Category: Exclusive look
-
Long Forgotten Codenames
•
During 2014, Nokia was working on several products which never saw the light of the day, while some got publicly shed light upon during the past few years separating us from 2014, not all of them got out either. We are bringing you, the list of some phones Nokia was…
-
Meet Microsoft Guilin, the short lived Lumia 730/735 successor
•
In September 2014 Microsoft Mobile, the newly re-branded Nokia Mobile division, revealed the Lumia 730/735 & the Lumia 830 to the world at IFA Berlin. The new Lumia 730 was marketed as a super selfie phone. Being the only phone in the Lumia lineup with the biggest front camera sensor…
-
The first Lumia Icon
•
The Lumia Icon was one of the first Nokia phones to feature a brand new design trend. Codenamed Vanquish, it featured a completely different design, made of new materials, compared to previous Lumia devices. A premium metal frame with a colorful polycarbonate back shell made the phone feel solid and…
-
Meet Vega, Nokia’s stepping stone into the world of tablet computing
•
In 2012, Nokia released the Lumia 920 to the market, one of the first Lumias to run Windows Phone 8.0, using the Windows NT technology. At the same time, Microsoft released Windows 8, and specifically Windows RT, the version of Windows designed to run on ARM processors. The Microsoft Surface…
-
This is the last Moonraker firmware ever made
•
In the last post we gave you an in-depth look at Nokia’s cancelled smartwatch, codename “Moonraker”, running the pre-installed firmware. It offered a pretty good experience but it was clear that it was a pretty early version. The companion app (codename “Q”) has a tempting firmware update button and after…
-
The Microsoft Smartwatch that never was, meet Microsoft Moonraker
•
The Windows Phone ecosystem always lacked a real smartwatch. The Microsoft Band was introduced in 2014 and if you were, or still are a Windows Phone enthusiast you probably owned one because, well, it was the only first-party device close enough to a smartwatch. Although it wasn’t a bad device, it…
-
This was Microsoft’s vision for the Xbox Smartwatch
•
In 2013 there were rumors about Microsoft working on some sort of smartwatch created by the Xbox team. You now know it as the Microsoft Band but it turns out that wasn’t their first try. In 2012 they had created a Xbox branded smartwatch, codename Joule. It wasn’t more than…
-
Pen support on a Windows Phone? Microsoft experimented with it
•
Some months ago WindowsCentral revealed Microsoft’s original vision for what we know as their last Lumia flagships. It would have included Active Sides, Smart covers and pen support. Sadly it didn’t become a reality and Microsoft released the “boring” phones we all know. Until today nobody ever got a working…
-
A look at ‘Midas’, Nokia’s first experiment with 3D touch
•
You’ve probably all heard of McLaren, the cancelled Lumia phone that would have brought an innovative way to interact with your phone. Its development started and ended in 2014, cancelled while in the final prototyping stages. It was almost ready to be announced and hit the market. For years we…