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Nokia announces 2 million Windows Phone sales in Q1 2012
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Nokia is going to announce their Q1 2012 financial results on April 19th, today though they issued a press release that gives investors and analysts a hint of what sort of numbers they should be expecting. Here are the important figures: 83 million mobile phones were sold during the quarter, of which 71 million were feature phones and 12 million were smartphones. Of those 12 million smartphones, 2 million of them were Windows Phones. Just yesterday we predicted Nokia would sell 2.2 million Windows Phones, so we’re proud to say we were ridiculously close. As for profits … there simply aren’t any. Nokia says their operating margin in Q1 was negative 3%. The bad news doesn’t stop there, the Fin...
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Twitter fix Mobile Twitter CSS bug for Windows Phone
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After about 3 months of looking at a WAP-like mobile twitter web page, if seems our article from 2 days ago, provoked by Joshua Topolsky’s uninformed rant about the quality of IE9 Mobile, did generate some results.
A few hours ago we were contacted by Michael Ducker, Product Manager for Mobile Web at Twitter, asking about the issue. We explained what we knew of the CSS files having the incorrect MIME type, contrary to HTML standards, and it seems not long after all the problems have been fixed, as the page it now rendering properly not only on IE9 desktop but also in the mobile browser.
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Rumor: Samsung to release 3 Windows Phones this year
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Nokia may be getting all the attention (of what little there is) in the Windows Phone world, but let’s not forget that there are other players with their neck in the game. Samsung, who we’ve traditionally recognized as the leading manufacturer of Android devices, has released a few Windows Phone devices that haven’t really taken off, but rumor has it that they’re going to take another stab at Microsoft’s mobile operating system this year with three new models. One of them, codenmaed Mandel, is said to run Windows Phone Tango and come with 4G LTE. Seeing as how we’re not big fans of Tango, let’s skip straight to the good stuff: Apollo. We don’t know anything about these other two smartphones ...
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Now 82,000 apps in Windows Phone 7 marketplace
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AAWP has announced, by their own tracking, that there are now over 82,234 in Marketplace, increasing by 10,228 in the last month or 340 apps per day.
They note while there have been accusations that Marketplace is deteriorating in quality, 8% of apps are still scored at 5 stars, and this number has been stable over the last few months.
It is now comfortably the third biggest mobile app ecosystem, behind Android (450,000+) and iOS (550,000+), but some way ahead of Blackberry (70,000) and Symbian (70,000).
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Dell Ends Sales Of Venue Pro Windows Phone Device
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It comes to an end! Dell has ended the sales of its first and only Windows Phone device Dell Venue Pro. The device when got leaked created lots of buzz and excitement and later went on to become a great example of poorly executed product. Until few days back the device was available at dirt cheap price from Dell as it was selling this unlocked device at $299 at its own store whereas in Amazon the unlocked device is still available at a price of just $249. Now Dell no longer sells mobile devices ( Windows Phone+ Android) in US and expects to release few new products later this year.
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Microsoft apologizes over 'Smoked by Windows Phone' controversy, offers winner laptop and phone
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Microsoft's working quickly to counter backlash it's receiving after denying a user who won a Windows Phone challenge his just reward. Yesterday, Sahas Katta won a "Smoked by Windows Phone"...
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Nokia Lumia 900 on AT&T to support Visual Voicemail, but other Windows Phone users may not get it
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As we fully expected, the comments on our recent post about AT&T's apparent decision to not push out the lastest bugfix version of Windows Phone, 8107, have expressed a good deal of unhappiness. However, one comment in particular caught our eye, from scrapplejoe, which points out a thread at neogaf suggesting Visual Voicemail is present on the Lumia 900. In fact, there's an even deeper backstory involving a method of forced updating and clever data plan switching first discovered at xda-developers, with which it's possible to get Visual Voicemail working on a Nokia Lumia 800, Focus Flash, or even other devices on AT&T. The trick primarily requires two things: enabling a 4G LTE plan on AT&T (...
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Nokia Play To brings DLNA streaming to Windows Phone
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Nokia has released the beta version of its new Play To app, which will allow its Windows Phone users to stream content from their mobiles to other DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) connected devices.
These days DLNA streaming is found in most mid and high-end smartphones, with both Android and iPhone handsets offering various ways to share content with other devices.
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Windows Phone outselling Symbian in the UK
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Microsoft’s market share in the United States may have been slipping as of late, but what about in the UK? According to market research firm Kantar Worldpanel, Microsoft and Nokia’s gambit may be paying off: Windows Phone 7 has outsold Symbian handsets for the first time, and the Nokia Lumia 800 is proving popular across Europe too.
According to the research, 2.5% of UK consumers bought a Windows Phone handset compared to 2.4% for Symbian over a three month period that ended on February 19th. Not only that, but the Nokia Lumia 800 accounted for 87% of all Windows Phone sales in Europe. Windows Phone apparently does best in Germany, with it accounting for 3.1% of the market.
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Developers: Microsoft updates “Download for Windows Phone” buttons again
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We’ve already seen Microsoft changing the style of their “Download for Windows Phone” buttons last June, when it did away with the color options and instead provided a consistent grey-orange color scheme. Now, those buttons have been updated once again to replace the generic download buttons with the new Windows Phone logo introduced in Mango, resulting in a red-grey color scheme and more prominent branding that we personally find more appealing than the previous iteration.
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Windows Phone accused of being a passionless OS
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Claiming the Windows Phone UI lacked “pizzazz” and did not “stimulates the geek” in him like the super-customizable Android, which made him feel each Android device was made just for him, or the folders in iOS (!?!) which he found a “joy to use”, he found scrolling down a long start page particularly disheartening.
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WP7 Developers, get your apps ready – 23 new Marketplaces are launching this month
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Microsoft has announced that Marketplace will be opening up 23 new countries within a month, and will be accepting submissions within the next 2 weeks.
The new countries include Bahrain, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Vietnam, raising the total number of supported countries to 63 and resulting in a 60% increase in addressable users.
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Google revamps its Windows Phone app
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Google released an updated mobile app for Windows phone devices, adding few cool features to the mix.
First of all, there’s Autocomplete, offering search predictions as you type. This in turn, will give you results faster, making you spend less of your precious mobile data.
Then there’s Voice Search, which removes the need to type your query. Simply tap the microphone icon and say what you want to find.
Finally, Google for Windows Phone can now access your location to provide you with nearby results. For location-specific queries this will save you a ton of time — you don’t actually care about coffee shops and Italian restaurants in other States – all you want to know is which one of them ca...
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Facebook Messenger client for Windows launched
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Facebook has officially launched a Messenger desktop client for Windows PCs.
The arrival of the standalone app, which was previewed late last year, follows the launch of chat-only apps for iPhone and Android smartphones.
The main benefit for Windows users will be the opportunity to continue instant messaging with friends without bring sucked in by status updates, shared articles and endless YouTube videos of cute cats.
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Asus will launch a Windows Phone “when it is the right time”
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Speaking to Pocket-lint, Asus said they were waiting for circumstances to be right to launch a Windows Phone.
"We are very close with Microsoft. When we think it is the right time of course we will do it," Benson Lin, the global head of Asus’ handheld division said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The company however remains focussed on Android handsets at present, but Lin was pretty familiar with Windows Phone.
"In my pocket, I always carry two competitor products. At the moment I have a HTC Titan and a Galaxy Nexus," he said.
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