It's all go right now in the world of Windows Phone and Xbox 360, and Microsoft's announcements just keep on coming.
Samsung's recently released AllShare DLNA app offers Windows Phone owners of the Sammy persuasion the ability to share all kinds of media over a WiFi network to any DLNA-compatible TV or set-top box. The problem though, is that when attempting to run the app on certain Samsung devices, users were met with an error, and as a result were unable to take advantage of what AllShare has to offer. The popular belief is that Samsung doesn't want owners of certain handsets to have access to AllShare, though the reasoning is unclear. With that in mind, it's possible that users could experience some off behavior on certain handsets, but we've not seen any reports either for, or against that theory just yet.
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango has started to roll out for everyone as we speak, but there’s one problem: You have to wait for a considerable period of time before the said update hits your Windows Phone powered handset. How about we turn the tables and hook you up with Mango right now? Complete instructions after the break.
Only a few days have passed since Microsoft's Eric Hautala blogged regarding news of Mango, the latest update to the company's Windows Mobile operating system.
Microsoft has finally laid the rumors and speculation to rest in a blog post, which states that its Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) update will be dropping within the next couple of weeks.
Popular cross-platform instant messaging application WhatsApp is now available for download from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, Redmond Pie has learned.
Rumors of WhatsApp, which is a popular cross-messaging app for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian stirred up some news just a day or two ago that it would be ported to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform, but now a couple of screenies have emerged showing WhatsApp through Windows Phone’s Metro lens.
It's almost a fact of life that no product is complete. one way or the other. Despite some gizmos leading the market whilst others fail miserably, there are still features both the hardware and within the operating system that we sometimes wish were interchangeable.
Two couple of months ago, Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed 'Mango', had been finalized, yet no devices running earlier versions of the system have officially obtained 'Mango'. Thankfully, official HTC ROMs have been leaked and made their way onto the Internet, enabling users of the HTC HD7 to run 'Mango' right now, one day after a similar ROM file was leaked for the HTC 7 Mozart.
Back in July, it became known that Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed 'Mango', had been finalized. Shortly after, the factory version of Mango leaked into the wild, yet it included none of the customizations provided by device makers, such as HTC. If you own an HTC 7 Mozart and have been desperately waiting for Mango, you might be happy to know that a customized Mango firmware has unexpectedly been leaked into the wild, tailored specifically for the HTC 7 Mozart.
