The top end of the smartphone market is well served with Lumia devices and the bottom end has the sub-R2 000 Lumia 520. But the midrange hasn’t had an update since 2012’s 620. Enter the Lumia 625, which, despite its similar name, is a wholly different device
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The smartphone market could be reaching another tipping point. Several developments in recent weeks point to potentially big shifts in the fortunes of the major players. Let’s start with Apple, which on Tuesday took the wraps off not one but two new iPhones, a top-end model, the 5s, and, perhaps more significantly, a
Soon the Nokia name will vanish from high-end devices. Nokia has sold the Lumia and Asha trademarks to Microsoft as part of their €5,4bn deal, announced on Tuesday, but Nokia’s name will vanish from smartphones. Curiously, Microsoft will continue
Microsoft is officially launching itself into the smartphone hardware business. The US software company has made a E5,4bn cash offer to buy Nokia’s device and services business, to license the company’s patents and to use Nokia’s mapping services
Rarely are the kings of one era the kings of the next. Just as Nokia and BlackBerry were the kings of the pre-smartphone era, so they were eclipsed by Apple and its fast-follower, Samsung. The same is true of Palm, which reigned in the preceding age of the personal digital assistant
In the wake of another set of poor quarterly results tied to weak consumer demand for its new smartphones, BlackBerry on Monday announced that it was exploring “strategic options”, including the possibility of selling the business. But who would want to buy
Calling it the “next chapter in smartphone photography”, Nokia on Thursday night launched the Lumia 1020 phone, complete with a 41-megapixel camera. “We’ve made the back the new front,” CEO Stephen Elop told the packed Zoom Reinvented launch event in New York, where the 1020’s impressive camera features
Apple users are the most satisfied and BlackBerry users the least satisfied, a new research survey conducted by the South African Customer Satisfaction Index (Sacsi) claims to show. However, most South Africans are satisfied with their mobile handsets – an overall satisfaction
The Nokia Lumia 720 looks a lot like a smaller version of the more expensive 920. That’s not a slight, but very much a compliment. Although we loved the 920’s hardware and features, we bemoaned its size and considerable weight. The 720 has slightly less impressive specs, but it’s still equipped to hold its
It seems there is a market for people willing to pay between R50 000 and R159 000 for a phone from luxury brand Vertu. This is a trend that is expected to grow. A case in point is the R69 000 offered on Bidorbuy, no less, for Vertu’s relatively cheap Ascent Red phone. Vertu employee Antonio Ambrosio