Unboxing the Nokia Lumia 800 and holding that device in your hand for the first time is quite an experience. The packaging is much more unique than the glossy cheap orange boxes from AT&T or shoe-box like boxes from T-Mobile that we’ve seen a lot of lately. Though I’ve held the Lumia 800 before, taking a fresh one out of the box and holding that smooth single-piece of carbonate in your hand is extremely impressive. …
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AT&T Samsung Focus S Software Tour (Video)
The Samsung Focus S is running Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 7.5 operating system. If you haven’t already, be sure to check our our Windows Phone 7.5 review for all of the details and new features that it brings. Of course, Samsung has done some customizations and AT&T has bundled a few AT&T branded apps as well, so that’s what we’re going to look at in the below video. You’ll also see what kind of customizations …
Continue readingHTC Watch Now Functional on Windows Phone
If you recently got yourself a new HTC Radar 4G or HTC Titan running Windows Phone 7.5 you may have noticed the practically useless HTC Watch application that was bundled with those devices. It only had one screen with a few movie trailers that you could watch along with an “upgrade” button that didn’t do anything. Today that app has been updated and we’re happy to say that it is now useful for something. HTC …
Continue readingAT&T Samsung Focus S Hardware Tour (Video)
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. …
Continue readingTango: 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 …
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