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We’re exactly one week away from the start of Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry’s largest tradeshow, and one thing that’s definitely going to be on everyone’s mind is Microsoft. If they don’t execute brilliantly this year on Windows 8, as well as Windows Phone 8 Apollo, then they better brace themselves because the next…
Bing announced that its mobile client for Windows Phone will get two cool features. First there’s Bing Vision, the neat feature that turns your phone into a scanner that works with barcodes, CD, DVD and book covers, detecting product information and associated links. Moreover, if you’re scanning some product, Bing provides you with local availability…
Think you’ve had your fill of Angry Birds with Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, and Angry Birds Facebook? Think again as Rovio has just announced the next Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Space, is a little over a month away from release on multiple mobile platforms. Information on Angry Birds Space is…
For the longest time we’ve been hearing that Microsoft is going to release an update to Windows Phone called Tango that would enable handset vendors to create budget smartphones. We didn’t know exactly how Microsoft was planning to do that, but thanks to a leak on the Russian site WP7Forum.ru we now have an extensive…
Microsoft spent more than $8 billion to buy Skype and it seemed like everything was hunky dory but Cisco is appealing the approval of the deal by the European Commission because it says the deal could be harmful for the long-term health of video calls in the future. In a blog post, Cisco makes the…
If you’re a savvy smartphone user, you experiment with your device all the time. Sometimes things turn bad and your phone is completely wiped as a result — you have to re-install all of the apps again. If you have a Windows Phone device, now you can streamline this process with an app called Reinstaller.…
Windows Phone is moving forward with the day. Just recently we caught the Carbon app hitting the Windows Phone Marketplace, from where users can get it for $1.99. You may think that’s a lot of money for a Twitter client by today’s standards; but if you want the best Twitter experience on your WinPho smartphone…
Facebook is updating its Windows Phone app to version 2.3 today with new features, bug fixes, and some redesigned features. It brings Facebook Pages, Groups, the ability to view likes, news feed filters, banner images, and privacy settings for individual posts to your WP7 device. Aside from new stuff, Facebook redesigned profile pages and panoramas…
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Nokia’s Lumia 800, as it exists today, can be purchased in three different colors: pink, blue, and black. Recently Nokia announced a white version, and we’ve been reporting on rumors of a yellow version for the past two months. That’s five colors in total. Apparently Nokia doesn’t think that’s enough though. A video produced by…