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Back in February of this year we reported on a Reuters story that quoted the CEO of ST-Ericsson (pictured above) as saying that the company is ready for Nokia whenever they want to make a Windows Phone. A few months later, in May, the CEO of STMicroelectronics told Forbes in an interview that Nokia will…
Nokia just unveiled its first Windows Phone with the Lumia line and for the company is addressing those who think it may be too late to the U.S. party by saying it will make an aggressive push in the United States with multiple carriers and multiple devices in 2012. In an interview with Bloomberg, Nokia…
Facebook for Windows Phone 7 just received an update that will allow the app to support Mango’s, or Windows Phone 7.5, new features. Now that Mango makes the WP7 experience feel a little more complete, it’s good to see apps like Facebook – a service most of us use with some frequency – updated to…
Marketing people have a difficult job when it comes to naming their company’s products and services. They need to make sure that the branding they’ve thought up doesn’t mean something offensive in a different language. Take for example Apple’s recent launch of the iPhone 4S. The highlight feature, Siri, translates to “ass” in Japanese. Likewise…
Last week Nokia held their annual Nokia World event in London where they announced 6 new handsets. The last 2 to be unveiled, the Nokia Lumia 710 and the Nokia Lumia 800, were the ones that the entire mobile industry have been eager to see ever since the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer decreed back in…
We know AT&T will be offering few Windows Phone-runnin’ devices, one of which (Samsung Focus S) we’ve recently caught at the FCC. Now we have the carrier turning to Facebook to announce that two Samsung Windows Phones, Focus S and Focus Flash, will be hitting its portfolio on November 6th. The first of the two…
Microsoft premiered a concept video that illustrates what the company believes technology is prepared to evolve over the next five to ten years. The software giant’s vision is inspired by trends its researchers and engineers are seeing in software, devices, displays, sensors, processors and intelligent systems. In the video you’ll notice some awesome futuristic capabilities like special…
ZTE has announced that its Tania Windows Phone handset is headed on a journey to Europe. The handset packs in a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 display, 5 MP camera, and a fairly slim 10.5 mm form factor. Behind the scenes is 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, and a single-core 1GHz processor. It runs…
Richard Kerris was Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations for the webOS division at HP for less than 9 months before he decided to leave on October 24th. Here we are, just 4 days later, and Marco Aregenti, Senior Vice President of Developer and Marketplace at Nokia, just tweeted: “Great people are what makes the…
Microsoft and Nokia have a problem. The iPhone is perceived to be the best smartphone on the market, and for folks who don’t agree with that notion there’s Android. Where exactly does Windows Phone into that equation? It doesn’t. That’s why the two companies have decided that they’re going to flood the market with a…