Today at WIMA in Monaco, Nokia announced their first NFC Windows Phone, Lumia 610 NFC. Nokia’s Andrea Bacioccola explains how people can use NFC on the Lumia 610 NFC.
NFC stands for Near Field Communication and advantages you get with Lumia 610 NFC are being demoed in the video: activating tags by tapping on them and connect to wireless Bluetooth speakers. The Lumia 610 NFC is also certified for contactless payments with MasterCard’s PayPass solution, and with Visa’s mobile application for payments, Visa payWave.
The Lumia 610 NFC is expected to be available early in the third quarter of 2012. Orange will be the first operator to carry the device.
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Nokia Lumia 900 was released a couple of days ago and is selling like a hot cake, but some owners are experiencing issues with data connectivity on the phone. It seems that guys at winsource.com found a way to temporarily fix the problem.
Some phones are shipped without correct APN info, so you have to add your own. The correct info to enter is:
APN = wap.cingular
USER = wap@cingulargprs.com
PASS = cingular1
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Lisa Gade from MobileTechReview compares newest smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 software, the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II
Nokia Lumia 900 has a 4.3 ClearBlack AMOLED display, 16GB storage, an 8 megapixel rear camera with Carl Zeiss lens, a front video chat camera, FM Radio, WiFi, Bluetooth and a GPS. It runs on a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, 4G-LTE capable radio and an 1830 mAh battery.
The HTC Titan II features a 1.5 GHz single-core Scorpion CPU, 4.7-inch display with 480×800 pixels, 16-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, a front-facing camera, 4G-LTE capable radio and a 1730 mAh battery.
Both phones are available exclusively in the U.S from AT&T.
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