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 …
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Windows 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 …
Continue readingLots of Windows Phone Launch Events Starting Monday
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 …
Continue readingWill the Next Windows Phone Support More Tile Sizes?
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. …
Continue readingNavigon for iPhone vs. Navigon for Windows Phone
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 …
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