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WP Central has some good news for Windows Phone gamers. According to their report, seven popular Xbox Live titles are now discounted to 99-cents for the foreseeable future. The list includes high-profile titles like Angry Birds, Burn the Rope, De Blob, Doodle God, IonBallEX, Max and the Magic Marker and Toy Soldiers: Boot Camp. Most of the games dropped in price from…
Last Monday, Easter Monday, AT&T started selling the Nokia Lumia 900 in the United States. According to The Wall Street Journal, who quotes Paul Roth, President of Retail Sales at AT&T, sales have “exceeded” expectations. What were those expectations in the first place? We’ll never know. Some people point to Amazon’s best sellers list as…
Windows Phone hasn’t exactly been a success, and it’s not very hard to see why. Despite Microsoft working their ass off for the past two years, their mobile OS just isn’t up to snuff compared to Android or iOS. We think this will change when Windows Phone 8, codename Apollo, comes out later this year.…
A few days ahead of schedule, Nokia released a software update that’ll address the data connectivity issue plaguing some Lumia 900 handsets. The update is available through the Zune software on the PC and the Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac. If they prefer not to apply the update, Nokia confirmed that customers still have…
Chevron WP7 announced on Friday that it closed its Windows Phone 7 unlocking service. Run by Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh, Long Zheng and the Windows Phone team at Microsoft, Chevron WP7 sold 10,000 unlocking tokens to Windows Phone owners in the two months it was active. The Chevron WP7 project let owners unlock their device,…
Windows 8 won’t release to the general public until later this year, but it has entered the consumer preview stage where anyone brave enough to encounter a few bugs can test for themselves. Windows 8 will bring the Metro UI to both PCs and tablet computers, and developers are quickly building metro applications that will…
Microsoft is going to release two major pieces of software this year: Windows 8, the desktop and tablet operating system; and Windows Phone 8, codenamed Apollo, their smartphone operating system. We’re eager to find out what’s new in Apollo, because Mango, today’s version of Windows Phone, just doesn’t cut it for us. We’re not alone…
Microsoft, Nokia, and AT&T are spending hundreds of millions of dollars pushing the Lumia 900 Windows Phone. They’ve held huge marketing events in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, and signage for the Lumia 900 is blasted across AT&T stores. A report from CNET suggests that retail stores could ultimately be to blame if the Lumia…
Although the brand new Nokia Lumia 900 is selling like hot cupcakes at Amazon, it’s a fact that Windows Phone is still far, far behind iOS and Android. And while we’ve no doubts Microsoft will keep pushing its mobile platform, it’s still not clear that many users will jump on board. In fact, according to…
I love it when people mix Legos with technology in a fun and intriguing ways. Above is an example of a Nokia Lumia 900 dock that’s made from the classic building blocks. It’s not a child’s toy, the Lego dock has a sturdy design lets you charge your Lumia and dock/undock hundreds of times. There’s no block list or building diagram, but the creator of this Lego model does provide some close-up shots at different angles. With a little…