Pictures of Hapanero an unreleased Windows Phone leaked from China

Recently we have seen leaked pictures and specifications of Microsoft Lumia 960 that was supposed to be the successor of Lumia 950. However that was cancelled because of the decision of Microsoft to retrench its mobile buisness. We have seen various cancelled Lumia series smartphone and that trend seems to continue now. We also have seen some pictures of a Nokia made Windows Phone that had a hardware qwerty keypad. Another day, another unreleased phone has made it to this list. Pictures of Hapanero, a Windows Phone which was only created for demo purposes at BUILD 2015 has been leaked.

Hapanero existed in two variants with dual-SIM support one having a 1080P screen and another one having 1440p screen. The device had been powered by a Snapdragon 810 processor with  4GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage with microSD card expansion. The phone also had a 20-megapixel camera with a triple LED flash (similar to Lumia  960) and 2000mAH capacity that can be removed.

We have been hearing rumours about Microsoft launching smartphone (not surface phone) at the end of this year. Other OEMs have not been able to capture the Windows phone market that Lumia left for them. Let us see what Microsoft will for the future of Windows phones.

Source: Pictures of Hapanero an unreleased Windows Phone leaked from China

Lumia 960 specifications and design revealed in new leaked images

Microsoft's Lumia 960 was supposed to be the successor of Lumia 950. However, Microsoft cancelled the smartphone as they decided to retrench its mobile efforts. Not only the Lumia 960, Microsoft also cancelled the Lumia 750 and Lumia 850. Earlier this week, images of Lumia 960 prototype were leaked on a Chinese website.

The earlier leaked images revealed the front and back panel of Lumia 960. However, the complete specifications weren't leaked. Today, even more images of Lumia 960 has been leaked and it has revealed the complete design of the Lumia 960.

Image Courtesy: Baidu.com

Image Courtesy: Baidu.com

Image Courtesy: Baidu.com

Image Courtesy: Baidu.com

The new leaked image has revealed that volume rockers are on the left side instead of right. The camera key and power key are on the right side of the smartphone. Furthermore, SIM and MicroSD card slot is also on the right side. At the bottom, USB-C and 3.5mm headphone are situated.

Lumia 960 Specifications

The Lumia 960 features a metal design and it has the Lumia 950's front panel. It has a front facing speakers. The smartphone also features a 20MP ZEIIS rear camera and a triple LED flash on back.

It comes with a 5.5-inch display with 2K resolution, 4GB of RAM. The cancelled Lumia flagship device would have been powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor.

The Lumia 960 design seems to be quite modern and much better than the Lumia 950, what do you think?

Source: Lumia 960 specifications and design revealed in new leaked images

Windows 10 Maps gets extra voice options

Published by Steve Litchfield at 9:07 UTC, June 3rd 2017

On the Fast ring, at least, Windows 10 Maps just got itself a nice update, providing extra options for voice navigation. No doubt this will make its way to production devices in due course, too. See below for details and screenshots of this in action, on Mobile, of course, since on the phone is where Maps shines...

As seen on my editorial Lumia 950 XL:

Both the option to choose the navigation volume and to choose where the instructions are played come directly from user feedback. Which of us haven't been listening to a nice quiet piece of music in the car when the navigation instruction comes in booming over the car's Bluetooth connection? With volume and audio destinations both selectable, you can now take charge of audio multitasking in your own car set-up!

Comments welcome - would you make use of these new options? I know my family will be very pleased with the results...

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Nokia 9 benchmarks continue making the rounds, this time with 4GB RAM, Snapdragon 835

Doesn't it just break your heart that it's been three whole years since Nokia last released a flagship phone? Technically, the Lumia 930 was Microsoft's doing, and now the Nokia 9 is drawing near with another company in charge of actual production and distribution.

HMD Global looks like it'll be pulling out all the stops for a change to give the Samsung Galaxy S8 or Sony Xperia XZ Premium a run for their money, making no compromise as far as processing power is concerned.

But the "Unknown Heart" repeatedly benchmarked of late has to get a move on if it doesn't want the next wave of Android and iOS hero devices to drown out its aspirations. The newest Geekbench scores posted by a no doubt advanced pre-launch prototype are much closer to what we expect from the finished handheld, though ironically, this particular model packs 4 instead of a whopping 8GB RAM.

So did a unit photographed in protective attire not long ago, remember, as well as a TA-1004 variant exposed by AnTuTu today. This one offers us a more complete look at its spec sheet, apparently including Quad HD (1440 x 2560 pixels) screen resolution, dual 13MP cameras and 64GB internal storage in addition to a Snapdragon 835 SoC and 4GB RAM.

Wait, are those 13MP rear and front shooters or dual "main" cams? Probably the former, but that doesn't mean the latter isn't also true.

Source: Nokia 9 benchmarks continue making the rounds, this time with 4GB RAM, Snapdragon 835

Best Windows 10 apps this week

Two-hundred-and-thirty-three in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on the Windows Store in the past seven days.

Windows 10's growth continued in May, but at a snail-like pace. The operating system increased its share by 0.5 percent, down from the 0.92 percent growth the month before that.

As always, if I missed an app or game that has been released this week that you believe is particularly good, let me know in the comments below or notify me via email instead.

Discounts this week

The following list is a selection of the best deals. Make sure you check out the Store for all offers.

Some apps are discounted for more than one week. Only new apps and games are listed below. Check out the previous post in the series for past offers that may still be valid.

New apps and games

Quantum Revenge ($1.99, free trial available)

Quantum Revenge is an arena shooter that takes place in space. You take control of a mecha, and try to survive for as long as possible by defeating enemy ships and avoiding asteroids.

The game ships with six different mecha that you can customize and upgrade. The game plays with touch, mouse and keyboard, or joysticks.

F.Lux

The popular desktop program F.Lux is now also available as a Windows application. It makes the color of the computer screen adapt to the time of the day to help you sleep better at night.

Color temperature is normal during the day, and toned down at night. The app features the same options as the desktop program. You can keep the default settings, or customize them using the program's settings.

Scan Archive

Scan Archive is a free application (with in-app purchases) that is an all-in-one scanning solution for Windows 10.

The app supports the scanning of documents (including feeder support), OCR to search within text of scanned documents, and acts as an archive for all scanned documents on top of that.

You may search your archives, export documents as images, or as documents.

SoundCloud (Beta)

SoundCloud Beta brings the popular music hosting and streaming service to Windows 10.

You need to sign in to a SoundCloud account or create a new one to use the application.

The app lets you search and browse available music on SoundCloud, and upload music to the service.

Music continues to play in the background, and you can make use of all kinds of nice-to-have features such as mood-based playlists, or related track suggestions.

TeamViewer Blizz

TeamViewer Blizz lets you start and join meetings without creating an account first. The app features a contacts list and chat support, and works across platforms (PC, Mac, Android and iOS).

Blizz should work behind firewalls according to the product description, and you may set up user rights for a meeting. This includes speaking, chatting and file sharing rights.

A whiteboard is provided, and you may share your entire screen, or select applications.

The app supports video conferencing, VOIP and phone, and is built on TeamViewer technology.

Source: Best Windows 10 apps this week

Yale and MoMA team up to resurrect visionary light works

Nearly a decade ago, a Seattle-based collector visiting New Haven, Connecticut, asked to see three works from the 1920s and 1930s by the artist Thomas Wilfred in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery. The objects, two strangely resembling flatscreen televisions and one a lamp on a table, had remained deep in storage for decades. When the collector asked the accompanying curator and conservators to plug in and switch on the works, they were understandably hesitant. "One of us grabbed a fire extinguisher, just in case," says Keely Orgeman, Yale's assistant curator of American painting and sculpture, who has organised the gallery's current survey of Wilfred's light works. "But when we plugged the first one in, the ceiling was instantly filled with this multicoloured, swirling vortex."

A detail of Thomas Wilfred's Lumia Suite, Op. 158 (1963-64), which was restored for the exhibition (Image: courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery)

While Wilfred's light pieces might not be as well known today, for a time they attracted thousands of viewers, in concert halls and theatres as well as in museums. The artist James Turrell remembers seeing one piece during a visit to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, that "stopped me in my tracks", he writes in the foreword to the exhibition catalogue. Another room-sized installation, Lumia Suite, Op. 158 (1963-64) remained on permanent view at MoMA from the year it was completed until 1980,when it was carefully dismantled and put into storage.

A colour rotor for Lumia Suite, Op. 158 (1963-64) (Image: courtesy of Yale University Art Gall ery)

When Yale started planning its exhibition, the institution contacted MoMA about the works in its collection, including Lumia Suite, Op. 158. After some negotiations, the two museums agreed to collaborate on restoring the work at Yale's state-of-the-art Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. "Boxes and crates of stuff arrived and we had to figure out what piece was what," says Carol Snow, Yale's deputy chief conservator and senior conservator of objects. "We started to develop this mantra of 'some assembly required'."

Fortunately, Wilfred had the foresight to write a detailed 50-page technical manual for the work, which clearly explained the specifications for every component, and how the fit together. "Wilfred was a genius for writing and leaving that," Snow says.

As well as testing and updating the electrical wiring, creating a new screen and building a new black anodised aluminium mobile structure to house the projection elements, Snow had to track down a replacement for a key part: the 1,000-watt tungsten-filament GE light bulb at the heart of the work. No longer in production, the bulbs were originally manufactured for airport runways and lighthouses. "I wrote to the Coast Guard, I called airports, I found retired GE employees. I left no rock unturned," Snow says. With no way of sourcing the original bulbs, Snow turned to the Portland, Oregon-based glass artist Dylan Kehde Roelofs, who hand-crafts light bulbs for his own sculptural work. He created a set of new bulbs for Lumia Suite that will replace the halogen ones found as a back-up for when the show travels to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC (6 October-7 January 2018).

• Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, until 23 July

Source: Yale and MoMA team up to resurrect visionary light works

Microsoft may be working on new Windows mobile software and hardware

Microsoft doesn't seem finished with mobile devices just yet, but is this the rumoured Surface Phone?

It has long been rumoured that Microsoft is working on something it calls the Surface Phone. After discontinuing its Windows Mobile operating system and Windows Phone lines, the company hasn't had a smartphone in a while. However, a new report from Thurrot.com cites two independent sources who told the publication that Microsoft is working on a new version of Windows being tested internally, along with a hardware device to go with it.

Further, the report states that Microsoft is "pursuing new experiences" with this device and the project is in "early days of development". It's worth noting that the device in question is not necessarily a smartphone, but it's a mobile device nevertheless. The Thurrot.com report says things may change dramatically by the time Microsoft is done with this new device and OS. The project is apparently slightly "beyond pure development stage", so it shouldn't be long before Microsoft releases it to the public.

Microsoft has been focusing on development of its Windows ecosystem for a while now, but the company has mostly focused on PC-like devices. The company received a lot of accolades for its new Surface Studio AIO, while the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are also part of Microsoft's future plans. The company is also going after Google's Chrome OS, with its new Windows 10S operating system.

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Source: Microsoft may be working on new Windows mobile software and hardware