nokia lumia 710

T-Mobile USA customers often feel like they are caught between a rock and a hard place.

They love T-Mobile's affordable pricing plans on its service that beats the competition, but the carrier lacks some of the most popular devices, like the Apple iPhone. And this leaves some T-Mobile customers torn between a desire for hot new devices, like the iPhone, and the prospect of spending more each month on service.

So what's a T-Mobile customer to do? In this edition of Ask Maggie, I help two different T-Mobile customers sort through their options.

T-Mobile customers cope with iPhone … Read more

That "something exciting" T-Mobile and Nokia teased yesterday? It's the Lumia 710.

A Federal Communications Commission manual for the Lumia 710 was found by WPCentral today. It essentially confirms that T-Mobile and Nokia will be introducing the device at an event held in New York next week.

Representatives from both companies weren't immediately available for comment.

The Lumia 710 will be the first Nokia Windows Phone to hit the U.S. The phone, as well as its higher end brother, the Lumia 810, are already available in Europe.

Nokia and T-Mobile have traditionally been strong partners, … Read more

In the tech news this week, Stephen and Brian bust me for buying an iPhone 4 on eBay to tide me over until there's a phone I really want--or until my Verizon contract is up. Nicole Lee joins us to talk about Nokia and Microsoft's new baby, the Lumia 800, and Sony's plans to get serious about making smart phones. Plus, stock advice from the gang, the coming nightmare that is the Stop Internet Piracy Act, and Computer Love.

Windows Phones just aren't selling (only 1 percent in the U.S., according to Nielsen in June). The new Mango OS is nice enough, but with shelves awash with so many excellent Android phones, what Windows Phone badly needs is a hardware hit.

If Nokia has its way, the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 will deliver it.

"It's a new dawn for Nokia," its CEO Stephen Elop said this week in London. "And we think we can break through."

Nokia's optimism and energy will certainly help. More important, so will its marketing dollars. Yet Nokia won't going anywhere if it doesn't produce the kinds of phones that people want to buy. On the surface, Nokia's two first Windows Phones are promising starts, and now it's time for a closer look. But I can already tell you this--it's going to be a long, tough, uphill trek for the company.… Read more

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Nokia's first, highly anticipated foray into Windows Phone gives both the phone builder and the software maker a second chance. Two of them, actually.

A few hours after Nokia's big unveiling of the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 at Nokia World, Senior Associate Editor Nicole Lee and I went to Nokia's Sunnyvale office to spend some quality time with both phones. (Stay tuned for Nicole's hands-on impressions of the Lumia 800!)

The Nokia Lumia 710 is the more midrange of the two, but I must say, it was attraction at first sight. The phone itself is pretty typical in dimensions and layout--Nokia left all the design risks to the Nokia Lumia 800, with its polycarbon unibody design, lack of a battery cover, and single visible screw.

Yet the Lumia 710 fits together well, feels good in the hand, and has some fun, funky colors and quirks that set it apart from the legion of sleek 'n' glossy, black and gray phones that seem to dominate. … Read more

LONDON - Nokia is launching an aggressive marketing campaign to sell the world on its new smartphones based on the Windows Phone operating system.

Wednesday marked Nokia's coming out party for the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, the first two Nokia smartphones that will use Micrsosoft's Windows Phone operating system. But it also marked the beginning of a marketing program that will Nokia hopes will get consumers excited about the new Lumia product line.

How Nokia markets and positions the Lumia phones against competitors, such as the Apple iPhone and a growing list of Google Android phones is … Read more

LONDON--Nokia announced its first two Windows Phone smartphones here today, in what could be the start to a recovery for the company's beleaguered smartphone product line. But U.S consumers will have to wait to get their hands on the new devices.

The Finnish company introduced the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, the first two devices in its revamped smartphone portfolio that will support the Microsoft Windows Phone platform. The new Lumia 800, the flagship smartphone, is already being packaged and sent out from the company's manufacturing facilities in Finland and will go on sale in November for a retail price of 420 euros ($584) at 31 carriers in six countries in Europe: the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain.

The Lumia 710, a lower-cost Windows Phone smartphone, won't be coming to market until later in the year. It will retail for 270 euros and will be available initially in Hong Kong, India, Russia, and Taiwan.… Read more

If you've been following the Nokia Windows Phone leaks, then you're probably familiar with the Sea Ray and Sabre code names. However, thanks to some leaked screenshots WinRumors, it looks like their official names will be Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710.

The Lumia 800 and 710 are expected to make their debut tomorrow at Nokia World as the company's first Windows Phone devices. The Lumia 800 (aka Sea Ray) is said to be similar to the Nokia N9 in design, whereas the Lumia 710 (aka Sabre) is reported to feature a 1.4GHz processor, 1GB RAM, a 5-megapixel camera, and 3.5-inch, 480x800-pixel touch screen.

We have our own ideas of what a Nokia Windows Phone might look like, but we'll all get to find out for sure in less than 24 hours. Nokia World kicks off tomorrow with a keynote address by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at 9 a.m. BST (1 a.m. PT) and CNET will be there to cover it live, so be sure to bookmark this page to get all the details. … Read more