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Microsoft and Samsung have announced that they’re going to cross-license their patent portfolios. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will pay Microsoft money for every device they sell that runs Google’s Android operating system. Also, and potentially the biggest bit of news, “the companies agreed to cooperate in the development and marketing of Windows…
HTC Radar 4G, which we see as a mass market Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device, is at the FCC where the government-paid engineers are testing its radiation levels, making sure it’s safe to be used by the general public. Once that process is completed, HTC’s baby will be heading to T-Mobile USA, which we think…
Along with today’s Mango launch, T-Mobile has announced their own Windows Phone from HTC. As far as specs go, the HTC Radar has a 3.8-inch 480 x 800 touch display, 1 GHz processor, and 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. Although it’s plastered with 4G branding, the phone connects to T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network at 14.4…
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango is now live and going out to select devices and the company outlined a few new features of this massive software update. This won’t be an OTA update, as you’ll have to plug your device into a computer to receive Mango and it won’t be coming to all phones immediately. There…
Microsoft has just flipped the switch and pushed out Windows Phone Mango update out to a few select devices and even though it’s technically the “7.5” version, this is a major software update that will breathe new life into existing devices and gets us excited about the new hardware coming out. Microsoft is facing some…
At the 2011 China International Communications Exhibition ZTE showed off their first Windows Phone, dubbed “Tania”. We don’t know whether or not that’s a codename or the actual name of the product, but that’s not important. What you should be paying attention to is that ZTE has now become a Windows Phone maker. The Chinese…
Gees, Samsung is on a roll when it comes to phones, as today the Korean-based company announced the launch of the Samsung Omnia W, its first smartphone based on the latest release of Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango. The Samsung Omnia W will be priced at about €310 before taxes and subsidies. The Omnia W sports a 3.7-inch 800×480…
An analyst by the name of Scott Moritz says that sources are telling him that Nokia’s first Windows Phones are having some issues getting out the door, and that we’re not going to see any Nokia Windows Phones sold until 2012. Doug Dawson, a Nokia spokesperson, quickly jumped on the rumor and started humming the…
We’ve been very proud of IntoMobile 4.0 and how the layout delivers the most compelling mobile-related news in a visually-pleasing way but we recognize that accessing our site from a smartphone is not always the greatest experience. Depending on what phone you’re using, the zooming can be tricky and images have been a hassle. Well,…
Even though Microsoft’s CEO has admitted that Windows Phone sales have been small, the platform just received a high-profile endorsement from Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam. “The carriers are beginning to coalesce around the need for a third ecosystem,” said McAdam at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, according to InformationWeek. “Over the next 12 months…