There has been a ton of hoopla over Windows Phone 8, enough to send WinPho 7 users' feelings right into the dumper. "Why should we be punished for jumping in early?", they ask. "Microsoft, why hast thou forsaken us?" Sure, now that its lusciously beautiful (but app-hobbled) mobile successor has hit the market and a new update is even due to come out for it, users of younger sibling WP7...
Nokia announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2012 on Thursday morning, and they don't make for pleasant reading. The Finnish firm revealed a $754 million (€576 million) operating loss on $9.49 billion (€7.239 billion) in net sales, with just 2.9 million Lumia devices sold during the three-month period. That's a 27.5% decrease in sales over the last quarter, when 4...
Nokia announced on Monday that it will be teaming up with AT&T, Microsoft and Seton Hall University provide all incoming freshmen with Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phones. This grand gesture is a part of Seton Hall's Mobile Computing Initiative, which has been providing its students and faculty with mobile technology since 1997. "Nokia has a long history of innovation and their...
In an effort to reduce the amount of spam in the Windows Phone Marketplace, Microsoft is making some changes to its app developer guidelines. Todd Brix, Senior Director of the Marketplace recently took to the Windows Team Blog to address developers about the application policies for Windows Phone Marketplace. He focused on on four key areas and hopes these changes will bring about an...
For the past few months I’ve been using Windows Phone devices on a daily basis. This marks a switch from my years-long stint as a faithful iPhone user. While my work dictates that I try other smartphones on a regular basis, and I’m always on the lookout for an even better phone to use, nothing has appealed to me more than iPhone over the past several years. Until Windows Phone 7.5...
Not so long ago I could be found singing a sad song about the newfound trend towards enormous cell phone screens. "Why a 4.3-inch display? How could that make a better day?" I'd croon. "A 4.5-inch screen? That's just crazy, you know what I mean?" I'd harmonize. I couldn't for the life of me understand why anyone in their right mind would want such an obscenely large phone! And then the...
The Latest and Greatest and Doomed to 3rd Place Another day, another pocket-altering mobile platform that’s more likely to wither on the vine than ever see its true potential. No, Meg Whitman, I’m not talking to you (cf, Carly Simon to James Taylor). webOS‘ time has come and gone; Windows Phone 7 is the new underdog darling in town. What’s even more weird to me than calling a Microsoft...
Expectations were always high for Nokia’s next round of handsets. Ever since the company partnered with Microsoft, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop promised great things were ahead for the Finnish-based company, and we enthusiastically agreed in our early review. Unfortunately, not everyone is as optimistic about the company’s future. According to the New York Times, James Faucette, an analyst...
If you’re among the WinPho fans eagerly anticipating Sea Ray, Nokia‘s upcoming Windows Phone 7 device, take heart — according to comments by Conor Pierce, GM for the mobile device maker in the UK and Ireland, the smartphone could be well worth the wait. It’s “absolutely stunning,” gushes Pierce, speaking to Pocket-lint in an exclusive interview. He claims that those two words were the...
Do you feel as though no week goes by without a new handset hitting the market? How do you keep up with the latest and greatest? Well, thankfully, our top 5 phones roundups are here to help. We’ve already brought you the top 5 phones on O2 and Vodafone, and this week we’re going to take a look at what we believe are the best phones on Orange right now. #1. Samsung Galaxy S II Samsung...