Category: Windows Phone
Over the last week or so we have heard lots about Windows Phone 8 and all of its great new features. Quite a few people are upset about the fact that current devices cannot be upgraded to Windows Phone 8, as a compromise Microsoft have took one of …
Once again I find myself coming up with a phone based challenge. This time I thought “could I use Windows Phone for a whole week”. So this may sound a bit odd, as many people use Windows Phone alone and nothing else and they manage to live perfectly …
During the big Surface launch there was a bit of an issue. About 12 seconds into this video everything goes a bit wrong as the all-new Microsoft tablet… locks up… It’s still in beta right now, so it’s not unexpected to see a few foibles here and there, …
Microsoft may have decided to leave us Lumia owners out in the cold regarding the Windows Phone 8 update but Nokia have come to our aid, with the warm and comforting shoulder that a good parent should do. As of June the 27th they will begin rolling out …
As we’ve just heard, HTC are to launch a Windows Phone 8 device with a Qualcomm CPU. HTC have just sent us the official confirmation below. htc announces support for windows phone 8 New platform announcement builds on ten plus year partnership Taipei, Taiwan — 20 June 2012 …
So, Joe Belfiore stepped onto the stage today to announce Windows Phone 8. It’s a second “reboot” of the Microsoft mobile strategy following the news that Windows Mobile 6.5 users wouldn’t be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 7. Now, the same is happening yet again, with existing …
So, here it is – the big announcement from Microsoft. Well, the biggest one since yesterday at least. It’s the stitching-together of the new ecosystem – Windows Phone 8 will use the NT kernel just like Windows 8 instead of CE. This is good news, as is the …
You may have heard of PayPal. I use it quite a bit, buying a selection of bargains from eBay and for collecting money from my sales as well. Either way buying or selling PayPal is quite a useful service. On a mobile device PayPal is a little more …
This morning, like you, I read about the Nokia cuts. Nokia appear, in my opinion, to be hitting the same issue that Microsoft and Windows Mobile tackled four or five years ago. Complacency. There was far too much washing about. Nokia were the undisputed king of the mobile …
Nokia is cutting another 10,000 jobs with a warning that its losses in the second quarter of 2012 will be bigger than expected. Times are not good for the beleaguered manufacturer with its shares being downgraded to junk status and losing 70% of their value since February 2011. The …
You have probably been there, you search for a local company using Bing local. It finds the results you want and you want to save it as a new contact. Well you can’t, there is no way of saving the results. Bar writing it down with a pen …
We had Sony Ericsson’s original K range of handsets, then we had the Nokia N range and we have had the iPhone. The one thing that all these phones have in common is an rather good camera. Now though we have moved into a different league with the …
In celebration of the Windows Phone Marketplace reaching one hundred thousand apps and also the developers having a few issues with the Marketplace taking their app down, the developers of gMaps for Windows Phone have reduced the price of gMaps Pro to £0.00, so quickly head over to …
Microsoft has released a Beta app for Android. It goes by the name of on{X} (pronounced on – ex). In basic terms, it is an automation app for you phone, that allows you to do things with your phone, depending on location, movement, weather…well, pretty much anything! The more …
A revenue forecast 13% lower than previously projected has sent HTC shares tumbling. The company, which has focused this year on three HTC One handsets, has been rolling with the punches following the continual rise of Samsung devices at one end of the price bracker and handsets from …
Windows Phone 8 is soon to be unveiled and we will hopefully find out what features have been kept, what bugs have been fixed, what new features have been dreamt up and most importantly what happens to our older devices. I have been using Windows Phone for a …
It looks like Microsoft didn’t want to be left out in what has now become a summer full of mobile operating systems. They have sent invites out to numerous tech blogs announcing that they will give a “Sneak Peak at the future of Windows Phone” on June 20th. …
An update to the Nokia Maps application has today been released to the Windows Marketplace. It’s available for download for free from Nokia exclusively for Nokia Lumia. One of the best ways to make a difference in location-based services is posting photos and reviews: that’s how you remember …
Carphone Warehouse have been offering some great deals recently. For the last few days instore you have been able to get the Nokia Lumia 710 on Pay As You Go for £99. Well as of today the deal is available online. As to be expected you need to …
The Amazon shopping mobile has been available for a while now. But it was never available for us unlucky UK residents. Nothing has ever really been said by Amazon as to why. To me it was just another compromise I had to make when I popped my micro …
Fancy getting a Nokia Lumia 900 but want it to be a bit more “individual?” Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? Well, if you said “Yes” and knew where that quote came from, this could be just for you. It’s the Nokia Lumia …
On Friday you may have read this story about the availability of iPlayer on Windows Phone. A spokesperson also told them that Sky Go, which is already available for Android and iPhone, wouldn’t be available “for a good few months”. We’ve since heard from a a reliable source …
Looking for the Nokia Lumia 900 unlocked ? The guys at Unlocked Mobiles have the Lumia £445.98 with Next Day delivery. It’s the latest Windows Phone from Nokia and features a 4.3″ 800×480 ClearBlack AMOLED screen and one-piece polycarbonate body. Other specs include WiFI, “all day” 1830mAh battery, …
So, as we know, Windows Phone hasn’t quite got the same Angry Birds selection as iPhone or Android. Rovio chief marketing officer stated that Windows Phone was a “big undertaking” and that the “cost of supplying” it to the “smaller platforms” just didn’t add up. There is, however, …
Yesterday at the launch event for the Nokia Lumia 610 a Nokia spokesperson told the INQUIRER that the catch up service from the BBC would be coming “in weeks”. Again the fact that this info has come from Nokia suggests it will be a Lumia only app. Also …
I have had my Lumia 800 for nearly 7 months now and noticed this a few days ago and seems to be a bit more prominent now so have got it swapped out by Orange. When I have a white background the phone is showing signs of screen …
Are you one of the many people who made the jump to Windows Phone?. If you have an older phone still running Windows Phone 7 and have not yet upgraded to 7.5 (Mango) then you will soon have no more access to download applications via the Marketplace!. It …
You may have seen this appear on other sites around the web recently. We chose not to mention it, but I’ll sum up. From what we can make out, the news that Windows Phones were stomping all over iPhones in China came from Microsoft CEO Michel van der …
The Nokia Lumia 610 is another addition to the Lumia range. It is a lower spec than previous model, using a S1 processor clocked at 800mhz and it has 256mb of ram. It is really targetted at first time users of smartphones. The Lumia 610 was shown off …
Skin site Diabloskinz have added designs for the new HTC One X and One V, as well as lots of new content. If you’re not familiar with Diabloskinz, they make quality vinyl skins for mobile phones, tablets, games consoles and laptops, giving your device a new look, as …
New figures published by Kantar Worldpanel reveal that Windows phone is finally on the rise. Helped by Nokia’s new range of Windows Phone handsets they now have a 6% market share in Germany and 4% in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and the US. Android however stretched their …
If you are in the business world and you have time for another social network you may have heard of LinkedIn. It allows you to connect to millions of like minded individuals across the globe. You can use it to research prospective employers or new employees. You can …
We’ve been giving away HTC Mozart handsets every week now. The winners so far are as follows, and apologies for not posting about this earlier – you’ve probably seen me go a little quiet recently as I move the site to another provider. Dominic Williams from Doncaster John …
Samsung have today announced a new budget Windows Phone powered handset. The mobile, titled Omnia M, has a 1GHz processor, 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 4GB of storage and 384MB of RAM meaning it is not near the top end of the handset range. It also includes a 5mp rear …
As revealed here on Coolsmartphone, the flagship Nokia Windows phone, the Lumia 900 is now exclusively available from Phones4U. Priced from free, the handset is available on both Vodaphone and Orange. It features the latest Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, an 8 MP Camera with Carl Zeiss lens, 4.3 inch …
My history of mobile speakers has been a bit tangled. Tangled with wires that is. I have used and subsequently got rid of no end of pc speakers, odd little speakers that were like a concertina and most recently I have been running long audio cables through to my …
Today Nokia have announced a variety of new apps and games that will be coming to the Windows Phone platform. They have been working closely with developers to get more big name apps into the Windows Phone Marketplace. This latest announcement has a few interesting new apps. Unsurprisingly …
The latest Nielsen figures are out and they reveal that Windows Phone still hasn’t overtaken the previous Windows Mobile operating system. More than half of US mobile owners now have what’s classified as a “smartphone” but Windows Phone is still struggling to beat the “Other” category at the …
We’ve just been alerted to a pretty cracking deal that Orange are currently running for the HTC Radar. They’ve currently got it on sale in store for the bargain price of £99 when you top up £10. For your one hundred notes you’ll get a second gen Windows …
Nokia, the mobile giant that seems to be able to create trouble like Bart Simpson in a catapult factory has managed to land itself in another quagmire of issues. Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila (CFO) along with Nokia themselves have had a class action lawsuit filed alleging that the …
