Microsoft and Nokia will be running free development workshops for the former’s Windows Phone OS, starting from next weekend. If you’re digging WP7 and call Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Auckland your usual habitat, then you might want to check them out. Yes, it’s about as short notice as you can get, with the first event scheduled for February 16-17, but MS and Nokia plan to hand out one or more Nokia Lumia handsets, which sweetens the deal significantly. More »
OK, there are still no prices or an exact release date, but Nokia has confirmed that the Lumia 800 will go on sale through Optus, Telstra and Vodafone in March. More »
The players in the smartphone OS market that we talk about most often at Lifehacker – iOS and Android — essentially work on a “one platform to rule them all” strategy, and seem to do pretty well out of it. But does that mean that every manufacturer should follow that template? More »
Nokia has released a list of the most popular Ovi downloads within Australia. That list suggests that productivity apps are not high on the priority list for most Ovi users. More »
We’d be lying if we said Symbian phones got a whole lot of attention here at Lifehacker, but they do still represent a large chunk of the market. The new Nokia N8, which is being pushed as a serious photography device as well as an apps platform, will go on sale across all the main carriers on November 1 for an outright buy price of $749. More »
iPhone owners are frequently convinced they see other iDevices everywhere they look. Android owners believe they’re poised to take over the universe. But current sales and future projections on smart phone ownership from Gartner show that the mobile world is more complex and more diverse than we give it credit for. More »
Nokia’s Sports Tracker service for users of Nokia mobiles was well-regarded enough to rank in our Hive Five of exercise planning and tracking tools last year. However, Nokia has decided to ditch the system, and current users only have until the end of August to migrate their data to the newly named (but entirely separate) Sports Tracker service. More »
Nokia’s Ovi maps already offer free traffic information and customisable voice prompts on Nokia smart phones. Now it can also hunt down entertainment options after integrating listings from Time Out. More »
