The much-awaited Nokia Lumia 928 Windows Phone has now been officially announced by Verizon Wireless; with the carrier revealing that the handset will be available from May 16.

According to the Verizon announcement, the upfront cost of the Lumia 928 - the latest handset in Nokia's Lumia series - will be $150, with a $50 mail-in rebate, and a two-year service contract.

Some of the most impressive features of the attractive-looking Lumia 928, which boasts sharp lines and a slim profile, include a big 4.5-inch AMOLED screen at 1280-by-768 resolution; a Snapdragon S4 processor;

Finnish handset maker Nokia on Wednesday introduced the world to its the Asha 210, Windows Phone handset that boasts QWERTY keyboard equipped with a dedicated hard key for SMS rival WhatsApp.

The Asha 210 comes preloaded with WhatsApp, and the dedicated key in the QWERTY keyboard of the handset provides users with direct access to the free messaging service.

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said they were focused on delivering the best free messaging experience to the maximum possible number of people.

Finnish handset maker Nokia's latest offering, the Lumia 620, is part of its efforts to regain its lost market share.

The Nokia Lumia 620 smartphone features a 3.8-inch, WVGA screen, which can surely not be considered over-sized. However, it is what one can expect for a £150-phone.

The manufacturer used its Clear Black screen technology in the development of the phone's screen. Thumbing over the glass fascia is also pleasant. Tests found no problems in reaching any of the four corners using thumbs. Typing is also comfortable, thanks to Windows Phone 8 OS' well sized & spaced keyboard.

According to the most recent statistics revealed by research firm Gartner on Wednesday, the global smartphone arena was largely dominated by Samsung and Apple during the third quarter, while Finland-based handset-maker Nokia plunged from the third to the seventh spot in terms of smartphone sales worldwide.

As per reports, it has been reveald that Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 has been up for sales in the UK. Great hopes have been attached with both the handsets, as they can provide Nokia its long lost glory.

Moreover, it has also been said that both the phones, which are powered with Windows Phone 8 operating system, can bring Nokia back into action in smartphone market. It has been found that both the phones are available at EE on tariffs.

At their respective Wednesday, September 5, events in New York, handset-makers Nokia and Motorola unveiled as many as five new smartphones, underscoring their attempts to gain some market share in a smartphone-market scenario dominated by Apple and Samsung.

Nokia, at its event, introduced two new colorful, Windows 8-based Lumia handsets - Lumia 920 4G LTE and Lumia 820 - which boast some extremely attractive features, like wireless charging and augmented reality technology that enables the users to comprehensively view their surroundings with the help of the device's camera.

Despite the fact that Finnish handset-maker Nokia managed quite well to keep its two forthcoming Windows Phone 8-based Lumia handsets under the wraps all this while, the details of the handsets still leaked last week --- just a few days ahead of the company’s officially-scheduled unveiling of the handsets at a Wednesday, September 5, event in New York.

On Wednesday, Finnish handset maker Nokia announced that it has partnered with Groupon for promoting deals on maps on its Lumia line of smartphones --- a move which Nokia is banking on to gain a leading edge in a swarming space competing for the attention of cellphone users in the US.

In a move which marks the continuation of the incredible work which handset-maker Nokia began with the development of MeeGo operating system, Finnish startup Jolla said in a recent announcement that it intends working with MeeGo community developers for the designing, creation and sale of new MeeGo-powered smartphones.

According to a Sunday press release by Jolla, the company’s team for MeeGo OS – which was dumped by Nokia in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform – will comprise directors as well as core professionals from Nokia's MeeGo N9 department.

According to a Wednesday announcement, Finnish handset-maker Nokia revealed that Woodcraft Rangers - a Los Angeles-based education- and enrichment-centered non-profit - has selected the company's new Lumia 900 smartphone for supporting its field operations as well as increasing its operational efficiencies with a user experience that meets the requirements of site coordinators.

Nokia recently acknowledged in a blog post that it has identified a `memory management' problem on its newly-released Windows Phone-based Lumia 900 handsets, and has announced an exchange or credit offer to owners who do not want to wait till the company's next-week release of a software fix to address the issue.

With some of the early Lumia 900 users facing a problem pertaining to loss of data connectivity - 3G as well as LTE - on their smartphones, Nokia has said that it has discovered the reason behind the problem, and has worked out a software fix to address it.

Going by the pre-release reviews about the sleek and stylish Nokia Lumia 900, which is set to hit the markets on Sunday, April 8, the handset is apparently the best Windows Phone smartphone, though it is still short of making a mark as one of the best handsets available to consumers.

In what apparently is part of Nokia's massive ad campaign for its Lumia 900 smartphone, three `mysterious" videos - recently uploaded on a new Website, smartphonebetatest. com - take a few not-so-obscure shots at the Apple iPhone.

Though the videos make no mention of either Nokia or its Lumia 900 handset, they do take a jab at the iPhone, highlighting the drawbacks in the latest model. With explicit hints that the iPhone is not as `great' a smartphone as it may appear to be, the videos seemingly try to bring across the idea that Apple treats the iPhone users more like beta testers.

Nokia is reportedly on the verge of commencing the rollout of its flagship Windows Phone handset, Lumia, in the US; kicking off its campaign in the country with low-cost hardware as well as new apps.

According to a Monday announcement by AT&T, the carrier's sales of the high-end Nokia Lumia 900 smartphone will begin from April 8; with the price-tag of the handset being as low as $100.

At the Mobile World Congress on Monday, Finland-based handset manufacturer Nokia unveiled a 41-megapixel smartphone - the PureView 808 - which gives the users the ability to click pictures at 5-, 8- and 38-megapixel resolutions.

Equipped with Carl Zeiss optics, the 41-megapixel sensor of PureView 808 allows the users to blow up pictures or zoom in with much greater detail than the other smartphones. In fact, the phone's 1/1.2-inch CMOS sensor is bigger than sensors found in most of the classy compact digicams like Fujifilm's FinePix X10 and Panasonic's Lumix LX-5.