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Nokia’s about to flip the switch on a massive marketing blitz that’ll be their last hurrah to prove that they’re still relevant in today’s market that’s dominated by Apple’s iPhone and the infinite number of handsets that run Google’s Android operating system. Microsoft, who arguably has more at stake here than Nokia, is going to…
Do you own a tablet and not play video games? According to a recent study by ComScore, you’re officially in the minority amongst tablet owners as their study has found 67% of tablet owners have played a game in September, 23% of which play games on a daily basis. As for other tablet activities, many…
Steve Ballmer is a man facing an incredible uphill right now. He needs to prove that Microsoft’s latest attempt at penetrating the mobile market is actually going places. The partnership with Nokia will do plenty to help the world take notice of Windows Phone, but these days unless you’ve got a fancy ad campaign pushing…
Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype has finally been closed, the company recently announced. The plan is for Skype to become a new business unit within Microsoft, with Skype CEO Tony Bates becoming the president of the newly created Skype division. Users should expect for Microsoft to integrate Skype into a variety of its products, including mobile. Discussing plans of the future after joining forces…
I’m sure everyone who has ever played Angry Birds has always wondered what they would look like if they were actual birds who fly around and cause complete destruction to buildings that are known to house pigs and / or monkeys. Deviant artist Mohamed Raoof had that same thought, but instead of it being a 2…
Good news for those of you with AT&T’s HTC HD7S – the Windows Phone Mango update is heading your way, bringing a ton of improvements including Visual Voicemail, new speech commands, custom ringtones, contact groups, messaging threads, multi-tasking, better Live Tiles, Local Scout, video sharing and much more. In other words, the second you see…
NAVIGON is apparently the first navigation software company that launched a navigation app for Windows Phone 7 devices. As far as we can tell, their new application for Microsoft’s mobile platform is pretty much on par with what they’re offering on other platforms, including iOS and Android. In that sense, expect the same NAVTEQ maps,…
The ads for the forthcoming Nokia 800, which will be one of the first Windows Phone devices from the Finnish company, have been caught “in the wild.” From what we can tell, Nokia is pitching the phone as a sort of companion device to daily adventures, allowing users to easily “take, tag, sort and share.…
Acer will be launching a Windows Phone Mango-based device called Allegro in Europe at some point “before Christmas.” According to Telecompaper, the Taiwanese company will ask 299 EUR for the new phone, which BTW looks as the W4 we’ve seen before (and which is pictured above). Specs wise, it will come with a single-core processor…
Mobile gaming these days has become extremely popular when compared to dedicated gaming handhelds such as the Nintendo 3DS or the Playstation Portable mainly because everyone has a cell phone on them, so firing up a game on your device is as easy as tapping your screen. Sony believes there is still a market for dedicated…