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The developers behind ChevronWP7 confirmed they sold out of unlock tokens this past weekend. The tokens were part of an agreement with Microsoft that let the group unlock 10,000 Windows Phone handsets. This was an official unlock solution that lets Windows phone owners unlock their phone and install custom, homebrew software. Each token sold for…
Remember LG E906 Jil Sander, the fancy-lookin’ Windows Phone device with designer’s touch? It was roughly a month when we told you it’s available for 300 GBP in the UK. Now the price has been halved to 149.99 GBP, making for an awesome deal — in case you do want a smartphone with Microsoft’s mobile…
The last 12 months have been pretty wild in the mobile world, as we’ve seen some major partnerships, Apple and Android continue to dominate and 4G LTE start to roll out. We think that 2012 will be just as important, if not more so, than the last twelve months, so we’ve enlisted the IntoMobile team…
Let’s face it – in the mobile gaming world, there are only two platforms gamers flock to: iOS and Android. Microsoft knows this and is reportedly trying its best to produce some Windows Phone exclusive titles in order to get gamers to also embrace the Windows Phone platform as the premier gaming platform. According to…
Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite gave us a sneak peek into Microsoft’s plans for LTE in the US market next year. According to his inside information, the Redmond company is planning to announce three new LTE handsets at CES in January. The LTE-based phones will land on AT&T’s network and will include the Nokia Ace, the…
One of the main problem Windows Phone users have is the lack of proper, easy to use tool to backup their devices. Sure the contacts and calendars are (usually) synced with the third-party servers, and you can also keep some other content in the cloud, but you may need some of the files from the…
The folks over at Nanapho.jp, a foreign Windows Phone news publication, did some digging on a Nokia Lumia device to find Nokia’s diagnostics app, which is accessible via the terminal. There, they found different tests for “LTE TX” and “LTE Band Lock.” The latter is for choosing which LTE band the hardware should use and the…
A snipped from a Microsoft readomap has leaked out, giving us a release timeframe for the next Windows Phone updates, Tango and Apollo. The description for Tango confirms that it will center on enabling entry-level handsets, and should be landing in the second quarter of 2012. Apollo will follow up in Q4 of next year,…
The last twelve months have just flown by and it’s almost time to usher in 2012 with style, so you know we had to bust out a list of apps to help you celebrate the coming new year. We’re just going to list some of our favorites but feel free to chime in with your…
Windows Phone passed a very important milestone for the platform this week, as there are now 50,000 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace. Though still far behind iOS and Android in terms of number of apps and market share of app downloads, Windows Phone is beginning to prove itself as a capable operating system in…