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Handset makers are not actually too excited to make Windows Phone handsets, as I’m sure you can tell. Nokia is commanding a lion’s share of the Windows Phone market, leaving just a small share for other players, including Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Acer, Asus and ZTE. According to DigiTimes’ report, this group of companies (and we…
Today, MetroPCS announced that its customers can now use unlocked GSM devices on their network, which has been solely CDMA up until this point. Because of the recent merger of T-Mobile with MetroPCS, MetroPCS will be transitioning from its CDMA network to T-Mobile’s GSM network. MetroPCS customers in a handful of cities such as Boston,…
Verizon and Jennifer Lopez’s Viva Movil opened its first retail store in New York yesterday, with the new location popping up in Brooklyn, New York. Viva Movil offers Verizon devices and services, in retail locations that cater to the Latino population and are designed by J-Lo herself. The retail locations will feature staff fluent in…
Windows Phone 8 owners get another navigation choice in MapQuest. One of the originals in online mapping is offering its mobile app with usable services for free. Features include voiced, turn-by-turn directions for driving and walking, along with live traffic and the usual point-of-interest searching. And as you can expect, the MapQuest Windows Phone 8…
Nokia updated its Nokia Chat application for Lumia Windows Phone devices. The main new thing of version 1.1 is NFC support that allows users to quickly tap+send their chat address, the details of anyone on their chat contact list, and Nokia Chat itself to another NFC-equipped Lumia. You’ll still have to touch the screen to…
Nokia is working on a new software feature for its Lumia Windows 8 phones, and has announced a new “Glance Screen” feature today, which is still in beta. The feature is essentially a standby screen which displays the clock, battery level notification and allows the device to be awoken from sleep with a double tap.…
The first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, the Acer Iconia W3 that was announced at last week’s Computex expo in Taiwan last week is now available for pre-order at a handful of retailers, starting at $349.99. The Iconia W3 runs on Windows 8 and has an 8.1-inch 1280 x 800 display, a dual-core Atom processor running…
While we have our doubts about the Windows RT prospects, Microsoft keeps investing resources in this (what we think is) destined-to-fail platform. As part of the upcoming Windows 8.1 update, the Redmond giant will also launch Outlook 2013 for Windows RT tablets. For some reason, Office 2013 for Windows RT didn’t come included and Microsoft…
What we have here is the first glimpse of the upcoming Windows Phone Blue that will likely be released later this year. Microsoft is (obviously) still quiet about what we can expect in the next version of Windows Phone though they’re not hiding that the notification center will be included as part of the update…
We’ve known for some time that Sprint has been planning on carrying a few Windows Phone 8 handsets this summer, specifically the Samsung Ativ S and the HTC Tiara, and a new FCC filing points to an imminent launch of at least one of those devices. The filing shows a Windows Phone 8 powered HTC…