There’s nothing that Microsoft loves more than praising its products and this happened on the occasion of a recent demonstration, showing the power of the Mango update on WP7 and Internet Explorer 9 Mobile. The latter was compared to the iPhone 4 browser and the one on the Nexus S, as shown below. This is a HTML5 mobile browser war, that had...
Microsoft could be joining the gang of companies pushing NFC technology to its platform. A recent rumor is claiming that the software giant could implement NFC support on Windows Phone 7 through a future update. Google is also supposed to team up with MasterCard and Citigroup for an NFC initiative, so this doesn’t surprise us at all. The info...
It seems rumors were right about Microsoft releasing the first major Windows Phone 7 software update towards the end of March 2011. It has started the rollout a couple of hours ago and the NoDo update is coming to some phone models, especially unbranded ones. You should start looking for an update notification right about now and also check out the...
Sometimes it’s good to be a Microsoft employee and one of these times is when you get special prices for various devices. This is also the case of the HTC 7 Trophy, that is available for free on Verizon contract. There was a similar offer last year, but this one is even more appealing. Microsoft employees will get the $199 smartphone free and...
It seems ZTE had Windows Phone 7-related plans as well, even before Nokia joined the Microsoft bunch of partners. The info comes from ZTE official Wu Sa (picture below), the head of the UK branch of the company. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal he mentions that because of disagreements with Microsoft, the project failed to deliver. It appears...
Yesterday we detailed the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft, quoting the Finnish company’s CEO, Stephen Elop and today we learn that some of the future Windows Phone 7 units with Nokia branding might get some special features. Turns out that the handsets, that will debut in 2012 if everything is OK, will get some extra add-ons, not available...
During this week’s SXSW event we had a chance to catch a glimpse of what the future of the Windows Phone 7 platform will look like. First of all, one of the updates to come will bring Internet Explorer 9 Mobile to the OS, Twitter integration in the People hub, copy/paste and much, much more. Let’s see what IE9 Mobile is all about! As shown...
Microsoft was pretty quiet on the volume of its Windows Phone 7 sales, but now it has come out with some info, revealing that it has sold around 877,000 devices in February alone. This makes up a total of 3.38 million units sold in the 3 months since the OS was launched, which is pretty impressive, to be honest. We are dealing with a company coming...
A recent document filed by Nokia this week reveals the company’s plans, that include converting 200 million Symbian users to the Windows Phone platform. This transition will take quite a while, with 2013 being mentioned as the deadline. With Nokia in standby for two years, anything can happen, like Android becoming the dominant platform till 2013,...
Reuters informs us that Stephen Elop is to be paid $6 million for his transfer from Microsoft straight to the helm of Nokia. A corporate filing is testimony to this huge payment, that’s meant to replace his lost salaries as part of MS in the official position he had. The present Nokia CEO was paid $3.18 million last October and will be paid a...
