company’s central blog.

Windows Phone May 10th 2013

HANDS-ON WITH THE DUAL-GPU LENOVO Y500 GAMING LAPTOP

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When it comes to a Windows 8 laptops we use, we wish it all. we wish a pleasing full-HD screen, a quad core CPU, lots of RAM, churned USB 3.0 ports, copiousness of hoop space, great sound, as well as tons of graphics horsepower all wrapped up in a flattering package. Sound demanding? Yes we am, as well as we know we have been too. The engineers during Lenovo have been meditative about people similar to us given a brand new Windows 8 Lenovo Y500 laptop satisfies all of these requirements, as well as afterwards some.

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The Lenovo Y500 as tested with Dual NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GPUs, JBL speakers, as well as 1920×1080 full-HD arrangement (click to enlarge)

The Lenovo Y500 was written with Personal Computer gaming in mind, though it’s additionally a great Personal Computer for a accumulation of alternative tasks together with print as well as video editing, examination streaming HD movies, as well as regulating capacity apps similar to Word as well as Excel. And, given there have been copiousness ports, joining displays or inclination is no complaint with a Y500.

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Right side, from left: Headphone as well as Microphone jacks, USB 2.0 pier with offline charging, locking small box (click to enlarge)

Here upon a right side of a Personal Computer we can see a vents which cold a second NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GPU which resides in a visual brook area which Lenovo calls a “Ultrabay”. You can essentially mislay a 2nd GPU (when Personal Computer is powered down) as well as reinstate it with alternative accessories including:

Now that’s versatile!

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Left side, from left: DC energy submit (not pictured), VGA out, Ethernet, HDMI out, USB 3.0 ports (click to enlarge)

Wrapping around to a front corner (user-facing) during a right-hand side of a design upon top of we see a standing LEDs as well as SD label reader. we unequivocally similar to how a Y500 ports have been integrated; things feel similar to they have been in a right place to me. While a Y500 might not demeanour similar to a normal Lenovo business-class machines, it retains a tall peculiarity demeanour as well as feel throughout.

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The Y500 is a high-quality Personal Computer with great extraneous finishes as well as sum (click to enlarge)

Another thing which feels right to me about a Y500 is a screen. The 15.6” erratic distance is great given it’s vast sufficient for gaming as well as perfectionist tasks (like formidable video modifying UI) during tall resolution. A 15”-class Personal Computer feels similar to a right change of shade genuine estate as well as mobility for a kinds of perfectionist tasks we make make make make use of of of of a laptop for. Since we float a motorcycle to work, we adore a actuality which a Y500 simply fits in to my backpack.

Highlight: Dual GPU NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Graphics

If someone referred to a Personal Computer with NVIDIA dual-GPU SLI-enabled graphics, you’d substantially consider of a desktop Personal Computer right? Well a Lenovo Y500 laptop is accessible with a same kind of killer-gaming-pc twin GPU setup. When we span this kind of impassioned graphics with a full-HD 1920×1080 display, we have an extraordinary gaming as well as media capacity which we can make make make make use of of of of anywhere.

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From a NVIDIA Control Panel: SLI as well as PhysX settings for a twin GeForce GT 650M graphics setup in my Lenovo Y500

I had a little fun with a Y500 regulating a single of a ultimate DirectX eleven games: EA’s Need for Speed Most Wanted. Running during full 1920×1080 fortitude as well as churned medium/high settings, this diversion consistently hold 40fps during gameplay, a great outcome for such a visually heated game. At these settings, Need for Speed Most Wanted looked awesome, as well as gameplay was really smooth.

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Need For Speed Most Wanted Gameplay – 40fps during full HD fortitude as well as medium/high settings (click to enlarge)

While we have had a lot of fun gaming upon a Y500, we additionally get down to commercial operation with this Personal Computer as well as make make make make use of of of of it for my every day work. One of my capacity highlights with this Personal Computer has been print modifying (including images for this article). What done this a great print modifying laptop? The photo-goodness list includes a vast tall fortitude screen, absolute took off graphics, USB 3.0 ports for my unstable tough drive, as well as a great integrated trackpad. Any print pro will discuss it we which arrangement peculiarity is peerless for print editing, as well as we found a Y500 arrangement to be intensely great for print work.

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Adobe Photoshop CS6 regulating upon a Y500, a 15.6” full-HD is undiluted for these kinds of tasks

Photoshop feels great upon this PC, though it additionally runs quick interjection to hardware increase in speed regulating a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M dedicated graphics.

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The hardware increase in speed in Adobe Photoshop CS6 was configured as well as enabled by default following install, we adore it when thing only work!

Note which Lenovo has not long ago proposed shipping Y500 PCs with a newer NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M graphics, so these models will perform even improved with graphically complete applications.

Here have been a little specs for a Y500: (full specs accessible here)

  • Intel Core i7-3630QM
  • RAM: 8GB (min), 16GB (max) DDR3
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 2GB GDDR5 (GT 650M tested in this article)
  • Display: 15.6″ 1366×768 or 1920×1080

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Extreme Windows May 9th 2013

LUMIA 521 HITS WALMART ON SATURDAY, T-MOBILE STORES MAY 22. PLUS: WHAT ELSE CAN YOU BUY FOR UNDER $150? (ANSWER: NOT MUCH)

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After fast selling out during the sell entrance upon Home Shopping Network final month, Nokia’s no contract, sub-$150 Lumia 521 is about to have an even bigger splash.

Walmart strictly starts offered the phone upon Saturday during the insanely low cost of $129, nonetheless you’ll already find it listed in the sell giant’s online store. (As we wrote this morning, it won’t be the usually Windows Phone upon Walmart’s shelves, either.) The Microsoft Store, meanwhile, is additionally formulation to begin carrying the wallet-friendly phone this week end for $149. 

And T-Mobile announced currently which it would begin offered the Lumia 521 upon May 22. The phone, as we might recall, was written privately for T-Mobile as well as is formed upon the renouned Lumia 520, the many affordable indication in Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 lineup. It will be accessible around the carrier’s sell as well as online stores for $29.99 down as well as twenty-four next to monthly payments of $5 for subordinate business with T-Mobile’s brand new Simple Choice Plan. Lumia 521 smartphones sole by T-Mobile additionally underline the nifty Wi-Fi Calling feature. (If we buy the phone from the single of the alternative outlets listed above, T-Mobile pronounced an over-the-air refurbish will begin rolling out May twenty to capacitate Wi-Fi Calling.)

The Nokia Lumia 521, the T-Mobile exclusive

One large reason for all the pre-release hum as well as early sales rush: You get the ton of phone for reduction than $150. The Lumia 521 facilities the 4-inch hold screen, 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, as well as 8 GB of inner storage—expandable to 64 GB around microSD card. Designed for T-Mobile’s 4G HPSA+ network, it comes pre-loaded with good Nokia apps similar to Music, Cinemagraph, Creative Studio, Panorama, Smart Shoot, as well as the HERE navigation suite—Drive, Maps, as well as Transit. Check out Ben Rudolph’s new hands-on video review for an up-close peek.

Finally, we pronounced the Lumia 521 gives we the lot of phone for the money. But which begs the question: What else does $150 buy we these days?

To find the answer, Ben, Lucas, as well as David from the Windows Phone group not long ago went upon the selling debauch for comparably-priced prepaid smartphones. After scouring internal stores, they returned to bottom stay with the Samsung Illusion, Samsung Galaxy Appeal, T-Mobile Prism, as well as the LG Optimus Elite. Check out their initial impressions of how the Nokia Lumia 521 stacks up opposite these alternative devices. (In his post-spree bliss, my friend David gets so vehement he even forgets which the Prism additionally comes with the 2GB mental recall card—although it doesn’t shift his research the single iota.) Anyway, it’s really the fun as well as exegetic watch.

Windows Phone May 9th 2013

BUILDING INTERNET EXPLORER 10: A BROWSER THAT IS PERFECT FOR TOUCH

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When we cruise which browsing a web stays a single of a most renouned activities upon a tablet, it’s startling a knowledge isn’t better. People should design some-more from a browsing knowledge upon a tablet. Browsing speedhas been critical to web users, though with a presentation of brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new form factors similar to tablets, browsing needs have been some-more opposite than ever before. Page bucket time is right away list stakes. For smaller, touch-enabled devices, a capability to crop a web quick as well as facilely by an interface which is built for hold has turn increasingly critical to users. For these inscription users, a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new browser opening benchmark is touch. Touch has turn a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new fast.

While many inscription browsers work with touch, they aren’t touch-first browsers. Simply bettering a desktop browser or smartphone browser to a hold device doesn’t emanate a good experience. When we proposed office building IE10 we famous which browsing upon tablets had been relegated to second-class status, useable though in an underwhelming approach when compared with apps. A brand brand brand brand brand brand new study by Penn Schoen Berland showed which 8 out of 10 iPad users gifted an emanate with a web – together with damaged functionality as well as worry navigating a page. These iPad users essentially elite regulating an app for a infancy of usual Web scenarios since they found a web browsing knowledge to be lacking.

As we built IE10, we were dynamic to move a resolution to users who were unfortunate with their inscription browsing experience. We written IE10 from a belligerent up to be a many appropriate browser for tablets, as well as many importantly, a many appropriate browser for touch. Touch is an area of record which is developed for innovation, as well as a single which we invested heavily in for IE10 upon Windows 8. We worked with partners to set up sites similar to Contre Jour as well as The Hunger Games Explorerto showcase what a browser written for hold can do. Take a demeanour during a video next to listen to without delay from a engineering group about how they worked to set a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new customary for hold browsing (and see a cold “magic fingers robot” which they have use of to exam hold upon tablets).

When we launched Windows 8 with IE10 upon tablets, we believed we had built an wholly brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Windows browser written for touch. Some folks noticed how opposite Internet Explorer 10 upon a Windows 8 inscription is.

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In fact, a study by Mozaic Group showed which more than 8 out of 10 iPad users contend they would be unequivocally expected to cruise swapping their iPad for a Windows 8 inscription using Internet Explorer 10, if it meant carrying a improved browsing experience.

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Source: Mozaic Group’s study reports Internet Explorer 10 upon a Windows 8 inscription improves a browsing as well as altogether inscription knowledge enough to expostulate iPad users to cruise switching (November 2012).

By seeking during a IE user interface in a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new light, we built facilities which have browsing with hold quick as well as liquid upon Windows 8. We combined features similar to flip forward as well as multi-finger hold support, upon condition which an extraordinary hold knowledge which rivals anything any a single has ever finished with a browser upon brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new devices. A performance investigate by Principled Technologies demonstrates how hold became a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new quick for browsing as users could some-more quick strike their a a single preferred sites or do a most usual web tasks with IE10 upon a Windows 8 tablet.

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Source: Principled Technologies reports which Internet Explorer 10 upon Windows 8 is faster than Chrome upon Android as well as Safari upon iPad upon usual Web tasks (November 2012).

And whilst we hold which IE10 upon Windows 8 is a many appropriate inscription browsing knowledge accessible today, we’re ever dedicated to ensuring which users can suffer a Web upon any browser they choose. Knowing how critical web practice as well as hold capabilities have been to consumers, we go upon to assistance developers emanate sites built for hold though which additionally work good with mouse, set of keys as well as pen. We have been actively contributing to a customary work in this area, submitting Pointer Events to a W3Cto concede developers to write to a single set of submit mechanisms opposite mouse, coop as well as hold to safeguard they work opposite all browsers as well as handling systems. From this, we’re unequivocally gratified to see how quick Pointers has progressed towards a web standard, display a worth of IE’s await to assistance developers set up innovative, touch-optimized sites.

IE10’s quick as well as fluid, hold browsing knowledge is opposite than anything which has been finished with a browser upon a inscription before, as well as opposite than any alternative browser upon Windows. People who have used IE10 upon Windows 8 determine as well as have been voicing their enthusiasm for a wholly brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Windows 8 browser. Try IE10 upon your a a single preferred Windows device currently as well as see a difference, as well as if we have been a developer check out a little of a tools we’ve done accessible upon GitHub, or Pointer Events samples accessible during WebPlatformto give your site a many appropriate hold communication accessible upon a web.

Roger Capriotti
Director, Internet Explorer Marketing

Internet Explorer May 9th 2013

HUAWEI W1 WITH WINDOWS PHONE 8 COMING TO WALMART THIS MONTH

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Huawei’s initial Windows Phone 8 smartphone—the Huawei W1—is approaching to go upon sale during Walmart after this month, a association voiced today. So keep an eye out.Huawei W1 It will be sole in Walmart’s online as well as sell stores. (See what other Windows Phone is headed to Walmart.)

Already a renouned preference between price-savvy smartphone buyers overseas—where it’s well known as a Ascend W1—it’s a initial time a phone has been offering in a U.S. While Huawei didn’t divulge pricing info today, a phone—which comes in black—will make use of a no-contract prepaid devise as well as be labelled “competitively,” Huawei’s Michael Chuang pronounced in a statement. “The Huawei W1 brings consumers a indeed constrained pick to what’s now in a marketplace,” he added.

We blogged about this phone when it was denounced during a Consumer Electronics Show progressing this year. It sports a 4-inch 480×800 LCD arrangement with Gorilla Glass, a rapid dual-core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5MP rear-facing camera which captures 720p video, as well as 1.7 GB of user-available inner storage (expandable to 32GB around microSD card)—all squeezed in to a 0.4 inch-thin case.

But a tip arms is a battery life. According to Huawei, a W1 delivers up to 320 hours of standby time (that’s a tad underneath dual true weeks, folks) interjection to a built-in power-saving technology. After putting a phone by a paces progressing this year, my co-worker Ben Rudolph concluded: “If you’re seeking to get your initial smartphone (or upgrading to Windows Phone from an aged iPhone or Android device), a Ascend W1 is starting to give we a lot of worth for your dollar.”

Watch Huawei’s website for some-more sum about a phone as well as a U.S. rollout.

Windows Phone May 9th 2013

FULL-RES PHOTO AND VIDEO BACKUP NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE FOR WINDOWS PHONE 8

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[This post was created by Aaron Sauvé, a comparison module physical education instructor upon a Windows Phone camera as well as photos team. –KC]

One good underline of Windows Phone 8 is a capability to save full-resolution backup copies of your cinema as well as videos upon SkyDrive, Microsoft’s clouded cover storage service. It’s an choice which both helps strengthen your most appropriate shots as well as additionally creates them simpler to share. But as a little of you have noted, which underline wasn’t accessible in all markets.

Until now. Today you am gratified to have known which we’re creation a capability to behind up full-res photos as well as videos accessible everywhere. (We only proposed to light this up, so be studious if you don’t see it right away. The shift could take a couple of days to hurl out around a globe.)

To begin regulating a brand new feature, daub Photos>More>Settings>SkyDrive. Here’s what it looks similar to visually:

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Now, instead of a menu upon a left, you’ll right divided see a a single upon a right. Just daub Best quality to upload your photos or videos in a top resolution. One caveat: To save your phone bill, it does need a Wi-Fi connection. (Learn more about a feature.)

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Finally, a large appreciate you to a SkyDrive team, who we’ve worked closely with over a months to have this pass underline is accessible globally. As you can imagine, subsidy up high-res photos as well as videos involves a lot of data. To safeguard you could yield a peculiarity knowledge in any market, you upon purpose took things delayed as well as programmed a staged hurl out of a feature.

I’d adore to listen to your thoughts about this or anything else associated to a camera as well as photos knowledge upon Windows Phone.

–Aaron

Windows Phone May 8th 2013

UBISOFT’S HIT GAME MONSTER BURNER IS HERE—AND IT’S FREE

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Protecting castles from robbery monsters is a thought during a back of Monster Burner, imageUbisoft’s fast-paced, highly-rated strike which only arrived in a Windows Phone Store. The game, which runs upon both Windows Phone 7.5 as well as 8 devices, is free. So there’s no reason not to give it a spin. Download it now

There isn’t most of a guidance bend here: Your charge is to flame each (admittedly cute) quadruped in steer by slinging fireballs as well as conjuring glow spells. The diversion is a good mix of high-energy colonnade as well as vital nonplus solving. One good touch: The built-in kids mode, which ratchets down a worry turn though not a gait of a action, creation it undiluted for a preschool set. But my a the single preferred thing about Monster Burner is which a standard diversion is all over in a make a difference of minutes, so it’s a single of those titles which we can collect up or put it down during your convenience you’d like; a good approach to digest a wait for during Starbucks or your subsequent doctor’s appointment.

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Windows Phone May 8th 2013

THE WORLD OF YOUTUBE, DESIGNED FOR WINDOWS PHONE 8

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The Windows Phone 8 chronicle of the central YouTube app is removing the vital refurbish this morning; It’s been utterly redesigned to have the many of Windows Phone 8 features. If we already have it, watch for an refurbish presentation upon your phone. If we don’t, grab it here. (The app only published, so it competence take the couple of hours to uncover up.)

What’s new? Lots.

  • Pin videos, playlists, channels, as well as even poke queries to Start as Live Tiles for quick access. The tile flips to uncover possibly the ultimate video from your subscriptions or the many renouned one.
  • A brand brand new as well as innovative playlist pattern gives we easy entrance to videos regulating the touch-friendly filmstrip.
  • Just wish to attend to the video? It right away plays in the credentials even when the shade is locked.
  • You can share videos to renouned amicable networks, as well as around email as well as text.

And there’s no need to be concerned about the small ones observation calm we don’t authorize of, given we can right away pin YouTube to Kid’s Corner as well as extent calm formed upon YouTube Safety Mode settings we configure. An refurbish for Windows Phone 7.5 is additionally upon the approach in the couple of weeks.

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Windows Phone May 7th 2013

FOURSQUARE UPDATED FOR WINDOWS PHONE 8—NOW INCLUDES SPEECH, LIVE TILES, AND MORE

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A snazzy brand brand new chronicle of a central Foursquare app for Windows Phone 8 only checked in to a Store. Download it now.

Version 3.0 brings a garland of brand brand new features: Pin people as well as venues to your Start Screen, get notifications upon your close screen, as well as check-in as well as share regulating NFC. In this version, we can additionally make make use of of your voice to search, find, check-in as well as more. As we make make use of of a app, Foursquare excellent tunes the recommendations for things to do as well as try in your vicinity. Check it out as well as let me know what we think.

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Windows Phone May 7th 2013