HTC can breathe a huge sigh of relief. You may recall that they were recently served with an injunction due to some of their phones containing technologies that infringed on Nokia’s patent – in particular the HTC One series.
Fortunately this afternoon the Court of Appeals granted a stay on this injunction. HTC immediately released a statement saying, ”HTC is delighted that the Court of Appeals has granted a stay on the injunction against our products. We will immediately resume shipment of all of our devices into the UK, including the entire HTC One family. Similarly, our customers should feel confident in their ability to promote and sell all HTC devices. Even though we plan to aggressively appeal the validity decision of Nokia’s EP 0 998 024 patent, we will continue to work with our chip suppliers on alternative solutions to ensure minimal disruption to our business in the future”.
Nokia is turning to photography to empower women by teaming up with the Thomson Reuters Foundation to launch a photography competition. The pictures taken must have elements of female empowerment themes such as: leadership, courage, passion, opportunity, innovation and motherhood.
The world’s most respected photography; journalism and women rights people will judge the photos. Entrants have until 11th February 2014 to submit their picture to the Thomson Reuters Foundation website, Facebook page or viaTalenthouse.com
The 10 finalists will be chosen and contacted by 5th March for the final leg of the competition. The winner will be notified by 2nd April 2014 and will receive:
The first Thomson Reuters Foundation–Nokia Photography Award
An all-expenses paid trip to attend a week long professional training on mobile journalism organised and run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation
A Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone
Full promotion across Talenthouse’s global platform and the opportunity to have his or her work published on the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s award-winning website.
Nokia’s first Windows tablet, the Lumia 2520, is designed to work anywhere. Its vivid 10.1” HD display is designed to provide the best outdoor and indoor readability. The Lumia 2520 combines both 4G LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity, a 6.7MP camera and for the first time ever on a tablet, ZEISS optics – letting people take beautiful pictures – even in low light. It runs on Windows RT 8.1 for a highly personal and easy- to-navigate experience and also features multiple colour choices and fast-charging capability – providing up to an 80% charge in one hour. It will be available in red and white in a glossy finish as well as cyan and black in a matte finish, and is expected to start shipping in late 2013 with an estimated price of £399. Initial roll out is to begin broadly in the U.S. as well as the U.K and Finland. The Nokia Power Keyboard will be available alongside the Lumia 2520 at the recommended price of £100.
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The Nokia Lumia 2520 – exclusively available from John Lewis
Nokia Lumia 2520 – keeping you connected and letting you do more on the go
Thursday 28th November 2013 – London, UK – Nokia today announced that the Nokia Lumia 2520, the company’s first Windows tablet, will be available exclusively through The John Lewis Partnership from December 4th. Priced at only £399.99, the Lumia 2520 features 4G connectivity, a stunning 10.1” full HD display, quad core chipset, multiple colour choices, 11 hours of battery life and super-fast-charging capabilities.
“In a market of me-too products, the Nokia Lumia 2520 stands out from the crowd with its unique Lumia design, great hardware and exclusive software experiences,” said Conor Pierce, Nokia’s General Manager for the UK & Ireland. “The Nokia Lumia 2520 is the first truly connected tablet and we look forward to working with John Lewis to bring this amazing connected experience to their customers.”
Premium Design Meets Maximum Function
The Lumia 2520 builds on the beautiful Lumia design and comes in a number of stunning colours, including a gloss finished red and a beautiful black silk finish. The Lumia 2520 is designed to work anywhere as it sports a bright 10.1-inch full HD display giving the best outdoor and indoor readability possible. Also, for the first time, ZEISS optics appears on a tablet alongside Nokia’s highly praised camera applications. The Lumia 2520 has a 6.7 megapixel rear camera with f1.9 aperture, providing great low-light images, and also features a 2 megapixel front-facing camera for high quality video calls. Concerns about power are a thing of the past, as the Lumia 2520 provides up to 11 hours of battery life during video playback and has support for fast-charging; giving you up to 80% charge in just one hour.
Harry Boughton, junior buyer for tablets and telecoms says, “We’re very excited to announce the launch of the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet exclusive to John Lewis. We have seen a continuing demand for tablets, selling one every 15 seconds, and we think the addition of this tablet to our range will appeal to customers looking to do more than surf the web. It comes with the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system and Microsoft Office is pre-installed, making it ideal for customers who use Excel, Word, PowerPoint or Outlook. It is also 4G enabled so customers can use super-fast mobile broadband to always stay connected.”
Unique and Connected Lumia Tablet Experiences
The Lumia 2520 also comes with a number of unique software experiences that are exclusive to the Lumia family, including the excellent “Dragons Adventure” application, developed in partnership with DreamWorks Animation. Working together with the HERE Maps and LiveSight applications it offers a unique augmented reality experience, Dragons Adventure simply turns every journey into a “How to Train Your Dragon” themed experience.
Nokia Storyteller reinvents the way you relive your stories. Built into the Lumia 2520, it automatically compiles your pictures into a single timeline with great HERE maps integration – including images from Facebook, SkyDrive, Picasa, Flickr and even your Lumia smartphone. The Lumia Share application also allows your Lumia smartphone to interact with your Lumia 2520 and view all your images within Storyteller, simply connecting via inbuilt NFC.
The Lumia 2520 also sees the introduction of Nokia Video Director, a new video editing software that lets you get even more creative with videos captured on both the Nokia Lumia 2520 and companion Lumia smartphones. Shoot a video on your Lumia smartphone, share with the Lumia 2520 and edit it with predefined templates on your tablet.
With industry-leading HERE Maps, the Lumia 2520 is the only tablet with true offline map support for a fast and reliable maps experience. The Lumia 2520 also includes an exclusive version of Nokia Mix Radio preinstalled, providing a super-rich music discovery experience.
Stay Connected, Getting More Done On the Go
With the Lumia 2520 not only do you get great battery life, you also have the full Microsoft Outlook experience, making it easy to finish off your pending mails no matter where you are. With Microsoft Office built in, you can view and edit your Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on the move, while keeping the original formatting. Back up documents to free and secure cloud storage via SkyDrive to pick up where you left off, using any device.
Nokia Lumia 2520 will go on sale at The John Lewis Partnership on Wednesday 4th December and will be priced at £399.99. In addition, the Nokia Power Keyboard Case, giving you an additional 5hrs of battery life and two full size USB 2.0 ports, will be available from John Lewis in the coming weeks and will be priced at £149.95.
Nokia Lumia 2520
Operating system
Windows RT 8.1
Display
10.1” 1080p full HD (1920×1080) AH-IPS Capacitive? Multi-Touch Display, High Brightness with Low Reflectance for the best outdoor readability, Gorilla Glass 2
Battery
8000mAh battery with up to 11 hours of video playback (up to 16 hours with Nokia Power Keyboard)
Processor
2.2GHz Quad Core Snapdragon 800 by Qualcomm
Main camera
6.7MP Auto Focus ZEISS optics with f1.9 aperture
Front facing camera
2MP HD wide-angle
Memory
2GB RAM, 32 GB internal user memory, micro SD card support up to 32GB, SkyDrive cloud storage
HERE location services
Free global HERE Maps
About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia’s technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia
After almost losing it all out in the mobile phone market, Nokia is back with a bang, with its latest offering, Nokia 2520 tablet.
This Windows RT 8.1 powered device, will impress you, as soon as you put your eyes over it. The tab continues Lumia’s superb designing legacy.
On the exterior, the tab boasts a micro-HDMI and a USB 3.0 port. Apart from that, the speakers have been embedded in the rear. Although it does give the overall look an advantage, but the sound gets depleted.
After the design, it’s the screen that’ll attract you. 2520’s screen has a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, which looks stunning on a 10.1 inch screen. With Clearback Technology, the screen has been designed to provide you with a perfect and crisp display, even in broad daylight. It does means that the brightness of the device will remain at an all time high in daylight, but if Nokia’s to be believed, their latest customized firmware, intelligently controls the brightness, giving you a battery life of around 11-hours, at maximum brightness.
On the performance front, the tablet is powered by Qualcomm 8974 chipset running at 2.3GHz, packed with 2GB of RAM, making the already butter smooth experience of WP 8, even more delightful.
The connectivity features include:
4G LTE
NFC
Wi-Fi Direct
Thus, the phone remains future proof!
The tab has a 6.7-megapixel Nokia PureView rear, and a 2MP front cam. The quality of the pictures is pretty decent.
2520’s “Power keyboard” accessory provides you with a physical keyboard, meanwhile extending the battery backup of the device by 5 hours!
The successful Lumia series is back with a new lineup of two phablets, Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1320. This is the first time Nokia has come up with phablets.
Lumia 1320 manages to pack a 6-inch 720p IPS Clearback display, and is powered by a dual-core 1.7 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon. It runs the latest windows phone 8 operating system, and with 1GB of RAM, multi tasking becomes a piece of cake. Apart from that, Lumia 1320 has an 8GB of internal memory.
The 5.0 MP camera in this phablet is, as expected from the Lumia series, good. The Lumia 1320, bundled with a 3400mAh battery, represents the best deal of the bunch.
The Lumia 1520 is Nokia’s high-end “phablet” and a powerhouse of productivity, featuring a six inch 1080p display, and a qualcomm snapdragon 800 2.2 GHz Quad-core CPU powering it. The Lumia 1520 is Nokia’s first update 3 device featuring the Lumia “Black” firmware, a rolling cover and a 20 MP camera with a F/2.0 lens which gives you a clear shot. The device also has a 32 GB of internal storage, expandable to 64GB, which will give you enough space. Aa 2 GB of RAM, making multi-tasking an easy affair. Also, the 1520 has a massive 3400 mAh battery.
Compared to Lumias, the 1520 has 4 high-amplitude audio capture (HAAC) microphones on board to give it excellent audio fidelity, on calls and while recording videos. Lumia 1520 also features a new refocus lens and several productivity apps from NOKIA.
It is available in 4 colours including yellow, white, black and glossy red.
The kicker is that both 1520 and 1320 both support 4G LTE and HSPA+ connectivity. And both of have NFC and DLNA which will make sharing fun.
