Cell Phones, Microsoft
Microsoft’s first attempt at making its own mobile phones wasn’t exactly a success. In fact, it would be fair to say that the Microsoft KIN was one of the genuine flaming-bus-crash-into-an-orphanage disasters of recent mobile phone industry history. But Microsoft apparently thinks it’s older and wiser...

Cell Phones, Game Consoles, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360 S
AAWP have scoured Marketplace to find a full list of Windows Phone apps which will not install on 256 MB Tango handsets.

They found 1,387 apps were barred; only 1.6% of Marketplace. Unfortunately these apps were clustered towards the high end of the market, with a full 25% of Xbox Live apps disallowed,...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, NOKIA, Windows Phone 7
We have heard that Facebook has a new impetus to develop a mobile platform of its own. Now Paris-based Paul Amsellem, managing director of Mobile Network Group, a mobile marketing company, suggests the company could get into the game most easily by buying Nokia and releasing a Windows Phone.

"Facebook...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, NOKIA, Windows Phone 8
The Oman Observer reports that Nokia’s Lumia series with Arabic support would be rolling out to the small middle-eastern country in Q3 2012.

“The Lumia series of smart phones built on the Microsoft Windows platform will hit the Omani market soon”, Dr Manmohan Singh Rehsi, Director, Computers, Office...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, NOKIA, Windows Phone 7
New images of a Nokia Lumia 800 handset running on wpbench revealed a list of Greek names for what we can only assume are codenames for upcoming Windows Phone-powered Nokia handsets. Shared by the My Nokia Blog, the images came from a user running the Windows Phone 7 benchmark on his Lumia 800. The names...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, NOKIA, Windows Phone 7.5, Lumia 900
Jonne from esphoneblog.com reports that the Nokia Lumia 900 has now arrived in the Finnish store where he works. He reports the handset is running the latest version of Tango (8773 ), and comes with WIFI Internet Sharing built right in.

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows Phone 8
The latest news regarding Windows Phone 8 from a trusted source according to MML is that current generation Windows Phone devices will have Windows Phone 8 update. Our good old Microsoft leaker @MSNerd passed on this information to Microsoft bloggers.

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Samsung, Microsoft, AT&T, Windows Phone 7, Focus 2
Samsung's Focus 2, the company's first Windows Phone with 4G LTE connectivity, is now available from AT&T for $49.99 with a new two-year contract. The Focus 2 has the same 4-inch, WVGA (480 x 800 pixel) Super AMOLED display and 5 megapixel camera as the original Focus released in 2010, but it does sport...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7.5
The first version of Skype for Windows Phone will not support low-end "Tango" devices, Microsoft has revealed. Although the company delivered a 1.0 release of Skype for Windows Phone over the weekend, Microsoft says it will only install and run on devices with 512MB of memory. The majority of Windows...

Cell Phones, Microsoft
Microsoft just released the first version of Skype app in Windows Phone Marketplace last night. While most of us will be enjoying the app, the upcoming Windows Phone Tango devices with 256MB RAM such as Nokia Lumia 610 won’t have access to this most wanted app. In the release notes by Skype team posted...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows 8
Since Windows Phone first started shipping back in Q4 2010, there have been two software updates: NoDo, which added copy and paste and CDMA support; and Mango, which added multitasking, a newer version of Internet Explorer, and a whole bunch of UI tweaks. Now there’s a third update scheduled to go out...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, NOKIA, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Windows 8
Moving away from the hubbub about Windows Phone 8 upgrades, we now also have increasing evidence of actual new Windows Phone 8 hardware being tested in the wild.

The latest is via DSLReport’s mobile speed test, which shows the user agent of two Windows Phone 8 handsets, one named Qualcomm Fluid...

Cell Phones, Microsoft
Microsoft has filed a patent for a dual display phone. While there are many other dual display phones already, what sets Microsoft’s application apart is that it would use as much of the back surface of the phone as possible, including even curling over the sides, and would ideally use a low-powered...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Microsoft, NOKIA
Make of that what you will, but a tipster just sent us a picture, which is claimed to be originating from the confines of Nokia, and allegedly is some sort of a non-final poster template.

Whether real or fake we'll let you decide, we don't know what the pro-printing jargon is for such a seemingly...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, LG, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7.5
While we are still not sure about LG releasing another Windows Phone 7.5 device, there were numerous leaks on their devices/prototypes. This one is LS831 which we saw in last October when it passed the FCC. The device design looks outdated to me and it has a 5MP camera along with a front cam. Since it...