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Last month, in the mother of all public relations stunts, Microsoft put a 55 foot (16.76 meter) tall Windows Phone in New York City’s Herald Square. Now it’s Europe’s turn to experience the same type of over the top marketing: Nokia just erected a 32 foot (10 meter) tall Lumia 800 in Paris, France on…
Well, it looks like T-Mobile has just tipped its hand about what people should expect for next weeks press event. In a FCC filing the fourth largest US carrier revealed a new device, the Nokia Lumia 710. This is interesting because it was expected that Nokia wouldn’t release the handset in the US. The phone…
Last month we reported that Nokia was going to issues a pair of software updates to address the battery life issues that some Lumia 800 users were experiencing. Now when we reviewed the device we didn’t experience such issues, but there are plenty of people who have spoken out in Nokia’s support forum, claiming that…
No one doubted the Nokia Lumia 800 would be one of the most popular Windows Phone handsets on the market and recent sales numbers in the Netherlands and France are proving that theory to be correct. KPN, the largest mobile carrier in the Netherlands, is now boasting that the Nokia Lumia 800 is its best…
Microsoft released an update to its Xbox 360 yesterday that drastically changes its UI that they’re hoping will streamline the Xbox experience to both hardcore and casual Xbox 360 owners. Today, the company went ahead and released an Xbox Companion app on Windows Phone, but surprisingly, an official Xbox Live app has finally made its…
T-Mobile and Nokia have set up an event Dec. 14 in New York and all signs indicate that we’ll see Nokia’s first Windows Phone land in the United States. The rumors have suggested that this will be the Lumia 710 rebranded as the “Sword” but you never know what these companies have up their sleeves.…
Microsoft has decided to decrease its cut to 30 percent of application sales revenue from programs sold in the Windows Store, which is the app marketplace the company plans to build into Windows 8. Also, once a app hits the $25,000 mark Microsoft will take only a 20 percent cut. It’s no secret that Mr.…
Verizon plans to double down on LTE in 2012 and it’s keeping track of which platforms are ready for this LTE explosion and which ones are not. When speaking to CNET about its LTE network in 2012, the carrier singled out Windows Phone and criticized the platform for its lack of LTE support. The carrier even threatened to drop Windows Phone…
Our friends over at WMPoweruser have spotted a great deal on a T-Mobile Windows Phone: the HTC Radar 4G can be had for free when you order online and sign up for a new, two-year contract. Not bad. With a 3.8-inch Super LCD screen, 5-megapixel camera and a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, the Radar 4G…
AT&T’s Dell Venue Pro is (as far as I know) the last Windows Phone device to get the Mango update. It’s rolling out as we speak and your smartphone probably already prompted you to get the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile platform. If you’re not sure how to proceed (and really it’s pretty easy) –…