The PR 1.2 firmware update has just been rolled out to the developer only N950 MeeGo Harmattan device, and it comes to us in the form of  beta version number 3.2012.02-6_PR_RM680. This update is a precursor to the N9 update, and will give you a fair idea of what new features to expect on your N9.

Highlights include support for five new languages, face recognition, enhanced copy-paste, software update notifications for applications and games in Nokia Store and folders in the application view. If you own a N950, you can find all the details …

Online retail is gathering serious momentum in India and Nokia has partnered with Indiatimes to ride the wave. Their brand new online store has just gone online and is available at nokia.indiatimes.com. Alternatively, Nokia India’s website also directs you to the Indiatimes portal, should you choose the buy online option.

Judging by the option to select your ‘preferred retailer’, it seems as if Indiatimes is just the first partener with whom Nokia has tied up. I won’t be surprised if more sites are added to the list in the coming weeks/months. The …

For a long time now, Nokia has been the company responsible for both the hardware and software on their devices but the Nokiasoft announcement in February changed all that. Nokia decided to concentrate on their strengths in hardware and design and let Microsoft take care of the software.

At the time when this decision was taken Windows Phone had just come out, was missing a ton of key features like multitasking, copy/paste and so on. However Nokia obviously was given a look at the long term plans for Windows Phone and …

The battery life reports on the Lumia 800 have been mixed right from the start, with some people getting great longevity while others finding out first hand what poor battery life really means. Turns out its all down to software and Nokia is promising an easy fix via a firmware update in ‘early 2012′.  The Lumia 710, thankfully for Nokia, is immune to this problem.

The problem seems to be caused by the phone not being able to access the entire capacity of its battery, similar to what Nokia had said three weeks …

Both the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 officially went on sale today in India, marked by a special event at the Nokia Store in Gurgaon’s Ambience Mall.

As you can imagine, the store was packed to the hilt and there was a Lumia 800 shaped cake to go along with the festivities.

The icing on the cake was that those who had pre-orded their devices at that particular store, walked away with a free XBOX 360 along with their shiny new Lumia 800. To top that, Nokia has also invited Tennis …

Every Monday Nokia releases a new episode of the ‘Little Amazing Show’, which is a series of feel good films meant to promote the ‘amazing everyday’ lifestyle, which in turn is the marketing campaign behind Nokia’s Lumia series.
This week we’ve hit episode 4, titled Night that encourages you to do something amazing tonight.

I love these films and the best part is that they come out on Monday, to help you set the tone for the week. The idea behind these lifestyle films is not so much to promote the Lumia …

On December 10, Nokia India held five simultaneous events across Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kolkata to mark the launch of the Lumia 800 in India. Right in in the middle of popular malls in all these cities was the Nokia Arc, and tons of Lumia 800 branding.

There were live demos of the Lumia 800 along with pre-booking options, but the surprise element was a flash mob, that apparently started at the same time in all these 5 cities. I was at the Mumbai event, and here is how it …

The pre-orders for the Lumia 800 in India have already started and the device is expected to go on sale come Dec. 15. Nokia’s marketing campaign is also in full swing and the latest activity to come our way is a simultaneous 5 city event that is going down on 10th December, Saturday, 6 pm onwards.

Nokia India is promising an amazing experience that’ll ‘blow our minds’ away. So if you’re in Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai or Bangalore, you might want to head to one of the following venues on Saturday …

Nokia Music Unlimited has been around in India for a while now and the model it followed was that with every purchase of a compatible Nokia handset, you got access to the millions of tracks on the Nokia Store for one year. You were free to download as many tracks as you liked and keep them after the expiry of the one year period, but there was a catch they were DRM protected.
That meant you couldn’t play that music on your other devices, and if you didn’t have a Windows …

The Nokia 603 is a mid-range Symbian Belle device that presents a compelling mash up between price, functionality and style. Powered by a 1 Ghz processor, the 603 packs a 3.5″ capacitive Clear Black LCD display, NFC, a 5 MP ‘full focus’ camera comes in black and white, with a choice of back covers in six different colors ranging from black, white, fuchsia, green to yellow and blue.

Announced in October 2011, the device will go on sale in the next two weeks at around the Rs. 15,000 mark. I got …