Mobile

Windows Phone 8 – What they didn’t reveal at the Summit

Microsoft finally unveiled Windows Phone 8 at the Windows Phone Summit held on Wednesday, giving us a sneak peek at some of the platform changes, new Start menu, new business and developer features, as well as the announcement of Windows …

Nokia Maps, and the whole Nokia Location platform, including Nokia Drive, coming to all of Windows Phone 8 (not just Nokia)

GlobeIn a blog post today, Nokia expounded a bit on the announcement this morning that Nokia Maps will be coming to Windows Phone 8, announcing that Nokia Drive (the Nokia Location Services powered turn by turn navigation system) …

Windows Phone Summit: the quick summary

WP SummitToday in a 2 hour keynote, Microsoft spoke for the first time about Windows Phone 8, the next generation of Windows Phone Operating system, and revealed a number of platform improvements coming to new devices “this fall”.  While no specific …

Windows Phone 7.8 (not 8) coming to some existing phones

One of the big questions for current Windows Phone questions has been whether or not current Windows Phones will be able to gain the benefits of the new operating system.  The Verge came up with a definitive answer today, …

Windows Phone Summit set to begin

WP SummitIn early May, Microsoft sent out invitations to a “Developer Summit”, to be held in San Francisco on June 20-21.  Since then, the name has been changed to the “Windows Phone Summit”, and Microsoft is widely expected to begin talking …

Official Windows Phone website publishes “Tango” update features

Windows Phone TangoWith only 3 days to go until Windows Phone Summit, Microsoft is also almost ready to push out their “Tango” update for the Windows Phone OS, or better known as the CR3 (Commercial Release 3) with build 7.10.8773.98. On the …

Windows Phone Maps app traffic powered by Nokia now

Windows Phone Maps app traffic powered by Nokia now

A post on the Windows Phone blog today gives us a quick introduction to the updated maps traffic feature on Windows Phone. Thanks to the partnership between Bing and Nokia, which announced last month, now the Maps app has …

Windows Phone 8 running on Nokia VERTU prototype device shown, with integrated SkyDrive cloud storage

VertuFollowing yesterday’s leak of the first Windows Phone 8 screenshots, today a user on Chinese forum Ngacn.cc managed to leak several photos of an alleged Vertu device running Windows Phone 8. For those who doesn’t know, Vertu was a …

First screenshots of Windows Phone 8 leaked

Windows PhoneWith just one week to go until the Windows Phone Summit, to be held on June 20 in San Francisco, more details about the upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS, codenamed “Apollo”, are starting to leak out. Yesterday, we reported …

More Windows Phone 8 details leaked – Nokia 3D maps, Skype, Wallet, and more

Windows PhoneToday Apple announced their upcoming upgrade to their mobile operating system, iOS 6, during their annual WWDC event. With it comes several new features including 3D maps, turn by turn navigation, Facebook integration, Passbook, iCloud tabs, and more. However, whilst …