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Samsung Focus 2 review
Ready for Samsung’s latest entrant to the Windows Phone game? Hopefully you answered “yes,” because we’re about to take you through an in-depth look at such a device: the Focus 2. Around the time that...
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Microsoft posts Windows 8 app porting guide roundup, forgets to include BASIC
Let’s say you’re a developer eager to convert your apps for Windows 8 as soon as possible. Where do you start? Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jennifer Marsman is very much aware that you might be at a...
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Switched On: Facebook’s ecosystem dilemma
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Despite amassing something close to a billion users, Facebook has mainly stayed true to the startup mantra of staying...
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BBC iPlayer reaching Windows Phone within ‘weeks,’ will catch up with...
We’ve see BBC iPlayer reach many devices over time, but it’s been conspicuously absent on Windows Phone. Nokia has stepped into give us some relief, and it’s now promising that a port of the TV...
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Angry Birds and PES 2012 join Skype: won’t work on Windows Phones with 256MB...
Putting the squeeze on those hardware specifications has lead to several more app casualties on Microsoft’s ever-growing mobile platform. Unfortunately, it includes one of mobile gaming’s biggest...
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Batman-themed Nokia Lumia 900 coming soon, utility belt clip not included
A befuddled Joker once pondered “Where does he get all those wonderful toys?” Soon you’ll have a chance to inspire the same sort of wonderment amongst your friends — at least the more eagle-eyed ones....
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McGill University student plan provides healthcare to rural areas with...
Those of us living in metropolitan areas don’t think twice about our ease of access to medical care, but those in rural areas don’t enjoy such easy access to a doctor. Abhijeet Kalyan and Shravan...
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Batman Nokia Lumia 900 priced at £600, throws in some free movie tickets
We said it was coming soon, and the Dark Knight-themed WinPho hasn’t disappointed. Phones 4u has just announced that pre-ordered laser-etched Lumia 900s will be delivered on June 1st; that’s this...
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Nokia Lumia 610 launches in the UK, starts on £15 per month contracts
Nokia’s latest Windows Phone addition might not stack up to the polycarbonate glory of its forebears, but at this price, it’s hard to complain that much. While the reduced RAM specification is proving...
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Microsoft’s Photosynth app lets (some) Windows Phone users in on the panorama...
Are you one of those folks who enjoys taking snaps of everything around you and own a Mango-flavored Windows Phone slab? Well, we’ve got some phenomenal news for you: Microsoft has placed its...
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Google lobs antitrust complaint against Microsoft, Nokia in EU, claims...
The gloves just came off at Google: the company has just filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and Nokia. Its gripe accuses the two Windows Phone partners of...
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ComScore: Android’s US share dips ever so slightly, iPhone slowly marching up
Here’s a minor surprise: Android slipping at all in US market share. Although it saw just a tiny drop of two tenths of a point from where it was in March, and still saw a gain over January, Google’s...
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Microsoft’s SmartGlass gets official: app brings AirPlay-esque streams to...
Microsoft may not be introducing a next-gen console at E3 this year, but it is teaching its venerable Xbox 360 some new tricks. SmartGlass brings AirPlay-style wireless technology to Xbox and Windows...
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Microsoft to offer Windows Phone Apollo ‘sneak peek’ on June 20th, we’ll be...
Microsoft is likely as eager to announce the upcoming version of Windows Phone — known as Apollo or Windows Phone 8 — as we are to hear about it. Fortunately, we expect the answers to our many...
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Foursquare teases a giant mobile app remake, mayors quiver in anticipation
Foursquare has been steadily adding to its mobile app since its check-in service took off. A major remake hasn’t been in the cards, however, until now. The company is teasing a major update this week...
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Windows Phone Marketplace surpasses 100,000 app submissions
Hitting the big six digits is no small feat for an app store, so it’s definitely worth celebrating. Taking just over five months to double its numbers, the Windows Phone Marketplace has now seen...
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Nokia Maps for Windows Phone makeover brings friends’ photos and reviews,...
Nokia Maps is a cornerstone of the Lumia line, so it’s more than a little vital that the Windows Phone app keep up with the smartphone pack. The just-posted 2.0 update catches up in a big way to...
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Google’s Brian McClendon: ‘committed’ to bringing all of Maps’ features to...
There was a Google event today, but you’d hardly know it based on the Q&A session. Question and question was hurled at Brian McClendon — Vice President of Engineering for Google Maps — surrounding...
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Samsung ChatON messaging app comes to Windows Phone, cross-platform party...
Continuing to (perhaps unintentionally) kick SMS messaging to the curb, Samsung’s taken another, admittedly smaller, chunk of the smartphone crowd, announcing its ChatON messaging app for Windows...
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IDC: Nokia moved just 2.2 million Lumias this winter, but stay tuned
Although we know that Nokia had a wince-inducing first quarter, the company was hush hush on how many of its Windows Phone-packing Lumias had shipped out. We still don’t have official word, but IDC...
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