Mobile

AT&T starts selling WP7-Certified microSD cards, phones to get NoDo April 19th with unique features

WP7 Certified microSDWhen the first batch of Windows Phone 7 devices first came out, attention was paid to the availability of the microSD card slot in several phones, particularly the Samsung Focus. Unfortunately, while Samsung Focus supports microSD card expansion, several caveats …

Windows Phone “Mango” to bring Private and Beta marketplace distribution options

After all the excitements from the MIX11 keynote yesterday on the upcoming Windows Phone "Mango" update, there is another piece of information coming out from one of the MIX11 Windows Phone sessions. MobilityDigest.com posted a slide from the session …

MIX 2011: Everything we know about the Windows Phone “Mango” update

So it’s been a day of great announcements at MIX 2011 today. If you’ve missed the Day 2 keynote this morning, it is now available on the MIX 2011 website, or you can also check out our liveblog for …

Messenger by Miyowa: it’s not official (but what is?)

This week we posted on Messenger by Miyowa for Android Market, and our source, Clubic.com, referred to the new app as the “first officially-endorsed Windows Live Messenger client” released for Android.  Since then, in comments, on Twitter, and in …

Miyowa to bring “official” Windows Live Messenger app onto Android Market

According to reports from French website Clubic.com, it appears that Microsoft is set to launch its first officially-endorsed Windows Live Messenger client onto the Android Market next Monday April 11th. Interestingly, unlike its iOS counterpart, this app is …

Windows Phone owners: “keep waiting” says Microsoft, users unhappy

homebrewAnother blog post on the Windows Phone blog, another deluge of unhappy responses.  Eric Hautala posted yesterday, imploring Windows Phone users not to resort to “home brew” solutions, and to keep waiting until your phone is officially updated.  …

Windows Phone Support Tool helps support early NoDo updates

In order to help out Windows Phone users that had problems with the early NoDo updates, perhaps even bricking their phones, last week Microsoft released a Windows Phone Support Tool (rev 2.4), which aimed to fix problems that prevent Windows …

Microsoft accuses Google for blocking Windows Phone 7 and Bing access to YouTube metadata

No YouTubeFor all Windows Phone 7 users out there who had installed the official "YouTube" app from the marketplace, you’d immediately notice it’s lackluster functionality compared to its counterpart in iOS and Android. In fact, all it does is launches the …

Windows Phone Mobile Studio – where Windows Phone Live meets KIN Studio?

We told you about this before, where Seattle Times reports that Aaron Woodman, Director for Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft, indicated that KIN Studio-like features may make its way to Windows Phone Live. Today Mary Jo Foley posted information …

IDC: Windows Phone will be #2 platform by 2015

Apparently the recent snafus with the NoDo update haven’t soured IDC on the platform, as the internet research firm released a report this morning predicting that Windows Phone, with a projected 67% year-over-year growth rate, will eclipse Apple’s iPhone to …