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Good news for WordPress fans with a Windows Phone handset. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is rumored to be working on an official WordPress client for your mobile platform. While Automattic has remained silent on the possibility of a Windows Phone client, its website is a bit more revealing. The folks at The Blog Herald…
Microsoft’s new mobile platform has been out just shy of one month, but Windows Phone 7 is slated for a major update in January according to a recent rumor. It’s almost funny that this is such a big deal, but copy and paste will be coming on board since it was notably absent during release…
A new study from the GfK Group suggests that smartphone owners aren’t loyal to any handset maker but Apple iPhone owners buck the trend slightly. The GfK survey found that 56% of smartphone owners will be keeping their options open when it comes to which type of phone they will buy next. It also said…
Perhaps the Antennagate issue that plagued the iPhone 4 wasn’t exclusive after all – just like Apple said. The HTC HD7 – one of the latest in a series of new Windows Phone 7 handsets – appears to suffer from a little user interference, too. The T-Mobile handset is depicted in a video where it…
Microsoft has done quite a job cultivating the developer ecosystem for its recently-launched Windows Phone 7, as the platform already has more than 3,000 apps – nearly on par with what Research In Motion has with its App World, which has been around for much longer. But we’re now starting to hear some grumblings from…
Poynt was one of our top picks for Windows Phone 7 apps at launch, and today the developers are expanding its already-great local search to include gas prices. Using your GPS or cell tower location, it’ll find the prices of all the stations nearby It’s only in the U.S. for now, but Poynt tends to…
Windows Phone 7 is still such a baby platform with a long way to go in terms of refinement and app availability, but it looks like decent Twitter support is coming right along. MahTweets has taken matters into its own hands with a Windows Phone 7 app that supports push notifications for Twitter mentions and…
There is no better way to kick off the weekend than with a rousing discussion on jailbreaking and piracy. This current round of discussion focuses on the ChevronWP7 unlocking tool which hit the Windows Phone community earlier this week. At the heart of this issue is a camp of people who see the tool as…
A tweet from Rovio Mobile suggests the Windows Phone version of Angry Birds will not be available until 2011. Earlier this week, Rovio hinted that it would provide information on the progress of its Windows Phone version as part of Angry Birds Day, a worldwide, fan-sponsored event slated for December 11th. Excitement was high and most…
Yesterday, news broke that ChevronWP7 had created and released an unlocking tool for Windows Phone handsets that permits the side-loading of applications. The tool alledgedly tricks the handset into registering itself as a developer’s device, which opens up the OS and permits the installation of non-Marketplace apps. Microsoft got wind of this development and has responded…