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The city of Chapel Hill, North Carolina has become the first city in the United States to ban all cell phone use while driving, according to a News Observer report. While several other cities and states have banned texting and handset calling while in a moving vehicle, Chapel Hill becomes the first to include hands-free devices…
Nokia has officially unveiled its first Windows Phones (2 of them) for China – Lumia 800C and Lumia 610C. The two phones are heading to China Telecom and are therefore changed to sing along their network. Yup – that “C” doesn’t just stand for “China,” but also for CDMA. As far as I’ve understood, aside…
The Nokia Lumia 900 is landing on AT&T April 8 for $100 but how much will it cost if you don’t want to sign a new, two-year contract? According to WPCenteral, the Nokia Windows Phone will be a rather reasonable $449.99 without the carrier subsidy. This doesn’t appear to be totally official but the WPCentral…
Microsoft updated its Windows Phone SDK to make it sing along Windows 8 and to support devices with 256MB of RAM such as the recently announced Nokia Lumia 610. In addition, the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 also comes with some other smaller fixes. Here’s what’s new: The Visual Studio IDE is patched to enable selection…
Clear took the App Store by storm when it landed on the iPhone earlier this year. It logged over 350,000 downloads in a few days and netted the UK developers a cool £169,000 ($268,000 USD). Now that Clear has been out for a while, other developers have had a chance to study the user interface and…
Microsoft’s got a bit of a problem. Developers have a finite amount of time and resources to make apps, so before they start coding they take a look at the current mobile landscape to gauge which platforms are hot. Newsflash: Windows Phone is a dud. Rovio, the guys behind Angry Birds, demonstrated this harsh reality…
AT&T’s Windows Phone portfolio is going to grow by two on April 8th. The first device, the Nokia Lumia 900, we covered earlier today. It’s basically the Lumia 800, but with a 4.3 inch screen and 4G LTE connectivity. Not bad for $99. The second device though, the HTC Titan II, is a beast. It…
Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone advertising campaign, “Smoked by Windows Phone“, is an interesting little idea. Some Microsoft marketing guy will give you a task to perform on your smartphone. The adman will perform the same operation on his Windows Phone. Both of you then simultaneously try to achieve this arbitrary goal while being recorded for…
Though rumors of the Nokia Lumia 900 landing on AT&T on April 8th for $100 have been swirling for a while now, CNET has received an official confirmation straight from the mouth of an AT&T spokesperson that this rumor is true. Those of you waiting to get your hands on Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone device…
Nokia is eager to differentiate its Windows Phone devices from the rest of the pack by offering its own content and services. One such app/service is Nokia Music, which has been recently updated to version 2.0 and is readily available for download from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Of course, you’ll need to have a Lumia…