The Verge - Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 Windows Phones

European carriers: Lumia phones are 'not good enough' to compete with iPhone and Android

2012-04-17T07:22:54Z

They say everyone's a critic these days, but here's a group whose critique matters: European carriers. Reuters has been asking questions at four major European telecom operators and reports that they're all dissatisfied with the company's current range of Lumia handsets. Describing the Windows Phone devices as overpriced due to their lack of real innovation, glitchy due to early battery life issues, and inadequately supported by Nokia's own marketing, the carriers seem to be in consensus about the new phones' failure to put up real competition to iOS and Android. Put in starker terms, they don't believe that Nokia's Lumia phones are "good enough" to compete. An executive in charge of mobile phones at one of the big Euro carriers is cited...

Nokia now world's largest Windows Phone manufacturer, according to Strategy Analytics

2012-02-24T14:46:04Z

A new report out of Strategy Analytics today claims that Nokia took the title of world's largest Windows Phone vendor in the last full quarter from HTC, a remarkable feat — if accurate, that is — considering that it wasn't even in the Windows Phone business in the quarter prior. The market intelligence firm reports platform market share numbers throughout the year, and it says that Windows Phone shipped a total of 2.7 million units in Q4, of which some 33.1 percent were Nokia devices — nearly 900,000 units. Nokia launched both the Lumia 800 and 710 in certain markets during the quarter, but the deployments were limited: the 710 hadn't hit either Europe or the US at that point, and the 800 — arguably the more important of the two...

Nokia schedules white Lumia 800 for European release in February

2012-02-06T12:01:31Z

The Lumia family is growing in number today, courtesy of Nokia's announcement that a glossy white variant of the Lumia 800 will be released later this month. Apart from its brighter case and glossy finish, this is the same handset that's been available in cyan, magenta and black already. That means a 3.7-inch ClearBlack AMOLED display, a 1.4GHz single-core processor, and Windows Phone 7.5 enhanced with a number of preloaded Nokia apps. We've also spotted a new Ministy of Sound application for the UK, which should be coming to all Lumia handsets in that market. Nokia reminds us that app selection will differ with regions.

Besides the UK, Nokia's home nation of Finland will also be among the first to receive stock of the white Lumia 800,...

Nokia chairman warns of slow progress for 'a significant part' of 2012

2012-02-02T05:09:03Z

Nokia's shift to Windows Phone kicked off with a quarter in which the company lost $1.2 billion and saw smartphone sales decline by 31 percent, and outgoing chairman Jorma Ollila is warning that it's going to take a while to see much improvement. In comments made to Finnish national broadcaster YLE, Ollila expects to see the effects of the transition "for a significant part of the year", though Nokia hasn't officially forecast beyond the first quarter. The company remains bullish on the prospect of eventually becoming a major player in the modern smartphone world, with Ollila saying that the slow start was expected, and that Nokia has "a very good chance" of becoming one of the three dominant manufacturers. For its part, Microsoft seems m...

Nokia Lumia 800 Dark Knight Rises hands-on pictures

2011-12-15T19:08:09Z

The batphone, it's real. Alright, let's not exaggerate, this is just a Lumia 800 with an etched Batman logo on the back and some fancy packaging, but boy, does it stimulate one's inner superhero geek. The extremely limited (I've got number 16 of 40 around the globe) Lumia 800 Dark Knight Rises edition celebrates Christopher Nolan's reboot of the dark hero franchise with a set of preloaded wallpapers and a new DKR tile on the Windows Phone homescreen. Nokia promises that'll be the place where owners of the handset will receive updates on the film's progress toward release next year, though at the moment it just invites you to visit the Dark Knight Rises website. Besides the etching on the back, which features a rougher and even darker...

Nokia Lumia 710 for T-Mobile hands-on photos and impressions

2011-12-14T16:33:39Z

T-Mobile couldn't keep the Nokia Lumia 710 under wraps, but it doesn't have to any longer: today, the carrier announces that Nokia's first Windows Phone for the United States will arrive on January 11th for $49.99 on contract and after a mail-in rebate. It's no Lumia 800, but does seem like a fair price for what you're getting: a 3.7-inch display, a speedy 1.4GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of flash storage in a comfortable-to-hold frame with grippy matte surfaces. As leaked earlier today, the phone will come in both black and white (both have black rear covers) with Netflix, T-Mobile TV, Slacker Radio, ESPN and TeleNav GPS pre-installed, and like its European counterparts, you're also getting Nokia Drive's maps and turn-by-turn...

T-Mobile's Nokia Lumia 710 is official, $49.99 on January 11th

2011-12-14T15:59:04Z

Ahead of an event taking place later today in New York City, Nokia's press site has released a full data sheet and images for T-Mobile's upcoming Lumia 710. The device is largely stock — seeing how it's Windows Phone — but there's a T-Mobile logo silkscreened toward the bottom of the front and it'll come preloaded with Nokia Drive, The Weather Channel, ESPN, Netflix, App Highlights, T-Mobile TV, My Account, Slacker Radio, and TeleNav GPS. Color choices appear to be all white and all black, though the 710 can be mixed and matched with accessory battery covers to spice things up. Look for it to launch at a rather aggressive price point — $49.99 on contract — on January 11th.

Nokia Lumia 710 starts shipping

2011-12-09T12:45:42Z

Nokia's Lumia 710, the understudy to the Lumia 800 Windows Phone flagship, is finally making its way out of the factories and onto store shelves today. It was announced alongside the 800 model at Nokia World in October, however its time to market has been a tiny bit longer. Sales begin in Taiwan today, with India, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Russia following within seven days. The global rollout of this Windows Phone 7.5 handset will then continue over the coming weeks. That will include the United States, where we've recently learned that the Lumia 710 will be launched on T-Mobile's network. Nokia notes that the estimated price, before taxes and subsidies, for the 710 will be around €270, and it'll be available both on and off contract,...