If you want the latest Windows mobile OS on your Windows Phone, you’ll need to buy new hardware. Even the luxurious Nokia Lumia 900, the darling of the Windows Phones so far, won’t be seeing Windows 8, but Microsoft is offering a compromise.
Tag Archives | windows phone 7
Schedule Cinema Bathroom Breaks With RunPee
RunPee is a website that focuses on one thing: the best time for you to run to the bathroom while at the movie theater. If you want to know the best time during various movies, check out this site.
Nokia Lumia 900 Available on AT&T Today
Good news for Nokia and Windows Phone fans. Nokia’s current flagship smartphone, the Lumia 900, is available at AT&T. Many people say that this is the device that will attract a big part of the spotlight on Nokia, and the wait for it is finally over.
Update Windows Phone 7 with Zune Software
The first time you plug in your Windows Phone into a PC, it prompts you to install the Zune software. After that, you need to work through the steps for setting it up.
Windows Phone 7 Gets Update
Microsoft has announced an update for the Windows Phone mobile operating system. Don’t expect something as big as Mango, as this is more of a bugfix, repairing a few glitches in the OS. As you can see in the update history page, there were a few more before it. Here’s what the new update, one […]
Nokia Announces Lumia and Asha Smartphones
LONDON – Early this morning Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage at Nokia World 2011. Elop and his team announced its new line of Lumia and Asha smartphones. The event was streamed live on Nokia’s website. Here are some of the highlights. Elop kicked off today’s event in London with his keynote — setting […]
Smartphones: The Ultimate Comparison Chart
For easier viewing, click here. Last week, Apple announced the Apple iPhone 4S — a rev on it current iPhone 4 technology. How does it compare with the leading Android phones out there? I put this matrix together, which includes specs from the upcoming Nexus Prime. And if you are looking to buy a new […]
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango: First Look
What a difference a year makes. This time last year, Microsoft and partners Dell, LG, Samsung and HTC rolled out the first Windows Phone 7 devices. You could smell the disappointment. Easily a generation behind competing Apple iOS, Google Android or even the BlackBerry QNX platforms, Windows Phone 7 floundered about from day one. No wonder […]
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango: Task List First Look
After months now of constantly showing deep demos of its upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, Microsoft finally unleashed its mobile OS — quietly. Amazon upstaged it with its Kindle Fire tablet this week, true, but now our focus is on Mango. We’ll have a deep dive shortly. Before we start, here’s our mobile expert Todd […]
No more Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace website and MyPhone
Microsoft seems to have taken a turn and has decided to take people who are still using their good ol’ Windows Mobile 6.x phones and push them to upgrade to an all-new Windows Phone 7 device. Possibly a Nokia one, when they arrive (although there are voices saying Nokia Windows Phone 7 phones won’t be […]
Microsoft’s April Super Tuesday Part Deux! 36 New Updates
We don’t always mention when Microsoft releases updates, but when we do, we do it in bulk. Earlier in the month, Microsoft had their largest Patch Tuesday releasing 17 Security Patches which fixed a total of 64 security vulnerabilities. Well just when we thought it was safe to go outside (sorry, couldn’t resist the build in […]
How to Update Your Windows Phone 7 and Get Copy and Paste—NOW!
Microsoft has been teasing us lately by publishing all the groovy goodness that’s pending in the next Windows Phone 7 update. Namely, copy and paste and faster app and game loading. Problem is, they’ve kind of backpedaled lately because some users experienced some issues with the pre-NoDo update. That’s good, I guess. It’d be unconscionable […]
First Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices won’t be game-changing
…at least that’s what we could be led to believe if we listen to what Eldar Murtazin, editor-in-chief of Mobile Review had to say to Engadget, quoting some inside information. He also said he has seen some of the first devices to come out of the Nokia-Microsoft partnership first-hand. The first two models will be […]
Microsoft – Nokia Deal Rumored to be Worth $ 1 Billion
Nothing good comes for free, and so it’s proved by the Microsoft – Nokia deal (in case you didn’t know about it, we wrote about it when it was announced, a little while ago). A report by Bloomberg says that Microsoft will pay Nokia $ 1 billion in order for the biggest mobile phone manufacturer […]