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 …
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Hands-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 readingHTC Radar Benchmarks Show Significant Speed Increase
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 …
Continue readingT-Mobile HTC Radar 4G Review
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 …
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