Category: Windows Phone
Russian website wp7forum.ru appear to have shots and information about the upcoming Windows Phone Tango release. They highlight a number of changes, including the support of additional countries, an increase on the amount of preloaded apps (from 16 to 40), SIM contact management and importing (ideal for new …
Can you remember the other week we covered the ZTE Tania event in London? If not the details are here. Well Clove and Unlocked Mobiles now both have them in stock for £199.99 inc vat. They only have the black ones in stock at the moment which is a shame. …
The folks at Techradar have reported today that Nokia is due to launch another Lumia handset, the 610. This handset is to be a budget phone, possibly ‘pay as you go’ only. The forthcoming Windows Update ‘Tango’ is alleged to be responsible for making this happen, dropping the RAM …
Clove report the ZTE Tania has dropped in price, from £249 to just £199. After our recent hands on we came away reasonably impressed, save for the 4gb of onboard memory. There really isn’t another sim free Tango handset around in this price bracket, although the Nokia 710 has …
One of the most eagerly anticipated apps of recent times has been Carbon for Windows Phone 7. It is a Twitter client that has been floating around for a few months now in beta form. The developers also submitted the app to the Windows Phone Marketplace a few …
So, we’d already seen a render but now someone has gone ahead and splashed the actual device onto their site. Doah. This is the LG Fantasy, aka the E740, aka the LG Miracle. Powered by Windows Phone it’ll have a 1GHz CPU under the hood and a two …
This is the sort of thing that Windows Phone has been lacking for a while now. Not exactly the Domino’s Pizza app, but high street brands paying developers to make an app for Windows Phone. Whoa this was meant to be about the Domino’s app. Back on track …
There is something special about white phones, I don’t know why, they just feel special. It all started with my white HTC Hero, then my white Samsung Galaxy S2 then a brief stint with a white Samsung Nexus S, a white Acer Aspire one and a white Sony …
In the usual manner leading up to a major press event, manufacturers are always just “leaking” images out to the press to garner interest. Well this time it is LG’s turn and Pocketnow have got hold of an image of what was previously thought to be called the …
We have had a tip off that Vodafone stores are rumoured to be selling the Nokia Lumia 710 for £150 on pay as you go. The rumour has come from ukhotdeals. Below is content of the thread about this. If any of you guys could pop into Vodafone …
Vodafone have today put the new Nokia Lumia 710 on sale with it’s online store and will also be available over the phone or in a Vodafone retail store. No news on PAYG pricing we will find out and then update this post once we have it. There …
Want another white phone? This snap of what looks to be a white Nokia Lumia 900 has just appeared on the Nokia Facebook page. The image is listed as being a Lumia 800 but looks to have been posted accidentally-on-purpose. What are your thoughts on colours when buying …
Phones 4U have put up a page offering pre-orders on the recently announced White Nokia Lumia 800. You can have a look at the page here. They are offering the phone on Vodafone, Orange or O2. The white Lumia doesn’t offer any new hardware differences, it’s just white. …
Recently we broke the news that the Nokia Lumua 710 was going to cost £199.99 on PAYG with Three as confirmed by a member of staff in store even though there were no price guides or dummy phones out on show. Today on checking the Three site the …
Upon opening the Lumia 800 quick guide, I’m pointed to the Zune software……..”Well that’s one plus for Android already” I quietly say to myself before navigating to Zune.net to get the aforementioned software. Firstly, I think it’s only fair to warn you all now before you continue reading. …
This weekend Brandon Watson, Head of Developer Experience on Windows Phone 7, has left Microsoft and is headed to Amazon. He joins a chunk of people leaving the team but his arrival at Amazon has already got the web gossips mentioning an Amazon smartphone. It will, according to …
It’s been rumoured for a while now, but now the Nokia Facebook page seems to confirm that a polar white Lumia 800 is on the way pretty soon. According to what we’re hearing, it should arrive to the UK later this month. Either that or Nokia are trying …
Whilst shopping yesterday I went into a Three store and asked about the Nokia Lumia 710 which was on a massive poster at the front of the shop but there was no dummy on display, the new brochures had not come into any stores yet and the phone …
If you had a Windows Mobile phone a few years back then you may well have seen or used Dashwire. It basically plonked your pictures, videos, texts and contacts onto an online portal for you to access. It was great, but time has moved on and many phone …
My interest in phones, particularly smartphones, like many, started with the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform. The Orange SPV range holds a special place in my heart as the phones that started it all, at least for me. A few years later, I’m still using a Microsoft phone, the …
The new major version of Windows Phone looks set to be a big change yet again. The existing kernel – Windows CE – is to be ditched although, contrary to rumours, it won’t affect app compatibility. The new Windows Phone 8 will also tightly integrate and blend with …
The Microsoft Office YouTube team have come up with some slightly odd videos showing how you can survive life in the office using just a Windows Phone device. They centre around Doug Thomas who talks you through various features of Windows Phone but in a contextual way. So …
T-Mobile UK have released an app onto the Windows Phone Marketplace for their pay monthly customers. Great idea I thought, so I installed it and it doesn’t work. So let me know if it works for you. Here are some shots from the Marketplace where it obviously works. …
Want a closer peek at the new Nokia Lumia 710? Check out this video, added by Nokia today, it features a geezer with greasy hair showing you around the phone. There’s 8GB of storage, 1.4GHz CPU and a 3.7″ 480×800 screen with 5 megapixel camera. If you want …
Nokia have published their quarter four figures for 2011 and they make for slightly depressing reading. You can find the figures here at the Nokia press site. Some of the most interesting points from this are as follows. Nokia have sold “well over 1 million lumia devices” Operating profit …
Yesterday we posted an article about Nokia and how an analyst firm had decided that Nokia had sold between 800,000 and 2 million handsets globally. Well today some slightly more solid evidence has come to light and it’s via Facebook of all places. All Windows Phone handsets have a …
Another day and another set of Tweets from Editor Eldar Murtazin. Today he’s talking Windows Phone 8, aka Apollo. That bit we knew already. What he is saying is that it’ll arrive in October this year and, surprisingly it looks to be incompatible with Windows Phone 7 on …
For those of you that have a Windows Phone on the O2 network you’ll be pleased to hear that the 7.10.8107 update ( the disappearing keyboard update) is now being pushed out. Whilst this is not a major update to the OS, its a welcome one as it shows that …
If Eldar Murtazin speaks, we usually listen. He’s just added a very interesting tit-bit to his Twitter timeline which states.. Who needs lumia 900 in june if they want to launch lumia 910 (12mpx) in may? Europe It comes just a day after Carphone Warehouse accidentally added a …
Remember these adverts? They appeared a few months ago to promote the Nokia Lumia 800 and used “break flashes”. This was picked up in our earlier article and consists of advertisers showing a very brief (half a second) message between the other commercials. Ofcom found Channel Five to …
An estimate from 22 Bloomberg analysts puts Lumia sales to operators and retailers at between 800,000 and 2 million units globally. Not bad projections when the Lumia only went on sale in Europe in November 2011 and the figures are up to the end of the year. These …
Carphone Warehouse have put the Nokia Lumia 900 on their Coming Soon section of the website with an estimated launch date of June 2012! The 900 was announced at CES in Las Vegas with AT&T exclusivity but now it seems that this hot new device will be coming …
Last week some rather interesting figures dropped into our mailbox from iSuppli. The research firm states that, by 2015, Windows Phone will overtake Apple’s iOS. With Android still marching ahead, forecasts state that Microsoft will gain 16.7% market share, with Apple coming in at 16.6%. Now, I’ll be …
Ten days ago we spotted that the Nokia Lumia 710 would be arriving on February 1st. Now Carphone Warehouse have joined the dealers offering this new Windows Phone with an expected February arrival date and a pre-order page for you to fill in should you want one. No …
If you’ve got an iPhone you may well have used Instagram. If shares your pictures for free to Facebook, Twitter or Flickr. The Android version is coming, but there’s rumours now that the Windows Phone version could, possibly, be arriving a little earlier. Fast Company has received pretty …
Last night we got to see the new handset from ZTE, their first Windows Phone, named the Tania. The full announcement has already been made but we went along to get a hands-on with this new Mango handset. The device sports a fairly mid-range set of specifications, but …
ZTE have announced their first Windows Phone device under the name of ‘Tania’. Packing a 4.3 inch screen, 1Ghz processor, 5 megapixel camera and 4GB of storage the Tania is going to be one of the more ‘affordable’ Windows Phone devices available. Whilst is looks nice the biggest drawback so …
Lumia 800 owners should notice an update appear on their phones shortly. Version 1600.2483.8106.11500 includes the following battery and WiFi enhancements. It’s a gradual two week roll-out process, so don’t panic if you’ve not received yours just yet. Nokia Conversations states that … Around half of owners will …
Watch out now, because this is probably going to descend into a rant. Task – Windows Phone. Microsoft. Discuss. Most of my day is spent looking around the web to try and get a handle on the “vibe” and what’s going on in the mobile market. Now, I’ll …
If you have been watching the news from CES you’ll have noticed that the Nokia Lumia 900 was getting a fair amount of interest. The problem with this is its exclusivity to AT&T. Currently there’s been no announcements from either Microsoft or Nokia on if / when this …
