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If you’re itching to get a Windows Phone 7 smartphone on AT&T and the existing lineup didn’t appeal to you, then you’ll be happy to know that the HTC HD7S will be landing June 5 for $199 on a new, two-year contract. If you think this looks almost exactly like the HD7, you’d be right,…
Not only is the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Motorola Droid X2, and the LG Revolution , so is the HTC Trophy Windows phone. Pricing sits at $149.99 on a two-year contract after mail-in rebate, and if you need any extra incentive, if you buy before July 15 Verizon will toss a free copy of Halo:…
Gartner has posted their report for the first quarter of 2011, which shows predictably solid growth in smartphones, and re-establishes many trends we’ve been seeing all along. Nokia’s hardware market share has dipped to 25%, Samsung is down to 16%, and LG to 5.6%. That leaves Apple with 3.9% market share (up from 2.3% last…
After the iPhone, iPad and Android – USA TODAY is going for the Windows Phone 7 community. The new application rocks a custom look and feel which was designed specifically for Microsoft’s mobile platform. The content, however, remains the same and includes latest news, sports scores, weather, as well as photos and graphics. Commenting on…
By now, I’m sure you’ve seen the multiple ads on TV which are based on “If you don’t have an iPhone …” and these have been pretty effective, if a bit condescending. Well, the Microsoft Student Partners have decided to do a response video regarding Windows Phone 7. While it’s not quite an “Oh snap!”…
We’ve seen some pretty interesting custom user interfaces for Android before, but the latest skin from Japan’s KDDI Infobar handset line shows a UI that may look a bit familiar. The handsets feature a Windows Phone 7 like UI, but offers up customization options Microsoft only wishes it would have thought up. They say that…
The upcoming Windows Phone 7 Mango update will bring a host of new features like third-party multitasking and deeper Twitter integration but Microsoft indicated it will also have features to make this platform more friendly for businesses. The platform is already pretty solid with businesses because it easily ties into the plethora of Microsoft software…
NTT DoCoMo has recently announced what some may call a Frankensteinian perversion among smartphones; the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C is a landscape slider with 4-inch 1024 x 600 display (!), HDMI-out, 5 megapixel camera, 1 GB of RAM, 1.2 GHz processor, and 32 GB of storage. The real kicker? It dual-boots into Symbian or the desktop…
Pyramid Research has just released a paper forecasting the smartphone operating market share through to 2015 based on Q1’s numbers. With Nokia’s involvement in Windows Phone, Pyramid sees Microsoft’s relatively new mobile OS beating out iPhone, BlackBerry, and even Android by as early as 2013. This is based on their research across worldwide markets, and…
It seems that just about every platform out there has been hit with location and privacy concerns. First, it was Apple and its iOS platform for the iPhone and iPad. Users were shocked to discover that the iPhone and iPad 3G took detailed location information and stored the data within the iOS devices, then transferred…