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Microsoft’s licensing fees and competing with Nokia deter other handset makers from launching Windows Phones
Handset makers are not actually too excited to make Windows Phone handsets, as I’m sure you can tell. Nokia is commanding a lion’s share of the Windows Phone market, leaving just a small share for other players, including Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Acer, Asus and ZTE. According to DigiTimes’ report, this group of companies (and we presume other potential contenders) don’t like Microsoft’s licensing rates, which are apparently higher than vendors are willing to pay. In comparison, Android is available free of charge. Moreover, they say it’s not easy to compete … Read more
Dusan Belic
MetroPCS Opens Up Network to Unlocked GSM Devices
Today, MetroPCS announced that its customers can now use unlocked GSM devices on their network, which has been solely CDMA up until this point. Because of the recent merger of T-Mobile with MetroPCS, MetroPCS will be transitioning from its CDMA network to T-Mobile’s GSM network. MetroPCS customers in a handful of cities such as Boston, Dallas, Hartford and Las Vegas can now use their unlocked GSM devices on the MetroPCS network, including GSM devices from the AT&T and T-Mobile. The service will support iPhones from AT&T and T-Mobile, as well … Read more
Ian Kersey
Viva Movil Opens its First Retail Store in Brooklyn
Verizon and Jennifer Lopez’s Viva Movil opened its first retail store in New York yesterday, with the new location popping up in Brooklyn, New York. Viva Movil offers Verizon devices and services, in retail locations that cater to the Latino population and are designed by J-Lo herself. The retail locations will feature staff fluent in Spanish, dressed in “fashionable attire” and offer play areas for children, complete with tablets for them to play with. Viva Movil will also offer a full line of phone accessories designed by J-Lo, as well … Read more
Ian Kersey
MapQuest releases Windows Phone 8 app
Windows Phone 8 owners get another navigation choice in MapQuest. One of the originals in online mapping is offering its mobile app with usable services for free. Features include voiced, turn-by-turn directions for driving and walking, along with live traffic and the usual point-of-interest searching. And as you can expect, the MapQuest Windows Phone 8 version is your basic get to where you have to go application. It’s not packed with top-notch stuff like Nokia Maps or Google Maps. So users shouldn’t expect the best from this free app, however, … Read more
Charles West
Nokia Chat updated with NFC support, UI tweaks and bug fixes
Nokia updated its Nokia Chat application for Lumia Windows Phone devices. The main new thing of version 1.1 is NFC support that allows users to quickly tap+send their chat address, the details of anyone on their chat contact list, and Nokia Chat itself to another NFC-equipped Lumia. You’ll still have to touch the screen to select the contact you want to share, but there’s at least one tap less included. In addition, Nokia Chat also got a number of performance and visual improvements. For instance, in a conversation with many … Read more
Dusan Belic
Nokia Lumia 925 Available in Germany, Ships With “Glance Screen” Feature
Nokia is working on a new software feature for its Lumia Windows 8 phones, and has announced a new “Glance Screen” feature today, which is still in beta. The feature is essentially a standby screen which displays the clock, battery level notification and allows the device to be awoken from sleep with a double tap. The software will be shipped with the Nokia Lumia 925, and will be exclusive to the device until an update in July, which will bring the feature to other Nokia Lumia devices. Nokia has also … Read more
Ian Kersey
Acer Iconia W3, 8″ Windows 8 Tablet Available For Pre-Order Starting at $349
The first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, the Acer Iconia W3 that was announced at last week’s Computex expo in Taiwan last week is now available for pre-order at a handful of retailers, starting at $349.99. The Iconia W3 runs on Windows 8 and has an 8.1-inch 1280 x 800 display, a dual-core Atom processor running at 1.5GHz, 2GB of RAM, a 2MP front-facing camera and a rear-facing camera of 2MP as well. The unit comes with micro USB, micro HDMI and microSD, has a battery life of around eight hours. … Read more
Ian Kersey
Outlook 2013 coming to Windows RT tablets as part of the Windows 8.1 update
While we have our doubts about the Windows RT prospects, Microsoft keeps investing resources in this (what we think is) destined-to-fail platform. As part of the upcoming Windows 8.1 update, the Redmond giant will also launch Outlook 2013 for Windows RT tablets. For some reason, Office 2013 for Windows RT didn’t come included and Microsoft is now doing something about it. Actually that “now” won’t be before this fall, but better late than never. Once it’s ready for the prime time, Outlook will boast inline replies and “peeks” to view … Read more
Dusan Belic
Windows Phone Blue screenshots leaked: notification center, UI tweaks, and more
What we have here is the first glimpse of the upcoming Windows Phone Blue that will likely be released later this year. Microsoft is (obviously) still quiet about what we can expect in the next version of Windows Phone though they’re not hiding that the notification center will be included as part of the update — they admitted running out of time to cram it in Windows Phone 8. Anyway, the screenshots we’ve got suggest that feature is coming, and so do UI tweaks and multitasking improvements with the ability … Read more
Dusan Belic
FCC Docs Show Sprint LTE Compatable HTC Windows Phone 8 Device
We’ve known for some time that Sprint has been planning on carrying a few Windows Phone 8 handsets this summer, specifically the Samsung Ativ S and the HTC Tiara, and a new FCC filing points to an imminent launch of at least one of those devices. The filing shows a Windows Phone 8 powered HTC device, which looks to be the oft rumored HTC Tiara. While the Tiara has yet to be officially announced, a picture from a FCC document shows a device named HTC PO88100, which has support for … Read more
Ian Kersey
Nokia EOS to be available in multiple colors, red version included
Nokia will continue the practice of offering its device in multiple color versions with its soon-to-be-launched EOS camera phone. The device that we saw yesterday in a multiple leaked photos will be available in red, among other colors. That, at least, is the conclusion we (and many other blogs) made from the image above, representing the EOS’ case with room for that big-ass camera. Of course, we also expect Nokia to launch the EOS (or however it ends up calling the phone) in other colors, though we’ll have to wait … Read more