The Redmond Giant is celebrating today. Microsoft’s Windows Phone has managed to overtake iOS’s place in the largest market in the world. The Chinese smartphone market is the largest mobile market in the world. The iPhone has managed to keep a 6% of that market in the last few months. Windows Phone was introduced recently… [Click for More]
It is not quite a full week into the fall and Microsoft delivered on its promise of releasing the Windows Phone OS 7.5 update. The “where’s my phone update” page hosted by the Redmond giant is reporting that all US carriers (except Sprint) are scheduling the update to all their existing Windows Phone 7 smartphones. [Click for More]
Microsoft will make by the end of this year well over $1.3 billion from Android devices. Last week we learned from the Web that Microsoft is getting paid by Android smartphone OEMs a licensing fee in order to meet patent and copyright laws. This is no news, out of curiosity I just did the exercise [Click for More]
I was trying to confirm a story from a few days ago where Windows Phone 7 was projected to become #2 in market share (click [HERE] for more details on that) when I came across a confirmation that Verizon will be giving away free iPhones throughout the month of April in a desperate move to [Click for More]
I just came across this bit of information about the update. There is an article in the Windows Phone website [here] where all these details are being listed. The article goes on to talk about the "Update". Please note that the target URL for the post shows "january-update.aspx" which could be an indicator of the [Click for More]
Steve Ballmer was this year’s Keynote Speaker for CES. In his opening conference he covered pretty much the whole set of products that the company has for consumers. From Xbox and Kinect to Windows; from Windows Phone 7 and small screens to Windows Surface 2.0 and large screens but with a much more compact architecture. [Click for More]
As reported earlier, the first Windows Phone 7 update is set to be massive. Some users of test devices are reporting that they have already received an update that contains copy-paste feature. Test devices are only intended for developers that needed them in order to have apps ready for launch day. These devices were only [Click for More]
Here’s an interesting question: How do you send a contact stored in your Windows Phone’s contact list over text message? We’ll let’s see what you are allowed to do in Windows Phone 7’s Metro UI: Go to Messaging Select a prior conversation or select someone’s name or even type someone’s mobile phone number. Start typing [Click for More]