Review: Proporta TurboCharger 5000 – External Emergency Charger Battery Pack
The smartphone battle has been raging hard for the past few years. Until recently, the only serious contenders were Apple (iOS) and Google (Android), with RIM’s Blackberry taking a backseat to the other touchscreen wonders. Microsoft has been talking...
Got a Nokia Lumia 800 or the budget-minded Lumia 710? Wishing you had a way to load unofficial apps or otherwise tinker with Windows Phone on your device? Well, you’re in luck: forum contributors at XDA have posted instructions that could possibly...
Microsoft and Nokia are attempting to make a comeback in the mobile market through their partnership and a very nice handset in the form of the Lumia 900 (read our review). But the news isn’t all good following a successful launch, and the smartphone...
As the Lumia 900, Nokia and Microsoft’s beautiful child, comes to the market it seems like there will be more than a few new Windows Phone users soon. If you are moving from Android or iOS, you might notice that there’s not exactly as many...
When Nokia announced the PureView 808 with its whopping 41MP sensor and Carl Zeiss optics, they said it was “reasonable to expect” that they’d be offering something similar up in the future with Windows Phone. Assuming these freshly-leaked...
It’s been a little while since I’ve taken Windows Phone for a spin. In fact, the last time Windows Phone and I were hanging out it was before the big Mango update. I had spent some serious with T-Mobile’s HTC HD7 and, overall, found...
In recent months, rumors have been swirling that AT&T would be selling the next big Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 900, for the paltry sum of $99 on-contract. Today the carrier has announced that the new Lumia will indeed be going for $99.99, and...
For years, Opera has quietly dominated the mobile browsing scene. Even when the iPhone’s popularity skyrocketed, Opera’s massive installed user base kept their browser firmly in the lead. But there’s a new number one now: Android has...
Several of today’s Android phones flare out on the back to accommodate an 8MP sensor for their rear-facing cameras. Nokia says go big or go home, cramming a 41MP sensor topped with Carl Zeiss optics into the Nokia 808 Pureview. There’s no...
Steve Jobs loved clean, minimal designs. He rather famously hated cables and buttons, and he’s certainly not the only person in the tech industry to feel that gadgets should be uncluttered and beautiful. Nokia‘s design chief Marko Ahtisaari...
We know that Microsoft and Nokia have a steep hill to climb with their smartphone collaboration. The Lumia 900 looks like a great handset, but that’s no guarantee that it will gain traction with customers (remember that the Nexus One, an iconic...
2012 is an important year for Microsoft. Some would even call it a do-or-die year. Though the company is in no danger of turning into RIM anytime soon, it hasn’t been dominating like it did for the two previous decades. It fell way behind Apple...
One of the hottest devices to be announced at CES 2012 was Nokia’s Lumia 900. Nokia and Microsoft already gave us the lowdown on the big brother of the Lumia 800, but one detail that they left out was a release date. All we had to go on was “the...
With yesterday’s announcement of the Lumia 900 on AT&T, Windows Phone 7 finally has a flagship phone in the US. While there have already been mid-to-high-end Windows Phones from HTC and Samsung, this is the first stateside offering from the...