Whats App performance on Windows Phone has never been great. It was especially bad on Windows Phone 7.5, but with Windows Phone 8 it became much better. However, its been far from seamless and severely lacking in comparison to its iOS and Android clients. Fortunately, it seems things are about to change. WP Central has news of a major Whats App update thats in the works, and it promises to greatly improve the experience on Windows Phone.

The changelog:

In addition to UI improvements we’ve rewritten our background agent code for increased performance …

Nokia India today announced a partnership with New India Assurance, a government owned Insurance undertaking that will let new smartphones buyers purchase an insurance plan right from the Nokia store itself. The cost of insuring the handset will be 1.25% of the device’s price or Rs. 50, whichever is higher. The coverage will include external and internal damage from accidental drops, liquid damage and theft among other things.

This facility will be available at Nokia Branded Retail stores in Delhi (NCR), Jaipur, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Cochin starting …

In what can only be described as example of extreme out of the box thinking, Nokia’s gone ahead and released a #2InstaWithLove app. The app adds a filter and turns your photo into a Polaroid with the hashtag #2InstaWithLove imprinted, this photo can then be shared on social networks. Instagram has for long been one of the most demanded apps for Windows Phone, and one would have expected Microsoft and Nokia to have engaged the Facebook owned company behind the scenes to get them to do a Windows Phone app, …

In an effort to help answer questions that consumers might have about the Lumia 920, and to educate them on why a Lumia is better, Nokia India has just launched the ‘Switch To Lumia Hub‘ on their Facebook page. The hub includes tons of videos highlighting the device’s functionality, a section pertaining to what the people are saying about the device on Twitter and finally an area to guide consumers to their nearest Nokia store should they want to buy one.

Next, there’s also a ‘Ask Sid’ section on Nokia India’s website …

The Lumia 920 and 820 went on sale in India last week, and we were able to walk into a Nokia Priority Store on launch day and pick up 3 Lumia 920s, one in roaring red, one in glorious yellow and one in elegant white. So if you’ve been on the fence about which Lumia 920 to pick up, the following video should help answer that. Personally, speaking, my struggle was choosing between the Yellow and Red.

The Lumia 920 comes to India in Yellow, Red, White and Black for now. …

Nokia’s has been no stranger to crowdsourcing, be it for ways to generate ideas for new features, or for apps. But this time Nokia India has taken the concept to a whole new level by partnering with NDTV to produce a 9 episode ‘app reality show’ that will go on air in late January. In December, Nokia announced the ‘Your Wish Is My App‘ contest where anyone could suggest an app idea, and if selected Nokia would turn it into an app, with the winner walking away with a cool million rupees. The runner …

At the Lumia 920′s India launch, Nokia strapped a Lumia 920 and a Galaxy S3 to a quadcopter and flew it around the conference hall. While they didn’t refer to the S3 by name, but as a competitor’s device, one could tell. Both devices were strapped to the quadcopter (pictured below) side by side, and the quadcopter promised a very bumpy ride indeed.

I was able to film both quadcopter flying around, and the resulting footage captured from both smartphones, the difference was remarkable. (YouTube link)

Nokia announced an update for the Lumia 920 and 820 last month, but mentioned that it would only be available in the US and Canada immediately and that the update would come to users across the world in early February. But if you’re picking up a new Lumia 920 or 820 in India, the good news is that it will be shipping with the update codenamed Portico pre-installed.

This update includes updates from both Microsoft and Nokia. There are certain all round improvements to Windows Phone functionality plus some Nokia specific …

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the shiny and colourful new Lumias from Nokia, the wait is over. At today’s press event in Delhi, Nokia’s just announced that the Lumia 920 and the 820 will go on sale in India starting tomorrow. The Lumia 920 will retail for 38,199, while its younger sibling, the 820 will sell for 27,559. I expect the actual market prices to be slightly lower. Cities to get the devices tomorrow itself include Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, while the others will …

Yesterday I gave you an example of how well the Lumia 920 copes with the camera shake that comes from trying to film a landing aircraft from a moving car, and today its time raise the bar even further and film from inside an extremely challenging environment - a chopper. Not only does a helicopter promise a very bumpy ride, it is also incredibly loud inside. To make things even more interesting we also took a HTC 8X, an iPhone 5 and a Galaxy S3 along to see how they compare to …