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As expected, Samsung ATIV S is now available in Canada, with all three major carriers in the country offering the fancy Windows Phone 8 device from their sites — we’re not sure whether stores have them as well. One of the best Windows Phones ever made (if not the best) from Rogers, Bell and Telus.…
Windows Phone Marketplace team has been busy these days having just announced that the store is now available in 37 additional countries, including Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo (DRC), Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Paraguay, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra…
The Alcatel OneTouch View is about to hit the Russian market and the company has launched the first promo video for the device. As you’re about to see, Alcatel doesn’t talk about the specs and is rather pushing this phone towards the young and trendy, which may appreciate the fact that the OneTouch View is…
Dell is dismantling its smartphone business and pulling out of the market globally. Jeff Clarke, head of Dell’s consumer business, confirmed that the company is no longer interested in smartphones. “It needs a lot of investments to really be successful,” Clarke told Forbes reporter Jean-Baptiste Su. This move is not surprising as Dell has been slowly…
Windows Phone Store has been growing lately, experiencing a sustained 40% increase in app submissions. Developers obviously like the new version of Microsoft’s platform and to better support them, the company unveiled the holiday schedule – when they’ll be conducting app reviews and when the folks doing this job will take the time off to…
HTC’s Windows Phone 8X is the first device running the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile platform to get an over-the-air (OTA) update. Microsoft introduced this capability in Windows Phone 8, allowing users to get the latest software without connecting their beloved smartphones to the computer (something Android has been doing for quite some time). The…
Samsung’s Ativ S, the fifth member of the Windows Phone 8 family, will reportedly launch on Bell in Canada as early as Friday, according to a document leaked to MobileSyrup. The Ativ S joins the Nokia Lumia 920, Lumia 820, and HTC’s Windows Phone 8X and 8S as the fifth Windows Phone 8 device to…
A report from advertising and analytics company Chitika that it published today bares sad news for Google and Microsoft. Chitika in the past has released statistics on web traffic for various devices. Now, after closely monitoring Google’s Nexus tablets and the new Microsoft Surface, it has some new data to share: the Nexus tablets and…
You can finally check China off the list of countries to have not received any of the Nokia Lumia phones. Yesterday the huge country known as “the middle kingdom” got the entire Lumia roster of handsets including the low-end 620, the mid-range 820 and the high-end 920T. The sales director for Nokia China said that pre-orders…
We’re hitting the homestretch in this holiday season, so getting your friends and love ones something special is imperative. This week I decided to talk about 5 must have shopping apps for Windows Phone 8. Contrary to many skeptics, WP8 does have a respectable collection of mobile applications. Nevertheless, here’s my list of five apps…