Displaying items by tag: Lumia

The police force in one of the world's best-known cities is being forced to junk the 36,000 Windows smartphones distributed to the force over the last two years because they are obsolete and cannot be upgraded.

In the last quarter of the 2015-16 fiscal year, Microsoft sold 1.2 million Lumia phones. Yes, that isn't a typo, the figure is correct.

Business users take note. The Lumia 650 sports a 5” OLED screen, runs Windows 10 Mobile, and is just A$299 – it has great specifications and looks for that price.

The US 60 Minutes program engaged a German company to ‘hack’ an iPhone. The result has been nearly a million media articles to date sensationally reporting the ‘hack’ and more than a little public hysteria, especially in the US.

Microsoft has released the definitive list of Nokia Lumia devices that can be upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile.

The Lumia 650 is a phone for the ‘workers’ that breaks new pricing and corporate functionality paradigms. With a 5” AMOLED display, an alloy chassis, 6.9mm thin, replaceable battery, and at 122 g – it’s a classy looking work smartphone.

A report says that not only will the long-awaited Lumia 650 have a low-key launch on 1 February 2016, but that it might be the last Lumia this year. 

Windows 10 Mobile (W10M) upgrade for existing W8.x smartphones has been delayed a month or so – expect to see it in late January.

Microsoft has a good, better, and best philosophy. The Lumia 550 is the good (lowest cost) and yet punches well above its weight. Sure there are some hardware trade-offs but they are not noticeable.

The new Windows 10 powered Lumia phones are finally on sale throughout Australia, giving Windows fans the best Windows phones that have yet ever been made.

If you pre-order Microsoft’s new Lumia 950 and 950 XL flagships running Windows 10 Mobile from Optus right now, two juicy big bonuses await those who act fast.

We all know these awesome smartphones are coming and have started to garner great interest from enterprise. The first Windows 10 Mobile smartphones are the Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950XL.

The Twittersphere is alive with #Windows10devices – the consensus is that Microsoft has offered some substantial reasons to either stay with, or swap back, to Windows 10 ecosphere.

Microsoft will unveil its newest Lumia Windows 10 phones, Surface Pro 4, Band 2 and more on 6 October 2015, which is 1am 7 October AEDT in Australia.

Microsoft last week published a Design brief covering Windows 10 Mobile hardware – for smartphones and small tablets. And Windows 10 installs passed the 100,000,000 mark.

Microsoft Devices a.k.a. Lumia have made a fantastic discovery. We are not as efficient as we could be (workwise) and waste about 5 hours per week because we do not have the right systems in place to be more productive. We could be if we all use Lumias.

The Lumia (Microsoft Devices) 640XL is a damned big smart phone that at A$399, has enormous appeal to consumer and corporate users.

The 640 and 640 XL are 4G LTE smartphones with 5” and 5.7” screens at (SRP) A$299 and $399 respectively. They will be in Australian stores and on-line from early May.

Microsoft has not conceded the high-end to iFans and FanDroids. It is just putting the touches on new Windows 10 Mobile and that will take a few more months.

Microsoft isn’t just gunning for destruction of cheap and nasty sub $100 Androids, it is seeking global smartphone domination from the bottom up.