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HTC claims Windows Phone 7 dominance, sells 1 in 2 WP7 handsets
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There have been much speculation regarding the contribution each Windows Phone 7 OEM makes to the ecosystem.
Now HTC’s senior executive vice president Fred Liu told CENS HTC is the major player in the Windows Phone 7 market, selling 1 out of every 2 Windows Phones sold.
This is of course despite 4 other OEMs, including giants like LG and Samsung, vying for the business.
HTC also went on to say they sell 2 out of every 10 Android phones. This allows us to see that little more than 10% of HTC’s business is from Microsoft’s OS, which is clearly not much*.
Windows Phone 7 therefore suffers from being dominated by one OEM who is not deeply invested in the OS. With Nokia jumping in head first...
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Microsoft inks patent deal with small Android manufacturer
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Microsoft has secured another avenue of income from its smartphone patents, as it has signed a deal with General Dynamics Itronix, a relatively unknown rugged device manufacturer. Microsoft inked a deal with HTC last year that allows HTC to use Microsoft's patents in its Android smartphones.
The terms of the Itronix deal have not been disclosed, but it is evident from the statements that the company is paying Microsoft for the privilege of using its patents. The companies' statement on the agreement says "Although the contents of the agreement have not been disclosed, the parties indicate that Microsoft will receive royalties from General Dynamics Itronix under the agreement."
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Nokia demonstrates its very first Windows Phone device
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Wow, Nokia has been making quite a lot of headlines lately. Only days after the announcement of the Nokia N9 – a supposedly “market disrupting” device powered by the MeeGo platform, the company has lifted the veil off its very first Windows Phone handset. It was Stephen Elop himself who introduced the smartphone in front of an unsuspecting audience, after which Jukka Kiiskinen, a services sales manager at Nokia, demonstrated Microsoft's mobile platform running on the device.
The smartphone is only known by its Sea Ray codename so far, and if Nokia's plans unfold as expected, it should hit the market by the end of this year. Little details have been mentioned about the device, but what we kno...
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Leaked Build Shows Further iPad-ification Of Windows 8
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Reaction to Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS have been decidedly mixed. The move towards a single OS for both PCs and mobile devices has angered developers and end users alike: worried developers fear that their years of .Net and Silverlight mastery may fall to the wayside as Microsoft shifts focus to standards like CSS and HTML5, and hardcore PC owners hate the idea of iPad-ifying the desktop environment. The latest build of Windows 8 has leaked onto the Net and should only stoke the mixed usage-hating fires.
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Windows Much Safer After Microsoft Killed Autorun
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Autorun is one way for malware to trick a user into installing some nefarious software from removable storage media. An executable could reside on a USB flash drive and, when inserted into a PC, would prompt the user to click the autorun file.
Back in February, Microsoft released an update that curbed autorun behavior for all supported Windows platforms stretching back to Windows XP SP3 to Windows Vista SP2 (Windows 7 already had a "fixed" autorun behavior and Windows XP SP2 was no longer supported through updates).
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Latest Windows 8 Leak Shows New Keyboard
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After seeing the tile-based Windows 8 UI preview that Microsoft showed earlier this month, it's clear that tablets and touch-screen devices are going to be a bigger consideration than ever.
Microsoft will have to design a text input system for those running Windows 8 without a physical keyboard, and that means a virtual on-screen keyboard.
Winrumors has posted a video from the latest leaked Windows 8 build 7989 that features a new keyboard that features a split variation with emoticon support and predictive text input.
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Microsoft bringing more than 300 eBooks for kids to Windows Phone
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Microsoft is teaming-up with children’s eBook publisher Touchybooks to bring more than 300 interactive children titles to Windows Phone by the end of June. Under the tight schedule, the first 150 eBooks are already available with 20 more hitting Windows Marketplace for Mobile every friggin’ day.
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Evernote hits Windows Phone 7, marches steadily toward complete device domination
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Evernote this week announced that its eponymous note-taking software has finally hit Windows Phone 7, the latest in a long line of platforms that includes everything from webOS to Google Wave. Like the dozen or so other versions, the app is all about saving ideas and syncing them across compatible devices. This one, however, was built around WP7's UI, with pivoting panels devoted to Notes, Notebooks, Tags, and Recent Notes. The app is available now for free from the App Hub, so take note -- by writing the information on your hand or something.
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QQ Browser Now Live In Windows Phone Marketplace
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Tencent QQ or QQ the most popular free instant messaging platform in China with more than 600 million users have now released a browser for Windows Phone platform called QQ browser. The browser is still in preview stage, so the responsiveness is not great. Except for the homepage, there is no other compelling reason for me on using this app. Another app from QQ called Mobile QQ for Windows phone 7 is an Instant Messaging application is also available in marketplace with which QQ users can chat with friends anywhere anytime.
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iOS5 faster than Mango at HTML5 rendering? Wrong!
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Winrumors have claimed that the latest version of iOS5 has overtaken Windows Phone 7 Mango in the HTML5 speed rendering stakes, going from 1-2 fps to 32 fps, faster than the 25 fps demonstrated for Mango at MIX11.
What Tom has not taken into account was that Mango has continued to improve itself, and in testing done by The Next Web Windows Phone 7 repeatedly hit 41 FPS, and this is of course with a Snapdragon processor generations older than that in the iPhone 4.
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Nokia Now Believes First WP7 Handset Will Launch this Year
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Speaking at an event in Singapore today, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the company is on track to release its first Windows Phone 7 handset by the end of the year. Elop said, "I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012." Nokia has previously been more ambivalent about the launch of its WP7 handsets. Nokia also said that it plans to launch as many as 10 new Symbian handsets during the next 12 months. Nokia is replacing Symbian with Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform moving forward.
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Microsoft To Port Its Zune HD Apps To Windows Phone
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Last week, DaveMcLauchlan, Senior Business Development Manager from Zune team revealed that Microsoft is trying to port its Zune HD apps to Windows Phone platform during Zune Insider Podcast. There is no word on 3rd party apps though. However Zunited expects over 26 apps from Zune HD that are not on Windows Phone in any form(some apps like Facebook, email, etc are already on Windows Phones) to get ported. Hit the Zunited link to get the full list of apps and games expected.
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ChevronWP7 Labs will jailbreak your Windows Phone with Microsoft's approval
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Microsoft just earned itself a boatload of geek-cred and made Apple and Sony look pretty bad in the process. We knew the Windows Phone team was playing nice with the jailbreakers from ChevronWP7, but we didn't realize just how cozy the two were going to get. Today the devs announced that ChevronWP7 Labs would open up soon, with the approval of Redmond, allowing users to load homebrew apps on their handsets. Unlike tools from the iPhone Dev Team, this service won't be free. Instead, customers will have to cough up a small fee via PayPal -- but we're sure many of you are more than willing to pay a reasonable price to avoid the sort of cat and mouse game Apple has been playing with hackers sinc...
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Windows 8 Nears Beta, Build 7989 Screenshot Leaks
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be nearing beta with new screenshots leaked today from a Milestone 3 copy. The interface was first demoed at the D9 conference by Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky and even shown running on prototype tablet hardware at Computex 2011. For developers anxious to get a hold of the beta build of Windows 8, rumors suggest the full leak could be coming soon.
The new screenshots published today from MDL via BetaArchive shows a new background and boot screen along with the return of the Microsoft betta fish. The betta fish was used back in Windows 7 beta as a wallpaper and soon turned into a mascot for Microsoft’s beta stages of Windows 7. Its return to build 7989 of W...
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Would Steve Ballmer Leave Microsoft After Win 8?
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Bill Gates will forever be the number one name attached to the company, but the powerful locomotive that steams ahead at Microsoft is clearly Steve Ballmer.
So surprising it is, then, to read a rumor that says that Ballmer will step down from his position at Microsoft following the release of Windows 8. Website Windows8update.com said it received a tip from a source that says that the current Microsoft CEO will resign sometime after the launch of Windows 8.
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