If you’re on the east coast of the U.S.A. this weekend, you probably know about Hurricane Irene. There’s a lot of hype on the news about this storm as it’s about the size of Europe and aimed straight for New York City and New England. While many should be concerned about their lives, water supply, and electricity, T-Mobile is working to make sure your mobile phones have reception in case you need them. Throughout New …
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HTC Elegant Windows Phone Concept Design
Before you start getting excited about buying a device like this, these are just concept designs from freelance industrial designer, Kevin Zhou. These aren’t leaked images of a new Windows Phone 7 from HTC and the designer does not work for HTC so they probably won’t ever be produced. That said, we think this device looks pretty cool. The 3D renderings certainly look very realistic and the design aesthetics even go along with HTC’s current …
Continue readingMSN Movies Updated with Mango Support
The MSN Movies app for Windows Phone 7 has recently been updated with Mango support. The app now shows up in the “Apps” tab when you search for movies in Bing, and the “Buy Tickets” buttons next to showtime search results in Bing will now deep-link into the MSN Movies app’s section for buying tickets for that particular movie… which actually just loads the MovieTickets.com mobile site within the MSN Movies app, but it works …
Continue readingApple Also Submits Doctored Images to Dutch Courts
While Apple has been getting a lot of bad press for submitting altered images in the iPad case against Samsung in Germany, today we hear that Mark Krul, lawyer and IP law specialist at Dutch firm WiseMen, has also noticed some retouched imagery in Apple’s case against Samsung in the Netherlands. Apparently, the images of the two phones side by side were altered in order to make the Samsung Galaxy S appear to be exactly …
Continue readingWhat to Expect for the Second Generation of WP7 Devices
The next generation of the Windows Phone operating system has been released to manufacturing and that means manufacturers are now hard at work at fitting the new OS on new hardware devices that we can expect to see released later this year. We’ve already seen a few tastes from Samsung, Acer, ZTE, and Toshiba-Fujitsu at WPC as well as a few other leaks. I’m guessing most of the new devices will have faster single-core processors …
Continue readingMore Evidence Apple Falsified Images
Editor’s note: The following was written and researched by fellow Pocketnow reader, Robb Cabansag. The recent stories about Apple resizing an image of the Galaxy Tab in recent court papers prompted me to download the 44-page PDF of the motion filed in the EU. After going through the document I am flummoxed that a judge could have ruled against Samsung based in-full or even in-part of the contents. I’ve gone through the entire document and …
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