Key US Windows Phone Launches Confirmed Ahead of CES
Noted Windows pundit Paul Thurrott has confirmed a few key details related to US Windows Phone launches planned for the coming year which center on AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Three LTE-based Windows Phone handsets–the Nokia ACE, HTC Radiant, and Samsung Mendel–will ship on AT&T Wireless before the middle of 2012. The ACE is due March […]
T-Mobile Announces Nokia Lumia 710 As Exclusive
T-Mobile is the first to announce a Nokia Lumia phone state-side, delivering Nokia’s first US phone in the wake of its shift to Windows Phone development. The Lumia 710 will be exclusive to T-Mobile, retooled to work with their UMTS network bands.
Nokia USA Confirms No US Release for Lumia Windows Phone Series
Not long after the long awaited announcement and unveiling of Nokia’s first Windows Phone smartphones in the Lumia 710 and 800 yesterday during Nokia World, Nokia USA has confirmed that it will not release the initial series in the US next year, instead releasing a different lineup specifically tailored for the market such as phones […]
Microsoft Details Next Hardware Revision for Windows Phone
During the MIX11 developer conference, Microsoft head of Windows Phone engineering Istvan Cseri has revealed that the next major revision of the Windows Phone Chassis spec will be updated to support the Qualcomm Scorpion processor as found in the T-Mobile G2 (MSM 7×30 series) with the Adreno 205 GPU, while the Snapdragon lineup in Windows […]
Sprint Confirms HTC Pro 7 as HTC Arrive
Through a series of cryptic Tweets and a placeholder teaser page, Sprint has all but confirmed its own version of the HTC Pro 7 Windows Phone smartphone as the HTC Arrive, with the official announcement slated for tomorrow, Thursday February 24th. The HTC Pro 7 on Sprint was previously confirmed by manufacturer HTC at the […]
Microsoft’s Kin Portal Launches Before Press Event
Click for full-size Microsoft’s dedicated portal for the yet to be officially announced Kin series of social networking and multimedia focused devices has launched ahead of its official announcement during the Microsoft press event currently underway at the time of this report. The screenshot above details the Kin One and Kin Two devices along with […]
More Bad WP7S News: No Clipboard At Launch
Perhaps we’ll all look back on MIX’10 not as a conference of success for Microsoft’s reinvention of their mobile platform, but for the week they let all the bad news out at once. After we dismissed the platform editorially, Microsoft confirmed that not only are multitasking, open native code, and memory card support gutted from […]
Editorial: Now You Can Dismiss Windows Phone 7 Series
Microsoft touted heavily that Windows Phone 6 Series had one key advantage over iPhone: native code without any gatekeepers. Groundbreaking apps like GPS, SlingPlayer, Rhapsody, and so on, and so on, could exist on Windows Mobile… while they took years for Apple to turn around and support. Innovation was a key ally to Windows Mobile, […]
MIX10: No Memory Expansion Slots or Multitasking in Windows Phone 7 Series
Following up on the confirmation of the Marketplace as the only approved method for application distribution, Microsoft Windows Phone representative Charlie Kindel has confirmed that devices running Windows Phone 7 Series will not feature memory card slots, instead opting for high capacity internal Flash memory with the goal to provide enough storage for applications and […]
MIX10: Windows Phone 7 Series Apps Only Available Through Marketplace
Microsoft representative Todd Higgs has confirmed that all Windows Phone 7 Series devices will only be able to access and download applications via the recently detailed Windows Phone Marketplace. This will complete the shift from the current model used on Windows Phone Classic, with the following changes also confirmed by Higgs: The developer now decides […]