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Seesmic released a short but sweet video that previews its upcoming client for Windows Phone 7. Similar to the iPhone version, the Windows Phone 7 version will support multiple pages of Spaces so you can customize the application to your liking. Right out of the gate, the app will support trends, directory, and search. Seesmic’s twitter integration…
A recent study from Gartner is forecasting mobile platform market share up to 2014, and echoes the results of earlier studies regarding Android’s current momentum. Specifically, Gartner says Android will just barely squeak ahead of BlackBerry’s number two spot in 2010, and have a significant lead by 2011. Despite a steady decline, Symbian will still…
We have seen blurry spy photos but this latest one to make the rounds is beyond blurry and crosses into the indistinguishable category. According to the source, what you are looking at above is one of the first Windows Phone 7 handsets for Sprint. This 4G handset is reportedly made by LG and could be an updated…
Few people realize that Windows Phone 7 will be launching with a standard onscreen keyboard that can not be changed by developers. Until Microsoft loosens this restrictions, Windows Phone owners are stuck with the stock keyboard and can not explore alternatives like Swype; unless of course you scoop up that HTC 7 Trophy with its…
The holiday season will be a happy one for AT&T customers as the wireless carrier has up to six Windows Phone 7 handsets, three Android phones, the Galaxy Tab, and a trio of BlackBerry Torches slated to drop by the end of the year. The Windows Phone 7 handsets include the previously spotted Samsung Cetus i917; joining the Cetus…
Another tidbit from that Nielsen survey last week is that a whooping 33% of Android users had opened an in-application advertisement in the last 30 days. The other platforms trailed at 29% of Windows Mobile users, 26% for iPhone owners, 24% in other (presumably made up mostly of feature phones), 22% of Palm OS users,…
We saw the HTC Trophy late last year when it appeared as an upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 handset in an HTC roadmap leak. Things have changed in the intervening nine months and the Trophy has apparently morphed into a Windows Phone 7 handset. The handset is unusual as it is candy bar with a front-facing keyboard, a form factor that harkens back to the Motorola Q and…
After releasing an improved version for the Android devices (the one Stefan likes so much), Opera Software is going for the, let’s face it slowly dying, Windows Mobile community. The new version of the popular mobile web browser for Microsoft’s mobile platform packs several important enhancements, including: The ability to set Opera Mini as the…
If you are like me, one of the first apps you install on your handset is a weather app and one of my favorites is WeatherBug. Thanks to YouTube we get a sneak peek of this popular application running on Windows Phone 7. The Windows Phone 7 version demoed in the video is impressive. The…
Microsoft just wrapped up a huge parade for the upcoming launch of its Windows Phone 7 platform and it reportedly included a funeral procession for the Apple iPhone and BlackBerry handsets. The celebration took place at Microsoft’s Redmond campus and the Microsoft mobile team were the participants. The workers reportedly dressed in funeral-like costumes and…