Windows Phone Archive

Carrier IQ: What To Know So Far, and How to Disable on iPhone

Posted on 12/01/2011 | 3 Comments
Over the last two days this whole Carrier IQ thing has taken over all mobile news feeds. The concern is that a ton of data is being sent to carriers informing them of what users are doing, where they are, etc. It's said that these things are even recording keystrokes.
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A Closer Look at Nokia’s Windows Phones: Lumia 800 and Lumia 710

Posted on 10/28/2011 | 1 Comment
Nokia recently announced two Windows Phone 7 devices. The Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. This marked an interesting change for Nokia as they were previously reluctant to leave an operating system that was their own.
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Pulse App Coming to the Windows Phone

Posted on 09/27/2011
The Pulse app service has been present on the iOS and Android, and is now making its way over to the Windows Phone. What Pulse attempts to do is to sync up to different news websites that you want to follow and have them feed into the App, creating tiles that allows you to see images of what is top of the list at those sites.
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Microsoft Now Asking Windows Phone Developers to Switch to Version 7.5

Posted on 09/21/2011
Now that both Russia and Japan are seeing different Windows Phone 7.5 models unroll in their markets, Microsoft wants developers to now focus on brining in apps developed for version 7.5 Mango as well as update the apps that were for version 7.0 so they will be up to date with this new system. The problem originally came with the division between the two versions where users on 7.0 would not be targeted by the newer apps and they would have to then bring in the Windows Phone Mango update to keep their apps fresh, essentially meaning that there would be two versions of the app at the Windows Phone Marketplace.
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iPhone Beats Out the Android in Usability Tests

Posted on 08/09/2011 | 1 Comment
In a new study, Harvard’s Human Factors in Design lab looked at the usability of different smart phones to see what ones favored best, and both Apple’s iPhone and Microsoft’s Windows phone beat out Android and the Blackberry in ease of use. This does not, however, put the iPhone on top as the Windows phone favored best in the trials.
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Corporate VP of Windows Phone Joe Belfiore Talks Mango

Posted on 05/27/2011
Windows Phone 7 demonstration video
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Windows Phone 7: 5 Things We Learned About Microsoft’s “Mango”

Posted on 05/25/2011 | 1 Comment
5 Things to know about Windows Phone 7 Mango
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What Does Skype Acquisition Mean for iOS Users?

Posted on 05/10/2011
What will Microsoft's purchase of Skype mean for iOS users?
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Microsoft: iPhone App To Windows Phone 7 App Convertor Tool

Posted on 05/02/2011 | 3 Comments
Microsoft has successfully developed a brand new tool which guarantees to help devs, specially iPhone app developers, who now can convert iPhone apps into supported apps for Windows Phone 7.
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HTC Arrive Review Mix

Posted on 04/26/2011 | 2 Comments
HTC Arrive Review Mix
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