Yesterday evening, at a regional conference held in Dubai, Microsoft Devices announced that the first Lumia devices running Windows Phone 8.1 which include Lumia 930, Lumia 630 Single Sim/Dual Sim and Lumia 635 LTE/4G are now available across the Middle East, Near East including Pakistan and North Africa.
Microsoft has sent an e-reminder to the media and online blogosphere letting them start wondering what’s coming up from the Lumia smartphone family on the 10th of the June 2014 in Dubai, UAE. There is no words about the device or devices.
As expected, during the event in New York on 20th May, Microsoft has introduced a new tablet in Surface line-up. The Surface Pro 3 tablet seems as built mainly for replacing the laptop PC as it comes with 4th-gen. Intel Core processor, larger screen and Windows 8.1 Pro to run all your PC needs.
The advert is tagged with “Not Like Everybody Else” highlighting Nokia’s expertise in industrial design. The ad plots with a black and white film showing people busy in their lives and work get attention, when one dressed guy showin in colours grabs his yellow Lumia 1020 from the pocket and a matching pair of headphones. While walking through, he finds a lady in red with her Lumia 2520 sitting near by.
Since September 2013 when Nokia devices and services business were set to be acquired by Microsoft and what remained was the approval from all the Nokia shareholders, now is the day when they have turned to be one. And Microsoft; which has been the software giant since decades, has now turned into both the software and hardware giant officially getting hold onto all of the Nokia devices units as the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business by Microsoft has now completed following the approval by Nokia shareholders and regulatory authorities.
Windows Phone customers may get 20 GB of extra storage for free on SkyDrive for 1 year. Microsoft is sending out emails to the Windows Phone users with a voucher link to redeem on SkyDrive .
Nokia and Microsoft announce the acquisition of all of Nokia’s Devices & Services business, license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services by Microsoft. It’s a real big one after the February 2011 partnership.
Chinese website coolxap has published a couple of leaked pictures of supposedly the Nokia Lumia 820 (also known as Nokia Arrow). Earlier today there was a render of the said device spotted on the web which does not exactly match to these pictures. But this time the images above looks more authentic and real.
Microsoft, with Atari and Grant Skinner, has just launched Atari Arcade with eight of the most popular Atari games that include Pong, Combat, Lunar Lender, Super Breakout, Yars’ Revenge, Asteroids, Missile Command, and Centipede. These classic arcade games will run on all modern browsers with support of HTML5. Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 PC will also be useful for playing the listed games.
Microsoft has revealed a new tablet called “Surface”. We know there were some leaked images of documents claiming some thing about Xbox Surface but this new Microsoft Surface is not related to Xbox in any way but it’s a mobile tablet device that comes with two major accessories – the Kickstand and the pressure sensitive Touch Cover Keyboard
