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Lee Williams was the Senior Vice President of S60 Software between August 2006 and January 2009. During that 30 month time span we saw what was arguably Nokia’s greatest creation, the N95, and on the other side of the coin the company’s worst smartphone to ever be sold, the N97. So what does Lee think…
Microsoft has announced new restrictions for the Windows Phone Marketplace via its Windows Phone Blog. Starting today, Microsoft has removed access to the Windows Phone Marketplace from the Zune PC software. Until today, individuals who run the Zune PC software had access to both the Zune HD app store and the Windows Phone Marketplace, allowing…
Nokia apparently can’t make the Lumia 900 fast enough. What does that mean? We’re going to have to wait until July, when the Finnish handset maker posts their Q2 2012 financial results, to know how many units they actually sold. Anyway, the question on everyone’s mind after the Lumia 900 started shipping in the United…
When it comes to Windows Phone manufacturers, one notable company has thus far refused to dip their toe into the water: Huawei. That’s soon going to change according to WPDang, who says that the Chinese handset maker has assembled a team of 70 engineers to work on a pair of Windows Phone 8 devices. One…
Anyone who uses smartphones knows that having an ecosystem that offers the most popular mobile applications is a necessity. Well, with Windows Phone being so new, it has an uphill climb to amass the large number of apps that mega mobile operating systems like Android and iOS make available. Despite its small number of apps,…
Though initial reports suggested the Skype application for Windows phone wouldn’t run on low-memory devices like the Lumia 610, it appears this won’t be the case. According to Nokia, Skype for Windows Phone is running just fine on the Lumia 610, just in time for the device to go on sale in Asia at the…
Jamie Townsend, an analyst with Town Hall Investment Research, has issued a report that says the Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T is selling at a run rate of about 1 million units for Q2 2012. What exactly does that mean? Jamie is basically saying that if the Lumia 900 keeps on selling at the same…
Just about every iPhone and every Android device currently on the market supports a nifty little feature whereby the phone will act as a wireless hotspot that any normal WiFi enabled device can use to access the internet. Need to check something out on your iPad, download a new book on your Kindle, upload a…
YouTube user foxfire235 posted a unique video online pitting the iPhone 4S, HTC One X, and Nokia Lumia 900 against each other to determine which phone has the best display. You might expect the iPhone’s retina display or even the One X’s large high-res display to take the cake, but you’d be wrong. The Nokia…
Microsoft announced their intent to purchase Skype almost a year ago. The deal closed in mid October, which is over six months ago. Why are these dates important? Because it’s only now that Microsoft has released Skype for Windows Phone. Version 1.0 does many of the things you’d except Skype to do out of the…