The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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Microsoft’s Blackberry Hosting is Now Free
Wait, what? Microsoft has Blackberry Enterprise Server hosting services? Since February of last year Microsoft has been a Blackberry certified partner and offers Blackberry Enterprise hosting services as part of their Exchange Online service for an extra $10 per month per person. However, now that extra fee has been waived and the Blackberry server hosting is now free as part of regular Exchange Online and BPOS hosting services. Previously if you got an Exchange hosting …
Continue readingT-Mobile HTC HD7 Review
The HTC HD7 is the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone to be released on T-Mobile in the U.S.A. and it’s the successor to last spring’s HTC HD2. Many people are going to think it’s too similar to the old HD2, but there are still quite a few nice new changes, not least of all being the Windows Phone 7 operating system. Whether or not these changes are worthy of your money, is up to you, …
Continue readingHTC HD2 Tops iPhone in Krusell’s Best Selling List
It’s kind of surprising to see the HTC HD2 increasing in popularity according to Krusell’s Top 10 selling phones for August 2010. The HD2 moved up to the number 3 spot, just above the Apple iPhone 4, and just behind the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S. It seems the Windows Mobile 6.5 HTC HD2 smartphone is still selling even though it’s been around for so long. Although, the iPhone 3G is still in the top 5 …
Continue readingWhat Else Should Microsoft Add to Mango?
Judging by how quickly Microsoft has been adding the major features that most people have been complaining were missing in Windows Phone 7, I think we can all agree that Microsoft is listening. After only 4 months in the market, Microsoft is set to update Windows Phone 7 with the much-discussed/seldom-used Copy/Paste feature. At MWC, we’ve already heard about a few features that Microsoft intends to add to their “Mango” update which is expected to …
Continue readingBing for iOS Adds Microsoft Tag and QR Code Scanning
While the Bing integration on Windows Phone 7 is still stuck with just a basic search field and a simple mapping application, Microsoft’s Bing team is still hard at work on adding some fantastic features to the Bing applications on other mobile platforms. The Bing App for Apple’s iOS was recently updated with a very cool new feature enhancement to the “Bing Vision” function. Normally the Bing Vision feature is able to run searches based …
Continue readingWP7 Marketplace Hits 10K Apps Faster Than Anyone
The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace has just surpassed the 10,000 app count. Within the last couple weeks, the app approval process has actually sped up from about 1000 per week to 1200 per week. Windows Phone 7 met this 10,000 app milestone in only 4.5 months where as the iPhone took around 4.7 months (142 days) to reach 10,000 apps. Android, on the other hand, took 11 months to reach 10,000 apps and Palm’s Web …
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