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As one of the biggest banking institutions in the United States, JP Morgan Chase carries a lot of weight.  This is why it’s exciting to see Chase Mobile coming to Windows Phone and the Nokia Lumia line of phones.

Mobile banking is growing in popularity, especially in the US. TechCrunch reports that more than 46% of Americans will use mobile banking by 2017.

With Chase Mobile for Nokia Lumia, you’re able to monitor your account, perform transactions, find locations and find out how to contact Chase if you need to. In addition, you can view alerts history and manage your Chase credit card.

Let’s dig in and see what Chase Mobile does for you.

Perform transactions, all from your phone

If you need to perform a transaction, such as paying a bill or your credit card, Chase Mobile has you covered.  You can also transfer funds between accounts, make check deposits via Chase QuickDeposit, send wire transfers and send/request money with Chase person-to-Person QuickPay, the bank’s innovative personal paying service.

Set your alerts and manage your account

If you need to know when a deposit hits your account, when your money is transferred or if an account balance reaches a specified amount, you can set these alerts in the Chase application. These come in very handy to manage your accounts and keep tabs on your funds.

With additional monitoring capabilities, Chase mobile enables you to see account balances and transaction history and view your credit card rewards status.

Get in touch

Even though mobile banking and even online banking is great, sometimes you just want to talk to a human, especially when it comes to personal finances. Chase Mobile features the ability to find the nearest Chase branch and ATMs. If you need a customer service number, the application can assist you as well.

The Chase Mobile app is now available in the Windows Phone Store.

Important notice: You might see a publishing delay (1-2 days) on Windows Phone Marketplace. Just wait a bit until the Windows Phone Marketplace page updates. Thanks for your patience.

Be sure to follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook as well!

Photo credit: Grim Santo

We’ve got a new review of the Nokia 808 PureView for you today, a comparison with other phones, and a few pics taken with the ‘powerhouse’.

The latest in the Nokia 808 PureView series from Fakhre over at Symbian Tweet, the review starts with a bang

‘the best cameraphone currently available in the market’

…and continues in a similar vein as Fakhre covers all aspects in an extremely comprehensive look at the phone. There are unboxing photos, thoughts on the screen, sample photos like this one:

…a look inside the phone, at the technology behind the imaging, and the user interface. Well worth settling in and giving yourself a few minutes to read this one.

Steve Litchfield has posted another of his awesome comparison charts. This time he’s pitched the Nokia 808 PureView against some other leading contenders – the iPhone 5, the Samsung Galaxy III and the Nokia Lumia 920. I’m not going to spoil who wins the battle, but the areas in which the 808 PureView leads it totally dominates.

Finally, a few new pics from the Nokia 808 Pureview that I have seen this week and I have been impressed with.

Taken from the awesome set from Sheridan01 taken at Myrafalle as part of the Austrian leg of the trip that Druv, Stephen and Richard took recently (this time meeting up with Michael):

From Olivier:

…and this one from the PureView Club Flickr page:

Have you had your hands on a Nokia 808 PureView? What do you think of the ‘imaging powerhouse’? Leave a comment with your thoughts, or pop them in a tweet.

[Image credits: Symbian Tweet, Olivier, Marc of the PureView Club]

A couple of months ago, and nearly 230 years since it was first published in 1785, the venerable British newspaper, The Times, launched an app in the Windows Phone marketplace.

The Internet and the 24-hour news channels heralded the beginning of a challenging era for all newspapers. It must be remembered though that the invention of the radio, and then the TV, were other disruptive technologies that they have had to overcome.

So, the mantra has always been to adapt or die, which brings us back nicely to the Windows Phone app.

The Times, of course, is not the only major newspaper to have an app that you can download for your Nokia Lumia smartphone.

Choosing a newspaper can come down to many factors such as price, personal interests, following favourite writers and your political beliefs. However, we’re just as interested in the features and functionality of the apps.

We have selected the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times of India to see how they compare with the Times of London. Which one is making the most of the Windows Phone interface? 

The Times of London

This is a free app, although you will need to pay a subscription to access the content just as you need to do with the Times website as well (from £2 per week, minimum 12 month contracts). 

The good news is that if you’re an existing subscriber to the Times online edition, then you can use your existing login and password and it will work on this app. There is also a free 30-day trial available if you’ve just installed the app.

This app is simple and easy to navigate. You swipe through the following sections: top stories, news, business, sport and section list, which is the equivalent to a contents page for the entire newspaper.

Some of the story articles have a photo gallery that you can swipe through, but I couldn’t find much else in terms of multimedia. Neither does it support offline reading, live tiles or any personalisation options.

If you just want to read the newspaper every morning or catch up with your favourite columnists then you might find that this is everything you need. It’s a shame it doesn’t have many standout features, but it is pleasant to use and is a real bonus if you are an existing Times subscriber.

The New York Times

The New York Times app, or NYTimes as it styles itself, is free but to access most of the content and to take advantage of all the features you will need to be a paying subscriber ($15 per month, although there is a promotion of $0.99 for your first 4 weeks).

Without a subscription you will be limited to reading a dozen or so news stories and watching videos.

When it initially opens up, this feels like a much more compact app than its British counterpart, but there really is a wealth of content available (if you’re a subscriber).

The key to finding your way around the app is the Sections screen, where you can scroll down to your areas of interest, such as sports and technology. The best thing is that you can then pin those sections to your start screen as a 2-sided live tile.

With your NYtimes.com ID (free to sign up, as it’s the first step to getting a subscription) you can also save articles for reading later on your Lumia, or even other devices. Offline reading is also supported.

The Times of India

The Times of India does not require a subscription to access its content, and neither does it require a login or ID.

If that wasn’t enough to commend it, there is also a wealth of videos and photo galleries for you to enjoy.

The app is nicely laid out and largely remains faithful to the Windows Phone style interface. It is interactive too because you can add your comments to each article and see what others have got to say as well.

However, there is no support for live tiles and you can’t pin categories or articles to your start screen. If you’re a fan of Test cricket though, then this app is a must. 

The Guardian

Britain’s Guardian newspaper has always embraced online journalism and so expectations are high for their Windows Phone app.

Like the Times of India, The Guardian’s app does not require any form of subscription to access their content.

The easiest way of using the app is by gathering the sections of the newspaper that you read the most into the favourites. Each section can also be pinned to your start screen as well. You can even pin or save all the articles by a particular writer.

All your multimedia needs are catered for in the form of videos, galleries and podcasts, and they all live within a section of their own. You can even listen to the podcasts underneath your phone’s lock screen – this is a really great feature.

If you enjoy reading the Guardian, then this app does the job admirably. There’s not much in terms personalisation– unless you count changing the size of the font – but it is colourful, elegant and with just enough functionality to make it an app worth recommending. 

We know there are plenty of other newspaper apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace, especially of the non-English language variety. Let us know if you’re using a great newspaper app on your Nokia Lumia.

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Last week we reported from Photokina, the world’s largest trade fair for the photographic and imaging industries, where Nokia was showing the power of PureView imaging with the Nokia 808 PureView and Nokia Lumia 920.

However, Nokia was not alone; just like the previous two occasions, Carl Zeiss and Nokia shared the same booth, to remind everyone of the strong imaging partnership that links these two companies.

Nokia Conversations readers should be already familiar with the history of Carl Zeiss, named after the founder who started applying physics to carefully build his microscopes.

Instead of a trial and error process to select the right lenses, he employed a more effective scientific method instead.

One hundred and sixty-six years later, Carl Zeiss is a successful company, which not only produces microscopes but also binoculars, eyeglasses, planetariums, industrial metrology systems and, most importantly, camera lenses and sensors.

Inside Nokia’s phones

These are, in fact, elements that can be found in Nokia smartphones since 2004, when we unveiled the Nokia N90 with Carl Zeiss optics.

“While working on the first Nokia camera phones, we realized that the camera is an element that has to be initially developed on its own, as part of an hardware and software imaging platform”, says Eero Salmelin, one of our imaging experts.

His teammate Juha Alakarhu clarifies why we have selected Carl Zeiss as imaging partner:

“Carl Zeiss is the best and most accurate lens assembler ever; the real challenge is producing optics so small to be used in a smartphones, yet robust enough to be used in everyday life; Carl Zeiss can address this exciting challenge and help Nokia deliver smartphones that can take good photos in any circumstance.”

The latest innovations

The most recent revolutions in smartphone photography have been introduced by Nokia in cooperation with Carl Zeiss. High quality photography with smartphones has been a reality since the Nokia N8, with its 12MP camera, and is now even more advanced with the Nokia 808 PureView, which introduced the concept of lossless zoom and clarity of imaging through pixel oversampling. The Nokia 808 PureView picked up its Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) prize for the Best Imaging Innovation Award at Photokina 2012.

The very latest innovation is the Nokia Lumia 920, which is solving the problem of taking stunning photos by night.

While discussing the Nokia partnership, Oliver Schindelbeck of Carl Zeiss said that “all the elements have to come together. It’s not enough to have good optics, they have to match the sensor, the electronics, the signal processing and the imaging software.”

“When the whole package is right, then great photo quality is achieved. Sometimes the optics of two smartphones may be similar, but the electronics and signal processing are individually developed so that the photo quality can be extremely different.

“This is why the cooperation with Nokia begins with the selection of high quality components, continues with a join product and design development and ends with severe quality assurance,” says Oliver.

The partnership between Nokia and Carl Zeiss is almost flawless because the cultures of these two companies are alike. The future of imaging is shaped by workshops that take place at least every six months: information and ideas flow seamlessly in both directions and we’re really excited to see what’s coming next.

It’s perhaps a little late in the season to be talking about travel apps for Nokia Lumia. Like me, your summer holidays have probably been and gone already. But discovering one of the best travel apps ever in the Windows Phone Marketplace isn’t something that can wait until next summer!

The app to install is Worldmate. It’s a service that’s been around for quite a while, on almost every computing and mobile platform, and one I remember fondly from my Nokia N8.

If you haven’t used it before, Worldmate is a seriously clever piece of technology that combines the best of web services and mobile apps.

The way it works is that you simply forward your flight and hotel booking confirmation emails to trips@worldmate.com. Their servers parse those emails (completely accurately, I should add) and look up the extra details you’ll need, and then push it all back out to your mobile app.

The result is a complete and accurate itinerary for your trips right on your mobile phone. So you can dispense with the need for lots of messy pieces of paper in your suitcase pocket that you end up scrabbling through at every stage of your journey.

It will add extra smartphone goodness to your plans, too, allowing you to do things like click on your hotel to give them a call, or bring up a map to guide you in safely.

This being 2012, the app is firmly integrated with Facebook, so you can tell all your friends when and where you’re flying and staying. That part is optional, thankfully, so if bragging about your travel plans goes against the grain, then you’re totally entitled to keep them secret.

It will also tell you which of your friends are making similar trips so you can arrange to meet up if you want.

It should be said that the Windows Phone version of this app isn’t quite as mature as the Symbian version. It hasn’t got the bells and whistles like world clocks, currency converter and weather forecasts. I’d imagine these will come in due course: version one of the app only came out in June.

But on the other hand, I don’t believe there’s any version of this app that’s quite so beautifully designed. It’s not overly graphical but is superbly legible – exactly what you need when you’re checking what time your flight leaves.

Worldmate is free and can be downloaded here.

Are you using Worldmate? If not, well… why not?

image credit: psiaki

As one of the biggest banking institutions in the United States, JP Morgan Chase carries a lot of weight.  This is why it’s exciting to see Chase Mobile coming to Windows Phone and the Nokia Lumia line of phones.

Mobile banking is growing in popularity, especially in the US. TechCrunch reports that more than 46% of Americans will use mobile banking by 2017.

With Chase Mobile for Nokia Lumia, you’re able to monitor your account, perform transactions, find locations and find out how to contact Chase if you need to. In addition, you can view alerts history and manage your Chase credit card.

Let’s dig in and see what Chase Mobile does for you.

Perform transactions, all from your phone

If you need to perform a transaction, such as paying a bill or your credit card, Chase Mobile has you covered.  You can also transfer funds between accounts, make check deposits via Chase QuickDeposit, send wire transfers and send/request money with Chase person-to-Person QuickPay, the bank’s innovative personal paying service.

Set your alerts and manage your account

If you need to know when a deposit hits your account, when your money is transferred or if an account balance reaches a specified amount, you can set these alerts in the Chase application. These come in very handy to manage your accounts and keep tabs on your funds.

With additional monitoring capabilities, Chase mobile enables you to see account balances and transaction history and view your credit card rewards status.

Get in touch

Even though mobile banking and even online banking is great, sometimes you just want to talk to a human, especially when it comes to personal finances. Chase Mobile features the ability to find the nearest Chase branch and ATMs. If you need a customer service number, the application can assist you as well.

The Chase Mobile app is now available in the Windows Phone Store.

Important notice: You might see a publishing delay (1-2 days) on Windows Phone Marketplace. Just wait a bit until the Windows Phone Marketplace page updates. Thanks for your patience.

Be sure to follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook as well!

Photo credit: Grim Santo

We’ve got a new review of the Nokia 808 PureView for you today, a comparison with other phones, and a few pics taken with the ‘powerhouse’.

The latest in the Nokia 808 PureView series from Fakhre over at Symbian Tweet, the review starts with a bang

‘the best cameraphone currently available in the market’

…and continues in a similar vein as Fakhre covers all aspects in an extremely comprehensive look at the phone. There are unboxing photos, thoughts on the screen, sample photos like this one:

…a look inside the phone, at the technology behind the imaging, and the user interface. Well worth settling in and giving yourself a few minutes to read this one.

Steve Litchfield has posted another of his awesome comparison charts. This time he’s pitched the Nokia 808 PureView against some other leading contenders – the iPhone 5, the Samsung Galaxy III and the Nokia Lumia 920. I’m not going to spoil who wins the battle, but the areas in which the 808 PureView leads it totally dominates.

Finally, a few new pics from the Nokia 808 Pureview that I have seen this week and I have been impressed with.

Taken from the awesome set from Sheridan01 taken at Myrafalle as part of the Austrian leg of the trip that Druv, Stephen and Richard took recently (this time meeting up with Michael):

From Olivier:

…and this one from the PureView Club Flickr page:

Have you had your hands on a Nokia 808 PureView? What do you think of the ‘imaging powerhouse’? Leave a comment with your thoughts, or pop them in a tweet.

[Image credits: Symbian Tweet, Olivier, Marc of the PureView Club]

A couple of months ago, and nearly 230 years since it was first published in 1785, the venerable British newspaper, The Times, launched an app in the Windows Phone marketplace.

The Internet and the 24-hour news channels heralded the beginning of a challenging era for all newspapers. It must be remembered though that the invention of the radio, and then the TV, were other disruptive technologies that they have had to overcome.

So, the mantra has always been to adapt or die, which brings us back nicely to the Windows Phone app.

The Times, of course, is not the only major newspaper to have an app that you can download for your Nokia Lumia smartphone.

Choosing a newspaper can come down to many factors such as price, personal interests, following favourite writers and your political beliefs. However, we’re just as interested in the features and functionality of the apps.

We have selected the New York Times, The Guardian and the Times of India to see how they compare with the Times of London. Which one is making the most of the Windows Phone interface? 

The Times of London

This is a free app, although you will need to pay a subscription to access the content just as you need to do with the Times website as well (from £2 per week, minimum 12 month contracts). 

The good news is that if you’re an existing subscriber to the Times online edition, then you can use your existing login and password and it will work on this app. There is also a free 30-day trial available if you’ve just installed the app.

This app is simple and easy to navigate. You swipe through the following sections: top stories, news, business, sport and section list, which is the equivalent to a contents page for the entire newspaper.

Some of the story articles have a photo gallery that you can swipe through, but I couldn’t find much else in terms of multimedia. Neither does it support offline reading, live tiles or any personalisation options.

If you just want to read the newspaper every morning or catch up with your favourite columnists then you might find that this is everything you need. It’s a shame it doesn’t have many standout features, but it is pleasant to use and is a real bonus if you are an existing Times subscriber.

The New York Times

The New York Times app, or NYTimes as it styles itself, is free but to access most of the content and to take advantage of all the features you will need to be a paying subscriber ($15 per month, although there is a promotion of $0.99 for your first 4 weeks).

Without a subscription you will be limited to reading a dozen or so news stories and watching videos.

When it initially opens up, this feels like a much more compact app than its British counterpart, but there really is a wealth of content available (if you’re a subscriber).

The key to finding your way around the app is the Sections screen, where you can scroll down to your areas of interest, such as sports and technology. The best thing is that you can then pin those sections to your start screen as a 2-sided live tile.

With your NYtimes.com ID (free to sign up, as it’s the first step to getting a subscription) you can also save articles for reading later on your Lumia, or even other devices. Offline reading is also supported.

The Times of India

The Times of India does not require a subscription to access its content, and neither does it require a login or ID.

If that wasn’t enough to commend it, there is also a wealth of videos and photo galleries for you to enjoy.

The app is nicely laid out and largely remains faithful to the Windows Phone style interface. It is interactive too because you can add your comments to each article and see what others have got to say as well.

However, there is no support for live tiles and you can’t pin categories or articles to your start screen. If you’re a fan of Test cricket though, then this app is a must. 

The Guardian

Britain’s Guardian newspaper has always embraced online journalism and so expectations are high for their Windows Phone app.

Like the Times of India, The Guardian’s app does not require any form of subscription to access their content.

The easiest way of using the app is by gathering the sections of the newspaper that you read the most into the favourites. Each section can also be pinned to your start screen as well. You can even pin or save all the articles by a particular writer.

All your multimedia needs are catered for in the form of videos, galleries and podcasts, and they all live within a section of their own. You can even listen to the podcasts underneath your phone’s lock screen – this is a really great feature.

If you enjoy reading the Guardian, then this app does the job admirably. There’s not much in terms personalisation– unless you count changing the size of the font – but it is colourful, elegant and with just enough functionality to make it an app worth recommending. 

We know there are plenty of other newspaper apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace, especially of the non-English language variety. Let us know if you’re using a great newspaper app on your Nokia Lumia.