I’ve been waiting for a long time to get my hands on a Windows Phone 8 trial device, and my wait was over a couple of weeks ago. Having using my Lumia 800 for almost a year, I thought it was the fastest phone out there. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t say the best spec’d phone, just the fastest. I would soon discover that the 920 managed way better than I thought it would.

First of all I have got to tell you that I’m a sucker for Nokia’s Fabula design. I loved the N9 when it first came out, and then the Lumia 800 (which I own). Needless to say that I was very excited when Nokia announced the Lumia 920 with the same design language. You may notice that I’m not mentioning the Lumia 900, because IMO it’s not the same thing. As opposed to the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 920, the 900 doesn’t feature curved glass on the display. I think the curved glass redefines the mobile experience on smartphones.
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Quite late, but better late than never, Lumia 900 knocked on my door 2 weeks ago. I had the opportunity to try the Nokia Lumia 900 and I was curious, as I’ve been a user of Lumia 800 in the past. It was time to check out the big brother of Lumia 800 and see where it stands.

Lumia 900 was announced and launched in most of the countries, except the India (I never understood why!).  Anyway, it was finally launched in India when everybody was waiting for Lumia 820/920.

Box and Package

Sales Package contains following items with Lumia 900:

• Nokia Lumia 900
• Nokia Fast USB Charger (AC-16U)
• Nokia Charging and Data Cable (CA-190CD)
• Quick Guide and Product Information Bulletin
• SIM Door Key

Sadly, you’ll have to buy an adapter to plug of charger in our Indian sockets. The package also includes a SIM Door Key to open the SIM Door and pull out the microSIM tray.

KEY FEATURES & SPECIFICATION

• 4.3″ AMOLED ClearBlack display with WVGA 800×480 resolution
• 1.4 GHz Qualcomm S2 APQ8055 CPU with 512MB RAM
• Adreno 205 GPU
• 16 GB internal user memory
• Windows Phone 7.8
• Integrated GPS, A-GPS receiversAccelerometer for correct orientation of displayNokia Drive with free drive and walk navigation
• 8 MP camera with Carl Zeiss Lense and Dual LED Flash

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Long awaited Lumia 620 is finally launched in India. It is available at the Nokia’s Online Store in partnership with IndiaTimes at http://nokia.indiatimes.com for Rs. 14,900 with discount. That’s a pretty good price.

Lumia 620 is low end WP 8 device. Lumia 620 sports SNAPDRAGON S4 1.0 GHz Dual Core processor and 512MB RAM. It has 3.8″ screen with 800×480 pixel resolution.

What do you think about the phone and it’s pricing? Good eh? Let us know in comments or at @NokiaTips  :-)

 

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One of the most complex things that everyone does with their smartphones is personal tasks management. Everyone hates adding todos and organizing them into lists and everything. Windows Phone was designed to simple and minimal, and the app that I’m about to introduce respects that in every way. I almost gave up using Todo list software until I encountered this little app. I was using the built OneNote for the most simple of things. No more. Don’t get me wrong, I still use OneNote, but not for such trivial things.

Sooner or later offers you the ability to add todos in a quick and effective manner, into 3 separate categories: Soon, Later and Scheduled. The Soon category also appears on the live tile, should you choose to pin it to the homescren. You can move items between the three categories as well as completing them… or not. Undecided right? Well, Sooner or Later offers you the ability to set your todo as complete or to move it to the “never” list, in case you changed your mind about it.

The adding process is painless and the input needed from the user is minimal, just type your todo text and you’re done. You do have the ability to add a more detailed description, and for scheduled todos add a date when they’re supposed to expire.

Moving todos and changing their status from complete to never or the other way around is done by simply tapping the todo entry. A menu will appear allowing you to edit, or move the entry to other lists.

You can head over to the Sooner or Later Markeplace page to give it a try.

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Social sharing is a big and integral part of Windows Phone, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have it’s shortcomings. Photo sharing is one of those shortcomings. It’s easy to post a message on all your social networks but when it comes to pictures, you have to manually upload it to each social network at a time. Did you ever wondered what you would do if you had two Twitter or Facebook accounts? Windows Phone only supports one of them. How about posting to your Facebook Page? Windows Phone has no support for that whatsoever.

This is where SN Upload comes to the rescue. The app allows you to choose or take a photo and upload it to all your accounts at once. You can have as many Twitter and Facebook accounts as you want. SN Upload supports Facebook pages too, not to mention Flickr and Dropbox.

For each photo you upload you can select the accounts where that photo should be uploaded to. For capped or slow data connections the app offers the ability to resize the photo before uploading it which improves the upload speed considerably.

SN Upload started as a Twitter and Facebook only uploader, but has evolved the past few months to now include Facebook Pages, Flickr and Dropbox. And it’s only at version 1.7(pending approval).

The application is pretty simple to use, has a tabbed interface, just like any other Windows Phone hub. The first panel greets you with a photo slot, a message box and an upload button. The accounts you have selected to upload to, are displayed above the message box. Tapping the accounts label takes you to the accounts panel.

In the accounts panel, you can see all your accounts and select which ones you would like to upload to. Adding another account is just one step away. All you need to do is tap the “…” menu and choose which type of account you want to add. In case your Facebook pages have changed(you became admin to new ones, or removed some page) you can use the same menu and tap the “refresh facebook pages” option to update the pages you administer.

Next comes the settings panel where you can select the dimension you wish to resize your photos to before uploading. Here you have 4 choices Small(640×480), Medium(1024×768), Large (1600×1200) and Original(original file resolution). You should note that if you choose the original resolution it may take some time before SN Upload posts your photos on all your accounts, because the photo in question may be large. If you choose to resize your photos, your uploads will take very little time to complete, because the size of the resized image is around 90% smaller than the original image hence increasing the speed of the upload.

SN Upload can be used by opening the app and selecting a photo from the gallery by tapping on the image slot, or by simply using the Pictures Hub share menu when viewing an image.

The app is available for all Windows Phone with version 7.5 and above. It and has a 3 days trial and can be downloaded from here: SNUpload for Windows Phone.

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As we reported at No More Swype For Symbian Now? , Swype stopped working on Symbian almost one and a half month back. However, as said at Fix For Swype For Symbian Is Available , we got a fix for it but it required hacking.

Guys at Swype did promise about a new update extending the beta trial.  Finally, we have received a new beta build which is working, again.

Hey there Symbian users. We’ve made a small patch for those of you who’ve experienced the timeout on S^3 and S60. Click that download link over there to find the update. We’ll be watching the forums so reach out if you experience any problems.  Thanks Symbian Swypers for all of your dedication, and I hope your Swyping finger isn’t too lazy from the holiday feasting.

In the spirit of Symbian and 2013, we’re giving away some Swype gear at www.facebook.com/swype. Head on over and try your luck

More to come!

Peter @ Swype

Head to Betalabs to download the new built.

I was one of those who was lazy to hack and use a fix. Finally after 40 days, it feels great to be back on swype, what about you?

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