Huawei has been trying to expand its influence and reach out to an international audience for quite some time. Though the company has stuck to Android for quite some time, apparently it has plans of entering the realm of Windows 8 devices. This has been divulged by a report in WPDang.
Microsoft and Nokia have spent a lot of their energy, time and money on making the flagship Windows Phone lineup, Nokia Lumia, a success. Whereas Lumia devices are far from being a great success, carriers are already of the opinion that Lumia phones are ‘not good enough’ to compete against Apple and Android mobile devices.
The telecommunication giant AT&T wants to spend $150M to promote Lumia 900. This amount is much higher comparing to iPhone’s campaign. AT&T has denied on its Lumia budget but the company said few days ago that it would launch its biggest campaign ever for the Lumia 900.
In a world where a number of handset makers, such as RIM and Nokia, are facing abysmal circumstances, it would seem that Samsung is having an exceptionally good time. The Korean electronics maker is right at the heart of the smartphone market, with its Galaxy Note and Galaxy S smartphones having become a roaring success with Android users. According to estimates, Samsung is expected to close this quarter with a quarterly sale worth $40 billion!
Smartphone and tablets are the rage of today’s tech world. However, without a large ecosystem to support them, even an excellent product won’t pitch in with the users. Apple’s products and Android devices are a huge success precisely for the reason that they are part of a greater ecosystem, with hundreds of thousands of apps available for each. Now, Microsoft may be planning to take its Windows Phone Marketplace up a notch, as is evidenced by some leaked Microsoft slides.
Apple, Motorola Mobility, Nokia and RIM among others are locked in a fierce tug-of-war over which company gets to have its nano-SIM technology deemed the standard for European Telecommunications Standards Institute(ETSI). We reported earlier that Apple had registered six subsidiaries with ETSI which can bring a lot of votes to Apple’s side. But given a lot of opposition, Apple is ready to relent further on its demands and has now offered its nano-SIM technology for free.
Nokia is always busy doing something different. At present, the giant mobile company Nokia wants to make an electronic tattoo that would vibrate (even in silent mode) on the body, whenever the phone rings. You can set different types of vibration pattern based on person. You can easily understand who is calling you based on your tattoo vibration pattern. It’s like a body-based caller ID system.
Carl Zeiss is a very well-known brand when it comes to camera lens. Even if you didn’t hear about it earlier, you may have heard about it recently at MWC 2012 where Nokia showed off Carl Zeiss lens in the cameras of its top-of-the-range smartphone devices. Now, Carl Zeiss has hinted that it may soon be releasing a super wide-angle lens.