Frequent readers of the site will know that I own an N9 and it is easily my favourite smartphone out of every device I've had. In fact, I used it as my main smartphone for slightly more than 2 months; while I switched back to my Android smartphone for a while because the N9 somehow got slow and bogged down, I decided to take another stab at having my SIM card in the N9 again earlier this week. This time, I ...

So you just got yourself one of the new Windows Phone 8 based Nokia Lumia 620, 820 or the 920? Now although Windows Phone is optimized enough to result in decent battery life, you can never have enough battery life on the modern smartphones. Here are some tips on how you can extend the battery life on your Windows Phone devices and get the maximum juice out of a single charge : 1. Use the Dark theme on the ...

The launch of Android 4.2 has been called the most buggy launch since Honeycomb. While this may be stretching it a bit, considering Ice Cream Sandwich too had a lot of bugs before 4.0.3, we can't deny the fact that 4.2 has its issues. As I, and many Galaxy Nexus and 7 owners have discovered, Android 4.2 brought back System Lag, that was so joyfully absent in 4.1. It frustrated some users enough that they sw ...

[UPDATE: The same keyboard is also available on the Android 4.1 Stock Keyboard, so all you Jelly Bean users can try this out too] The Android 4.2 Keyboard has been out in the wild for a few hours now (first leaked on Android Police) and we've been playing with it. While the swype-ing mechanism on the keyboard is pretty decent, we miss some of the touches that the Swype keyboard offered. While digging though ...

So you excitedly upgraded your iDevice to iOS 6 yesterday, thinking that your world would be perfect and filled with pretty butterflies and cotton candy. Now, if you'd read my review of iOS 6, you obviously wouldn't have thought that way, and if you tried to use Apple's brand-new Maps app on your morning commute today you'd probably agree with my take on it from last week. Thankfully, while an official Goog ...

At UnleashThePhones, we encourage our readers to chime in with Guest Posts from time to time, if they have something truly interesting to share. Friend of the blog Muneeb Motlekar (who had earlier chimed in with a useful piece on USB-OTG capabilities on his Android device) is doing a Series on the Turn-by-Turn Navigation options available in India, for Android devices. A self proclaimed fan of Sygic and Map ...

Instagram, which was recently taken over by Facebook for $1 Billion $700 Million,  also recently released an Android app. While this was met with a lot of consternation by iPhone users, who thought of it as an exclusive club of sorts for them, Instagram has increased even more in popularity ever since. Instagram insists on users sharing photos in the 1:1 Square Aspect Ratio, reasoning that it is easy to vie ...

Google Maps has always been one of the better navigation solutions around. The fact that it is completely free has always been a plus. However, Turn-By-Turn & Voice Navigation wasn't available worldwide. It was available in the US and select other countries, but major markets like India lacked it. For a while, there was an unofficial solution known as Brut's Mod that let users enable International Navig ...

Enough has been written about Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and how awesome the revamped notification bar and Project Butter is. We won't deny it; they are awesome. However, a lot hasn't been written about the smaller changes the Jelly Bean brings about. Having using Stock Jelly Bean for a month, here is a list (in no particular order) of all the smaller changes that Jelly Bean brings over Ice Cream Sandwich: [di ...

Google started out with their own range of phones back in 2010, with the Nexus One made with HTC. They then partnered with Samsung to make the Nexus S and then the Galaxy Nexus. Nexus Phones have been Google's way of nudging the Android phone market in the right direction, by telling manufacturers how they should be building Android running hardware. The Nexus 7 was launched at Google I/O as the first devic ...

If you've been wondering what the icons on the status bar at the top of the screen of your Windows Phone means, you're in luck. Microsoft has a page set up explaining what the icons mean. There's everything from the remaining battery life, signal strength, time, profile, location/GPS and more. The stock is always visible, but if you slide down or double tap the status bar, you'll see the other indicators sl ...

So you couldn’t resist the best camera with a phone in the market and brought yourself a Symbian powered smartphone in 2012. Don’t get frightened, the experience isn’t as bad as the web & twitter makes it out to be. Agreed it is not the most fluid experience available on mobiles, but it is not as horrible as people make it out to be. One of the aspects you would be hearing a lot about for Symbian is the ...

I've been using my Nokia 808 PureView for more than 2 weeks now, and as such have gotten it very nicely set up for my usage. All the right apps, widgets and tweaks here and there. Here's what's installed on my Nokia 808 Pureview, with a little bit of how I actually use the last Symbian phone. For one thing, although one of Symbian Belle's new 'features' is that it's a 'flat' menu with everything in on verti ...

Yesterday, I published a guide to get the Nokia Pure font on your Nokia 808 PureView which involved hacking the device & editing system files. Here is another method with which you can get Nokia Pure font on your phones, without having to hack or edit a single file. But it requires you to purchase an app from Nokia Store. After I published the guide yesterday, a lot of readers contacted me to inform me ...

If you are a Symbian phone user, you might be wondering why hasn’t Nokia started using their award winning & expensive Nokia Pure font on Symbian yet? From what I believe, changing the primary font on a platform isn’t as easy as replacing the font files. There are quite a lot of changes & optimizations required to adjust to the new font. Infact, almost every app will need to make sure its ready ...