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Published by Jason Harris on July 24, 2012 Cloud-based services and storage extend the usefulness and capacity of your mobile phone. With a whopping 4.3 inch screen and access to LTE, the Nokia Lumia 900 is the perfect way to access your data in the cloud. While SkyDrive is built into Windows Phone, and is fully integrated with the Office and camera software, there are alternatives for users with specific needs. Box offers fast, ample storage for your files and lets you access your files on your phone, tablet and computer, and today we’re happy to help announce that Box is available for your Nokia Lumia phone. Now, with Box, you can share your essential files from anywhere. Box is particularly geared towards business users and is known for high-security storage that integrates high-level encryption and file-based permissions. Also, those who rely upon FTP to help swap files will love to know that Box lets you skip the clunky method of file and folder sharing. Want your co-workers to l...

Smartphones, feature phones, mobile phones. What’s the difference? You may think it’s easy to distinguish between them all, but sometimes there’s not much difference between them. Here’s our breakdown of the three. As a rule of thumb, the best way to differentiate the three groups is to keep in mind its features and therefore, cost. If a phone just makes a phone call, sends a text message and offers very little else, it’s mobile phone. If it offers a high-megapixel camera, enables you to edit Microsoft Office documents and photos then it’s a smartphone. And anywhere in between is probably a feature phone. To explain things further, let’s look more in detail about the differences. Mobile phones These are usually the most affordable phones on the market. A great example of this is the Nokia 100. While a mobile phone doesn’t come packed with a high-end features, what it does offer is a brilliant battery life. This one has a standby time of 840 hours – well over a month – for example. A m...

This time last week, we asked you to take part in a poll where we asked you what do YOU do with your phone? We had an overwhelming response and it’s now time to look at the results. There were two parts to the survey; one where you needed to tick as many boxes as necessary to let us know what you used in the last month, and the other part would let us know how often you perform those tasks. Part one When looking at the data from the results, there’s really not much in it between all of the options. When it comes to using your phones, you really know how to make the most of your Nokia Lumia. The top ten activities that you – our Nokia Lumia user readers – did with your phone in the last month is as follows: Browsing websitesDownloading apps from the MarketplaceWiFi to connect to the InternetAccess emailUse camera for still picturesUse social networksGPSMusic/MP3 playerOrganiser/calendar3G to connect to the Internet If we compare the results from the Niesen survey, there are some minor ...

Mirror’s Edge is a single-player action-adventure platform video game that’s been available to play on computers and game consoles since 2008. Now, you can take this title out of your home and with you wherever you go, on your Nokia Lumia. You play as the protagonist named Faith Connors, a free-runner, whose only goal is to stop the sinister overpowering law-makers in a dystopian city. Download Mirror’s Edge now Press the Search button on your Nokia Lumia and then tap VisionScan the barcodeTap on the link when it appears on the screenInstall the application from the Windows Phone Marketplace You start your journey on the rooftops of this city and you must navigate across the buildings using only your free-running skills. You’ll move from the rooftops into buildings as you progress through the game. Gameplay is relatively easy. To set Faith in motion, you just swipe the phone in the direction you want her to go. She’ll continue to run until she hits something, falls off a building, or...

Seton Hall University, based in South Orange, New Jersey, is completely revamping their computing experience and taking it all-mobile with the Nokia Lumia 900 as the mobile part of the new offering. As we’ve covered before, all incoming freshman coming into Seton Hall this fall semester will receive Nokia Lumia 900 smartphones. To make sure Seton Hall’s network will offer the best computing experience for all students and faculty at Seton Hall, the University is launching SHUmobile, a multi-pronged approach to advance communications at the Catholic university. It’s good to be a freshman at Seton Hall In collaboration with Nokia, AT&T and Microsoft, Seton Hall officials are giving a pre-release version of Windows 8 to incoming freshman, along with Nokia Lumia 900s and Microsoft’s Office 365 Cloud Services. To take advantage of Office 365 while on-the-go, AT&T is upgrading Seton Hall’s cellular network to lighting-fast 4G LTE. With the new infrastructure, students and faculty ca...

When we brought you news that the official Twitter for Nokia app is now on Series 40 devices, it gained a lot of interest. With hundreds of millions of feature phones around the world, we thought we’d take you on a walk-through of Twitter for Nokia on a Nokia C3-01 Touch and Type to show you how it works. Upon installing the app, the first thing you’ll need to do is to enter your Twitter username and password; then it’s straight down to business. T he first screen you land on is the home screen and you’ll notice the Tweets from your follows will appear here in most recent order. If you choose to interact with one of those Tweets, just select it and you’ll be given the option to reply, to Retweet or to save it as a favourite. You can also click through to that person’s profile to learn more about them. To refresh the twitter-feed on the Nokia C3-01, pulling down on the screen and the releasing refreshes the content. Once you’re up-to-date with your followers’ activities, make your way...

Regularly checking the weather forecast is one of the great joys of owning a smartphone. After all, I’m British and cognizance of the weather is necessary for polite interaction with the rest of the society.  Plus, it’s a lot more fun than looking out of the window. However, judging by the number of weather apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace, Britain is not the only nation obsessed with the weather.  There are localised weather apps for countries as far flung as Hong Kong, Australia, Estonia, Thailand, Canada and many more.  Different but the same   Actually, most weather apps allow you to choose several locations so that you can keep an eye on forecasts in cities all over the world, whether there is a local app or not. Other common features shared by many of the apps include: Snapshot of the current day’s weatherThe day’s maximum and minimum day/night temperatureLong-range forecastsChoice between Fahrenheit and CelsiusWind speedsUV index forecastsSunrise and sunset timesWeather ma...

Last week, we revealed that SMS is the most common form of phone-based communication in the UK. Its popularity is a worldwide phenomenon, though. (Around 700 billion texts were sent in China in 2007; individual U.S. subscribers send more than 500 a month). But why? We’ve got email, Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, Skype – a myriad of much more sophisticated tools to use.  Yet it’s plain old text messaging that gets the love. In part, that’s because it’s the lowest common denominator. Everyone’s phone is capable of text messaging. It’s also very cheap in a lot of countries: it doesn’t need a data provision and is often bolted onto contracts as a ‘free’ extra. But there’s more science to it than that. According to Internet psychologist Graham Jones, it’s about the way we classify different ways of sending messages. For many, email is associated with business and more formal communications. Social networks, on the other hand, are associated with broadcasting messages to larger groups of frie...

Published by Pino Bonetti on July 26, 2012 This is a summer of sporting events in Europe. Last month, Spain set new football records in Poland and Ukraine (of course, as an Italian, I was less happy) and as of tomorrow the world’s foremost and oldest sports competition is going to keep London busy for a while, for the third time in history. To help you follow your favourite sports and athletes, there is a dedicated section about the games on maps.nokia.com with all the information you need, plus public transportation lines and schedules, photorealistic 3D tour of London and tips for accommodation, restaurants, shopping and sights. Also CNN is using our stunning 3D maps to show what’s happening in London this summer. This is for instance the route of the marathon: You will really appreciate our city page maps.nokia.com/uk/london, especially if you are a London newbie. The city pages, as you might already know, are available for many locales around the world and actually for all the pre...