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September 5, 2012, 3:50 PM

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Nokia:

New Nokia Lumia Range Delivers Latest PureView Camera Innovation, New Navigation Experiences and Wireless Charging on Windows Phone 8 — Nokia Lumia 920 Captures Best Pictures and Video Ever Seen on a Smartphone — Espoo, Finland and New York, NY - Nokia today announced the Nokia Lumia 920 …

Steven Levy / Wired:

Nokia's Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple — Marko Ahtisaari, head of Nokia's design studio. Photo: nomadig/Flickr — Marko Ahtisaari spreads out several models of Nokia's new smart phone with the self-assurance of a Tiffany diamond salesman. It is several weeks before the launch …

More: Nokia, SplatF, AllThingsD, Global Nerdy, Pocketnow and The Verge

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Nokia Lumia 920 announced with Windows Phone 8, 4.5-inch display, wireless charging, and ‘PureView’ camera — Nokia has officially unveiled its new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920. As expected, Nokia's new Lumia has received a bump in specs over the previous iteration …

More: Gizmodo, PandoDaily, BetaNews, Telegraph, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, The Seattle Times, SiliconBeat, Engadget, Inquirer, PC World, The Register, ABCNEWS, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Digits, Gizmodo, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, BBC and Engadget. Tweets: @joebelfiore

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Nokia: 7M Lumia Devices Sold To Date In 54 Markets — D-Day (that is, device day) for Nokia and Microsoft has kicked off with their press conference in New York. But speaking to analysts in Helsinki beforehand, Nokia revealed a sales number: it said that it sold 7 million devices so far in its Windows Phone Lumia line.

More: ReadWriteWeb, FierceWireless, SlashGear and Engadget

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 920 hands-on: the dual-core, HD Windows Phone 8 flagship to take on the beasts — It's official. Nokia's just taken the wraps off its worst-kept Windows Phone 8 secret: the Lumia 920. The device, announced at the manufacturer's event in New York City today …

More: The Next Web, The Verge, WMPoweruser, The Verge and TechNet Blogs

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Nokia announces mid-range Lumia 820 with Windows Phone 8, with 4.3-inch display, 8GB storage, exchangeable covers, and optional wireless charging — As expected, Nokia has just announced the Lumia 820, a mid-range Windows Phone 8 smartphone. — The 820 is powered by the same 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 …

More: VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Inquirer, CNET, ZDNet and Gizmodo

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Nokia shares plunge 10% on both sides of the Atlantic following new device launches

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Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Nokia brings wireless charging to Virgin Atlantic lounges, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf

More: The Next Web, The Verge, The Verge, GadgeTell and Phones Review

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Nokia's Lumia 920 features a ‘PureView’ camera, but it's not what you think

More: LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, Gizmodo and We Love Windows Phone .HK

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Windows Phone 8 introduces new Lens apps: Bing Vision, Photosynth and CNN iReport launching from the camera button

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, ZDNet, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Skift, SlashGear and Gizmodo UK

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Motorola announces Droid RAZR HD with 4.7-inch display — Motorola has just announced the Droid RAZR HD, updating its old flagship with a larger 4.7-inch screen, HD display, and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The RAZR HD comes with a 2,500mAh battery, a bit under the 3,300mAh RAZR Maxx …

More: Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Google, BGR, The Next Web, CNET, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, Associated Press, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile and Mashable!. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Motorola Mobility:

Motorola Mobility Takes Screen Size and Battery Life to the Edge with Three New Smartphone Additions — More screen. More battery life. More compact. More colors. And the best of Google packed inside. Introducing the new RAZR™ M, RAZR™ HD and DROID RAZR™ MAXX™ HD.

More: ABCNEWS, GigaOM and dailywireless.org

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Motorola Outs The Verizon-Bound DROID RAZR M, Launching On 9/13 For $99 — Motorola's new RAZR HD may be getting all the attention, but that's definitely not all the company was planning to reveal today. As expected, the new (and Verizon-exclusive) RAZR M has just taken the stage here at the Motorola's “On Display” event

More: The Verge, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, The Verge and Gizmodo. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Chrome Comes Pre-Installed On New Motorola Android Devices — Motorola just revealed that its new phones today will come with Chrome pre-installed. Traditionally, Android phones have come with different browsers, but never Google's own, which officially came out on Google Play after an extended beta.

More: Engadget

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google's Schmidt: 1.3M Android activations a day with 70k of those tablets, 480M devices total — Today at the Motorola event in New York, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that there are now 1.3M Android activations a day. 70k of those activations are tablets, which Schmidt acknowledged Google …

More: CNET, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, SlashGear and AnandTech

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The New Droid RAZR Family: Hands On

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Engadget and The Verge

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

Motorola Introduces First Phones of Its New Google Era

More: The Verge, Ars Technica and AllThingsD

Michael Gorman / Engadget:

Motorola announces Droid RAZR Maxx HD

More: LAPTOP Magazine, CNET and The Verge

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Motorola aiming to upgrade all possible devices to Jelly Bean, promises to give you $100 credit if it can't

More: The Next Web and The Verge

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple: We Didn't Give FBI Any Device IDs — Apple has finally weighed in on hacker group AntiSec's claims that it has obtained millions of unique device identifiers for Apple devices (UDIDs) from an FBI laptop. The gist of its comment: If the FBI has iPhone and iPad UDIDs, it didn't get them from us.

Brien Colwell / Quora:

Introducing Quora for Android — Mobile usage is increasingly important for people who use Quora — accounting today for over 25% of Quora's traffic. We are excited to announce Quora for Android, available today on the Google Play store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/ details?id=com.quora.android& feature=search_result#?t=W25...

More: AllThingsD, Marketing Land, Business Insider, GigaOM, The Verge and TechCrunch

Angela Yang / LinkedIn Blog:

New: Get Notified on LinkedIn — We've been working hard to bring you new ways to access the most relevant professional information and insights to help you be even better at your job, everyday. — Launching today is our new notifications feature, which will keep you notified in real …

More: VentureBeat, VentureBeat, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Next Web and WebProNews

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Zynga Finally Debuts FarmVille 2, Promises To Keep Working On The Original Too — Zynga's FarmVille proved to be a runaway hit when it launched back in the heady days of 2009, and three years later millions of faux-farmers still habitually tend to their digital crops every day.

More: CNET, Inside Social Games, The Verge, The Technology Chronicles, ABCNEWS, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, AllThingsD and NBC Bay Area

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Drive For iOS Will Soon Get In-App Editing, Ability To See Presentations — Google just mistakenly announced updated versions of its Google Drive apps for iOS and Android that will go live within the next couple of days. Google has since deleted this post, but the updates are scheduled to arrive soon.

More: The Next Web, Liliputing and WebProNews

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Leaks accurate, this is what the new iPhone will look like — iMore has learned that recent parts leaks and dummy phones are accurate representations of what the new iPhone (iPhone 5,1) will look like when Apple announces it on September 12, 2012. Almost identical in design to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S …

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

After Long Startup Journey, Seesmic Nearing Sale To Social Media Management Service Hootsuite — Seesmic is one of those startups that never quit, it just kept pivoting. And today, it's getting rewarded for all the work — we're hearing it is about to close a sale to Hootsuite.

Todd Brix / The Windows Blog:

Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview opens for applications Sept. 12 — In June we provided an early look at some developer features of Windows Phone 8, promising to share the Software Development Kit (SDK) in late summer. Select partners and developers have already seen early builds of the new SDK …

More: Windows Phone Blog, ZDNet, Pocketables and WMPoweruser

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's Newest Hire: Jacqueline Reses, EVP Of HR And Talent Acquisition — After appointing former Lockerz CEO Kathy Savitt as Yahoo's CMO, the company's new chief Marissa Mayer is staffing another key role—executive vice president of people and development.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider, VatorNews, Business Wire and WebProNews

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees — There's no doubt that AngelList has evolved into an incredibly powerful (and disruptive) platform in the investing world. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups …

More: PandoDaily and CNET

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