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All the signs have been pointing to a March 18th release date for the Lumia 900, the flagship device in Nokia’s Windows Phone Lumia series on its way to AT&T. A placeholder page on the AT&T site still has a secretive coming soon placeholder for some device, long after its new iPad page has gone…
We gotta give it to Microsoft for trying extra hard to make the world love and, even more importantly, pay for Windows Phone devices. The Redmond giant is in talks with pretty much all carriers, big and small, around the world pitching them to include at least one Windows Phone in their portfolios. Canada’s Videotron…
Back in the day, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Palm OS were the smartphone kings. The three platforms competed for market share and pushed what you could do with handsets. That was then and this in now and now Microsoft is preparing to take its Windows Mobile (not Windows Phone) marketplace offline. The Redmond company sent…
It appears low-end Windows Phone devices are going to be more crippled than we’d originally thought. Lost in the hullabaloo of Apple’s next iPad announcement yesterday, Microsoft put up a blog post on its Windows Phone Developer Blog which gave Windows Phone application developers guidelines for how to make their applications play friendly on devices…
Forget about the phones Nokia announced last week at Mobile World Congress, there’s two applications they demoed at the show that I want to highlight: Nokia Transport and Nokia Reading. Starting with the first one, it’s a Windows Phone app that will tell you how to reach your destination using nothing but good old walking…
HTC’s massive 4.7 inch Windows Phone, better known as the Titan, went on sale in the United States on November 20, 2011; AT&T offered it for $200 with a two year contract. Today, less than three months later, AT&T is selling the exact same device for just $0.01 with the same two year contract. What…
Google has just announced that they’ve completely redesigned their Windows Phone app and added several new features. Things like auto-complete, voice search, and my location are now built-in. As fantastic as this application is though, we question why anyone would go through the hassle of navigating to the Google tile on their home screen when…
Remember the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II? Both were announced two months ago, sans price or release date. Mary-Jo Foley from All About Windows said the Lumia 900 would be released on March 18th during episode 234 of the Windows Weekly podcast which aired in January. Now March 18th is just 11…
Nokia’s Lumia 800, the “first real Windows Phone” according to Stephen Elop, the company’s CEO, landed in India on the 16th of December. We’re barely three months out and the price has been slashed from 29,990 INR ($595) to 23,590 INR ($465). That’s a price drop of over 20% INR. Some sites like WMPoweruser are…
Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia, got under a lot of people’s skin when he said that the Lumia 800 was the “first real Windows Phone”. Samsung, HTC, LG, they were making and selling Windows Phones for a full year before Nokia brought their device to the table. Shit talking aside, Nokia prides themselves on…