Nokia News Roundup – Credit rating to junk, Music hits v3.1 and exclusive access to WP8?

Although it's been a slow news weekend in that location accept been a few bits worth mentioning but non necessarily getting a full on post—mostly because they're somewhat interesting merely not necessarily of import. This weekend's stories are:

• Does Nokia have an exclusive early on release for Windows Phone eight? We telephone call shenanigans.
• Nokia's stock - now with even more than junk!
• Nokia Music gets amped to version 3.ane

Caput past the pause for the weekend's drove of too small to pass only too big to print...

Does Nokia take "exclusive" admission to Windows Telephone 8? Errr...doubtful.

Terminal week in that location was some back and forth about when Windows Phone 8 would exist hitting shelves. From past Microsoft cycles, nosotros're under the impression that an October-November timeframe was the most likely, specially with the release date of Windows 8 confirmed.

Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet) so heard from a single source the Windows Phone 8 would be released to manufacturers in September so hit the shelves in November. That info was somewhat contradicted slightly past Nokia CEO Stephen Elop who and so dropped October every bit when Windows Phone eight would be coming.

To our ears that just only reinforces the notion that Windows Phone 8 releases dates are not solidified nonetheless and things are in motion. For others though, they started to read between the lines and took this info to hateful that Nokia may accept a thirty-day or more exclusive on Windows Telephone 8.

Personally, we find this conclusion quite a stretch. For 1, ZDnet's timeframe was a rumor not confirmed and 2d we don't know what Elop was referring to i.e. street date or RTM or something in between. So to leap to the determination that Nokia would have earlier access to WP8 seems a bit much based off of this current information.

Second, nosotros're non fifty-fifty sure what "early on access" or "sectional" to the OS would fifty-fifty mean. Microsoft doesn't sell phones, heck OEMs like Nokia rarely sell phones. Information technology'south the carriers who purchase and and then re-sell them and they often time the releases when it'southward user-friendly for themselves.  For case, although Nokia was instrumental in getting 4g LTE into Windows Phone 7, they did non enjoy early admission or a market advantage—the Titan 2 came out the same weekend equally the Lumia 900.  So with carriers running interference, we don't see how an OEM having earlier admission would translate into a real-marketplace advantage.

Of course Microsoft has pulled i over the eyes of its OEM partners before eastward.g. Surface, so nosotros wouldn't rule it out…just similar we would dominion out RIM ditching BB10 and going for WP8. But currently there's just null evidence that this is or will happen and that'southward all that matters. Source: Mobile Syrup

Nokia stock downgraded to Junk status by Moody's

We're not big fiscal people around here so we take ratings by credit agencies with a grain of salt (especially with the Libor scandal going on) but it's still noteworthy that Moody'due south has at present come up out and downgraded Nokia to Ba1 status making the concluding of the three (Fitch and Standard & Poor did it back in Apr). Speaking of Fitch, they dropped Nokia even further from BB+ to BB- this week too.

None of this should exist likewise surprising. If you're into stocks and returns on investments, something like Nokia is a bit risky these days (though we could argue that you have more than to gain than lose). Regardless, headlines with "junk" and "Nokia" flying around never sound too good.

Plain the bet here is that Nokia will have to 'wow' everyone with Windows Phone 8 this autumn. Let's promise. Source: TechRadar

Nokia Music upgrade to version 3.i

Nosotros'd like to tell you more about Nokia Music but alas our States coiffure doesn't accept access and our British crew is somewhere at a pub.

Only aslope the Nokia Drive three.0 update came a minor boost for the Nokia Music service. Now sitting at a comfortable version 3.i the service has continually improved with every update and is a nice demonstration of how Nokia plans to go on supporting and growing the music app. Much similar Zune, Nokia Music is the Finnish solution to where Zune isn't available or has a limited catalog.

So what'southward new with version 3.1? No one actually knows every bit no changelog was included past anecdotal evidence from our readers suggest that information technology:

• Loads faster
• Has a different groundwork movie
• A annotation to mix radio

Have anything else to add together that you lot noticed? Toss information technology up in comments. Thanks, Karsten, for the info

Nighttime thrills

Dying Light ii review: Going quietly into the night

Dying Light 2 is an beauteous attempt from Techland, following upwards the original game seven years later. High-stakes nighttime play elevates what might accept otherwise been a fairly forgettable open-world zombie flick, which will likely notice itself a fond place among fans of games with co-op sandbox commotion.

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/nokia-news-roundup-%E2%80%93-credit-rating-junk-music-hits-v31-and-exclusive-access-wp8

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