Posts Tagged ‘windows phone’
Windows Phone Based Nokia Lumia 601 Rumored
- Nokia Lumia 601
Several months ago Nokia’s first Windows Phone-based smartphones – the Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 were introduced at Nokia World in London. Later the new Nokia Lumia 900 was shown in an official video, and we thought it was the last phone from the line, but now a picture of a new Nokia device has leaked via PocketNow, and it looks like the rumored Lumia 601…
Unfortunately, not much is known about this Nokia Lumia 601 for now other than the fact it has an 8MP camera with flash (you can say this after looking at the pic) and runs Windows Phone Mango (just like all the other phones from the line). As for the other specs, there are rumors that it will most likely have a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset with 512MP of RAM. And, judging by the photo, the screen seems to be a 3.7-inch WVGA. Plus we can guess that the phone will have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and all the other connectivity features all modern smartphones in general and WP-based phones in particular have.
Of course, this Nokia Lumia 601 doesn’t seem to be a really powerful smartphone, and though its rumored features are way better than those of the older Nokia phones, they’re much more “modest” compared to phones like the HTC Sensation XE and XL, the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the others. But I can’t say it’s bad, no. After all, there are many people looking for good but cheap phones not equipped with the latest technology inventions, so the Nokia Lumia 601 will most likely be very popular among these people. The Nokia 800 (which is way more powerful than the 601) is offered by mobile operators for free with a two-year contract and about ?24 monthly, so we can guess that the Nokia Lumia 601 deals will be even more affordable.
So, summing up all the info above, I can say that if the Nokia Lumia 601 is real (don’t forget that there is a chance that it can turn out to be a fake), it’ll be a nice phone with not that interesting design, but equipped with rather good features. And if it’s cheap, too, it’ll surely find its buyers. So let’s wait and see if it gets official soon.
Galaxy S device with Windows Phone is coming?
Samsung Galaxy device powered by Windows Phone 7? The idea seems to be the one from Samsung, the company would have a prototype of the successor of Samsung Focus.
Codenamed “SGH-i917“, the Galaxy would be a Windows Phone thinner than the Galaxy S2 and could have 4.3 inch super AMOLED screen, 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, 1 GB of RAM and 16/32 GB memory for the ‘storage.
Obviously, the features are only hypotheses, but a Windows Phone based Galaxy S2 seems to be coming for sure, maybe this fall with the wave of smartphones with Mango.
Huawei will go with Windows Phone devices
Taiwan based Huawei company was not in the list of new partners that Microsoft announced during the presentation of the update Windows Phone 7 Mango, but it featured ZTE. ZTE and Huawei are major competitors and it seems that Huawei will also not miss the opportunity to join the competition in the market for smartphones with Windows Phone. However, the company will not be hurried to do so, as it plans to offer such devices until next year. However, the inclusion of ZTE means that soon we will see cheaper devices with Windows.
Tags: list, mango, Microsoft, new partners, Phone, Smartphones, Update, update windows, windows phone, ZTE
No Skype for Windows Phone 7
Citing a second-rate “user experience” compared to the iPhone and Android, Skype admits it has no immediate plans to release an app for Windows Phone 7.
Skype is working full steam ahead on an app for the iPad and the next-gen iPhone, but users of Windows Phone 7 will have to take a number and wait… and wait… and wait.
Skype’s Asia Pacific Vice-President Dan Neary says that Microsoft’s forthcoming smartphone OS is not a priority when it comes to mobile platforms.
“We try and focus not only where the need is but where the best experience is, and we feel that the best areas for us to develop are on the operating systems that we currently support – iPhone, Symbian, BlackBerry and now Android” Neary told APC during a press briefing in Sydney today. “We simply feel that those operating systems (have) a much better user experience”.
Windows Phone 7 – complete fail or not?
No file system access:
No file system access means
a) you can not use it as USB thumb drive
b) you can not share files with different computers
c) there is no file downloads from web and no useful ftp clients and similar apps because they are useless without fsa
d) you can not open files with different apps unless maybe you email them to yourself, which is complicated but is the common way to get files on iPhones and it will also be like that crap on Windows Phone 7
No SD cards
We don’t have to explain why that sucks. Terabyte SDXC cards are on the way and Windows Phone 7 buyers are stuck with built in 8-32GB. And you have no thumb drive mode and no SD card to take out and load files on it.
No copy and paste
No, you are not dreaming to live in 2007. It really is 2010 and Windows Phone 7 really has no copy&paste. Is this ridiculous or what?
Tags: access, drive mode, file, iphones, Phone, Read, sd cards, System, thumb drive, Windows, windows phone, Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 theme for WM6.5.x and Titanium
A theme inspired by the new Windows Phone 7 for Windows Mobile 6.5.x and Titanium. The goal is to create a nice clean looking theme with a WP7 feel to it. At first it will be (W)VGA compatible. This is a work in progress!
HTC HD Mini for UK
It’s the first Windows Phone to sport HVGA 480?320 resolution (which makes us wonder how third party apps will work on it). It’s also HTC’s first Windows Mobile 6.5.3 device.
The HD Mini is due to ship in about a week (April 7 to be exact). The price is ?275, or around $420. If you’re in the US, you can still use the HD Mini, but you won’t get 3G on any carrier.
Windows Phone 7 Series theme
Windows Phone 7 Series Theme for all Windows Mobile devices, this is a theme for the new and fast ThrottleLauncher 1.0 final version.
Features:
- Scrollable home page
- Animated real contacts on homepage
- Animated pictures tile with differents thumbs from selected folder
- Animated Me tile
- You can choose your own photo for the animation
- Animated contacts name for People page
- People page
- Games page
- You can choose a xbox live Avatar
- Six colors for the tiles(Blue,Orange,Red,Green,DarkBlue,Yellow)
- You can use original wm taskbar
- Original Windows Phone 7 footer
- Battery indicator(Thxs to HDOwner for the graphics)
- Little clock
- You can add your favorites apps on home page
ZuneHD theme for Windows Mobile 6.5
Feel the new ZuneHD / Windows Phone 7 look on your Windows Mobile 6.5.x powered phone with this great full theme.
First Windows Phone 7 Series device is from LG
The Engadget Show Live is currently streaming and Aaron Woodman from Microsoft has just shown off the first Windows Phone 7 Series from LG.
Tags: Aaron Woodman, Engadget, Live, Microsoft, Read, Show, Windows, windows phone, Windows Phone 7 Series, woodman
One of 2 main designers of Windows Phone 7 Series is a secret iPhone user
He doesn’t get dirty with Windows Mobile, he is using iPhone. Why should you buy Windows Phone if he isn’t even using such stuff? (and we mean: in private, not that whole show for the public)
Recently, after announcement of Windows Phone 7 Series, he has left the closet, i.e. stepped into the limelight and created even special public twitter account for spreading positive propaganda about Windows Phone 7 Series… but his private Twitter account reveals: he is a secret iPhone user.
Whom we are talking about? No, it is not Joe Belfiore – the main honcho of Windows Phone 7 Series, it’s Charlie Kindel – the guy responsible for software development thingies (tools, APIs, etc?) in Windows Phone 7 Series.
See for yourself: his private secret Twitter account, where you can see “iPhone: …, …” in his account proving that he’s an iPhone user. Note: we have more proof than just Twitter that he is using iPhone secretly but we are not revealing these proofs on purpose.
Shame on you, Charlie Kindel! Maybe instead of using iPhone you could bring native software development to Windows Phone 7 Series, instead of pushing on developers .NET tech (like XNA and Silverlight) that doesn’t provide protection of intellectual property (i.e. can be decoded easily with free tool even by preschoolers)?
Tags: Charlie Kindel, iphone, Joe, native software, Phone, Series, silverlight, twitter, Windows, windows phone, xna
