If you have ever used a Windows Phone device, you know that screenshots are not something that Windows Phone does. Sure, Windows Phone can post to Facebook and Twitter at the same time. Sure, Windows Phone allows you to take a photo without unlocking the screen. Sure, Windows Phone has a fresh looking UI. Sure, [...]
Two new colors for the Nokia Lumia 800 have been spotted in a new ad featuring the Windows Phone 7 handset and the Nokia BH-220 Bluetooth headset. These colors–red and green–follow the originally announced black, fuchsia, and cyan version of the Lumia 800 and the recently announced white version of the smartphone. The Nokia Lumia [...]
With Microsoft’s Mango release for Windows Phone, a second crop of new hardware was released. And of those devices running Mango, otherwise known as Windows Phone 7.5, Nokia may be leading the pack with its debut Windows Phone devices marketed under the Lumia brand. Nokia, which bested out its closest rival HTC, now has garnered [...]
Microsoft: Skype for Windows Phone is coming soon Yesterday, Hillel Fuld wrote an interesting article on Business Insider titled, “Here’s Why Robert Scoble And The Rest Of The Pundits Are Wrong: Windows Phone Will Be A Success“. This article stems from all the negative vibes that Scoble has been putting out about Windows Phone. Hillel goes [...]
I am excited for the potential success of Microsoft’s newest offering, Windows Phone as well. I don’t currently use a Windows Phone device as a daily driver, but I am ready to as soon as Nokia brings a Windows Phone to Verizon. Most of the reasons I choose Android over Windows Phone right now are [...]
In addition to having rolled out with Nokia Music, Nokia Drive, and Nokia ESPN Sports Hub, the smartphone-maker is adding a suite of new connected applications that will be only available on Nokia-made Windows Phone 7 devices, including the Lumia 710, Lumia 800, and newly announced Lumia 900, an LTE smartphone for AT&T’s 4G network [...]
Earlier in the week, we had reported a Twitter campaign ran by the Windows Phone team asking for the worse malware stories on the Android platform for a chance to win a new Windows Phone 7 handset. It seems that the buzz around that campaign–and recent woes of malware targeted at both U.S. and international [...]
The Nokia Lumia 900, though unannounced, has been generating a lot of news lately as it’s anticipated to flagship Nokia’s Windows Phone lineup and be headed to both AT&T’s and Verizon’s 4G LTE networks in 2012. One blog, Geektechblog.com, has claimed that it had gotten some hands-on time with Nokia’s unreleased phone and its report [...]
Windows Phone 7 news app Times of India is reporting the statistics of various Windows Phone devices that are accessing its content, and interestingly from the list, there are two smartphones originating from Nokia that have not been announced nor released. The Nokia Lumia 900 and the Nokia Champagne are both listed as devices that have [...]
While the current flagship Nokia Lumia 800 (review) is still not yet available in the U.S. market, the phone is already getting its first helping of a fix thanks to a new software update from Nokia. The Lumia 800 is the debut Windows Phone 7 device from Nokia, which had historically built its smartphone empire [...]
The only thing, in my opinion, that is holding Windows Phone 7 back now is apps. Yes, the Window Phone Marketplace has grown faster than Android and Apple’s app stores but I am impatient. Windows Phone 7 has been out for a little over a year now and they are up to 40,000 apps. There [...]
Did I mention already how sexy apps that have actually made it to the Windows Phone Marketplace look? I complain about the amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace but when they do get there, they look awesome most of the time. Well, a very popular app that has been around in the Marketplace [...]
After having announced an Android-powered LePhone S2, Lenovo will also be adding a Windows Phone to its growing smartphone lineup. The Windows Phone device will be coming in the second half of 2012, giving it a late arrival date, but would utilize the same form factor and hardware design that the Android LePhone S2 employs. [...]
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My search for a Twitter client that has all the features I need has come down to a couple of choices. Mehdoh is one of those choices and so far seems to be the best for my needs. I purchased a handful of apps to test and showcased them in the video I did a couple of [...]
If you revel in being the first on the block with the newest and latest exotic geek fare, then you may want to consider the Nokia Lumia 800, which has thus far gone on sale in Western Europe but not yet available in the States. As we had promised, we would keep U.S. fans of [...]
If you’re in the U.S. and are interested in Nokia’s debut Windows Phone 7 handset, the Nokia Lumia 800, which I had just recently reviewed, you may be disappointed to know that there isn’t a way to get one yet Sateside without hopping a plane to Europe. Various importers are showing the smartphone as being [...]
We told Microsoft we wanted custom ring tones and they finally listened. Today Microsoft posted “Custom ringtones: A visual guide” over on their Windows Phone Blog. I won’t snatch their huge image and give you zero reason to visit, so head over and check it out. It pretty much sums it all up nicely. The [...]
Once a dominant player in the phone industry, through a series of mis-steps Nokia had ceded the U.S. smartphone market to Apple, various phone-makers who are using the Google Android operating system, and Research in Motion, which itself is struggling to keep pace in the competitive market. Nokia didn’t want to play ball with carriers [...]
An unannounced Nokia smartphone has appeared in a Windows Phone promo video and many believe the device, with its large screen, to be the leaked but unannounced Nokia Lumia 900, which should best the Lumia 800 on specs. Currently, Nokia has only announced the entry-level Nokia Lumia 710 and the more feature-rich Nokia Lumia 800, [...]
Internet sharing is a feature already included on the overseas HTC Titan I have. I started hearing reports on some lists I am on that they were prompted with an update when they connected to the Zune software today. So far, I have heard that the HTC Mozart and HD7 had updates available. Well, I [...]
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Ok, it’s time to move onto part 2 of my journey. Part 1 was prepping myself for using Windows Phone 7 after 9+ months. I updated my old Focus and started getting an idea what I would miss out on by using Windows Phone 7 instead of Android. Thanks to HTC for providing the HTC [...]
While Nokia had debuted a higher-spec’ed Lumia 800 and a mid-range Lumia 710 at Nokia World, head of Nokia France says that you haven’t seen anything yet. In an interview with French newspaper LesEchos, Nokia France compares the Nokia Lumia 800 to the mid-range BMW 5 Series, saying that “We will soon have a full [...]
The Nokia Lumia 800, the first of two debut Windows Phone 7 devices from Nokia, is now available in France through carrier Orange. The device will retail for 99€ with a 50€ rebate through the carrier is scheduled to ship within 3 days. The Lumia 800, a review on GottaBeMobile is forthcoming this week so stay tuned, [...]
Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to share my adventures of transitioning from being an Android user to a Windows Phone user. This is going to be somewhat interesting considering that I was a Windows Mobile fan boy for so long. When Windows Mobile 6.5 dropped, I was so underwhelmed with how [...]
First off, it still amazes me that Nokia teamed up with Microsoft to throw some Windows Phone love at Nokia’s beautiful handsets. This was almost more shocking to me than Palm teaming up with Microsoft back in 2006 when they loaded up the popular Treo line with Windows Mobile. Verizon hit a homerun with the [...]
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With the HTC Titan (one has to ask, is it a Mini Tablet or Super-Sized Smartphone?) and other Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices coming with a front facing camera, video chat becomes a reality. Enter Tango! This popular free video chat client that already has versions for Android and iOS is now available for free [...]
If you can’t wait until November 20th to get your hands on the HTC Titan you can order one from Amazon for full retail. You might balk at the $799 price tag, but not too long ago, this would have been a bargain for a hot new phone. In fact, I have personally spent $1200 for [...]
Nokia’s premier flagship Windows Phone 7 device, the Lumia 800, may not be available in a contract-free SIM-unlocked form until January 2012 according to Internet retailer Clove, which is based in the UK. The smartphone has garnered a lot of interest and attention due to a historic shift from Symbian to Windows Phone 7 manufacturing [...]
An executive for Telefonica spoke out against Nokia’s new Lumia handsets, which are the debut handset from the Finnish phone-maker to run Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, as being too expensive. The carrier executive notes that if Nokia intends on gaining market share, “they need to bring out devices which are cost-competitive.” However, the pricing [...]
In an effort to target the enterprise market, which has stringent hardware requirements on what a phone or device can or cannot have on-board, as well as the low-end entry level smartphone market, Microsoft is relaxing some of its hardware requirements with Windows Phone 7. The company made a drastic Apple-like shift when it moved [...]
Just a week after Nokia had announced the Lumia 800 Windows Phone Mango device, the smartphone is now topping sales charts in France on retailer Phonehouse.Fr, beating out the iPhone 4S, Android, and other devices. Interestingly, the Bada OS-powered Samsung Wave 575 came in second just after the Nokia Lumia 800. It’s still too early in [...]
Nokia has confirmed that although the high-end Lumia 800 Windows Phone Mango device will launch without tethering out of the box, tethering will be coming to the smartphone via a software update at a later date. Tethering has been a long requested feature since the debut of Windows Phone, and the inclusion of tethering may [...]
It looks like T-Mobile USA is looking to bring Nokia’s Lumia 710, the lower-end handset of the two Windows Phone that the company recently announced, to the U.S. market in early 2012. According to TmoNews, the Lumia 710, codenamed ‘Sword,’ most recently passed through the FCC for regulatory approval complete with T-Mobile’s AWS frequency support [...]
Yesterday, Nokia finally made its highly anticipated Windows Phone devices official introducing the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 to the world. Well, as AdAgeDigital reports, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop has promised a marketing blitz triple the size of any previous launch in order to promote these two phones in Europe this year and in [...]
After Nokia had announced the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 smartphone running Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango operating system in London at Nokia World, we spoke with company executives in Sunnyvale, California to take a tour of the new smartphones. Quite simply, the Nokia 800, like the MeeGo-powered N9 that it borrows its aesthetics from, is [...]
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When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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