brotkasten
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Nokia is still going to release phones in the fall.
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Nokia is still going to release phones in the fall.
Fjolle
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Remember back in the good old Symbian days when Nokia weren't hindered by MS incompetence and released the N8 and 808 with cutting edge SoCs and high resolution displays?
Me neither.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
This isn't the same smartphone landscape, there is a bigger focus on specs, for better or worse. And if you're implying that Nokia would not have put 1080p screens and quad core processors on these phones if the OS supported it, I strongly disagree. Whatever high end SOC the OS supported, Nokia would utilize for their flagship, its what they've done so far.
edit: I don't think its entirely fair to call quad core and 1080p 2012 specs, because it makes it sound like we had flagship phones releasing with those specs this time last year. If anything, it was late 2012 and also the flagships that came out with those specs arrived in 2013 aside from the HTC phone, which nobody wanted anyway.
edit: I don't think its entirely fair to call quad core and 1080p 2012 specs, because it makes it sound like we had flagship phones releasing with those specs this time last year. If anything, it was late 2012 and also the flagships that came out with those specs arrived in 2013 aside from the HTC phone, which nobody wanted anyway.
It is very strange, I thought the Windows RT environment change last year would fix these hardware issues but MS still seems really gung ho on the tablet front and really quiet on phones.
People are absolutely right about the alternative universe where Nokia are on Android having Nokia quad core 1080p devices, the only problem is you're still not buying them because they have Navteq maps, the Ovi store, and they cost more because Nokia can't compete with Samsung or HTC on supply chains.
HollovVpo1nt
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Remember back in the good old Symbian days where specs mattered as much as today?
Me neither.
OS support or not, I wouldn't expect Nokia or anyone else to release significant upgrades to flagship phone every six months. Samsung and HTC focus on flagship phone every year with maybe some small variations like a larger version.
Fjolle
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Last year?
Don't know if someone or some linked article mentioned it already, but here are some details to the improvements to the camera (source: http://winfuture.de/news,75954.html)
Nokia improved the optics of the camera. Instead of five lenses, it now has six lenses. As a result of the changes it supposedly lets in more light than the 920.
I think it's great that they are making all these small improvements and incremental upgrades before their next hero phone.
Nokia improved the optics of the camera. Instead of five lenses, it now has six lenses. As a result of the changes it supposedly lets in more light than the 920.
I think it's great that they are making all these small improvements and incremental upgrades before their next hero phone.
OMG there's the EOS in that video!
Cute Dragon Here
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Oh, and the sensor has probably improved a lot seeing as you can now shoot at up to ISO 3200 compared to 800 in the Lumias before.
I have a strange feeling that a night scene at 1/3, ISO 3200 will be always overexposed by a long shot, which can only mean a good thing
There is a AT&T exclusive 920, Verizon exclusive 928, and T-Mobile exclusive 925.
What is the issue? Every carrier except Sprint has a variant of this gen's high end device
"That phone exclusive to T-Mobile was a huge success." - Nobody in History.
Sure, but it is the combined sales of all of the devices that matter not the success of a particular one. Besides, its a world phone as well.
US was never Nokia's biggest market. EMEA is where 925 will have it's go.
brotkasten
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I'm sorry? The 920 was exclusive to AT&T, the 928 is a variant for Verizon and T-Mobile gets the 925.
It's basically the same phone, but carriers in the US don't want consumers to know that, so they demand stupid little changes.
Not different than this, except for the time exclusivity of the 920 on AT&T.
Every carrier got a Galaxy S2 with its own name, look and little differences.
It's a world phone? Does the unlocked unbranded version work on both AT&T and T-Mobile?
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edit: AT&T is LTE bands 4 and 17, T-Mo bands 4 and 25. Why, Nokia? Why.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Is the smart camera app available already for other Lumia users?
brotkasten
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There's a BlackBerry event?
BlackBerry still exists?
Gamble
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Not seeing the issue here considering both VZW and ATT have the 928/920 exclusives as well.......
Gamble
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I'm sorry? The 920 was exclusive to AT&T, the 928 is a variant for Verizon and T-Mobile gets the 925.
It's basically the same phone, but carriers in the US don't want consumers to know that, so they demand stupid little changes.
Not different than this, except for the time exclusivity of the 920 on AT&T.
Every carrier got a Galaxy S2 with its own name, look and little differences.
Thank You!!
Sorry to get your hopes up, I shouldn't have used that term :/
RIM to announce Instagram support!
It sounds like the Smart Camera needs some more powerful hardware to truly shine. It is limited to 5 megapixel images on the high end devices and 1 megapixel images on the low end.
Edit: Outlook.com now supports Google Talk. Can we please have that integrated into our messages app too??????????? lol
Edit: Outlook.com now supports Google Talk. Can we please have that integrated into our messages app too??????????? lol
brotkasten
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"We're not only still here, we're firing on all cylinders as a company."
Didn't they fire 6,000 people last quarter?
They will soon need to start hiring new workers to fire them.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
What about the hipsmatic app with instagram uploads, is that available yet?
Jeez dat hyperbole they are spitting out there. "We will provide an evolution similar to 20 years ago when we had the jump from wired to wireless". I own and love my Z10 but fuck that is some bullshit.
lol
June
I dream of a world where all phones work the same in all countries. (we'll probably get rid of countries before we get there though)
They will, its coming in GDR3.
I dream of a world where all phones work the same in all countries. (we'll probably get rid of countries before we get there though)
Yeah, or we'll just be paying for WiFi or something instead and everything will go over that
Oh I know it's coming but why the hell is it taking them so long to do it? I really want to hear the excuse on this one.
The reason is clear as day: WP team is tied with the usual MS fall update plan titled this year as "Blue".
However, unlike the big Windows team, WP team have yet to make this public and whenever something leaks, it's just another minor update and bug fixes.
Tl;dr they are slow and their secrecy isn't helping anyone.
Everything went downhill after mango.
VanMardigan
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Oh fucking please. You just talked about the lack of quad core and 1080p support, what does the z10 pack? Fact is, windows phone is a more competent, more stable operating system than bb10, and even with a kernel change it still beat blackberry to market.
I whine about the need for the WP team to iterate more quickly too, but that's in comparison to android, not blackberry. You've got to be fucking kidding if you think the WP team isn't "trying" compared to blackberry.
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