Nicholas Kolakowski

Lumia 900 The Lumia 900, which will make its debut on AT&T in the coming months, features a 4.3-inch AMOLED display (with 800-by-400 resolution) and 4G LTE support, along with a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Lumia 900 Back The Lumia 900 uses the same polycarbonate unibody design as Nokia’s Lumia 800 and N9. HTC Arrive […]

Asus Zenbook UX31 The Asus Zenbook UX31’s brushed-aluminum body packs a solid-state drive (SSD), second-generation Intel Core i5 processor and the ability to quickly resume active mode. Asus Zenbook UX21 As with the UX31, the Asus Zenbook UX21 boasts an SSD and an ultra-thin body. ??í Samsung Series 5 Due at the end of January, […]

LAS VEGAS – As part of its major push at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Nokia announced a new high-end smartphone running the Windows Phone operating system: the Lumia 900. The smartphone, which will make its debut on AT&T “in the coming months,” features a 4.3-inch active-matrix organic LED (AMOLED) display (with 800×400 resolution) and […]

LAS VEGAS – Ahead of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s opening keynote at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the company is touting the first in what will almost certainly be a plethora of new Windows Phone smartphones present on the show floor: the HTC Titan II, a 4G Long-Term Evolution-capable device on AT&T. In a Jan. […]

Is Barnes & Noble’s Nook losing the e-reader wars to Amazon’s Kindle franchise? In a holiday sales statement issued Jan. 5, the bookseller suggested it would absorb deeper-than-expected losses over the course of its fiscal year. “The change in guidance is due primarily to a shortfall in the expected sales of Nook Simple Touch, as […]

Microsoft’s week was relatively quiet as the company ramps up for the Consumer Electronics Show, slated to kick off with CEO Steve Ballmer’s Jan. 9 keynote address at The Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Microsoft will almost certainly offer CES attendees a glimpse of Windows 8, the company’s next-generation operating system slated for […]

When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer takes the stage for his Jan. 9 keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show, he’ll almost certainly whip the curtain back from a few company projects in development. Chief among those will be Windows 8, the long-gestating operating system due to arrive sometime in the latter half of 2012. Microsoft’s […]

Microsoft’s Windows 8 will offer a new feature, Storage Spaces, designed to both protect data and organize physical drives for maximum use. In a Jan. 5 posting on the “Building Windows 8” blog, Rajeev Nagar, a group program manager on the Windows Storage and File System team, broke down the two overarching themes behind Storage […]

Research In Motion might place its bets on a single “superphone” running its next-generation BlackBerry 10, according to a Jan. 5 posting on the Boy Genius Report blog. “The only phone RIM is working on bringing to market right now is the BlackBerry London,” read the blog, citing the ever-popular unnamed sources. “We have been […]

U.S. Phone Nokia’s first Windows Phone for the U.S. market, the Lumia 710, is aimed firmly at the midmarket. It will retail for $49. Solid Hardware As with many other Nokia smartphones, the Lumia 710 is a solidly constructed device, although its black exterior also lacks the flair of some competing smartphone models. Windows Phone […]

Microsoft’s Windows 8 team has kicked off 2012 with an official blog post describing yet another feature of the upcoming operating system: the streamlined ability to reset or refresh a PC experiencing issues. Resetting a Windows 8 PC will, obviously, wipe out all the user’s personal data while reinstalling the operating system; refreshing it, on […]

The good news for Nokia is that its first Windows Phone for the U.S. market, the Lumia 710, is a solid smartphone. The bad news for Nokia is that the Lumia 710 is, well, a solid smartphone. In other words, despite its handsome exterior and smooth user interface, 4G support and respectable battery life (7 […]