This remake version of original Snake features all those controls taken from the old Nokia 5110 and the replica of that phone imaged on to the full screen with touch support. Same original monotone sound of the game also reminds the days of beeping sounds in the mobile phones.
That was no surprise to see the beautiful Lumia 800 residing on top of everything in the box because we knew it’s the same design as we have seen and experienced with Nokia N9. But it’s to believe that this stunning industrial design left no boring impression – in fact it delivered the pretty same impression (we had with Nokia N9) when it came back into our hands bundling with another OS “Windows Phone 7.5” from Microsoft.
A new software update has been started rolling out to Nokia Lumia 800. This is the second update Lumia 800 has received since the first update in December 2011. The latest software update brings fixes to the known issue for battery performance and the issue of keyboard suddenly disappearing.
This is “Nokia Collection” in Marketplace which will not show up in all Windows Phone devices from other OEMs but only in the ones from Nokia. This is what they were talking about back in February 2011 when both companies Nokia and Microsoft partnered. For now these are available for Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. Lumia 900 is yet near to its launch. We did hold on to this topic of Nokia Collection before and wanted to brief about it once we had a Nokia Winodws Phone device in hands.
Correcting earlier story of $100 Million, The Microsoft’s marketing push on Windows Phone will count up to $200 Million and not $100 Million which will not only be helped by Nokia for Nokia Ace but other hardware manufacturers or OEMs e.g. Samsung for their Windows Phone line-up. More of it is the same as we learnt earlier that all it will be campaigned in United States and on AT&T. However Nokia will be outspending Microsoft 2-to-1.
Nokia Ace to be promoted with a marketing campaign of $100 million. This is yet unclear that exactly how these $100 million will be divided up among the partners AT&T, Microsoft or Nokia. As a part of the campaign AT&T will be giving status “Hero” to the smartphone.
The guys at pocketnow have got their hands on and leaked the images of Nokia Ace, an unannounced Windows Phone from Nokia. The images are supposed to be as same of another rumoured Nokia Lumia 900 resembling Lumia 800 but in a bigger body with readjustment of components and features as well as the addition of front-facing camera.
Windows Phone Tango will be announced at CES 2012 with new devices from Nokia, unannounced Nokia Lumia 719 and Nokia Lumia 900. As well the Tango update will be rolled-out to existing Windows Phone devices currently running Mango. Next to Tango is Apollo which is considered to be a major release for Windows Phone devices with high-end hardware like dual-core processors at Nokia Connection 2012.
It took a bit longer than we expected but Sports Tracker is now finally available for Windows Phone devices. Sports Tracker for Windows Phone comes with the true tracking features, the training diary and the ability to share workouts on Facebook, Twitter and sports-tracker.com. The Diary will also sync your workouts to sports-tracker.com for backup and further analysis on the bigger screen.
Microsoft, at TechNet blog post, announced that the Microsoft Lync 2010 for Windows Phone has been made available in the Marketplace while in addition other platforms will also be benefited as the Lync 2010 client has also been submitted for Android, iOS and Symbian. However Lync for Android has already been approved and is available.
