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Google enters the phone hardware battle with its Pixel phones

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The field is full of actors having various kinds of difficulties from exploding phones to trembling hardware infected with 'touch disease'. Apart from the headline news of problems there is the underlying problem with 'Sales'. Google wants to take on Apple, if I go by some of the Internet sites. Microsoft has tried to enter smart phone market with a really good phone like Microsoft Lumia 950. It has not made any significant dent and can Google with similarly priced phones with very similar features do any better. OK, there is a better camera, so what? Google is also moving to AI-First from Mobile-First. Looks like it wants to one-up the Microsoft's Mobile-First slogan. Google phones were already in the market with the brand name Nexus made by Chinese and Korean manufacturers but now PIXEL is a Google branded phone made by HTC. Pre-ordering has started in many countries and you can pre-order at the Google site. The most significant feature of what makes...

Come Tuesday it is not Nokia Lumia, it is Microsoft Lumia

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Microsoft Lumia smartphone will be released on coming Tuesday. The promotional image is not breathtaking. I am not sure what kind of designers they have in Redmond. They should send them out to Cupertino. This picture is from the below link   This is the beginning of change over of names from Nokia to Microsoft. I do sincerely hope that Microsoft does not fire its staff responsible for Camera as I believe the Nokia branded cameras (I have an Icon) are perhaps the best of the cameras. Add your comments here: http://conversations.nokia.com/blog/2014/11/07/want-to-see-morelumia/ Another change I would personally like to happen is that Microsoft provide the upgraded OS (Windows Phone  8.1) to all phone owners irrespective of the carrier. This is a must, I would not take no for an answer. I have been ranting about it for a considerable time.   http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2014/09/bad-news-if-you-have-nokia-icon-from.html

Do you want to build health and fitness apps with Windows Phone?

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This is possible if you use the LumiaSensorCore SDK.  What is LumiaSensorCore SDK? Read here: http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-is-lumiasensorcore.html How do start using the SDK? Well you need to bring it to your application. It is not like downloading it as an executable but it is a Visual Studio Extension that you should install. If you have Visual Studio 2013 Express Update 3 http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2014-aug-4-vs.aspx You should launch VS2013 and from its Tool menu you should access Manager NuGet Packages and download the SDK as shown. You should have NuGet Package manager. If you do not have go here and install it. How? Go here to this link: http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-do-you-install-nuget-package-manager.html   Once you do this you should be able to start working with this.