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You’ve probably heard of Moore’s Law, the prediction made by Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel. In 1965, he said that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every two years. He expected this to be the case for just ten years, but it’s still happening. This astounding progression of computing power is no better demonstrated than by your smartphone’s processor. To see how much things have changed, let’s take a trip down memory lane.   

1996 – In the beginning

It’s 1996. Ebay launches the world’s first online auction site. The Spice Girls get their first number one with Wannabe and the movie Independence Day hits the big screen. Meanwhile, in Finland, Nokia launch the world’s first smartphone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator. Weighing in at a sturdy 397 g, the first ever Communicator was driven by an Intel 24 MHz i386 CPU. 

Running on the GEOS 3.0 operating system, it had a mere 8 MB of memory: Half of which was used for apps, 2 MB for program memory and 2 MB for user data. While these specs might not sound very impressive, in its day the Nokia 9000 Communicator was the best a man (or woman) could get. This is probably why it was used by Val Kilmer when he played Simon Templar in the 1997 remake of The Saint.

2007 – Touchtastic

While smartphone processing power continued to scale at unprecedented speeds, it wasn’t until 2007 that touch screen smartphones and the emergence of a big screen really pushed developers and component makers to keep pace with this ramp up. Typically these power hungry machines needed a 620 MHz CPU and used 128 MB of memory.

2008 – SoC it to them

With smartphones becoming increasingly sophisticated, the need for more computing power in a smaller space became paramount. Fortunately, human ingenuity delivered in 2008 when Qualcomm delivered the first System on a Chip (SoC) processors for mobile devices.

In a traditional desktop PC, the CPU, RAM, graphics card and storage are scattered pieces on a motherboard. Inside a smartphone, most of the space is taken up by the battery, and the notion of spreading functionality between different chips would cause severe space constraints and bring battery life to its knees. To overcome these challenges, engineers, like those from Qualcomm, put all the necessary components—CPU, GPU, memory, and wireless radio technologies—on a single chip.

2012 – Snappier than ever

Which bring us to today. You probably expect the world’s most innovative smartphone to have the world’s most innovative processor. Well, you’d be right. The Nokia Lumia 920 and its sibling the Lumia 820 both contain Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon S4 processors. At 28nm, the Snapdragon S4 takes die-shrinking to a new level, balancing performance and power efficiency like no other chip. Dual Core and clocked at 1.5GHz, the Snapdragon S4 processor makes smartphones faster and more versatile, too.

What’s more, within the Snapdragon S4 processor, you’ll find an Adreno 225 GPU. This graphics component enables the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 to play the latest DirectX 3D games, drive HD content and support 720 p high resolution displays. Combined, this means the Nokia Lumia 920 is hundreds of times faster and has one hundred and twenty five times more memory than the original Nokia 9000 Communicator.

This incredible evolution of processors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon shows this trend is set to continue. But how amazing can smartphones get? Let us know your predictions below.

Last week, we explored apps that help you manage your personal finances.  Today, we’ll explore one more way your Nokia Lumia is the perfect tool for staying in touch with the markets and your accounts.

For millions of E*TRADE customers, they know the power of being able to stay up on the market, access their accounts, monitor their investments and place trades on-the-go. This is why we’re happy to announce that E*TRADE has joined with Nokia Lumia to launch an exciting and extremely useful app – E*TRADE Mobile for Windows Phone.

With E*TRADE Mobile for Windows Phone, you have access to all of your E*TRADE accounts in the palm of your hand. That way, depending on how the market shifts and the moves you want to make, you’re in touch and can handle your assets.

Are you at lunch with a friend and just heard a tip that you want to act on? You can place a trade wherever you are. You can buy and sell at will with E*TRADE Mobile on your Lumia.

Also, if you want to stay in the know, you can react fast with access to free real-time quotes, breaking news and charts on demand. This way, you can make smart, informed investing decisions.

The app also gives you 24/7 access to your account balances, portfolio and buying power. If you want easy access to the E*TRADE Mobile application, be sure to pin it to your start screen.

Worried about security? You can sign in with the same password you use on the web but since the password is not kept on your phone, even if you should lose Lumia, your information is kept safe and secure.

Be sure to check out E*TRADE Mobile in the Windows Phone Store today.

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When you are passionate about gadgets and technologies, it’s only natural to compare what’s available to find the best fit. This is particularly true nowadays with smartphones. Many manufacturers, including Nokia, have recently introduced their newest mobile devices and the Internet is buzzing with numbers and specifications.

We are very proud of the hardware innovation that powers the Nokia Lumia 920, like PureView, NFC, wireless charging and PureMotion HD+, but we believe that there is even more.

It’s not only about raw numbers; it’s about what you can actually do with your smartphone. For example, it can be something you were unable to do before, like taking photos without flash in low-light conditions. Or it can be a better way to handle everyday life, like driving to work.

Location experiences

For all the needs that begin with a “where” question, we have developed a compelling suite of applications that delivers the best location-based experiences – helping you to discover the world around you and navigate your life. Not only is this possible because the location business is strategic to Nokia, but because these apps are running on the world’s most advanced location platform.

Unlike our competitors, which are financing their location assets  with advertising or licensing mapping content from third parties, we completely own, build and distribute mapping content, platform and apps.

In other words, we truly understand that maps and location-based apps must be accurate, provide the best quality and be accessible basically anywhere. That’s been standard practice at Nokia for the past six years, and we also understand that “pretty” isn’t enough. You expect excellence in your smartphone mapping experience.

Our superior apps are built on the most accurate, automotive-grade Navteq maps, meticulously developed by over 20 years of know-how. We believe that the best user experience comes indeed from precise data, robust processing of core platform functionalities like routing, geocoding and traffic, and by user friendly apps. All this cannot be built overnight.

A mapping experience is a must-have feature for many of us. In fact, a recent survey by IDG found that 77% of respondents are using smartphones for GPS navigation. No wonder that many of our readers are closely following the recent development and changes of mapping apps and the user experience on the newest smartphones.

The benchmark

Let’s take a look at the location experience on some of the newest smartphones:

 “Nokia’s suite of location-aware apps and services on its new Lumia devices put it in a clear lead over its competitors in terms of the depth, breadth and integration of the mapping, navigation and transport experiences it can offer. It also leads in terms of the global coverage it provides,” said Tim Shepherd, senior analyst at Canalys.

I think the most impressive difference, beside the ability to use Nokia location-based apps offline as well as online, is the number of countries where voice guided turn-by-turn navigation is available.

The big map is Nokia’s, the bottom left is Google and Apple is on the right.

Last week, we explored apps that help you manage your personal finances.  Today, we’ll explore one more way your Nokia Lumia is the perfect tool for staying in touch with the markets and your accounts.

For millions of E*TRADE customers, they know the power of being able to stay up on the market, access their accounts, monitor their investments and place trades on-the-go. This is why we’re happy to announce that E*TRADE has joined with Nokia Lumia to launch an exciting and extremely useful app – E*TRADE Mobile for Windows Phone.

With E*TRADE Mobile for Windows Phone, you have access to all of your E*TRADE accounts in the palm of your hand. That way, depending on how the market shifts and the moves you want to make, you’re in touch and can handle your assets.

Are you at lunch with a friend and just heard a tip that you want to act on? You can place a trade wherever you are. You can buy and sell at will with E*TRADE Mobile on your Lumia.

Also, if you want to stay in the know, you can react fast with access to free real-time quotes, breaking news and charts on demand. This way, you can make smart, informed investing decisions.

The app also gives you 24/7 access to your account balances, portfolio and buying power. If you want easy access to the E*TRADE Mobile application, be sure to pin it to your start screen.

Worried about security? You can sign in with the same password you use on the web but since the password is not kept on your phone, even if you should lose Lumia, your information is kept safe and secure.

Be sure to check out E*TRADE Mobile in the Windows Phone Store today.

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

It didn’t take me long this week to find a few people talking about Nokia’s accessories dedicated to bringing the sweet sounds of your tunes to you in a variety of ways.

Clinton Jeff is first up, with his look at the Nokia Purity Pro Wireless Stereo Headset by Monster (BH-940 for the purists among us). When he found out the Purity headset was going wireless, Clinton said there was a

‘little party in my head’

So when he got a chance to take a look for himself, he snapped some awesome photos (especially of the yellow variant), and even has a hands on video. His favourite feature, though, is the fact that the headset will ‘power down when folded’. Neat.

Fashion meets style on Le Fashion Blog in their look at the Nokia Purity Stereo Headset by Monster (WH-920) is in French, their gallery is well worth checking out. I ran it through a translator (my French is OK, but not great), and found that they liked the ‘very clean and friendly’ design, and liked the flat cable. Sound-wise, they said the quality was equally balanced and

‘simply stunning’

Thumbs up from Les Bleus, then.

Finally, kuzma has taken an extensive look at the Nokia Play 360° Wireless speaker (MD-50W)

As well as a great set of unboxing shots, Chris shares his thoughts on the design and usage:

‘this is hands-down my favorite (feasibly) portable bluetooth speaker’

No need for me to really add anything else, is there? For more of his thoughts, though, please do head over and have a read.

Have you got any thoughts on Nokia’s audio accessories? Seen or written a review we should feature here? Let us know in the comments, or give us a shout on Twitter.

You’ve probably heard of Moore’s Law, the prediction made by Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel. In 1965, he said that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every two years. He expected this to be the case for just ten years, but it’s still happening. This astounding progression of computing power is no better demonstrated than by your smartphone’s processor. To see how much things have changed, let’s take a trip down memory lane.   

1996 – In the beginning

It’s 1996. Ebay launches the world’s first online auction site. The Spice Girls get their first number one with Wannabe and the movie Independence Day hits the big screen. Meanwhile, in Finland, Nokia launch the world’s first smartphone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator. Weighing in at a sturdy 397 g, the first ever Communicator was driven by an Intel 24 MHz i386 CPU. 

Running on the GEOS 3.0 operating system, it had a mere 8 MB of memory: Half of which was used for apps, 2 MB for program memory and 2 MB for user data. While these specs might not sound very impressive, in its day the Nokia 9000 Communicator was the best a man (or woman) could get. This is probably why it was used by Val Kilmer when he played Simon Templar in the 1997 remake of The Saint.

2007 – Touchtastic

While smartphone processing power continued to scale at unprecedented speeds, it wasn’t until 2007 that touch screen smartphones and the emergence of a big screen really pushed developers and component makers to keep pace with this ramp up. Typically these power hungry machines needed a 620 MHz CPU and used 128 MB of memory.

2008 – SoC it to them

With smartphones becoming increasingly sophisticated, the need for more computing power in a smaller space became paramount. Fortunately, human ingenuity delivered in 2008 when Qualcomm delivered the first System on a Chip (SoC) processors for mobile devices.

In a traditional desktop PC, the CPU, RAM, graphics card and storage are scattered pieces on a motherboard. Inside a smartphone, most of the space is taken up by the battery, and the notion of spreading functionality between different chips would cause severe space constraints and bring battery life to its knees. To overcome these challenges, engineers, like those from Qualcomm, put all the necessary components—CPU, GPU, memory, and wireless radio technologies—on a single chip.

2012 – Snappier than ever

Which bring us to today. You probably expect the world’s most innovative smartphone to have the world’s most innovative processor. Well, you’d be right. The Nokia Lumia 920 and its sibling the Lumia 820 both contain Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon S4 processors. At 28nm, the Snapdragon S4 takes die-shrinking to a new level, balancing performance and power efficiency like no other chip. Dual Core and clocked at 1.5GHz, the Snapdragon S4 processor makes smartphones faster and more versatile, too.

What’s more, within the Snapdragon S4 processor, you’ll find an Adreno 225 GPU. This graphics component enables the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 to play the latest DirectX 3D games, drive HD content and support 720 p high resolution displays. Combined, this means the Nokia Lumia 920 is hundreds of times faster and has one hundred and twenty five times more memory than the original Nokia 9000 Communicator.

This incredible evolution of processors like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon shows this trend is set to continue. But how amazing can smartphones get? Let us know your predictions below.

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