Samsung is preparing to unveil something cool at this year’s CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas. The company has been sending out press invites to journalists and bloggers, teasing us with “S Life.” Here’s what it [invite] says: Enrichment through technology, simplicity through innovation. “S Life” is much a feeling as it is an incredible achievement.…
Nokia helps you celebrate this St Patrick’s Day in style
Whether you are Irish or just a little bit Irish at heart, St Patrick’s Day is often the best party of the year (especially if you’re sampling the local drink of choice :-)). If you are heading out to celebrate this St Patrick’s Day (17th March), Nokia wants to help you with four free Irish…
Microsoft: Cut and paste doesn’t make the cut for Windows Phone 7 Series
As we start to learn more and more about the truly innovative and paradigm-shifting Windows Phone 7 Series platform, the more we start to become disappointed with what we’ll be seeing on the initial release. First, the HTC HD2 got the WP7 cold-shoulder. Then we heard that non-native apps would not be able to multi-task,…
The first mobile app-centric conference APPCON 2010 set for August 24-26 in Las Vegas
I guess we knew someone is working on such a project – a whole new conference dedicated to mobile applications. It’s called APPCON and it kicks on Tuesday, August 24 at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. The idea is to create a neutral place where all interested parties — developers, device and accessory makers,…
A look at how Windows Phone 7 Series handles online photo albums
Microsoft is banking their future on cloud-based services and integrating those services seamlessly into their products. Windows Phone 7 Series, for example, handles online photo albums with ease. The yet-to-be-launched mobile operating system will succeed the ancient Windows Mobile platform with a sleek new user interface paradigm and a focus on cloud-connectivity. One of the…
Video: A look at Windows Phone 7 auto-rotating screen and icons
Auto-rotation is nothing new. Almost all smartphones these days have accelerometers integrated into their hardware, allowing them to detect orientation (landscape or portrait) changes – that allows them to automatically rotate the screen when the user rotates the handset. But, not all smartphones do auto-rotation the same way. Windows Phone 7 Series, for example, concentrates…
Windows Phone 7 kills multitasking, non-marketplace apps, removable storage
It looks like it’s one step forward and two steps backwards because Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series will be ditching full third-party multitasking, removable storage and the ability to add applications from places other than the Windows Phone Marketplace. Microsoft is obviously taking cues from Apple, Research In Motion and Palm (to a certain extent)…
More Windows Phone 7 specs revealed
We’ve already heard about the three chassis that are required for handsets that run Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series, but the software giant has revealed a few more details. As we already know, the handsets will have to sport a capacitive touchscreen with at least four points of contacts and a minimum resolution of…
Zune and Windows Phone 7 Series – A look at how to manage music from your desktop
Windows Phone 7 Series owes a lot of its design aesthetic and features to the Zune music player from Microsoft. From the sleek user interface to the incredibly integrated Zune music hub, it’s clear that Microsoft is really trying hard to give Apple and its iPhone’s iTunes-based music ecosystem some hard-hitting competition. As such, the…
Exclusive: Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone from Samsung
We just got a juicy little scoop on a previously unknown Windows Phone 7 Series handset during Joe Belfiore’s UI demo at MIX10. We all know about the LG WP7 handset, but we were surprised to see a new Samsung jobby rocking the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system! Mr. Belfiore didn’t mention the name…