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We're live in Las Vegas for CES and AT&T's Developer Summit at the Palms Casino Resort. We're expecting a smattering of smartphones and tablets, both Android and Windows Phone. So we're going all Mobile Nations up on this one with help from our friends at Android Central. Hit up the liveblog after the break for all the announcements! <a data-cke-saved-...
T'was just a few days ago that our pals at PreCentral reported that Richard Kerris, beloved VP of Worldwide Developer Relations for webOS, was leaving the company after just nine months to "pursue an opportunity outside of the company." Looks like we now know where "outside" is. Welcome to Nokia, Mr. Kerris. It had been rumored that Kerris might be headed to Windows Phone's new best...
Where the Nokia Lumia 800 goes off the beaten path, the Lumia 710 takes things to a more familiar place. Featuring a more traditional unibody design -- albeit one with interchangeable battery covers -- the Lumia 710 is geared toward the more social (read: younger) crowd, and it's available in black or white, with either black, white, cyan, fuchsia or yellow covers. But just because the...
Tell us you every thought you'd see something like this with Windows Phone, and we'll eat your old WinMo device. Nokia today in London at Nokia World (we're all up in that, by the way) announced the Lumia 800. To say it's visually stunning is probably the understatement of the year. Let's flesh it out: Single-piece body. 3.7-inch AMOLED display at 800x480 resolution, with the glass...
Wouldn't be a Windows Phone update without Joe Belfiore checking in, right? He's following up on a (slightly controversial) demo he did at the MIX conference earlier this year -- the infamous speed reading demo that shoes the speed of IE9 on Windows Phone. Plus, Joe walks us through the new features of Mango. Maybe not all 500 of them, but the ones you're going to worry about. Search,...
This just in, folks. The Mango update will be free. Repeat: It won't cost you a dime. Coming this fall. No exact date -- when carriers are involved (and make no mistake, they will be) it's tough to nail these things down. But Microsoft's said they'll let us konw where there's more to know. But the important parts: Free update. This fall. Mango. Free. Update. This fall.
Can't have a major OS update without developer tools, right? And to that end, Microsoft has announced that the beta release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools that work with Mango will be available at some point today. The big strokes, according to Microsoft: Background processing New profiler and emulator for testing Use of Silverlight + XNA together Silverlight 4 IE9 web browser...
Words not your thing? Wanna see the Mango update in action? Microsoft's posted the promo video for its latest Windows Phone update, and damned it doesn't look as sweet as the fruit for which it's named. Enough talking. More watching. Source: Microsoft
Whoopsie. Looks like somebody forgot about time zones as Microsoft's Romanian site outded the Mango press release before the U.S. event this morning. All and all, not too much there we didn't expect -- and there's zero mention of new hardware. Just more of the "500 new features" -- and you know the vast majority of them won't be consumer-facing. Good news for developers, though. Settle...
Just a reminder, folks that to celebrate 1 million downloads of their SwiftKey keyboard app, TouchType is giving away a tablet each to THREE lucky winners! Which tablets? Whichever the winner chooses so long as they're available for purchase for up to $800 where he or she lives. iPad 2, PlayBook, Xoom, Galaxy Tab are all on the table. How do you enter? TouchType has put together a small...
After a couple of days worth of teasing, the HTC Arrive -- aka the HTC 7 Pro -- has, erm, arrived on Sprint! It'll officially go on sale March 20 for $199.99 (after two-year contract and $100 rebate). And that's not a bad price for the tilting, sliding phone. And best of all, it'll have the cut-and-paste update on board when you pull it out of the box. Can't beat that. Other features of...
Day 1 of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is a wrap! Listen in to this cross-platform podcast as we discuss the Windows Phone 7 news, LG's Optimus 3D and Optimus Pad, some Acer hardware and more! Download it directly with this link Listen to it here with the flash player above. Windows Phone - One year later New features heading to Windows Phone 7: Multi-tasking, IE9, Skydrive...
Mal and Phil are live in New York for the launch of Windows Phone 7, a slew of new handsets, and they're joined by Matt Miller of ZDNet and author of Windows Phone 7 Companion. Listen in! Download it directly with this link Subscribe on your Zune Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe directly to the Podcast feed with your favorite Podcatcher here Listen to it here with the flash player above...
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The HTC HD7 on T-Mobile marks the largest of the new Windows Phone 7 devices -- and it's quickly grabbed a spot in our top five devices launched today. Let's start with the particulars: 4.3-inch LCD touchscreen. Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor at 1GHz Wifi: 802.11 b/g/n GPS (and Telenav) Quad-band GSM/AWS 3G Dimensions: 4.8 inches by 2.7 inches by 0.44 inches Multimedia kickstand (that...
It was a big day, to say the least for Microsoft. And the nine Windows Phone 7, erm, phones dropped on us here in the United States were just the start. Here's a rundown of every device released worldwide: In North America: AT&T: HTC Surround, United States; Samsung Focus, United States; LG Quantum, United States T-Mobile USA: HTC HD7, United States; Dell Venue Pro, United States...
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Here we go, folks, with the first hands-on from the craziest phone of AT&T's initial Windows Phone 7 launch -- the HTC Surround. Those are dual Dolby-capable speakers you see there, flanked by a 3.8-inch touchscreen. It's tough to get a gauge on how the speakers actually sound when you're in a big space with a few hundred people, so we're going to have to take their words for it at...
We're just a couple of hours away from the official launch of Windows Phone 7 -- and you will be joining us for the liveblog -- but that doesn't mean there's not already a bit of news about. First up is the Samsung Omnia 7, which broke its cover on a Russian Sammy site before pulling its head back its shell. We've seen it before, but there it is, folks, in its officially rendered glory...
We're live from the Greatest City in the World (that'd be New York City, folks) for the launch of Windows Phone 7. To say it's been a long time coming is quite the understatement. So join Phil Nickinson and Daniel Rubino (aka Malatesta) after the break, as the bring you the happenings as they, erm happen. The program starts at 9:30 a.m. EDT/6:30 a.m. PDT. Windows Phone 7 launch
Mal and Phil prepare for next week's launch of Windows Phone 7. Listen in! Download it directly with this link Subscribe on your Zune Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe directly to the Podcast feed with your favorite Podcatcher here Listen to it here with the flash player above. Top o' the newsAT&T, Steve Ballmer at NYC Open House for Windows Phone 7--we'll be...
We're back with the spread of Zune internationally, the launch of Windows Phone 7 is nearly upon us, and a wee bit of Star Wars chat. Join us! Download it directly with this link Subscribe on your Zune Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe directly to the Podcast feed with your favorite Podcatcher here Listen to it here with the flash player above. Top o' the WP7 news...
