It’s the 9th inning and there are two outs. Your team is down two runs and there are runners at first and second base. You step up to the plate, your head is spinning, your nerves on volcanic fire! You practiced some. Got just a few practice swings in before going to the plate. You … Read more
Yesterday, May 2nd, saw a new video in the “Building ‘Windows 8’” series posted to MSUserCommunity’s feed on YouTube.
Yesterday’s Pocketnow’s Evan Blass posted on the apparent confirmation of the much anticipated Samsung Galaxy SIII coming to Verizon with a dual core CPU Snapdragon S4 chip instead of the global quad core CPU Exynos chip. If true its not a major letdown at all for Android users. You can’t exactly miss something you never … Read more
It’s still too early to make any definitive statements yet, but perhaps I may be wrong about Nokia potentially turning their fortunes around. Following S&P’s and Moody’s queue, Fitch Ratings recently downgraded Nokia’s rating, but they went one step further and pushed them down to ‘junk’ status. Following the recent recommendations, Nokia’s Q1 financial report … Read more
For those of you who wanted to get their hands on a Windows Phone and chose to forego the various options of other carriers for the reliability of Verizon, you were stuck with the HTC Trophy. While the Trophy is a solid phone, it’s certainly not the cream of the crop, and anyone who wished … Read more
Most of Windows Phone lovers who go around tech blogs know Paul Thurrott and his WindowsITPro, WinSuperSite sites. He is one of the early adopters of Windows Phone and spreading word about Windows Phone and its developments on his sites Supersite for Windows and Windows IT Pro. On 20th April he blogged that his Microsoft … Read more
Please don’t look at the picture and think Verizon is releasing white Lumia 900. If you think that, you get disappointed and you are “reading it wrong”. I am not saying Verizon will not release one nor Verizon is releasing one. And I really don’t know whether Verizon would release Windows Phone in near future … Read more
So we’ve been hearing rumors of Win8 handsets coming out at the end of the year for a little while. The latest is unwiredview.com reports that Taiwanese site ePrice.com.tw reports (yeah, that’s a lot of reports there…) Samsung is confirming a Win8 (“Apollo”) handset in October. This makes some sense to me. That’s about the … Read more
As many of you already know, Windows Phone 8 has been the Apollo update that we all have been hearing about. Tango, which is meant usher in lower spec’d devices and allow Window Phone to compete on budget level of smart phones with Android will be released shortly. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet who has … Read more
According to Engadget, a VP from Nokia is talking about the release of Windows Phone 8 (aka Apollo). Michael Halbherr, Executive VP for Location and Commerce, told us that it’ll launch in mid-2012 and be a "very different game" to Mango — hinting that Apollo actually refers to Windows Phone 8 rather than any mere … Read more