Adam Z. Lein

Lots of Windows Phone Launch Events Starting Monday

On November 3, 2011 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Windows Phone

Katy Perry’s Windows Phone launch party last year was pretty cool, but this year Microsoft is going to be hosting quite a few more Windows Phone related events beginning next week in a number of different cities to help promote the new “Mango” 7.5 version of the operating system. First up, in New York City on November 7th beginning at 9:30 am and going through-out the day there will be a “unique entertainment experience” in …

Will the Next Windows Phone Support More Tile Sizes?

On November 1, 2011 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Windows Phone

Images removed at the request of MAQ Software Windows Phone 7.5 has just started pouring out to current devices, and we’ve only seen a few new devices released, but we’re already looking forward to the next version of Windows Phone after that. Here’s a few images of a new start screen design for East Asian versions of Windows Phone. They were created by a Microsoft User Experience Designer for the next version of Windows Phone. …

Navigon for iPhone vs. Navigon for Windows Phone

On October 31, 2011 By Adam Z. Lein In iPhone, Pocketnow

If you saw our video test drive of Navigon for Windows Phone you may have wondered how that compares to the iPhone version of Navigon. In the video below we decided to take them both for a test drive this time and see how they do. You’ll notice the iPhone version of Navigon has a much different design for the initial home screen, but it has a few more extremely useful features. For example, Navigon …

HTC Radar Benchmarks Show Significant Speed Increase

On October 31, 2011 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Windows Phone

In our review of the HTC Radar 4G we were a bit surprised by the speed of the device, given, what many would presume to be, low-end specifications. It only has a 1Ghz processor after all. It turns out the WP Bench benchmarking app has confirmed what we noticed and shows that the Radar 4G is significantly faster than all of last year’s Windows Phone models. On the other hand, it’s certainly not as fast …

T-Mobile HTC Radar 4G Review

On October 31, 2011 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Windows Phone

The HTC Radar 4G is the first new device available in the U.S. running Windows Phone 7.5. Sure, the upgrade has been available on existing devices for a while, but now we finally get to see some of the new enhancements and new hardware improvements. If you were to only go by the basic specifications list that accommodates the HTC Radar 4G, you might think it’s just a rehash of last year’s HTC Trophy and …

So Much for Nokia’s “Pure” Font

On October 26, 2011 By Adam Z. Lein In Pocketnow, Windows Phone

Back when we saw what we thought were going to be official press images of the Nokia Lumia 800, Long Zheng noticed the use of Nokia’s “Pure” font in the designs. However, now that the new Nokia Windows Phones have been announced, we see that they are still using the default Segoe font that Microsoft created for use in Windows Phone. This is probably a good thing since many of our readers really didn’t like …