My Nokia Blog

Lumia 810 to Be the Only T-Mobile WP to Support LTE + Free Completely Today Only! (8X Owners Sob Quietly)
Tab Syncing Across IE11 Coming to Windows Phone in Future Updates (Blue)?
Patents: Nokia Vs Google, WiFi Tethering and WebM/WP8 codecs
Weekend Watch: Nokia Lumia 920, iPhone 5 And Galaxy S3 Camera Comparison

Lumia 810 to Be the Only T-Mobile WP to Support LTE + Free Completely Today Only! (8X Owners Sob Quietly)

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 08:52 AM PDT

According to a statement by T-Mobile, the Lumia 810 will be the ONLY Windows Phone device on their network that will be upgraded to support true 4G/LTE.

The Lumia 810 is the only other LTE-capable device on T-Mobile aside from the Note II, and we will share timing of that LTE MR at a later time. Please stay tuned.

T-Mobile also carries the HTC 8X (and sells it for more) which will NOT be getting any LTE goodness.

On a related matter T-Mobile is selling the Lumia 810 absolutely free, and have even waved the $35 activation fee for the day; so if there was ever a time to buy an 810; it would be now

T-Mobile Online store: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/cell-phone-detail.aspx?cell-phone=Nokia-Lumia-810

It appears that the 810 has sold out in some stores, but that doesn’t mean much to be honest:

VIA

Tab Syncing Across IE11 Coming to Windows Phone in Future Updates (Blue)?

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 08:46 AM PDT

With all the rumors of a unified update experience coming to Windows RT/8/Phone here’s an interesting feature that we might see. In the video above demoing IE11 (I think); there’s an option for “synced tabs”; this might refer to being able to push and sync tabs across your Windows devices, which might be one of the first advantages we see of that “unified core”. I believe Chrome on Android and iOS already has that option, and if Microsoft really want WP to be a contender it would make sense (even though IE10 on Windows 8 is pretty awesome, I still can’t bring myself to use it).

Check out the synced tab option in the video below (1:01)

Patents: Nokia Vs Google, WiFi Tethering and WebM/WP8 codecs

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 07:20 AM PDT

A couple of legal/patent related Nokia stories for you guys to gloss over. I don’t know very much about the patent system but the gist I’m getting is that firstly, it appears Nokia has a patent on WiFi Tethering (or at least key aspects). Secondly, more google-free riding as it tries to get some Nokia patents for its WebM patents licence free. Or is it?

1) from Muerte

Nokia maybe achieving a huge win over its wlan-tetheringpatent:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/android-likely-infringes-nokia-patent.html

Nokia patented it already in the year 1995. This means, that every Android device would infringe this patent.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVrsvye_vYq8eSANMaAQlC7-ADkD-FV25fprmLHbHeRzptSV1u7GyJJYUDYOFVWR9b_dzMaM9qrjs1bh01PGwhh_KPkqIhFX7_KBU1mFxiYk3KAydPhtA7GMH6bGuL_4R4sn7POMj4UA/s1600/Nokia+tethering+patent+-+Figure+1.png
Source Link: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/android-likely-infringes-nokia-patent.html

2) from Alvester

Nokia refuses royalty-free and FRAND licensing for its WebM patents

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/24/4141258/nokia-webm-patents-frand

“Nokia believes that open and collaborative efforts for standardization are in the best interests of consumers, innovators and the industry as a whole. We are now witnessing one company attempting to force the adoption of its proprietary technology, which offers no advantages over existing, widely deployed standards such as H.264 and infringes Nokia’s intellectual property. As a result, we have taken the unusual step of declaring to the Internet Engineering Task Force that we are not prepared to license any Nokia patents which may be needed to implement its RFC6386 specification for VP8, or for derivative codecs.”

More on that;

http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/nokia-comments-on-vp8-patent.html

Question from the first comment at TheVerge:

What's wrong with that? Its Nokia's patent, and why should they be subjected to be 'FRAND'd' on Google's request?
If Google really wants WebM to grow, they should license it. Not creating something and distributing everything for free as if no patent exist.

Weekend Watch: Nokia Lumia 920, iPhone 5 And Galaxy S3 Camera Comparison

Posted: 24 Mar 2013 07:07 AM PDT

Check this out, it’s a very thorough video comparison of the cameras of the Nokia Lumia 920, Apple iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3.

It’s amazing to think that it’s now a Nokia that’s getting picked up on oversaturated colours. I do distinctly remember when it was the N8 producing the most lifelike colour against the iPhone, reviews loved the iPhone pics. Anyway, Nokia might have overdone it.

On other things like grip to hold when taking a photo, stabilisation, video sharpness, low light photos, the Lumia 920 takes the top spot.