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The first version of Windows Phone, launched in the fall of 2010, didn’t have a codename. The update that was released several months later, the one that added copy and paste support, was called NoDo. Then Mango came, and with it Nokia’s first devices to run Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Now the newest version of…
Nokia is giving many Facebook users out there the chance to win themselves a Lumia 900. This should come to no ones surprise as both Nokia and Microsoft has pushed the hell out of this phone to gain mind share from consumers. The new competition is open from June 15 to June 29, and all…
Nokia has teamed up with The Dark Knight Rises movie to deliver a special edition back cover for the Lumia 710 Windows Phone handset with the movie logo on the back. It comes in the standard cyan, magenta, yellow, black, or white colors available with the regular Lumia 710. If you drop by a T-Mobile store,…
Yesterday, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer took to the stage to unveil the Microsoft-branded Surface tablet line, Microsoft’s vision for the future of the tablet market. The company unveiled two different tablets yesterday, one for the ARM-based Windows 8 RT platform, and one for the fully-featured Windows 8 Professional. Both featured 10.6″ HD displays, built-in kickstands, and…
Just in case you were worried, Netflix is going Metro. Netflix is developing a Metro application for the Windows 8 platform, which will make its debut on the Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets later this year. Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky quickly showed off a beta version of Netflix for Windows 8 at the Surface press…
Microsoft gather the technology press to an event in Los Angeles on Monday to announce its new Surface tablet. The 10.6-inch tablet device comes in two flavors – a Pro version powered by an Intel Core processor and an ARM processor version with Windows RT. After the event, journalists were given a few minutes to…
For the first time, Microsoft added the Windows Phone Tango software update to the online Windows Phone update history page. The details of the update are present and they only show minor improvements to the OS. Shortly after Microsoft posted the release notes, the company pulled them, but not quickly enough. The new build number…
Earlier in the week, we mentioned that Microsoft was providing a financial incentive to Nokia to produce super cheap phones for China and developing markets. While this is a good strategy for Microsoft and Nokia to break into these markets, it can be viewed as the two companies essentially giving up on the U.S. to…
If you haven’t been keeping up with AT&T’s web series DayBreak, we suggest you get on board now. Chapter 3 of the series was released to day, and the tensions are higher than ever. It’s not necessarily Game of Thrones, but damn if it won’t suck you in after one chapter. We’re not going to…
While we in the United States tend to think of Android in terms of the Galaxy S III and HTC One X superphones, the battle being fought in several other countries is over the low-end devices. In China, arguably the biggest mobile battleground in the world, low-end Android devices rule the roost, propelling Android to…