Microsoft has bought Nokia’s Devices & Services business in a deal worth £4.6 billion. The move sees Microsoft acquire Nokia’s mobile phone and smartphone businesses as well as its internal design team, which has worked on products including the Nokia Lumia smartphone range. Around 32 000 Nokia staff will transfer to Microsoft. Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia’s […]
New spot highlights how Easy Mode helps you learn your way around the phone. Vintage is great, but not when it comes to smartphones. 72andSunny present the new spot for Samsung’s Galaxy S4, Brothers, which highlights how ‘Easy Mode’ helps you learn your way around the Galaxy S4, by making everything you need quick to […]
Ikea has created an augmented reality app that allows customers to see how its products would fit into their homes as it looks to boost its online and mobile sales and limit returns of ill-fitting furniture. The updated 2014 Ikea Catalogue app, available on iOS and Android, will enable customers to try out 90 products […]
Mastercard has announced the UK rollout of its digital wallet service dubbed MasterPass, with retailers including Argos, Boots, House of Fraser and The Hut Group, as well as credit card provider MBNA, confirmed as launch partners. MasterPass lets users upload their payment and loyalty card details to a compatible digital wallet, which can be used […]
The UK’s largest mobile phone operator is launching its first major campaign for its Orange brand since it debuted EE last year. The campaign kicks off July 29, with a TV ad featuring Kevin Bacon advertising Orange’s pay-as-you-go (PAYG) offering of 1GB of mobile data free with every £10 top-up, to air during top TV […]
Phone hardware company Motorola has unveiled a new logo, which incorporates the Google brand colours and features a new strapline – ‘a Google company’. Motorola Mobility, Motorola’s mobile phone division, was bought by Google in May last year in a $12.5 billion deal. At the time, Google stressed the Motorola Mobility brand would operate independently […]
SKIN-CARE brand Nivea has created a solar-powered mobile phone charger. The bizarre move from the folks at Nivea was made to ensure people read its sunscreen ad – its solar-powered sunscreen ad. The company took out a full-page ad in a Brazilian magazine and decked it out with solar panels and a charging port you […]
Some Android users swear by task-killing apps, but most feel that the OS has matured to a point where you can let it manage itself without the need to meticulously close every open app on your phone. That hasn’t stopped German automaker Audi, of all companies, from releasing its own task-killer app called Audi Start-Stop. […]
Popular mobile game Angry Birds has received a “magical” update that includes some new gameplay mechanics involving magic portals. As part of this new release, Angry Birds makers Rovio have teamed up with Simon Pierro, better known as the ‘iPad Magician’, to create a ‘magic’ video. The video features some ingenuity from Pierro, who performs […]
Windows Phone News, the online magazine, is now live. Windows Phone News is the first magazine devoted to Windows mobile phones and the tablets, laptops and PCs that implement Microsoft Windows and its Metro user interface. Windows Phone News carries up-to-the-minute news, reviews and interviews on Windows mobile phones, apps and services, and the Windows […]