Nokia XL Gets An April Release Date In The Philippines

It seems like Filipino's will again be given another front seat row in getting one more of Nokia's recently announced Android running smartphone trio's as the Nokia XL is about to be release in about 2-3 weeks.

The Nokia XL is considered the flagship smartphone among the three carrying with it a bigger screen of 5 inches as compared to the 4 inch screen of the recently released Nokia X, and a 768MB of RAM as against the 512MB of the latter. The Nokia XL also enjoys a higher camera specifications of 5MP as compared to the 3MP of Nokia X and a bigger battery storage of 2000mAh unlike the 1500mAh of the latter. The rest of the software and applications features remains the same. (Click Here for Nokia X's Specs and Software Features)

No word as to the official local retail price yet but it is expected to be cost at around PhP800-1000 more than Nokia X base on the published international retail price rate. Standard retail price of the Nokia X is PhP5,990.00.

Its customary for Nokia not to release all of the announced color variants for their phones per country so expect at least two to four of the following; bright green, orange, cyan, yellow, black and white.

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Nokia X Gets A PhP5990 Price Tag In The Philippines, To Launch In March 11th

The hottest and the most talk about Nokia Android mobilephone in the recently concluded Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona , Spain, the Nokia X, will plunge full throttle in one of Nokia's stronghold in Asia Pacific, the islands Philippines.

Its currently being listed in one of the leading online stores in the country for PhP5,990.00, its official introductory retail price with a full Nokia 1 year warranty. Expect a little bump in the price in Nokia flagship stores and far less in Grey markets.

The Nokia X is one of the first three device from the company that runs Android Open Source Project operating system with a Nokia X software platform 1.0 user interface that is a combination of Microsoft's Windows Phone Tile UI and the Asha Touch UI's Fastlane feature. It will also carry Microsoft's leading services and features like One Drive cloud storage and one month Skype Unlimited World Subscription, and Nokia's unbeatable navigation tools like the offline HERE maps and HERE drive, as well as Nokia Mix Radio offering free online music streaming and offline playlist download among the rest of Nokia's exclusive services.

Hardware specs includes a 4" IPS WVGA (800 x480) (233ppi) capacitive touch, 3MP camera fixed focus, 520MB RAM and 4GB eMMC, 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, 1500mAh Battery, Dual SIM and Dual Standby, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0+ HS and more.

Watch this space for updates on the upcoming event.

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Alcatel dominates Firefox OS market with a share of 65%, GeeksPhone insignificant

Long-term followers of the mobile market tend to see Alcatel as a company which is all talk, but tends to ship relatively little. In Firefox OS, this can not be farther from the truth – an analysis of user behavior shows that the Chinese company accounts for more than 65% of users.

Tamoggemon Holding k.s. offers an immensely powerful scientific calculator which provides Firefox OS users features not seen in any other product. This is achieved via a client-server infrastructure which connects the cell phones to a group of Raspberry Pi computers.

In specific, the data obtained from analyzing usership looks as following:

Alcatel OneTouch 4012 - 67,86%
ZTE Open - 22,11%
LG D300 - 10,01%

It is clear that ZTE's policy of intentionally limiting the amount of ZTE Open sales has backfired on the vendor. LG has a market share of 10% - it remains but a question of time when the platform will be discontinued.

More interestingly, GeeksPhone handsets have failed to amount to a significant level of traffic. This clearly shows that most developers don’t use their Firefox OS handset as primary phone.

About TouchCalc

TouchCalc is a scientific calculator for Windows Phone 7 and 8. Unlike most of its competitors, Tamoggemon Holding k.s. offers the product to its users at no cost. In addition to the here-mentioned client for Firefox OS, the product is also available for Windows Phone, webOS, Symbian and bada OS. Further information on TouchCalc can be found via www.tamoggemon.com. The Firefox OS client can be downloaded at https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/touchcalc-web.

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2 Affordable Phones For The Mobile First Generation, The Nokia Asha 230 and The Nokia 220

Mobile first would mean the earliest mobilephone users and Nokia wants to make sure that they are treated with the best initial experience to the tech world with the launch of two affordable yet powerful devies, the Nokia Asha 230 and the Nokia 220.

The Nokia Asha 230 is the ideal introduction to full-touch mobile phones. The Nokia Asha 230 includes all the benefits of the Nokia Asha Software Platform, including Fastlane and access to popular social apps like Line, WeChat and WhatsApp. One swipe up from the lockscreen activates the Nokia Asha 230's camera, and one touch enables people to share images to their favourite social network. With a forthcoming software update, the Nokia Asha 230 will introduce 7GB of free cloud storage on Microsoft OneDrive, and the option to automatically back up photos to the cloud.

Priced at just EUR 45 or around PhP2760, the Nokia Asha 230 is the most affordable Asha touch device ever. Available in single and Dual SIM variants, it will start rolling out immediately across Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

The Nokia 220 is the lowest-priced, data-enabled phone which makes mobile Internet accessible to more people around the world. With its beautiful design, 2.4" colour screen and dust-and-splash-proof keypad, the Nokia 220 is a well-crafted choice for people experiencing mobility and the Internet for the first time, with Facebook and Twitter pre-loaded and Bing as the default search engine in the pre-loaded Nokia Xpress browser.

Retail prices for the Nokia 220 start at EUR 29 or around PhP1760. It will also be available for sale immediately in single and Dual SIM variants and rolling-out in Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

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