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Ever since Nokia announced that it would be adopting the Windows Phone 7 platform, questions, speculation and comments on the news have flooded the web. Rumors that employees were upset enough to walk out the day of the announcement was shocking – though some say Nokia employees were given the rest of the day off…
It is highly unlikely to have a Mac user owning a Windows Phone 7 device. Let’s say that happens, how would he or she connect its 1.0 smartphone to his beloved computer? I guess one could manage to sync between the two using some third-party cloud-based service or fire-up Boot Camp every now and then,…
All the Windows Phones that currently ship are built on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. Microsoft, in a bid to accelerate time to market and make it easy for developers to have one reference platform to concentrate on, poured all their resources to optimizing for one chip and then forced every handset maker to use the same…
Nokia Plan B, an initiative to unseat CEO Elop and restore Nokia to its roots, was revealed today to be a hoax. The plan emerged earlier this week when a group of nine young Nokia investors reportedly banded together to reverse the Finnish company’s decision to replace Symbian with Windows Phone. The unnamed group crafted…
While Microsoft is trying to propel interest in Windows Phone 7 by talking about the looming update (check out our video of it) and signing a deal with the world’s largest handset maker in the world, not everyone in the mobile industry is bullish about the smartphone platform. Executives from Verizon and Motorola downplayed Windows…
Microsoft talked about its Windows Phone 7 update at a keynote in Mobile World Congress and the company was kind enough to give us the same demonstration that it delivered there. Currently, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices can’t do true multitasking, as apps hibernate in the background and wake up when you go back to…
Twitter addicts who happen to use Windows Phone 7 devices now have something to look forward to: the Microsoft mobile platform will be getting a native Twitter client some time in the second half of this year. Yes, it’s a while from now, but better late than never. And with all that time to get…
Microsoft filled in some gaps in its upcoming plans for Windows Phone 7. The Redmond company confirmed that the mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 will debut on the platform in the second half of 2011. IE9 Mobile will support the same standards (HTML5, etc.) and include the same hardware accelerated graphics as the PC…
Nokia announced early this morning that it would be partnering with Microsoft to product Windows Phone 7 devices. It wasn’t unexpected, but it certainly was a bit of a surprise since we weren’t expecting this sort of announcement until later. Here we are just hours after that announcement and alleged concept phones are already surfacing.…
The HTC HD7, which has been chilling out on T-Mobile the last couple of months, has crawled its way north of the border into Canada, and found refuge from the elements in Bell Mobility’s retail igloo. Bell is claiming the exclusive on the HTC HD7, and selling it for $99.95 on a three-year contract, or…