Microsoft is investigating reports of Windows Phone 7 owners experiencing unexplained data usage on their devices. The number of affected users remains unclear. – Microsoft is investigating claims of a Windows Phone 7 bug
that devours users data, even when theyre not running apps or cruising the
Web.
As
reported via news channels like the BBC, some Windows Phone 7 users have
reported their phones sending relatively significant amounts of data per day at…
Mobile phone maker Ericsson reported mobile broadband subscriptions would hit one billion before the end of 2011. – Last year, mobile broadband subscriptions surpassed the half-billion mark globally, and mobile phone maker Ericsson is now estimating that this number will double before 2011 ends.
The greatest number of subscriptions, around 400 million, is expected to be concentrated in the Asia-Pacific, foll…
Microsoft executives at CES are suggesting Windows Phone 7′s upcoming updates will include better app performance, tweaks and copy-and-paste. – LAS
VEGAS Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 updates, due over
the course of the next few months, aim to make the company’s smartphone
software more appealing to consumers and competitive with rival platforms.
Windows
Phone 7 has been a focus at the Consumer Electronics Show here, with Microsoft CEO…
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 5 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to highlight products such as Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 on a variety of new laptops. However, he largely stayed away from commenting on Microsofts tablet initiatives likely to the surprise of some pundits who expected him to make a big announcement about Windows-powered tablets.
Nonetheless, Microsofts presence on the CES show floor is marked by a handful of tablets running Windows 7. Most of them are devices for the Asian market, and feature large 10- and 12-inch screens in contrast to the 7-inch Android tablets currently flooding the U.S. market. In addition, Microsoft has several laptops that leverage touch-screen capabilities. With regard to mobility, Windows Phone 7 also has a substantial presence here at the show, with large numbers of devices on display. With its unique user interface consolidated around a set of six subject-specific “Hubs,” Microsoft hopes its latest smartphone platform stands out enough from such rivals as the iPhone and Google Android to attract consumers and businesses. – …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 5 keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show to focus on Xbox 360′s hands-free Kinect controller, Windows Phone 7 devices and how the next version of Windows will support ARM chip architecture. ARM chip designs dominate much of the burgeoning mobile market, where Microsoft rivals such as Google and Apple have already made substantial inroads with their own lightweight operating systems. Ballmer also showed off Surface 2, the next version of Microsoft’s table-sized touch-screen tablet. As expected, Ballmer spent much of his speech pointing out what he termed Microsoft’s successes: 8 million Kinect sales in the device’s first 60 days, 5,500 apps in Windows Phone’s applications storefront and an upcoming line of Windows 7 laptops that incorporate technologies like touch screens. Although he offered no sales numbers for Windows Phone 7, he reiterated that Microsoft intends to "aggressively" push the smartphone platform in coming months, when it appears on Verizon and Sprint in addition to GSM-based networks such as AT&T. – …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 during his CES keynote, but Windows-powered tablets were a no-show. – LAS
VEGAS Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 5 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show here to
highlight the company’s forays into the consumer realm, including the Kinect
hands-free controller for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft’s
product line is the result of quot;big tech…
LG kicked off CES 2011 by showing off nine phones, two 4G USB modems, two Bluetooth headsets and a charging pad. Among the phones are its first with Windows Phone 7. – LG Electronics got rolling at 2011 Consumer Electronics
Show by introducing a haul of new devices, including nine phones,
Bluetooth headsets, a wireless charging pad and two USB modems the
companys first devices to work with 4G networks.
quot;In an ever-changing wireless industry, it is vi…
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 owners, like those with an Apple iPad or iPhone or Android and BlackBerry devices, now have their own Kindle app for reading e-books. – Amazon just made e-book reading a little more egalitarian, with the
introduction of Kindle for Windows Phone 7. The first major e-book app
for Microsofts new mobile OS, it enables owners of Windows Phone 7
smartphones to take advantage of Amazons Buy Once, Read Everywhere
Kindle applications.
…
Microsoft hopes its Windows Phone 7 smartphones will allow it to reclaim market share in a mobile space currently dominated by the likes of Google Android and the Apple iPhone. In order to accomplish that goal, the company has teamed with manufacturing partners to produce a series of smartphones whose large touch screens and minimal buttons are heavily reminiscent of the iPhone or Droid X. But how does one of those flagship Windows Phone 7 devices, the HTC HD7, compare to those bestselling rivals? Windows Phone 7 is largely free of glitches, despite lacking certain key features such as cut-and-paste (expected in January), but it still feels like a first-generation operating system in need of a few tweaks and add-ons. The hardware is handsomely constructed, with no glaring errors. In short, the HTC HD7 is a device that most people would be happy to own& and yet nothing about the smartphone stands out in a way that would necessarily drive someone to purchase it in place of a similar Apple or Android device. – …
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 on the HTC HD7 offers users a solid smartphone experience, but the platform may need something more to compete with the iPhone and Android. – Windows Phone 7: Not a disaster!
Sorry, lets try that one again.
Windows Phone 7: A solid start.
Better. In the months leading up to Windows Phone 7s launch, any number of pundits seemed more than
happy to opine that the chances of survival for the
platform, once released, were equivalent to th…
Not too long back, Microsoft announced no less than ten phones running its latest mobile OS- Windows Phone 7. Half of these were from HTC itself, showing that no love has been lost between these two companies. Dell, too, plans on going main stream in the mobile department with its Venue Pro (with the much more interesting codename lightning). But after the failure that was the Kin series and posts all around the blogosphere pinning very little hope on the OS, will Windows Phone 7 propel Microsoft back into the game like Windows 7, its desktop counterpart, did? Or will it end up becoming yet another Vista for MS?
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 can succeed in 2011 if it continues to add to its capabilities, according to an analyst. – Microsofts Windows Phone 7 can gain market-share throughout 2011 and beyond,
provided it continues to add capabilities and applications, according to a new
research note from IDC.
Much of that potential growth will rely on Microsofta expanding Windows
Phone 7s portfolio to CDMA-based (Code Divi…
Microsoft’s week included a Windows Phone 7 crack, 5,000 mobile apps in the Phone Marketplace, and readying for January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. – The last week of 2010 was a quiet one for Microsoft, as the company along
with many other tech stalwarts geared up for January’s Consumer Electronics
Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Rumors suggest that Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer will use his opening keynote at the show to reveal a line of Windows
tab…
Imagine Google as your phone carrier. What? You can’t? We can’t either. Heading into 2011, here are five reasons why Google won’t make that leap from search power to carrier. – CNNMoney.com Dec. 30 offered a compelling piece arguing that Google could
become a phone carrier that competes with Verizon, AT amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile
and others in the United States.
David Goldman argued that the search and Web services provider has
established the Android operating system as …
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace’s security is apparently vulnerable to being cracked, according to a proof-of-concept video drifting around the Web. – News that Windows Phone Marketplace can be cracked is
spreading across the blogosphere, after Windows
Phone Central posted a Dec. 29 proof-of-concept video illustrating what
some third-party developers have previously suggested.
“A ‘white hat developer has provided WPCentral with a
proof-of-con…
Apple, Nokia, RIM and 11 others have made good on a promise to collaborate on a universal phone charger, now headed to Europe in early 2011. – The European Commission announced that the
first universal mobile phone chargers should arrive in Europe during the first
months of 2011.
The chargers, which will charge via micro-USB slots
and be interoperable between brands, are result of a June 2009 agreement
made
by 14 leading mobile pho…
Besides taking picture on Windows Phone mobile device, you can also capture videos using it. Video recording functionality is very easy to use on Windows Phone mobile. To get started, press the camera button and switch to video mode to start recording video. After recording, you can view captures videos on the phone or transfer [...]
Just got new Windows phone and eager to take beatiful photos? You can easily click photos using your mobile device powered by Windows Phone 7. Look for the camera button to get going with taking pictures on your Windows Phone. Later, you can always browser collection of photos clicked by you and even either as wallpaper [...]
Reports of the death of the phone call are greatly exaggerated
WHILE the computing cloud expands ever more, the humble phone call is in terminal decline, thanks to text messaging and the mobile internet. So, at least, say commentators in Silicon Valley. Some have already penned obituaries. “The phone call is dead”, read a recent headline in TechCrunch, a blog and currently the central organ of the high-tech region. But is it really time to hang up?
There is no doubt that landline calls are past their prime. The time people spend talking on a fixed telephone has gone down in recent years in nearly all rich countries for which the International Telecommunication Union has data. Yet in most, this fall is more than offset by the increase in mobile calls, according to a recent report by Ofcom, the British telecoms regulator (see chart). …
