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Windows Phone is growing, folks. Yes, you heard right. The Microsoft mobile operating system is slowly taking market share away from both BlackBerry and Symbian. In a chart showing February of last year to this year, Windows Phone has seen a modest 1.4 percent uptick in that time frame. We know Windows Phone haters might…
Following the modification of guidelines for hardware developers, the rumor emerged that Microsoft is working on a smaller version of the Surface tablet. As discovered by ZDNet, the Redmond giant changed its certification rules for Windows 8 to include a new resolution for touchscreen devices – 1024×768 pixels (XGA). As you can imagine, such resolution…
Zinio will be giving Nokia’s Lumia handsets some love by bringing its digital magazine catalog exclusively to the Windows Phone 8 handsets. The app is currently available for Windows 8 tablets, desktops and notebooks, with the Windows Phone 8 app coming soon. The application has also been available for iOS and Android for some time now. Zinio offers…
Very often in the news you’ll read about concerns that Android is highly vulnerable to malware. Alongside that is news of iPhone’s stellar security because of Apple’s approval process for the App Store, essentially preventing any type of malicious attempt at invading. (Occasionally, there’s an exception or two.) Windows Phone, however, is often left out…
We reported in January that Sprint would finally start a lineup of Windows Phone 8 handsets with one Samsung device and one HTC device, but that’s as specific as it got. Now we have the two devices rumored for release soon on the carrier: the Samsung Ativ S and the HTC Tiara, the latter of…
Nokia’s very low-end Windows Phone 8-based Lumia 521 has gotten FCC approval and is headed to T-Mobile here in the United States starting on an unspecified release date. The international equivalent announced at MWC 2013, the Lumia 520, goes on sale soon in various markets worldwide. The specs on this thing aren’t blow-away, but they…
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop caused a bit of a stir when he tossed an iPhone during a recent interview on Finnish TV. Elop was talking about Nokia’s upcoming lineup of phones that will land in the company’s home country when the interviewer pulled out his iPhone. Elop took care of that problem with the quick flick of his…
The Windows Phone platform just landed another major app today. Pandora, the wildly popular internet radio app, is now available for all Windows Phone 8 users to download. This addition basically completes a list that has the top streaming services, which includes Spotify and Rdio. Albeit, Pandora finally hitting the Microsoft platform is five months…
Microsoft needs apps, and it’s not being too shy about admitting it. Today, Microsoft has announced that it will be offering $100 per app to developers who submit new apps for both the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms. Microsoft wants quality apps, though; the submitted apps must do more than just open up a webpage, and not…
There’s a new version of Skype available for Windows Phone 8 devices and it comes with support for 720p HD video calls. Unfortunately, though as expected, not all devices are able to benefit from this capability. As you would imagine, HD video calls are reserved for owners of the higher-end smartphones like Nokia Lumia 920,…