Category: Rumors

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MS To Announce MMO Poker With Xbox and WP7 Turn By Turn Play

Invites are out and on January 7, 2011 at CES in Vegas Microsoft is set to announce Full House Poker – an Xbox Live and Windows Phone 7 massively multi-player online game with turn by turn play which is expected to allow WP7 and Xbox users to play against each other regardless of device. Full [...]

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HTML and Other WP7 Rumors Related to Mango

Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet has received some more tips about the Windows Phone updates that we’re all waiting for. Namely, it sounds like the January, February updates will be minimal. They will likely involve copy and paste, some multi-tasking, more UI controls and customizations and other tweaks. Them comes Mango: I’m also hearing talk of [...]

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Sprint and Verizon Get Windows Phones In January

File this under rumor, but Neowin is reporting that both Verizon and Sprint will announce Windows Phones in January. Now Paul Thurrott already dropped a hint on VZ and now it’s spread to Sprint. Let’s tie this in to CES which starts January 6-9 so yeah, I’m going with January 7 (really, MS loves the [...]

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More WP7 Goodness Coming to AT&T? – Maybe HD7?

Pocketnow is reporting that HTC has submitted a WP7 handset for FCC approval suggesting that it a version of the HD7, suitable for use on AT&T. Read their speculative comments below:   HTC has submitted a Windows Phone 7 handset for FCC approval whose model number, label, and 3G band support suggest that it is [...]

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WSJ: Windows Phone Update Is Not Massive

All Things Digital (part of the Wall Street Journal) is reporting that the upcoming Windows Phone update will not be massive or an iPhone killer. It will add CDMA support and copy and paste, but they don’t indicate anything beside that. The reporter is Ina Fried who has had inside access to WP development in [...]

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Windows Phone Update To Be Massive

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this but let’s share some Tweets by Chris Walshie. He’s part of the team behind ChevronWP7 and that team has sources (in fact I’m still surprised we haven’t heard that Long Zheng works for MS yet after the time he spent on their campus recently):

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Apple iPad 2 to have Retina Display?

I have been Luke warm on whether or not to get the iPad. I got the apple iPhone 4 a few weeks ago and have been enjoying the experience short of missing my 4.3 inch screen from my HD2 horribly. Aside from that, it is a pretty decent device. So what about the iPad? I [...]

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US Windows Phone Launch: 40k Phones?

The Street is reporting that the US Windows Phone launch is reported to be 40,000 phone sales. This is despite a $100m+ campaign. So on it’s launch day it’s less than 1/5 of the average day for Android or Apple. They note that releasing a phone on a Monday doesn’t help anything (Friday or Saturday [...]

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Samsung Denies Nexus Two Rumors, Bloggers Rejoice

A handful of blogs insisted they had inside sources who knew for a fact that Samsung will be unveiling the Nexus Two next Monday. Gizmodo really fanned the flames reporting that a friend of theirs got to play with it and took a picture. Allegedly leaked specs included, essentially, a Galaxy S with a better [...]

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Rumor Update: Samsung Unveiling Nexus Two Nov 8th

According to Android and Me‘s sources which include "multiple, trusted sources familiar with the project who have shared the same story with me [and] wish to remain anonymous," in an already-announced New York City press conference scheduled for November 8th (sound familiar?) Samsung will unveil, among other things, the successor to the Nexus One, possibly [...]

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