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Nokia is partnering with several big-name developers to release their apps exclusively for Nokia’s Lumia handsets. The smartphone maker is partnering with ESPN to launch the ESPN Hub and an ESPN Fantasy Football app, only on the Lumia. The Hub app, an exclusive until May 2013, will feature sports scores as well as coverage of…
We’re here in New Orleans and getting ready for the CTIA show to officially kick off. Today Samsung announced the follow-up to the original Focus with the Focus 2. The handset is definite made for the budget conscious user and will come in at a very low $50 on a new contract. Rocking a 4…
We knew Samsung would have something up its sleeves for CTIA and the company followed through by introducing the Samsung Focus 2 for AT&T. This followup to one of the very first Windows Phone sports 4G LTE support and a $50 price tag. The Samsung Focus 2 has decent specs for the price, as this…
It seems some Lumia 900 devices have been infected with a case of the Wonkas. As you probably recall from the movie, Violet Beauregarde chewed a piece of experimental blueberry gum, then whimsically ballooned into a bright blue blueberry balloon. Some Lumia 900 devices must have been given the tour of the chocolate factory as…
Samsung SGH-i667 aka Mandel, the Windows Phone we thought will be unveiled at CES, has been caught the in wild, as you’re about to see from the image below. Moreover, the same device has seen connected up to Zune Desktop, as illustrated in the image above. As far as we know (and we really don’t…
Nokia is under scrutiny from its investors who are concerned that the Finnish company is not turning things around fast enough with Windows Phone. One investor, Robert Chmielinski, is so fed up that he filed a class action lawsuit against the company in US District Court in New York. Not surprisingly, Nokia denies the allegations that it misled investors with Windows Phone and…
Nokia’s decision to go with Windows Phone has resulted in the company’s stock price tanking, their cash on hand to dwindle, their market share to collapse, and investors have frankly had enough of putting up with Stephen Elop’s bullshit. Yesterday a class action lawsuit was filed in New York that … well, just read what…
If you spend it, they will come. That’s the message App Promo received loud and clear in their First Annual Development Survey. A whopping 52% of developers have absolutely no money set aside for marketing their applications, and the same percentage spends 5% of their time or less promoting their applications. This is despite 91% of…
Earlier today I wrote about a leaked image of an as yet to be announced Windows Phone from Samsung called the Mandel. Think of it like the South Korean version of the Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T. As I was wrapping that piece up, something clicked in my head regarding the state of Nokia and…
Last month we reported on a rumor that said Samsung would release three Windows Phones this year. Two of them are supposedly going to run the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Apollo, and one of them will run Mango, the version that’s currently out on the market. That Mango phone, codenamed Mandel, is a…