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At the company’s Windows Phone 8 launch event this morning, Microsoft announced that the Samsung ATIV Odyssey will make its way to Verizon in time for the holidays. Not much is known about the ATIV Odyssey, though previous rumors have suggested the Odyssey was a codename for the ATIV S device, which Samsung unveiled back…
Today Microsoft unveiled not only an updated Twitter and Skype app, but a new Facebook application for the Windows Phone 8 platform. The newly renovated app uses a new feature in Windows Phone 8 that lets users access Facebook calendar events and notifications right from their lock screens. The app can also put photos from…
Nokia confirmed today that the Lumia 822 will land on Verizon Wireless. The handset will likely be a variant of the Lumia 820 on AT&T and will include an 8-megapixel camera with PureView technology, a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera and wireless charging. Olivier Puech, President of Nokia Americas said the phone is part of Nokia’s strategy…
No longer will you be using Zune for beaming files from your computer to a Windows Phone device (and other way round). Microsoft just released the new Windows Phone app for Windows 8 and Windows RT devices, allowing users to accomplish the same thing with a shiny new interface. Here’s how Microsoft describes the app:…
We know that Huawei will enter the Windows Phone game. Heck we’ve seen their W1 model, but apparently the Chinese company won’t stop with a single model. What we have here is an unidentified Windows Phone device wearing Huawei’s brand. And we can’t really say what’s it all about, or whether it will ever be…
Yesterday Best Buy showed off a pre-order page of AT&T’s Nokia Lumia 920, with a listed price of $149.99 for a 32GB version. Many were surprised to find the phone so cheap, especially since most high-end smartphones usually come in at around $200 on a new two-year contract. Strangely, the page displaying the Lumia 920,…
The rumored Nokia Lumia 510 has been officially announced. As you can imagine, it’s a fairly low-end Windows Phone device, packing an 800MHz single-core processor, 4-inch WVGA screen, 5-megapixel camera, 256MB of RAM and just 4GB of built-in storage without the possibility to add extra gigabytes with a microSD card. The Lumia 510 will ship…
Almost missed this… Canada’s Rogers Wireless and Microsoft jointly announced new Windows Phone 8 offering. We’re saying “new,” cause we already know they’ll get to sell the Nokia Lumia 920, as well as the HTC 8X with 8 and 16 GB of built-in storage. The Samsung ATIV S will join the party, and so will…
The first wave of Windows Phone devices will soon hit the market, with companies like Nokia, Samsung and HTC leading the pack. According to DigiTimes, it’s likely that HTC and Samsung will offer better prices for the users, saying that Nokia has put all of its (smartphone) eggs into one (Windows Phone) basket, whereas two…
As if October 29th wasn’t going to be a busy day already, T-Mobile recently announced its very own press event the very same day that both Google and Microsoft will take (separate) stages and unveil new products. T-Mobile’s event could go in either direction, as we could either see a new Windows Phone 8 or…