Mobile

Huge wave of official apps arrives at Windows Phone Marketplace; reaches 25,000 apps

On July 1, 2011, the Windows Phone Marketplace has reached an important milestone – reaching 25,000 apps in total. While we’ve seen quite a bit of "spam apps" in the marketplace (despite introducing a 20-app limit to bulk app publishing

HTC Eternity with front facing camera coming for Windows Phone Mango

So after the Acer W4 and the Nokia Sea Ray, details about another device lined up for Windows Phone "Mango" release later this is has been leaked – the HTC Eternity. German website HTCInside leaked the details and …

Facebook on Windows Phone: now with Push Notifications

There’s been quite a flurry of activity in Windows Phone land in the past few days, beginning with the long awaited arrival of Angry Birds, the release of a Mango build for developers’ devices, lots more new apps (we’ll have …

Mango is here (for developers)

Yesterday it was Angry Birds available a day early (well, after being months late), and today, developers enrolled via the Windows Phone App Hub (after paying $99) or DreamSpark members (free for students) can get “Mango” on their Windows Phones, …

Round 2: Windows Phone “Mango” beta to be available on App Hub June 30

Last week rumours were floating around that Microsoft was to make the Mango beta release available to all Windows Phone developers via the App Hub. However, Brandon Watson, Director of Windows Phone development, was quick to debunk this rumour

Custom Ringtone support in Windows Phone “Mango”

Microsoft first revealed custom ringtone support will be coming to Windows Phone "Mango" during the MIX11 conference in April. However as demo of the custom ringtone support was very brief (lasting only a few seconds) and the conference was …

Angry Birds (finally) available for Windows Phone: get it now

Officially, the long awaited (and long overdue) Birds vs. Pigs game from Rovio is now available on the Windows Phone platform.  You can download it, using the Zune software, from here.

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Angry Birds, the immensely popular and deceptively simple …

Windows Phone codenamed “Tango” coming after Mango?

Windows Phone TangoA few days ago reports came out from Taiwanese news agency ChinaTimes.com (English version) that Ray Chen, President & CEO of Compal Communications, announced that they have signed a licensing deal with Microsoft as the first ODM (Original …

Windows Phone “Mango” ROM reveals more juicy details

While we know that the Windows Phone "Mango" beta is not far from us (at least for developers), it appears that a copy of the dumped ROM has been leaked to the hands of WPSauce. According to WPSauce (via WMPU

First Nokia Windows Phone handset revealed by Stephen Elop

After the several rumors coming out about Nokia Windows Phones recently, it appears the first device picture of the Nokia Windows Phone has been leaked to the web. Hungarian website Technet.hu recently posted a few pictures showing what the new …