Category: Windows Phone
Battery life is always a touchy subject, and one that’s very hard to measure in real-world usage. Higher “mAh” figures don’t always mean a better battery life due to the way that people use their phones. As a rule of thumb, turning stuff off and lowering your screen …
Last year Microsoft announced that their recently acquired business Skype, would soon be releasing a WP version of its video software. This was followed by a complete lack of updates and the usual shouting from users (don’t mention the lack of front facing Cameras on the first gen …
Looking to get the new Nokia 710 ? Well, it should be arriving on Three pretty soon and we thought it might pop up this month but now February is being mentioned – the 1st to be precise. You can pre-order the handset through Clove for £300 and …
We’ve been invited to a launch event for ZTE’s “latest, chic handset” on Wednesday the 18th January… We will obviously have more details then, but it seems from CES reports and this post on Clove.co.uk that it’s likely to be the Tania. The Tania is a mid-range device spec-wise …
Nokia have just announed a new handset at CES in Las Vegas in their new Lumia range running Windows Phone. The Nokia 900 features LTE, Carl Zeiss 8 megapixel camera, front facing camera for video calls, 1830mAh battery, 1.4Ghz Processor, 4.3 inch Clear Black Display and is available …
HTC have announced the Titan 2 over in CES running on AT&T’s LTE network. Specs of the new HTC Titan II include a 4.7″ WVGA super LCD capacitive screen, a Qualcomm 1.5GHz Snapdragon S2 CPU, a 16 megapixel camera (yes, 16 megapixel!) with dedicated hardware button, autofocus, dual …
Rather than updating the original blog post, Microsoft have spoken to ZDNet about the recent changes in how updates are delivered. It seems that there actually aren’t any changes, and everything is business is usual. Greg Sullivan, Senior Product Manager, has told Mary-Jo Foley that.. Nothing has changed …
I’m worried, and I’ll tell you why. Back in 2002 Microsoft emailed me after reading some of the stuff I’d put on the web. The first Microsoft Smartphones were hitting the market and I’d added some critical but constructive posted about it. They respected this, and they wanted …
Lord knows what’s going on now. We thought originally that Sony Ericsson were teasing us with a possible Windows Phone, then we changed our minds and figured that it was probably the Android-powered Arc HD which would make an appearance at CES. Now, with this further image posted …
Not brilliant news for HTC, especially just a month before Mobile World Congress… Profits have dipped by 25% in the last quarter. HTC has faced stiff competition from Samsung and Apple, with Nokia also above them in the smartphone maker leaderboard. Sales fell in December by 20.3% but …
More power! Single core CPU’s? Pah, they’re yesterdays news. Digitimes reckon that HTC will be rocking up in Barcelona with many disk and quad-core CPU’s inside their spanky new phones. The HTC Edge is going to be one of them but there’s now rumours of Tegra 3 (quad …
If you’re after your daily news fix but don’t want to leave your Windows Phone UI, this could very well be your answer. Getnews.mobi(or JM News as it’s also known) looks and feels like Windows Phone 7 and gives access to a range of news sources from around …
The Nokia Ace, aka Nokia Lumia 900, has show it’s top-half over on Pocketnow. It’ll arrive on US-network AT&T later this month after an announcement at CES and it looks to be an exclusive too. At launch the Lumia 900 will run Mango but will shortly get a …
Orange have added the new Nokia Lumia 710 to their coming soon range with January looking the most hopeful for this new Windows Phone from Nokia. Orange are only showing that this will be available on PAYM (Pay Monthly) contracts there is no word on if a PAYG …
With just a week to go until CES, Sony Ericsson are at least telling us that they will be launching…. ermmm…something. There’s a guessing game on Facebook at the moment as to what it’ll be. We’re thinking that another Android handset or three will be popping onto a …
So, after this post from Leigh, some of you might be considering purchasing this phone. We have one of these in the house, so I thought I’d share with you my first impressions. The phone seems to be a slightly remodelled version of the LG Optimus 7. A …
Want a cheap Windows Phone, equipped with the very latest Mango (7.5) stuff, a 5 megapixel shooter, WiFi, Bluetooth and 3.8 inch WVGA screen (800 x 480). The handset is a refresh of the LG Optimus 7 and is actually known as the LG E906. If you’re after …
Over Christmas the last thing I want to do is read what is going on in the world. I like to eat, drink and buy stuff in the sales that I don’t really need (HTC Flyer). Today I’m back at work and thought I’d round up various articles from …
You know how it is, you’re walking through Romania when a guy offers you an unreleased LG Fantasy. Some money changes hands, but then you find that there’s lots of developer tools installed which you just can’t get rid of. No matter, you can at least take a …
Sales figures for Windows Phone devices have always been a little hard to quantify. For the new Nokia Lumia 800 it’s still early days, but we do have some info from Mobiles Please. Their stats, which are based on 5377 sales during November, show that the Lumia made …
Got yourself a Nokia 800? If you read our review and bought yourself one then you might have a few battery issues. We’ve not been swamped with emails moaning about it, but Nokia have confirmed that there’s a potential problem… On Monday 12 December some of our customers …
Just added to the Three UK coming soon page is the Nokia Lumia 710 which is the ‘other’ Nokia phone running the Windows Mango OS. Not quite as feature packed as the older brother the Lumia 800, the Lumia 710 should be available at a lower price for both contract …
Remember those text message issues on Windows Phone? If we’re honest there’s not a massive chance of your phone getting trashed, but the possibility of your Messaging Hub going AWOL is possible. So why, we may ask, are Microsoft mocking Android malware victims? The marketing stunt is running …
Microsoft have just released an updated app for ‘SkyDrive’ available for your iOS device or your Windows Phone 7. Not really sure why they have released a seperate app for WP7 as you could already access all your Skydrive docs from your Office tile, all be it the …
Windows Phone is great (in my opinion). But it lacks any sort of customisation apart from tile colours and either a white or black background. The one thing I really missed in Windows Phone was using custom tiles or tile backgrounds. The Windows Phone Hacker team have created …
Microsoft has released Lync 2010, its unified communications platform for Windows Phone 7 and is now available to download on the Zune Marketplace. Lync is the new collaborative working tool and looks set to roll out on other platforms pretty soon too. Link – Microsoft Lync
Expansys have dropped the price of the Jil Sander Windows Phone AGAIN to £199-99. Quite a bargain for a handset that runs the rather excellent Mango update I’m sure you’d agree. We’ve been speaking with Expansys to get a review unit for you as soon as possible. It …
MoTweets – Panoramic Software I always like to use generic software whenever possible. So, when I switched over to WP7 from the iPhone, I started using the official Twitter app. It soon left me very frustrated because I couldn’t find a way to “Reply to all”, which I …
Rumours (and video evidence) are popping up all around the internet regarding an issue in the Mango flavour of our beloved Windows Phone 7 handsets. Users could experience a denial-of-service to their text messages. The issue can be triggered by messages received from Facebook chat or Windows Live Messenger and …
Over the weekend UK retailer digital-phone.co.uk have put a new product page on their website. It is for the upcoming budget Nokia Windows Phone the Lumia 710, where it shows a release date of the 6th of January. Not a lot has been heard about the 710 as the …
Recently we reviewed the Nokia N9 which was in plain old black, Dawid found it to be a great phone and UK retailers are starting to now get them in stock. Recently Finnland retailer Verkkokauppa has put a new product up on their website and it is the N9 …
Installation: this is just a matter of going to the marketplace and downloading the app as normal but once installed you won’t find it listed as initially you have to access it via the Xbox Live tile, but once there you can pin it to your start screen. …
O2 have now released the Nokua Lumia 800 on their network through the official website and should also be in stores any day now if not in stock already. Pricing below is based on the 500MB allowance but you do have more options such as 100MB and 1GB …
Major Nelson has just announced that the Xbox companion is now available to download for your Windows Phone. Look out for the review shortly. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/b057fbe2-ceb1-470f-a7fe-09c862ca6dd9?wa=wsignin1.0
Just in the process of downloading an update for the Lumia 800 but can’t find out what the update does but I am assuming this is the improved battery performance. Will let you know how it goes. Update 1: Have run the phone for a day now and …
It looks like we could be one step nearer to the whole Apple vs Samsung debacle moving to a close – though not in the foreseeable future… Reuters are reporting that “Apple failed to convince a U.S. judge to block Samsung Electronics from selling Galaxy smartphones and tablets in the U.S. market, depriving …
Microsoft are still splashing out the marketing cash on the Windows Phone handsets. This time it’s not just the Nokia Lumia, although that is featured pretty heavily in the advert below. Microsoft want new and existing Windows Phone owners to try out their new rewards programme, which you …
Carrier IQ is software that is built into devices like Android, BlackBerries, Nokias and iPhones. It seems as though the “keylogger”/”rootkit” is installed by the Network supplying the device. The version built into Android logs everything that you do on your device. Even those pictures of yourself, in …
Vodafone have started to sell the Nokia Lumia 800 in Cyan. We’ve just received information from the network via email. This now means you can pick up a Lumia in both Black or Cyan depending on which you like the look of more. The Lumia 800 is free …
Welcome to the party O2. You’re a tad late, but if you’ve brought some champagne we’ll let you in. Yep, a number of weeks after the other networks added it, O2 have finally plonked the new Nokia Windows Phone on their site. We’ll have a thorough review of …
