Nokia seems to have made a nice big list of possible names that they might use to signify their news series of Windows Phones in the U.S., and they thought it might be nice to see what everyone on the internet thinks of them. They’ve created a little poll on polldaddy where you can vote for the names they are currently thinking about. Nokia “Elite”, “Fusion”, “Metro”, and “Genesis” have gathered a lot of votes, …
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HTC Radar C110e and TITAN X310e Windows Phone 7s
Japanese site, Ameblo, has found an XML file on the HTC Tawain MMS site that references a new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device called the HTC Radar C110e. The XML file (found here) seems to be used in specifing formatting attributes for MMS picture messages sent to the device. We don’t have many details on the HTC Radar other than its 480 x 800 pixel screen resolution and Internet Explorer 9.0 browser, but there has …
Continue readingCarl Camera’s Response to Molly Wood’s Windows Phone 7 Critique
You may remember how Brandon Watson recently challenged Molly Wood to try Windows Phone 7 since she was frequently complaining about Android. She did a couple video reviews on her blog and came away kind of unimpressed. You can see a little summary of her findings on CBS news as well. Software engineer, Carl Camera, decided to respond to Molly Wood’s video review with a video critique of his own. He’ll go over a few …
Continue readingHTC 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 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 …
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