The Nokia Glam Me app – the Nokia Lumia app

One of the best apps to use with any Nokia Lumia is the Nokia Glam Me app. With this app, you can give yourself a special look with only some minor adjustments. The app is designed to work with the front-facing cameras that come with the Lumia. Lighten up your face, remove the blemishes, or make any modifications manually, the Nokia Glam Me app will do all the things for you.

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With the help of this app, you can get a cool portrait of yourself. You will hardly have to make any changes as most of the times the portraits are great and enhanced. Still you can make any changes if you wish to. Once done, you are ready to share it with your friends and family on social networking sites.

The great thing about the Nokia Glam Me is that it is extremely easy to use and master. With a few tries you can easily get going and apply a range of special effects to your pictures.

If you are using Nokia Lumia 820, you will need to upgrade the software to the 1232.5951.1249.0000 version. When done, with this or any other version above this one, you will be able to use the app seamlessly.

Now pre-order Nokia Lumia 720 for Rs. 18,999

You can now own the Nokia Lumia 720 for just Rs. 18,999 thanks to a pre-order cost. The device is available on Flipkart – the online shopping mart. Nokia had already released the phone in India. However, all were waiting for the official prices to be out of the device that is available in five colors.

And now that they are known, you can go ahead to order one piece for yourself. The Nokia Lumia 720 will be accessible towards the end of this month. However, still the exact date is not known. But it is very likely that the customers will not have to wait until May.

Features of Nokia Lumia 720

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Processor

1.0 GHz Dual-core Snapdragon S4

Screen

The screen of the Nokia Lumia is 4.3” WVGA LCD screen that comes with Gorilla Glass 2.0 and Super Sensitive Touch.

Camera

6.7MP with F1.9 aperture and a Carl Zeiss lens

The camera comes with LED flash and can record videos in HD at 720 pixels with the capacity of 30 FPS (frames per second).

Front Camera

1.3MP Skype HD wide angle

RAM

512 MB of RAM

Memory

8GB (with MicroSD card can be expanded up to 64 GB)

SkyDrive Storage

7GB free

Apps

Glam Me, Cinemagraph and Smart Shoot

Nokia 105 is the cheapest entry level mobile from Nokia

Are you a first time mobile handset buyer or are you looking for a cheaper handset? Will an entry level mobile be fine for you? Whatever be your question, the Nokia 105 is your answer. It is the cheapest entry level mobile from the house of Nokia and is priced at only Rs. 1,249.

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It is the cheapest phone in its category. As a matter of fact, the buyers will be able to own a phone with a color screen. The Nokia 105 happens to be the descendant of Nokia 1280, which proved to be one of the most sold handsets for the company.

Even when it is just the entry level phone, it has rich features like the flashlight, a speaking clock and a FM radio as well.

T S Sridhar, who is the Regional General Manager (South), Nokia India, said that the introduction of Nokia 105 translates to the end of the age of black and white screens for the Indian markets.

Mobile sales grow in India by 20% with Nokia on top

When on one hand Nokia was facing tough competition from companies like Apple in the Smartphone business, the company has managed to retain the top position in the Indian mobile market. The sales have grown by almost 20% and Nokia has a crucial role to play in that.

In 2011, there were 183.4 million mobile units in India. The figure had reached 221.6 million units last year – with a growth of 20%. The market share for Nokia has been the highest – at 21.8%. If the total sales were to be bifurcated, there were 206.4 million units of featurephones, while that of Smartphones, the sales were of 15.2%.

Samsung came in second with a market share of 13.7 per cent. With 6.6% of market share, Micromax finished on the third spot. As far as the market in India is concerned, the featurephones dominate this market. There is one certain indication that India is by and large the market for new phones.

However, the presence of featurephones makes the bulk of the contribution to the shipments as against the upgrades or any replacements.

Nokia targeting Indian market with Lumia 510

Nokia is trying to target an emerging market like India with their latest launch of the Nokia Lumia 510. The Lumia 510 is an internet-ready windows based phone. The best thing is that the phone costs about $199 – slightly more than Rs. 10,000. As the phone is built to target the emerging markets, it would be sold in India, China and some countries in the Latin American region.

The Lumia 510 stands at the eighth position in the Lumia series that run of Windows OS. A lot of hopes for Nokia are pinned on the success of Lumia 510. Actually, the company is making efforts to gain back the traction with the help of this phone. The situation does not look too cozy for Nokia as they have already lost about $1.26 billion for third quarter.

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The sales of this range of Smartphones came down from 2.9 million units from where it was about 4 million units in the preceding quarter. Life became difficult for Nokia after iPhone was launched in 2007. Until then Nokia was the undisputed leader in the world of Smartphone market. In the last five years, the devices with Apple’s iOS as well as Google’s Android have dominated the market.

The Nokia Lumia 510 is a combination of Windows Phone as well as a low-priced gadget, said Mr. Jo Harlow, who is the executive vice president of Nokia's smart devices business.

Nokia brings down Smartphone prices before new launch

Nokia has been facing a horrid time in the market. And now as they are going to launch the Smartphone, they have decided to cut down on the prices already. The cut is expected to be anywhere between 10% and 15%. The prices will be brought down on the top two models in the Smartphone range.

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The price cut is done in the hope of boosting the sales. The price of Lumia 800 was cut by around 15% and that of Lumia 900 by 10%. The price cut has been brought into effect for the European region. This month the company has already launched a couple of Lumia phones – the Lumia 820 and the Lumia 920.

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Experts and buffs in the field take this launch as one of the most important for the company and feel that the very existence of Nokia is based on these two phones. However, the phones can be brought in the market only in November. That means the company has to make do with the older phones for the entire October, which might prove to be a challenging task.

Life has indeed been tough for Nokia. The company has lost as many as $3.86 billion in a year and a half. Moreover, Nokia also had to face tough competition from other companies and fell behind in the race.

Top features of Windows Phone 8

Microsoft has recently raised the drapes from their newest operating system for mobiles. They claim it to be the best ever by them in the history. We had reported that the OS will be used for the upcoming Nokia Lumiaphones – the Lumia 910 and 920. Let us have a look at what makes it so special.

Bigger and clear screens

The new Windows Phone 8 can support two types of screen resolutions – 1280 X 720 and 1280 X 768 respectively. This can make it go with the latest handsets as well that have the high definition 720p displays.

The IE 10

The new version of the phone is equipped with the unchanged explorer – the same that will be seen in the tablets and the PCs powered by Windows 8. Microsoft claims the Internet Explorer 10 to be safer and faster than before. it also comes with SmartScreen Filter – the anti-phishing element in the program that will make surfing more secure than before.

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Increased storage

The new Windows phone supports the removable MicroSD cards making space for more storage. There is literally no limit to what the users can store. There will a lot of space for images, photos, music, films and whatever the important data the users have to keep safe.

Wallet

There are a couple of things the new Windows phone 8 Wallet can carry out for you. If you pair it up with a safe SIM card, you can make payments just with the tap of the phone. It can also keep your credit and debit cards, your boarding passes and any other key information with you.

Improved maps and better apps

The Windows phone has used the Nokia mapping for their platform. It makes available lots of details with turns and directions. The data has been lifted from lots of countries. Apart from that there will be breathtaking apps and games that will make you glued to the new Windows phone.

Nokia may announce Lumia 910, 920 Windows Phone 8 gadgets

It is expected that Nokia might soon announce the Windows Phone 8 based devices – the Lumia 910 and 920. For that purpose, the Finnish company is likely to organize a world event. It is still unsure if the mobile company will indeed launch the two devices any soon. But if it ever does, there will be a certain edge for Nokia.

The Windows Phone 8 is expected to support loads of fresh and new features. Among them it might particularly be designed to cope up with the multi-core CPUs. Apart from that it will also go well with the “Live Tiles” – the iconic application of the OS.

Some days ago, WPDang had made the names of the handsets public that would use the Windows Phone 8. The screenshot below shows the same.

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Microsoft had recently announced that their mobile OS is one of the most developed systems Microsoft has made till date. There are lots of new features introduced by Microsoft in the new app. It also has start screen that you can use according to your choice.

Microsoft and Nokia to invest for a mobile app

Nokia along with Microsoft will be investing an amount of €9 million each. A total of €18 million will be invested for developing a mobile app. The two giant companies are funding the amount to have the AppCampus program. The companies are expected to use it for at least three years.

The new app will be built around Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile OS. The hope is that entrepreneurs and students from around the world will come to Finland to help in the development of the AppCampus program.

The main aim of AppCampus program is to promote an innovative mobile app for Windows phone. It will be used in the ecosystem of the phone, the Nokia platforms that will also include the Symbian and Series 40.

The investment is aimed at having software for Smartphones for the Windows phone. The Aalto University will be managing the development of this program. Those who are interested can apply here.

The candidates selected after the application process will be given training in design and usability as well as in mobile technology. A lot more is to follow for the successful candidates in the future.

The Nokia Windows 8 Tablet May Be Out By The Yearend

Nokia is expected to bring out the Nokia Windows 8 tablet by the end of 2012. According to the reports in the tech world, Nokia is up and ready to face the competition in the tablet category. The 10” tablet is likely to have a dual-core Qualcomm processor and the Windows 8 OS.

The Nokia Lumia 900 has already started making waves in the United States even before its entry in the market there. It is all braced up as an alternative to the Windows Phone and ready to take on the Smartphone market that has been dominated by Google and Apple.

Ever since Nokia patched up with Microsoft more than a year ago, it is the only company that has put a limit on their high-end Smartphone to only Windows. It has been a year that Nokia has completed stopped manufacturing Android-based Smartphones.