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Posted in: Android, Mobile phones, Windows Phone 18 hours ago by Johnny Oh, this is a “Dear Diary” moment! Christopher Taylor of Glasgow got fed up with his clumsy Motorola Atrix and decided to go down Windows Phone path via the Nokia Lumia 800. Nokia, being in dire need of good publicity, decided to film the freshly-converted Chris and post the story on YouTube. The nerve, right, on Google’s own turf! Christopher gives some argumentation on the OS shift he made. He says that the Atrix wasn’t really fast, the software was “clunky” and the smartphone didn’t have much built-in. He likes and uses Nokia Drive all the time. In Christopher Taylor’s eyes the Lumia 800 looks and feels a lot better than the outdated Atrix. He even goes on to slap BlackBerry along the way saying his sister had one and it crashed all the time. She now too has a Lumia smartphone, just in case you were wondering. We’re not saying the guy was paid or anything but it is a popular opinion in the comments of the YouT...

Storing people’s phone numbers, addresses and email details in our mobiles is something we now all take for granted, but sharing or adding new contacts can still be a convoluted process. Nokia’s Contact Share app, which is now available worldwide for your Nokia Lumia, makes the task of sharing and receiving contacts incredibly quick, straightforward and simple. Contact Share is not just more convenient but it also eliminates human error. For example, there is always the risk of inputting the wrong number into your phone or losing the all-important business card. Upon opening Contact Share, the first screen you will see is a list of all the contacts stored on your phone. Select the contact you wish to share and the next screen will give you a choice of which of their details that you wish to pass on. Perhaps you might want to share their phone number and work email, but not their home address. Confirm your choices by pressing the ‘Tick’ at the bottom of the screen and then you are give...

Two fantastic new apps, Camera Extras and Contact Share, are now available for your Nokia Lumia smartphone. The two apps were announced a month ago and have already been rolled out in some countries, such as the USA and China, but are now in the Nokia Collection* for you to download wherever you are. Camera Extras enhances your Lumia’s camera with a host of new functions and shot choices, while Contact Share is an easy way of sharing your contacts by SMS or email. You can download and install these apps on any Nokia Lumia smartphone from the Nokia Collection in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Camera Extras enhances your Lumia’s camera with some great new functions and shot choices. Smart Group Shot: Capture great group shots in just one attempt by choosing the best faces from a burstAction Shot: Capture fast-moving action shots with just one click and significantly improved shooting speedPanorama: This new control feature makes it easy to capture beautiful panorama shots by finding the...

Nokia’s sales offices in Chengdu and Shanghai are shutting down, Nasdaq.com has reported, Nokia transitions to a new mobile platform and a leaner corporate structure. Also, as its market share contracts, it simply has less need for its formerly fitting infrastucture. The number of layoffs that would be involved were not disclosed. Nokia recently announced, as part of a continuing string of downsizes, another 10,000 layoffs. In that round, three ‘top’ executives stepped down. Those layoffs were designed to curtail costs. Today’s news adds to the scroll of Nokia firings. Nokia previously stated that it intends to ‘invest heavily’ in research and development in the Asian market. That could imply that cuts in the region will be little more than trimmings. China’s mobile potential is massive, as TNW noted in a piece concerning Windows Phone’s slowing growing market penetration there: China is the world’s largest handset market — both in terms of shipments and new device activations — so an...