Just like iOS; Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform is a well monitored and closed system. All apps that are submitted for Marketplace goes through a strict screening process. If an app is found to be violating guidelines set by Microsoft, then well, it is rejected and sent back to the drawing board.
With the Symbian OS having been swiftly eclipsed in the battle of the mobile operating systems, Finnish outfit Nokia is trying to reinvent itself via Microsoft's Windows Phone interface.
The phone all Windows Phone enthusiasts and die-hard Nokia fans were waiting for has finally arrived! Nokia has just announced two new Windows Phone-powered handsets: the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. You can read about both phones’ features, pricing and availability after the jump!
We might not have to wait much longer to see the fruits of the new relationship between Nokia and Microsoft, if reports are to be believed, with Nokia set to announce two new Windows Phone 7.x handsets at Nokia World.
iOS users take screenshots for granted. The feature, as far I can remember, was included in iOS 1.0 (back then known as iPhone OS) and allowed users to capture whatever was going on on their screen. These screenshots could then be used for a variety of purposes, one of the most popular uses being for reviewing apps on blogs. Google’s Android OS will get this feature with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich when it releases next month while Windows Phone 7 users have to resort to taking photographs of their screens with a separate camera.
Hello there, everyone! It’s time to do another post in our series of comparison posts in which, well, we compare stuff. In this comparison post, ‘stuff’ is the three major mobile operating systems - iOS 5, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows Phone 7.5 Mango - and it is their feature-list which is compared.
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.
Microsoft has shown off the deep integration between Windows Phone 7.5 and its Xbox Kinect once more, this time at the recent HTC Radar launch in Hong Kong.
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.
Since the announcement and subsequent commencement of Microsoft's BUILD Keynote conference, the Redmond-based company has been in the news on an hourly basis. The Windows 8 demonstrations have gone down a real treat, backed-up with by the fact that half a million users flocked to download early Alpha previews of the company's latest dose of OS innovation.
