The Nokia N8 has come a long way since its original release with Symbian^3. It has since seen an upgrade to Symbian Anna and now we have Symbian Belle which is a lot different than previous versions of Symbian. Actually it’s a lot like Android. Symbian Belle adds support for up to 6 home screens that you can pan through horizontally and the widgets that you can place on these home screens are no longer …
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Ice Cream Sandwich vs. Mango – Web Browser
Mangoes and Ice Cream Sandwiches are both delicious foods, but how do their web browsers compare? In this video we put Windows Phone Mango’s Internet Explorer up against Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich web browser. We use one of the first Ice Cream Sandwich Android phones available – the powerful Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and one of the newest Windows Phones – the Nokia Lumia 710. Both devices are connected to a WiFi network to give them …
Continue readingWill Windows Phone 8 use Windows 8’s Kernel?
Stephen Chapman of ZDnet has found a few clues that point towards the next next version of Windows Phone codenamed Apollo as possibly using the same core technologies as the full Windows 8 operating system. There are a couple of references in a few different ex-employee online resumes and HTC employee references that seem to indicate that it might be true. Today Microsoft revealed some details about how Windows 8 will work at their Build …
Continue readingWhat Might Windows Phone 8 Look Like?
Since we’ve started hearing some juicey details about Windows Phone 8, I’ve been wondering if the general user interface design might change at all. Windows Phone 7 already is a lot like what we’ve seen of the Windows 8 previews, and it still goes along nicely with the new Xbox 360 dashboard design, but I’m thinking there will be some enhancements for the next version. We can bet that the new “Metro” style live tiles …
Continue readingMango: Second, Major WP7 Update? Windows Phone 8 in 2012?
Mary-Jo Foley of ZDnet has dug up some rumors about a few new updates for Windows Phone 7. First of all, there are a couple rumors of either one or two updates coming in January and February. Whichever month an update comes in, we know the first one will at least include the system-wide copy & paste feature. The “Mango” update is going to be bigger than the first winter updates that we are expecting …
Continue readingMicrosoft Asks How You Would Market Windows Phone
Windows Phone has been getting great reviews from all the critics, but sales haven’t been so great. It would seem the problem is how Windows Phone is being marketed to the public, right? Last year the “phone to save you from your phone” commercials were a little confusing and didn’t really explain why you would want a Windows Phone. Sure they were entertaining and funny, but they didn’t really sell the product. We’ve seen many …
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