As expected, Nokia and China Telecom have just launched the Lumia 800C and Lumia 610C in China. The CDMA version of both smartphones will be available for purchase via Nokia stores and Tianyi FlyYoung shops. In addition, customers will also be able to purchase Nokia Windows Phone devices from China’s leading chain electronics stores,...
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketing has got a new corporate vice president, none other than Thom Gruhler, the Redmond-based software giant announced recently. Gruhler, 42, comes to Microsoft from McCann Worldgroup, where he was global managing partner of Telecom & Technology. In this position, he was in charge of driving growth and creating relationships with...
During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft’s partners announced the release of low-end devices powered by a new flavor of Windows Phone, codenamed Tango. The new OS flavor comes with support for much lower hardware specifications than before, thus allowing handset vendors to design cheaper smartphones. Through this move, Microsoft and hardware...
Two new games for Windows Phone have just made their debut, namely Bullet Asylum and Chickens Can’t Fly (the latter will go live in a few hours). People who don’t have a Windows Phone to take these games for a spin can still get a taste of the great visuals they have to offer...
News magazine for tablets have recently been a hot topic, following the success of Flipboard, internet giants AOL, Google and Yahoo have launched their own digital news magazines, namely Editions, Currents and LiveStand. Today, My6Sense launched its Smart Magazine for Windows Phone 7.5 and Android, leveraging its “digital intuition” engine used in its original...
Apparently, Windows Phone Mango does not come with NFC support, although one Microsoft official said last week that it does.The company has issued an official statement on the matter, Winrumors reports, and said that NFC is indeed missing from Windows Phone, but that the feature will be included in a future release, bound to...
In the end, early estimations on the sales of Nokia Lumia 800 appear to have been off by a lot, as the handset is reportedly besting various Android devices in sales in the UK.Nokia Lumia 800 already came to be out of stock at wireless carrier Orange UK, and it seems that other operators...
A new flavor of the official Twitter client for devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system is now available for download, namely version 1.3.0.0.The new release was made available only a few days after the availability of the 1.2.0.0 iteration of the app, which brought along support for the newer Windows Phone 7.5...
We’ve previously reported about the Samsung Omnia W making its way to Italy, though it wasn’t mentioned when that was going to happen. According to the Samsung Belgium Twitter account, it recently confirmed that the device will be available in December. There was no mention of whether it’s going to be released in the...
It looks like Nokia has more to announce than just Windows Phone devices at Nokia World 2011 tomorrow. It looks like the company will be unveiling a new Symbian device at the event as well. The folks over at engadget managed to catch some Nokia reps unpacking some boxes containing an unnamed Nokia device....
