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Bad news for those of you with the LG Optimus 7 – the Korean company won’t release a Windows Phone 7.8 update for your smartphone, despite the fact that Microsoft promised to push updates without carrier interventions. It looks like handset makers are still included in the process and LG decided cramming this version to…
Gene Munster of the Piper Jaffray investment firm, known for snooping around to gather data about Apple, did exactly that this Black Friday when he sent his team over to the Mall of America in Minneapolis to monitor foot traffic and sales. They spied on the Apple Store for eight hours, but this year they…
Look at that dynamite smile. The sad truth is that so-called dynamite smile actually led a company that created a pretty good product. Windows Phone 8 isn’t bad at all. Aside from the lack of apps, which we’ll get in to, the OS itself is a fresh contribution to the smartphone market and it’s managed…
A graphic from Geekologie shows the evolution of handset design from the early brick phones that weighed two pounds to the current crop of stylish black slabs. The two most striking changes I see are touchscreens, which revolutionized how we interact with our phones, and internal antenna technology which let designers get rid of that…
Microsoft is kicking off a new advertising campaign with Windows Phone 8 ditching Jessica Alba and Oprah in favor of allegedly disgruntled iPhone and Android device owners. The campaign is called “Meet Your Match” and it aims to get people to realize how much their phones suck in comparison to the almighty Windows Phone 8…
Windows Phone 7.8, which is made as an update for the existing Windows Phone 7.5 devices, will be released in early 2013, according to a leaked slide from one of Nokia’s Chinese-language training manuals. The new software will bring few notable features along with a new UI that will make old phones look brand new,…
Amazon Wireless is offering 3 AT&T Windows Phone devices for less. Included in the deal are Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 820 and HTC Windows Phone 8x. The online retailer is selling the Lumia 920 for $69.99, instead of $99.99, though you can only choose between white and black versions. The other Nokia smartphone, Lumia…
After the Ascend W1, another Huawei-made Windows Phone device has been caught in the wild. The Ascend W2 is rumored to be a high-end device with specs that include a 720p HD screen, dual-core processor, 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and so on. We don’t have all the details at the…
We’ve already told you all we’ve heard about Huawei’s Ascend W1. It will be the Chinese company’s first Windows Phone device with specs that include a 4-inch WVGA screen, dual cameras (5MP on the back, VGA front-facing one), 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of built-in storage and a memory card slot. In a…
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, interviewed Steve Ballmer at the Churchill Club on Wednesday night. A portion of the talk centered on Windows Phone’s position in the great mobile race. When asked about Microsoft’s strategy, Ballmer pretty accurately says Windows Phone falls in between the two platforms. Android, Ballmer says, is uncontrolled and a little…