Nokia BH-121 Bluetooth Stereo Headset with NFC gets introduced

The Finnish smartphone manufacturer unveiled it's next generation headset for Nokia Lumia and Asha smartphones, earlier yesterday.

Keeping up the behavior, the company announced the Nokia BH-121 stereo headset with brighter color patterns, and if our are known to Nokia, these colors won't be strange either. Hitting in classy Cyan, Red, Blue, Yellow and Black, these new accessory from Nokia marks it's measurements about 39 x 39 x 12 millimeters in dimensions.

The unit consists of a centered Play button for playing music and answer calls, volume up and down rockers with track controls on each sides, Bluetooth and Near Field Communication (NFC) for better connectivity and pairing, all combined with a 3.5 millimeters headphone jack and microUSB port at the bottom.

The Nokia BH-121 comes with the same color pair of noise blocking in-ear headphones, and supports advance Bluetooth features like, HFP/HSP and/or A2DP/AVRCP profiles as seen in smartphones like, Lumia 1520, 1320, 1020, 925, 625, 525, with Asha 503 and 501 handsets.

Nokia plans to start the sales by this month, and you will be able to grab one of these headsets for about 54 USD each.

Source: Nokia, Pocketnow

Verizon Nokia Lumia 929 leaks in live image along with battery information

The previously heard and seen, Verizon branded Nokia Lumia 929 shows up once again in a leaked live photograph along with the listing of it's battery life, being ignited at 2,510mAh power juice.

Other than what to be believed, we let you speculate the new United Sates based model of Finnish Nokia's unannounced Windows Phone, which is to arrive with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, five-inches Full High Definition screen of 1080p resolution display, 32 gigabytes of on board storage memory, two gigabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM) and a 20 megapixels PureView Carl Zeiss lens camera on the back. The handset is rumored to arrive on the Stateside's 'Big Red' carrier Verizon Wireless by mid-to-late December.

Source: Windows Phone Central

Nokia goes official with budget priced Lumia 525

Nokia announces Lumia 525, a successor to it's one of the best ever sold budget friendly Windows Phone 8 smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 520. The new 'Eye Candy' comes with an upgraded Random Access Memory (RAM) from the previous 512 megabytes to a complete gigabyte power, keeping up the traditional Lumia polycarbonate chassis.

The new Lumia member packs a Dual-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset clocked at 1GHz, four-inches IPS LCD screen of WVGA 800 x 480 resolution display marked at 235 pixels-per-inch, eight gigabytes of mass memory (expandable via microSD card slot), 1 gigabyte of RAM, five megapixels primary camera gearing-up a 1/4-inch sensor capable of shooting 720p videos, Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, 1,430mAh powered battery and Windows Phone 8 with Lumia Black operating system. The handset is measured at 119.9 x 64 x 9.9 millimeters in size, 124 grams in weight and comes with Black, Red, White and Yellow. The Lumia 525 arrives with additional seven gigabytes of free cloud storage on SkyDrive.

We still have no specific details on the phone's availability or pricing yet from Nokia, but according to sources lines, we suspect the price to fall in line about $180 for an off-contract model and shipping detailed by next month, December.

Source: Nokia, Engadget

Nokia's new accessory, DC-50 wireless charger unveiled

We saw Nokia introducing a bunch of devices this past Tuesday in their Official Press Event held in Nokia World, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Finns not only brought smartphones or tablets, but also an updated variant of it's wireless charger, dubbed as the Nokia DC-50.

This new accessory from the Finnish company is portable. Why portable? Well you can now wireless charge you handset on the move. The basic idea behind this new charger from Nokia is to use it as an extra power juice for your smartphone when your travelling, and for the best part, when it runs out of power, you can simply place it on top of another Qi enabled wireless charger, or charge in the old fashioned way by plugging in with an included microUSB cable. Yes, the device itself charges wireless too.

The unit is out from the Finnish people in special recommendation for it's 2013 six-incher and the company's first ever 1080p phablet, the Lumia 1520. You can also use this accessory for other Qi wireless charging enabled devices. The Nokia DC-50 wireless charger is out in six new colors, Yellow, White, Blue and Red, where is measured at 69 x 134 x 12 millimeters in dimensions and 150 grams in weight.

Source: Nokia

Instagram finally making it's way to Windows Phone

It was not only WhatsApp that was talked in today's Nokia's Press Event, but also the very long awaited, the world's popular and one of the best photo sharing application, Instagram which is soon to make it's appearance officially on Windows Phone or the Windows Phone Store to be exact.

Users of 6tag application (an unofficial full support Instagram client) on Windows Phone can now switch to the official app in a few weeks, as Instagram's CEO and Co-Founder, Kevin Systrom today confirmed that Windows Phone will get their treatment of this application in the coming days. "Our ultimate goal is to bring Instagram to everyone who wants to use it," added Systrom.

Lumia 1320 introduced at Nokia World

After the launch of it's first ever upsized smartphone, the company has announced yet another phablet, the Lumia 1320, a budget friendly handset from the labs of the Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation, Nokia at their Press Event in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The Phone will feature a Dual-Core Krait processor clocked at 1.7GHz, the same six-inches screen with Full High Definition IPS LCD display and 720p resolution, eight gigabytes of on board storage (expandable via microSD card slot), 1 gigabyte of Random Access Memory (RAM), 5 megapixels primary camera with LED flash light, LTE support, 3,400mAh powered battery and runs on Windows Phone 8 General Distribution 3 (GDR3) operating system and Lumia Black software update.

The phablet will be out in White, Orange, Yellow and Black, where it is scheduled to be available by the starting of next year, in most of the Asian and European markets at a price of $339.

Nokia officially announces Lumia 1520

The long rumored and leaked, one of the most awaited handset from the Finnish manufacturer, a supersize of it's 2013 flagship Lumia 1020, out from the traditional polycarbonate chassis, the company's first ever 1080p resolution screen phablet with PureView camera, the Nokia Lumia 1520 previously also codemaned as Bandit, is now official at the company's Press Event held this morning at Nokia World, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

This new humongous Nokia creation will pack a Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC running at 2.2GHz, six-inches screen of 1080p resolution Full High Definition IPS Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) with 368 pixel density and Super Sensitive touch in protection of Corning Gorilla Glass 2, 32 gigabytes of internal storage (expandable via microSD card slot), 2 gigs of Random Access Memory (RAM).

Now the 26 millimeters wide angle lens of 20 megapixels PureView camera with 6-lens Carl Zeiss optics, installed with a 1/2.5-inches BSI sensor and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) technology, capable of oversampling photos with smaller resolution, lower noise and lossless zooming. Video samples comes out at 1080p at 30 frames-per-second.

From the connectivity department, the Nokia made Lumia 1520 will come out of the box with Bluetooth 4.0, LTE support upto 150 Mbps, Near Field Communication (NFC), WiFi and microUSB 2.0. The smartphone also sports a 3,400mAh powered battery life, compromising 32 days of standby and 124 hours of music playback. On the software, the new Lumia will come with Microsoft and Nokia's latest Windows 8 with Lumia Black update. 1520 is 8.7 millimeters in thickness and weighs 209 grams.

Nokia Lumia 1520 will be available in Red, White, Yellow and Black, which is expected to be available in China, Singapore, United Kingdom, France, Germany and in many other European countries by this late autumn, at a price of $749. For United States, the phone will remain as a AT&T exclusive.

Nokia teasing new featured devices for October 22 Event

Heard about Nokia's Event taking place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on October 22nd? Well, you probably read this earlier, not once but twice. And now the company is on a roll, teasing all our emotions with three new Finnish devices.

The new picture arrives from the Finns with most talked, rumored and leaked in the recent times, on the left is probably the Nokia's phablet, the Lumia 1520, rumored to feature the company's first ever six-inches screen of 1080p resolution display and Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 800 SoC.

One the center we get to see the company's previously rumored, first ever Finnish manufactured tablet, the Lumia 2520, which is supposed to be a Windows RT collection from the creations of Nokia, rumored to feature a 1080p screen, Snapdragon 800 chipset and a kickstand.

Last, but not the least, on the right we are seeing a new note book like device. We had talked about Nokia's plans of introducing half a dozen of devices, and for the fans of personal computers, we have something special for you people. Remember the Nokia made Booklet, back in 2009, we seriously hope the company plans to introduce back a notebook computer capable of supporting fourth generation (4G) LTE. Unfortunately, we don't have any reliable news about this at the moment, other than the picture from the teaser.

Source: Nokia

Nokia Lumia 1520's name and 1080p screen gets confirmed

In the lights of rumors and leaks, it was mentioned that the upcoming phablet from the Finnish multinational corporation is said to be the Nokia Lumia 1520 and will be the first ever Windows Phone with 1080p resolution display.

With the latest leak from Nokia's device link (above image) help us confirm that the upcoming Finnish six-incher will pack a 1080 x 1920 resolution display with the model name to be Lumia 1520 from the vendor Nokia. As heard earlier, Nokia will be holding a Press Event on October 22nd, where it is rumored to introduce half a dozen smartphones, in which one might be the Lumia 1520.

Source: NPU

Nokia's upcoming phablet Lumia 1520 leaks in another Press shot

It's the tipster evleaks in the game once again, now we are taking a look at the long term rumored and leaked, Nokia Lumia 1520 previously also known as Bandit in a Press image of the red color variant.

Nokia is holing a Press Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on October 22nd, when the Finnish are rumored to introduce half a dozen of devices, where we hope one to be the company's first phablet, the Lumia 1520.

We also came across the device's specs leaks, where it will be reportedly packing a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, six-inches screen of 1080p resolution display, 32 gigabytes of internal flash storage (expandable via micro-SD card slot), 2 gigs of Random Access Memory (RAM) a 20 megapixels Pure View Carl Zeiss primary camera and the latest Microsoft operating system 8 with General Distribution 3 (GDR3) on board.

Source: evleaks (Twitter)

Rumors of Nokia debuting six new devices in the October 22 Event

It has been a lot, we seen leaks, rumors, renders, live shots, hints and teasers. The Finnish multinational communication and information technology corporation, Nokia will be holding a Press Event in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on October 22nd, next month.

Today we have sources reporting that the company will be revealing not one or two, but six new devices (half a dozen). We seriously suspect one of it to be the previously leaked Nokia Lumia 1520 (also known as Bandit), a six-inch phablet with 1080p resolution display and 20 megapixels Pure View Carl Zeiss lens camera along with the rumored Nokia's first tablet add-on to the Lumia line-up. We have also heard, that the Finns are also introducing a few new accessories, in which one of it will be "pretty special" according to the reports. The others can be from the existing Asha line-up.

Source: The Verge

Nokia out's it's second teaser for October 22 Event

We know your anticipations for the first Nokia made 1080p phablet with 20 megapixels Carl Zeiss Pure View lens camera, and accordingly as the numbers are building up for the Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation's next, Nokia Lumia 1520 (aka Bandit) leaks and rumors, we see the next teaser on the company's official Twitter page.

As seen in their first teaser, where the Finns came up with an extraordinary desert skiing theme, which now seems to be a mixture of Middle Eastern sand and Finnish skiers. And now we have the Event location confirmed at the Nokia World Abu Dhabi, in the capital of United Arab Emirates. We can't just let off the new three hashtags from the above image, #closer, #wayforward and #innovationreinvented. "At Nokia, we believe in technology that brings people closer, Join us on October 22 #innovationreinvented", quoted the company.

Source: Nokia (Twitter)

Verizon Nokia Lumia 929 allegedly leaks in Press shots

Last time our Editor Mustafa Ahmed looked up the back side of the leaked Finnish's Verizon Nokia 1520 formerly codenamed as Bandit in white color. The Lumia 1520 phablet is reportedly dubbed as the Nokia Lumia 929 in the Stateside, which now shows up in a leaked Press shot.

The Nokia Lumia 929 is to be remained as the United States carrier based Verizon Wireless only version of the previously reported Lumia 1520. The device is reportedly coming in a six-inches Full High Definition 1080p resolution screen and a 20 megapixels Carl Zeiss Pure View primary camera. The Finns will be holding a Press Event as hinted earlier on October 22nd, where the units are expected to show it's face-off.

Source: evleaks (Twitter)

Nokia hints an event for October 22

With one of the latest tweet from the Finnish, it is all about expectations and anticipations! Today evening Nokia has come up with an interesting tweet in the company's official Twitter account.

We know what comes to your mind first, the long term rumored and leaked Nokia Lumia 1520 (also known as Bandit). The previously leaked Lumia 1520 could be something to expect from the Finns this time, as the company has a phablet in works. It is quite interesting to see efforts of  the Finnish multinational communication and information technology corporation, Nokia teasing the event with an extraordinary desert skiing theme, with three words, #blazing, #stories and #innovationreinvented. "At Nokia we never stop innovating. More to share on October 22 #Nokia #innovationreinvented", added the company to their Twitter feed.

Source: Nokia (Twitter)

Rumored Nokia Lumia 1520 delayed in launch date

We previously heard from our Editor Mustafa, who shared the rumored reports of the Finnish manufactured, Nokia Lumia 1520 (also known as Bandit) is reportedly launching on September 26th.

And yesterday, came up an interesting report from the same source that leaked the date of September 26th, which claims that we'll not see the phablet anytime near in September, it will be October to watch out for this Windows Phone 8 featuring the large six-inch screen and 20 megapixels Pure View 'Carl Zeiss lens' primary camera. "According to several sources, Bandit launch was pushed back. Could be 10/22," added the source in one of their latest tweet.

Source: evleaks (Twitter)

Verizon Nokia Lumia 1520 gets pictured in White color

The Nokia Lumia 1520 which was leaked a couple of weeks ago and rumored to be releasing on September 26th. From the files of leaks, the device now shows up in White color with Verizon Wireless branding on the back side.

As seen in one of the previous leak's, the camera and flashlight is now being re-positioned by the Stateside carrier, which is not something new. And now for some excitement  this carrier based variant of the Nokia Lumia 1520 is reportedly coming out of the box with a 20 megapixels 'Carl Zeiss Pure View' primary camera, as mentioned aside the camera lens.

According to the device's availability, as you see in the above image, the device will be coming out on the United States major carrier, Verizon Wireless along with AT&T by the staring of November.

Update: The above image is reportedly of the Stateside carrier Verizon branded Nokia Lumia 929.

Source: Weibo, Pocketnow

Reports of Microsoft working on Surface phone

As heard previously, the Finnish Mobile manufacturer Nokia was working on an Android unit, where Microsoft was busy experimenting a Surface based smartphone.

It was reported that, Microsoft was producing a number of Surface based smartphone prototypes. Also, according to the sources, Terry Myerson, Head of Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox Operating Systems was in charge of this Surface phone secret project. As suggestions arrive, Microsoft created these prototypes just in case whether Nokia will switch to Google's platform, as the Finnish was reportedly testing out Android for their devices or back off the deal with the company. 

But the software company reportedly pushed back from their plans entering the smartphones industry, as the Finnish, Nokia has already dominated the Windows Phone market, which is now owned by Microsoft.

Source: THE VERGE, phone Arena

HP in plans of a Windows Phone 8 smartphone

The American multinational information technology corporation, Hewlett-Packard is reportedly building up a Windows Phone 8 powered smartphone in their plants.

This United States based company is no stranger to the Android Operating System, with it's Slate tablet line-up, announced earlier this year, but now the manufacturer is entering back the smartphone industry with the rumored Windows Phone 8 smartphone. Hewlett-Packard  holds a history of manufacturing a Windows phone a few years ago named, iPAQ 210, even before the company getting it's hands into the webOperatingSystem.

We still haven't got our hands to the rumored Windows Phone 8 model of HP, but we seriously hope the phone to come out of the box with the General Distribution 3 (GDR3) installed, which may indicate the phone in featuring a 1080p resolution screen and a Quad-Core processor.

Source: MOBILEGEEKS

Expect the Nokia phablet, Lumia 1520 on September 26

Our Editor has previously reported rumored details about the Nokia Lumia 1520 (aka Bandit) and now the company is rumored to announce it's biggest Windows phablet, the Nokia Lumia 1520 on September 26th.

As, Nokia Lumia 1520 is expected to pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset, six-inches screen of 1080p resolution display, 32 gigs of internal memory (expandable via microSD card slot). The phablet is expected to be released with a huge 20 megapixel Pure View back camera. The Lumia 1520 is expected to come out of the Microsoft's latest update of Windows 8 with the General Distribution 3 (GDR3) installed. This device comes out of the box with 3,400mAh powered battery.

Source: evleaks 1, 2 (Twitter)

Upcoming Windows Phone notification center leaks

We've been hearing a lot about the notification center for the new version of Microsoft's Operating System, Windows Phone 8.1, where the above image leaks, claiming it to be previously rumored, Windows Phone notification center.

According to the words on the reports, the new refresh to the Microsoft's Operating System will add a new notification center, a live tile (as seen in the above picture) indicating the left around notifications from various applications. This new live tile on your homescreen will simply show the number of notification pending on the device, with no specific detail, reported by the source. As we already know that, Microsoft is in plans to release a GDR3 update to their current Operating System followed by the Windows Phone 8.1 refresh, we need to be waiting for it to be official.

Source: XDA-Developers, GSMArena