The AT&T Samsung Focus S is quite an upgrade over last year’s Windows Phones in the specs department. Its dimensions are 66.8 x 126 x 8.38mm, and weighs only 110g. That’s very thin and light! Its 32bit Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255T processor runs at 1400MHz. It’s got 15258MiB ROM as well and an amazing 4.3″ 480×800 Super AM-OLED Plus LCD screen. For GSM and 3G band support, it has GSM850, GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS850, UMTS1900, UMTS2100. …
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Tango: Windows Phone Video Chat in Action (Video)
The first video calling app is now available for Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices. You can find “Tango” in the Windows Phone Marketplace as a free download and it works on any Windows Phone 7.5 device. That’s right, it does not require a front-facing camera and you can use the rear camera for video sharing as well. The app supports notifications, so when you get an incoming call a small pop-up will appear at the …
Continue readingFusion Sentient Xbox LIVE Game for Windows Phone (Video)
Fusion Sentient is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace. We’ve seen this game before at New York Comic-Con and it’s got some unique features. First of all it can communicate with the Xbox 360 Arcade game called Fusion Genesis which is a completely different type of game, but the Sentient robots that you build up and use during the Windows Phone game can be used as extra weapons in Fusion Genesis. There’s also an …
Continue readingAT&T Samsung Focus S Unboxing (Video)
We just got a new Samsung Focus S for AT&T and here’s our unboxing video. The device has a usually orange AT&T branding on it and not too many special details about the phone on the back. Inside you get a quick-start guide right on top, a manual underneath the phone, a charger with USB port, a Micro-USB cable, and some headphones that look pretty nice. There’s also different size earbuds for the headphones so …
Continue readingWindows Phone Launch Event in New York City
As you may already know, yesterday Microsoft had a few big launch events for Windows Phone 7.5 in New York City. From about 9:30 am to 6 pm there was a 6 story tall Windows Phone in Herald Square. At the top it was showing Windows Phone related tweets as notification pop-ups and live tiles were rotating between different apps or whatnot through most of the morning. A quote from our Windows Phone 7.5 review …
Continue readingHands-On With Some 2nd Generation Windows Phones
We got the chance to handle a good number of the new Windows Phones that will be available world-wide this year at the Windows Phone launch events yesterday. Take a look at our video below to see them as we tour the hardware of each one. On hand were the Acer Allegro, HTC Titan, HTC Radar, Samsung Focus Flash, Samsung Focus S, LG’s Jil Sander Mobile, and the IS12T by Fujitsu Toshiba. A few of …
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