Nokia Launches Lumia 920T (for China) And Lumia 620, Running Windows Phone 8

Nokia has launched two more devices, one a China-specific version of the Lumia 920, and the other is a Lumia 620, a low end device.

The Lumia 920T is basically the same Lumia 920, except it supports China’s TD-SCDMA bands. Nokia launched it at an event in Guangzhou, along with China Mobile. China is the largest smartphone market, and China Mobile is the biggest telecom provider of the country, so…

Google Now Updated, Brings ‘Search With Camera’ And More

Google has updated its Search app, Google Now, bringing a slew of new features, among which there is this ‘Search with Camera’ which will allow you to point your phone at articles in museums and shops and find information straight away. Something that Google Goggles does, albeit the latter does a lot more than this.

Windows Phone Store Now Let’s You Side-load Apps, Sort Of

Ah, side-loading. Android has had this feature, and Symbian too. You can side-load apps on your iPhone after jailbreaking it. But on Windows Phone, you cannot, no matter what (only if you’ve dev-unlocked it etc), you cannot side-load an app. Microsoft, however, had mentioned that you can side-load apps starting with Windows Phone 8. No one knew how, though, but the Windows Phone Marketplace Store received a facelift recently,…

Samsung Will Update The Galaxy S Advance To Jelly Bean, After All

There were these reports flying in about Samsung retracting on its words that it’d update the Galaxy S Advance to Ice Cream Sandwich/Jelly Bean, after one of the Samsung accounts of Facebook said that the update will be pushed. Today, via Facebook again, Samsung said that the update will be pushed out in January.

Windows Phone 7.8 To Arrive In Early 2013 To Your Device, If You’re Lucky Enough

Microsoft finally spoke up on the Windows Phone 7.8 availability, today. They announced that the update will be pushed out in early 2013, Q1 hopefully, and that it will bring the existing Windows Phones as close as possible to Windows Phone 8, so you don’t feel as left out as you are at the moment.

LG Nexus 4 Gets Its First Official CM10.1 Nightly, Nexus 10 Next

I love the CyanogenMod guys. And they’re really, really fast, so they’ve now pushed out the first CM10.1 nightly, based on 4.2 Jelly Bean, for the new Nexus phone, the Nexus 4.

The Nexus 4 is the first device to get a 4.2-based CM10.1 ROM, with the Nexus 10 tablet which will follow soon enough. The…

Galaxy Nexus Getting The Android 4.2.1 OTA Too, Brings Back December

Oh, you remember Google had removed December in the People app in the 4.2 update? They promised to fix it, and sure they have. The Android 4.2.1 update is now rolling out for both the Takju and Yakju variants of the Galaxy Nexus, and it’s a small update, worth about an MB, approximately.

That…

Your App Reviews On Google Play Will Now Link To Your Google+ Profile

…if you have one, that is.

It’s a nice new update, which should hopefully reduce the number of spammy reviews, and fake comments from anon users.  Apart from that, it’s also hitting two birds with one stone – pump up the number of Google+ users. Of course, that is another thing, but yeah.

I haven’t seen any such notification yet, even when I’ve logged in and out of Play store web…

“Apollo+” Update To Windows Phone 8 Will Add Features Which Missed The Train

Remember how there were talks about Microsoft rushing the Windows Phone 8 software, and some of the important features being skipped so as to ship the shiny new version to the OEMs for their Windows Phone 8 devices. Nokia insiders also tell that Microsoft gave them the new version…

Damian Dinning To Leave Nokia At The End Of November

Shocker, but not really. Damian Dinning, or @PhoneDaz, is leaving Nokia at the end of this month. If you still don’t know who he is, then he’s the vision behind the PureView technology which wowed the world when Nokia launched the 808 PureView. Or Nokia’s Imaging lead, in other words. For a company proud of its Imaging…

Samsung Launches Galaxy Camera In India, Priced At Rs. 29,900

Samsung launched its Camera-Smartphone hybrid, the Galaxy Camera in India, today. The Camera runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and comes with a 4.8″ Super Clear LCD display of HD resolution.

On the camera front, there’s a 16.3 MP unit, with a Xenon flash and 21x optical zoom. There’s support for optical image stabilization,…

Plume And Apollo Now Support Lockscreen Widgets On Android 4.2

It was going to happen, but I hadn’t thought it would happen so soon. Plume and Apollo are the one of the first few apps to support the brand new Lockscreen Widgets feature in Android 4.2. And guess what, they just helped me in getting rid of that annoying annoying clock on the lockscreen. Couldn’t have been any happier.