Thursday, April 18, 2013

Nokia Q1 report: 5.6 million Lumias sold, €150 loss

Nokia has just released its financial report for Q1 2013, and things aren't as rosy as the Finns might have hoped for. Despite making €5.9 billion in net sales, the company Nokia Group still reported a loss of €150 million. On the brighter side, Lumia handset sales have gone up by 27 percent quarter-over-quarter to 5.6 million units in Q1 2013. The report shows...

BlackBerry 10.1 update preview reveals HDR camera and other neat tricks

What do you think BB 10 needs? BlackBerry 10 has been around for a few months now and while it's had a couple of minor updates we're starting to learn what the first major upgrade will bring. The folks over at CrackBerry have been doing some digging in the BlackBerry 10.1 SDK and have managed to uncover some juicy morsels of information on what the update...

Samsung Galaxy S4 mini user agent profile confirms qHD screen

The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini has been tentatively confirmed by two official sources – Samsung SVP Lee Keon Hyok and Samsung’s support page. We can add one more to the list, the User Agent profile. The profile confirms the qHD (540 x 960 pixels) resolution of the screen, which is 4.3" in diagonal according to rumors, working out to 256ppi. It’s most likely going to be...

6 best to-do apps and extensions to manage your time

Now there's no excuse for forgetting to pick up the kids from school Make list. Tick things off list. Lose list. List-making apps for smartphones are myriad, but so far have taken longer to use than a pen and paper. Available on different platforms and devices - such as iOS, Mac OS X, Android, Chrome, Gmail and Windows-flavoured operating systems - and often...

Nokia could be working on a big-screen Galaxy Note rival

Nokia has decided it's time to go big or go home Super-sized smartphones are all the rage these days with the Huawei Ascend Mate, ZTE Grand Memo and the ridiculously big Galaxy Mega following in the footsteps of the Samsung Galaxy Note - and Nokia is apparently next in line to get in on the action. According to sources talking to the Finanical Times, the...

Samsung's Q2 operating profit expected to reach $9 billion in Q2

Samsung is having a golden run in the market and it looks like the company is all set to extend its run at the top. Samsung, the makers of smartphones, tablet, memory chips and flat-panel TV's, is expected to achieve a record 10 trillion won (about $8.98 billion) in operating profits in Q2, according to analysts. The operating profits of the company for the...

Nokia Lumia 'Catwalk' with aluminum body leaks

We have heard rumors in the past of Nokia working on a successor to the Lumia 920 with an aluminum body. The Lumia 928, as it turned out, however, did not actually have an aluminum body, at least according to the leaked image. But it seems there is something else that just might. What you see above are allegedly pictures of an upcoming Nokia Lumia phone...