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When Nokia and Microsoft laid out a partnership to build a winning ecosystem around Windows Phone, we made it clear that location would play a crucial role, with Nokia’s mapping capabilities powering Windows Phone’s entire location offering. Our commitment is to develop smartphones that bring leading location experiences. Windows Phone 8 partners and developers will even be able to use Nokia’s HERE location assets to build high quality location-based experiences.

‘HERE’s aim is to be a location platform widely available across the web and, of course, within Windows Phone 8 – it’s a horizontal business. The more people use the platform, the better the quality of data it will provide. In its own phones Nokia will work on the quality of the apps as a differentiators. Other manufacturers can either take the basic Nokia apps, or develop their own’ said Martin Garner, SVP Internet, CCS Insight.

Windows power 

In a joint effort to further strengthen the Windows Phone ecosystem, Microsoft and Nokia are making HERE Maps, HERE Drive and HERE Transit available to people with any Windows Phone 8 smartphone. This exclusive offer is available in U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

With the HERE suite, your Windows Phone 8 smartphone is going to be a great companion for everyday experiences like finding places, driving your car or riding the bus.

HERE Maps has been designed to help you find places anywhere, get reviews, photos and then plan a route.

HERE Drive is for anyone who gets behind the wheel of a car. It has a unique user interface developed for in-car use. This particular version for all Windows Phone 8 smartphones includes navigation for your region.

HERE Transit is for public transport commuters who want to know the best time to leave the office or for partygoers who want a one-tap access to information on the next bus home.

Since these are Windows Phone applications, you can even save your favourite destination as Live Tiles and then wherever you are the app will calculate a route based on your current location and the predefined end point.

HERE Maps, HERE Drive and HERE Transit for Windows Phone 8 come with helpful features like offline capabilities, voice guided navigation, speed limit warning, venue maps, place reviews and train schedules. And they also work seamlessly together. You can start HERE Drive or HERE Transit from within HERE Maps to plan a route to your destination. All your places are also saved in the HERE cloud so that you can access them from here.com, HERE Drive, HERE Maps and HERE Transit.

You can download the HERE suite now from the Windows Phone store in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Italy or Spain (a local SIM card required).

The Nokia Lumia 720 might only have been launched yesterday, but already there’s a ton of info available online about this mid range masterpiece. In fact, if you do a web search for it you’ll get over 15 million results. So, to help you cut to the chase, here’s ten key facts every Nokia Lumia 720 lover should know.

 1. Weighing just 128 grams, it’s super sleek and combines a high-end uni-body design with our biggest 2000mAh battery and curved 4.3” super sensitive Clear Black Display.

 2. It has an innovative HD 1.3MP wide angle front facing camera, 6.7 MP rear camera with high end f/1.9 aperture and Carl Zeiss optics, giving it the best camera experience of any mid range smartphone.

3. It can capture stunning images both day and night with a wide variety of unique Lumia apps. You can get the perfect profile picture with Glam Me, make your snaps stand out on Facebook with Smartshoot and Creative Studio, plus animate your memories with Cinemagraph.

 4. It includes Nokia Music, a free and unlimited music streaming service, which allows you to enjoy the latest tracks or create your own channels based on the artists you love. All this without the hassles of sign ups, sign ins or adverts.

 5. It also features Nokia Live Sight. This unique app instantly transforms the Nokia Lumia 720 into an augmented-reality viewport, displaying nearby points of interest as floating icons with distances on the camera’s display.

 6. With the Nokia Lumia 720, you also get free Maps at home and abroad, plus free turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation with Nokia Drive at home. Also available offline.

 7. The Nokia Lumia 720 also carries on the Lumia tradition of using NFC. All it takes is one tap to connect and listen to your favourite tunes using Nokia wireless accessories, such as the JBL PlayUp Speaker and Purity by Monster Headphones.

 8. With Windows Phone 8’s People Hub, you can pull together contact information from multiple address books and social networks into a single contact database, making it easy to start conversations, see posts, tweets and photos from friends, and even set up groups and private rooms for sharing.

9.The Nokia Lumia 720’s Live Tiles constantly update in real time on your Start screen, to show you what’s new and what’s now. 

 10. Microsoft software like Microsoft Office, Xbox Live, SkyDrive cloud storage and Internet Explorer 10 means the Nokia Lumia 720 is ideal for work, play, sharing and surfing.

With so much fantasticness on offer, it’s amazing the Nokia Lumia 720 costs just €249. Nonetheless, that’s the price tag. We love everything about it, but what do you think makes the Nokia Lumia 720 so special?

Targi, targami a tymczasme mam dla Was zaległą premierę bardzo fajnego smartfona w cenie lepszej niż rekiny z pierwszej ligi. Bądźcie czujni bo mamy to cacko w naszym magazynie nagród Polecam wersję HD.

Targi, targami a tymczasme mam dla Was zaległą premierę bardzo fajnego smartfona w cenie lepszej niż rekiny z pierwszej ligi. Bądźcie czujni bo mamy to cacko w naszym magazynie nagród Polecam wersję HD.

Hello everyone – this weekend we’ve been busy in Barcelona with final prep for Mobile World Congress next week…

The event, first held more than twenty years ago brings together anyone and everyone mobile tech (manufacturers, bloggers, journalists, analysts) – it is, without doubt, the global event in our industry.

Originally held at La Fira, the event has a new home for the first time this year – just down the road at Fira Gran Via. It’s a gigantic, state-of-the art space which is designed to house the show as it and our industry grows over the next few years.

We kicked things off this weekend with an exciting initiative – in partnership with GSMA, Xperia T is the official handset for MWC’s NFC experience!

The Mobile World Congress “NFC experience” is all about recognising the impact, and potential of near field communications to make our lives easier by letting us experience new ways of service and content delivery. The experience is embedded in this year’s MWC, but also around Barcelona too – delegates can interact with smart posters around Gran Via, touch / pay at shops and access info and discounts at touch points at the airport, restaurants, taxis and tourist hot spots around the city…

We’re providing selected delegates with Xperia Ts to access the experience – the handsets come with the latest NFC innovation, but also with different pre-loaded partner content.

You’ll be able to catch more on this and all the news, views and info on Sony’s MWC 2013 week right here – and don’t forget to follow @SonyMobileNews and #SonyMWC for all the latest and greatest.

Ant.

Hello everyone – off the back of our announcements today, we wanted to try something a little different – a Storify feed to bring you the killer updates and news from the Sony stand, along with any cool social content from MWC / Barcelona we see throughout the week…

Don’t forget – you can also stay in-the-know using #SonyMWC and #MWC13.

Over and out,

Ant.

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The new Nokia Lumia 520 offers compelling evidence of Nokia’s philosophy that buying an affordable smartphone shouldn’t mean compromising on the experience.

In our humble opinion, this Windows Phone 8 device delivers the best overall experiences of any smartphone in its range.

It is the perfect choice for people looking to upgrade to Lumia and to Windows Phone and wanting a taste of some of that high-end innovation.

Digital Lenses for fun imaging

The Nokia Lumia 520’s five-megapixel autofocus camera adds a touch of fun to taking pictures with Nokia’s digital camera lenses.

Cinemagraph brings pictures to life with animation and allows you to easily share the fun with friends on Facebook, Twitter or via email.

Smart Shoot takes multiple group pictures with a single click allowing you to choose the best expression for the perfect shot or even remove people altogether.

The Panorama lens provides an easy way to capture super-wide-angled photos of any beautiful scene.

With 8GB internal memory – double most smartphones in this price range – and support for micro SD cards up to 64GB you can be sure to have more memory for storing all the great pictures you’ve created.

The Lumia experience at a great price

The Nokia Lumia 520 is the first affordable smartphone to come with the same super sensitive touch technology found on the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820.

That means you can tap and scroll on the touchscreen using your nails, car keys or even wearing gloves. If you’re just using your fingers, it makes the four inch display much more responsive.

This phone also demonstrates the same colour and design language that has made our other Lumias stand out from the crowd.

It comes in yellow, red, cyan, white and black, and if you can’t decide which you want, the shells are exchangeable so you can change to a new colour whenever you fancy.

Of course, it also comes with Nokia Music, which means free unlimited streaming of playlists chosen by our local teams of expert musicologists, or you can make your own.

There’s no registration and no advertisements – just great music playing instantly, and if you are worried about data charges – Nokia Music even let’s you download up to four playlists for free.

If you want more than that, upgrade to Nokia Music+ for unlimited downloads, track skips and lyrics streamed with the music for only €3.99 a month.

Not forgetting, of course, the location and navigation tools with HERE Drive, HERE Maps and HERE Transit so that you’ll never get lost again.

No compromises

Mikko Kahlos, the lead product manager for Nokia Lumia 520, said his brief was “to give people more value without compromising on quality.”

We think you’ll agree, he met his brief!

All these great experiences come at an estimated starting price of €139 before taxes and subsidies.

If you can’t wait to get your hands on the Nokia Lumia 520, it’s planned to start shipping in March – arriving first in Hong Kong and Vietnam, but it will quickly start to reach more markets around Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It will even be coming to the US with T-Mobile and to China with China Mobile as the latest smartphone from Nokia to be sold by the world’s largest mobile operator.

Technical profile

• Operating System: Windows Phone 8
• Networks: WCDMA 900/2100, 850/1900/2100, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• Speed: 3G HSPA+ (21Mbps)
• Memory: 512 MB RAM, 8 GB mass memory, support for microSD cards up to 64GB, 7GB free SkyDrive storage
• Display: 4” IPS LCD WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) 16M colors,
  2D hardened glass, super sensitive touch for fingernail and glove use
• Processor: 1 GHz Dual Core Snapdragon™
• Camera: 5Mpix autofocus, video recording HD 720p 30fps
• Size: 119.9 x 64 x 9.9 mm* (*volume thickness)
• Weight: 124g
• Connectivity: WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, Integrated A-GPS, 3.5 mm audio connector, Micro USB with charging, USB 2.0 High Speed
• Battery: 1430mAh
• Audio: single digital microphone, 3.5mm AV connector, MP3 player
• Colours: Yellow, red, cyan, white and black

Operating times

• Talk time: up to 9.6 hours (on 3G)
• Standby time: up to 360 hours

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The Nokia Lumia 720 announcement today marks a welcome new addition to the Nokia Lumia family of smartphones. It is also a milestone in Nokia’s strategy to bring innovative technologies usually found in flagship devices to a wider audience.

This sleek and stylish Windows Phone 8 smartphone is sure to appeal to a young and design-savvy crowd with busy social lives.

It has the best camera experience of any midrange smartphone, has a slim profile, great battery life, and weighting just 128 grams, it’s the perfect accessory for a night out with friends.

With Nokia Music, HERE location services, NFC and the option of adding snap on wireless charging covers, it’s a lot of phone for this price. 

The Lumia 720 also features innovations that debuted on the Lumia 920 such as enhanced sunlight readability and super sensitive touch.

Smile, you’re on camera!

The Lumia 720 is packed with surprises, but its biggest area of innovation is in one of Nokia’s key strengths – the camera.

The main camera has an incredible f/1.9 aperture – that’s bigger than almost any high-end smartphone out there. A big aperture means more light getting into the camera and when this is combined with the same exclusive Carl Zeiss optics normally reserved for flagship smartphones, it packs quite a punch. The pictures it takes are clear and bright in lowlight, and dazzling in daylight.

The Lumia 720 also packs Nokia’s best front-facing camera, which is sure to be popular for the growing phenomenon of self-portraits, or the ‘selfy’. Its wide-angle lens means there’s even room for your friends to fit in the picture. Fans of video calling will also be delighted with its Skype capabilities.

With the awesome camera you’ll want to take advantage of Nokia’s exclusive digital camera lenses, like Cinemagraph and Smart Shoot.

Even better, we’ve got some new apps too. Glam Me lets you edit and play with the images taken with the fantastic front-facing camera, while Place Tag adds location, date and time to the great pictures you’ll take with the main camera.

Lumia by design

As well as being the sleekest Lumia yet, the Lumia 720 is also the first to have curved glass at this price point and its polycarbonate unibody feels smooth and almost completely seamless.

Fingerprints should be less of a problem too, as the 4.3” ClearBlack Gorilla Glass 2.0 display has easy to clean technology that also boosts visibility from different and wider angles. 

Unlimited discovery and entertainment included, for free

The Nokia Lumia 720 excels in the essentials with free global HERE Maps and LiveSight ensuring you will never get lost. HERE Drive for your home country is also included.

Nokia Music brings unrivaled music discovery straight out of the box, with music streaming free of adverts or sign ups and the ability to upgrade to Nokia Music + for unlimited downloads and lyric streaming for only €3.99 a month.

NFC means it’s just one tap to connect and listen to your favourite tunes using Nokia wireless accessories including the JBL PlayUp Speaker and Purity by Monster Headphones.

A Lumia for everyone

The Nokia Lumia 720 slots nicely between the compact Lumia 620 and versatile Lumia 820, and underlines Nokia’s commitment to creating a broad portfolio of smartphones to suit every need.

They are affordable devices that offer the unique features that everyone loves about Lumia – beautiful design, extraordinary imaging, great tools for location and navigation, stellar accessories and wonderful apps.

The Lumia 720 will be available from about €249 before VAT, rolling out from March 2013 and is available in red, white, cyan, black and yellow. The Lumia 720 will be introduced to China in a TD SCDMA variant – bringing this smartphone to the world’s biggest market with the world’s biggest mobile operator.

Technical profile

Networks:

• GSM/EDGE: 850 (5)/900 (8)/1800 (3)/1900 (2) MHz
• WCDMA: 850 (5)/900 (8)/1900 (2)/2100 (1) MHz
• HSPA+: 21 Mbps, (Cat 14)

OS:  Windows Phone 8, GDR1

CPU: MSM8227, 1.0 GHz

RAM: 512 MB

Storage: 8 GB + microSD Card Slot

Display: 4.3” ClearBlack WVGA LCD, 2.25 D Glass, Super Sensitive Touch

Camera:

• Back: 6.7 MPIX, BSI, Auto-Focus, Carl Zeiss, LED flash, HD 720p @ at 30 fps
• Front: Skype HD wide angle (1.3Mpix)

Connectivity: NFC, A-GPS+GLONASS, WLAN (2.4/5Ghz) a/b/g/n, µUSB, BT 3.0, 3D Accelerometer, Proximity, Magnetometer, Automatic Light Sensor. (No Gyroscope).

Battery: 2000 mAh battery + Wireless Charging Cover Accessory; standby 520hrs, talk time 13.5hrs

Audio: 2 HAAC (high-amplitude audio capture) mics, HD Voice (wideband audio, noise cancellation)

Size: 127.9 x 67.5 x 9mm

Weight: 128g

 Colours:

• Gloss: White
• Matte: Red, Yellow, Cyan & Black

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Last November we introduced HERE, the world’s first location cloud that will deliver a location platform, location content and location apps across any screen and any operating system.

The HERE experience is built on the world’s most complete and accurate map data based on 25 years of mapping technology leadership. We offer today the only true offline maps experience, the largest indoor map inventory, and the largest public transport coverage of any location service to date.

HERE represents our love for maps and for cartography, and the location experiences we are offering on smartphones, on computers and in cars are gradually being renamed accordingly.

Today we are introducing HERE for Windows Phone 8. HERE Maps, HERE Drive (with regional navigation), HERE Drive+ (with global navigation), HERE Transit and HERE City Lens are available now on the Windows Phone Store.

But there is more than meets the eye. The new HERE experiences are connected and work seamlessly together, making it easy to transition from walking to driving to public transport as you move along your day. In particular, from HERE Maps you can launch HERE Drive(+) or HERE Transit if needed. In HERE Transit you now get a map overview of nearby stations and stops, and when you need walk navigation to get to the stop or to the final destination, you can start HERE Maps from there.

We have also recently introduced LiveSight, a technology that integrates sight recognition with live map information. LiveSight is a UI revolution that uses sight (instead of keyboard, touch screen or voice) to interact with your smartphone. HERE City Lens already uses this technology, and soon we will introduce it also in HERE Maps and in our newest camera lens, Nokia Place Tag. When you are taking photos with the Place Tag lens, your Lumia will capture the image and also record the Points of Interest (POIs) that are visible in the viewfinder and the name and address.

On top of the new features outlined above, we have also added some new features. In the next days we will take a closer look at each of them to see what’s new. All your places are also saved in the HERE cloud so that you can access them from here.com, HERE Drive(+), HERE Maps, HERE Transit and HERE City Lens.

On the newly introduced Nokia Lumia 520 and Nokia Lumia 720, HERE Maps, HERE Drive and HERE Transit are preinstalled, so that you can experience HERE out of the box.

HERE works best with Nokia Lumia, but in a joint effort to further strengthen the Windows Phone ecosystem, Microsoft and Nokia are making HERE Maps, HERE Drive and HERE Transit available to people with any Windows Phone 8 smartphone. This exclusive offer is available in US, Canada, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

‘These announcements firmly establishes HERE as a horizontal brand and thoughtfully-tiered service offering. It should benefit broad developer communities, generate significant new value for Nokia, and let Nokia retain the ability to differentiate its Lumia products with unique experiences’ said John Jackson, Research VP, Mobile & Connected Platforms, IDC.

Nokia is pushing high-end innovation to new price points, with four product launches that enrich the portfolio and make our phones available to a host of new customers. The new devices include our most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone and our lowest-priced mobile phone. Feature-rich across the bunch, their quality, robustness and unique design make each of these new devices compelling in its own right.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said:

“The momentum behind Nokia is gathering pace. The launches today reflect our commitment to broadening our devices and services portfolio to meet the demands of people and businesses around the globe.”

Now let’s take a quick look at each of the new launches – click through on each subtitle to get the in-depth story. In no particular order,

Nokia Lumia 720

The Lumia 720 is a sleek, stylish smartphone that’s destined for the hands of socialites. Light in weight, but no lightweight, it has, we believe, the best camera experience of any midrange smartphone. That includes an f/1.9 aperture that beats most high-end cameras, combined with our exclusive Carl Zeiss optics usually reserved for our flagships. It also offers our best front-facing camera performance. With music, HERE location services, NFC and the option of adding snap on wireless charging covers, it’s a lot of phone for this price.

Learn more about the Nokia Lumia 720 in this post.

Nokia Lumia 520

With the Lumia 520, our most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone, we are bringing a high-end smartphone experience within range of more people than ever before. With a super sensitive touch four inch display, camera lenses, exchangeable shells and Nokia’s unique music and navigation services you get many of the same Lumia experiences that were previously available only on high-end devices.

Read more about the Nokia Lumia 520 in the full article.

Nokia 105

The Nokia 105 is our most affordable mobile phone, offering exceptional value to new mobile buyers at just €15. It’s a great introduction to Nokia’s quality, style and dependability, with a terrific battery life and good looks too. It’s no one-trick pony either, with an FM radio, flashlight, colour screen and support for the Nokia Life service.

Get more details about the Nokia 105 here.

Nokia 301

Finally, we have has set about reinventing the feature phone for 2013 with the Nokia 301. It marries the much-loved traditional ‘candybar’ format with the design approach and colour palette that’s become familiar on Lumia smartphones. It’s full-featured, too, with the Xpress Browser, a smart 3.2-megapixel camera, with features inspired by our Nokia digital lenses, Microsoft Exchange compatibility and a full complement of social apps on tap.

Find out all about the Nokia Lumia 301 in this post.

But it’s not just about the phones. We are also delighted to announce new service offerings and partnerships. We’ll be covering these in more detail across the week.

• HERE branches out. As well as planning some new features for HERE apps on Lumia, we will also make HERE available for other Windows Phones in select markets. The platform will also be licensed to Mozilla for the Firefox OS.
• App experience. We’re also unveiling a series of new and improved apps, including a bigger and better version of Cinemagraph, a new Place Tag lens (powered by LiveSight) and a Glam-Me camera app.
• For third party apps, we’ve been opening up our imaging, location and music APIs so that developers like Burton, GoPro and Foursquare can build exclusive apps for Lumia, while co-operation with DreamWorks promises some exciting ‘virtual entertainment experiences’ later in the year.
• There’s a whole bunch of new third party apps as well for both Lumia and Asha, all of which have been built from the ground up to take advantage of the unique features of the platform.

Breathless yet? We’re camped-out right here in Barcelona at MWC and will bring you even more details and the latest news as it happens across the week.