Microsoft Turns on Mango – Windows Phone 7.5 Goes Live

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Microsoft has flipped the switch and started the rollout of Windows Phone 7.5 – previously known as Mango. The first thing you’ll be asking is “how do I get this on my phone?”  No worries, the “Where’s my phone update?” page has been refreshed to show Mango release details for carriers around the world and [...]

AT&T Announces 3 New Windows Phones are Coming

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AT&T has announced that they will be carrying 3 new Windows Phone devices and are expecting them to be available this fall, but failed to provide any solid dates on when customers could expect to buy the new devices. AT&T will bring an updated version of the Samsung Focus called Focus S. This updated device [...]

Windows Phone Team Looks at Conversation View and Unified Inbox in Mango on YouTube

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Microsoft has posted a couple video’s on YouTube that focus on the new features in Mango and how they work. The first two video’s that I want to bring to your attention are in regards to email. For those that may not be aware, Microsoft has added a conversation view in the Windows Phone Mango [...]

Android Market Share Explodes as RIM, Nokia, and Microsoft Stumble

According to a Canalys report issued on August 1st, Android market share has exploded over the last year, and now is the leading mobile platform in 35 out of the 56 countries that Canalys tracks. Mobile shipments now exceed 107.7 million units, a growth of 73% over last year. The total number of Android based [...]

Of Xbox on Windows Phone Issues, and Aretha Styled Dreams

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Xbox and Xbox Live are the stuff of business legend. Dogged for years by reporters and analysts as a money hole, the product has become the poster child of what happens when a product team stays true to their vision and adapts with changes in an industry. It’s Microsoft’s iPod, their entertainment juggernaut. It understands [...]

Microsoft Previews Windows Phone 7 “Mango” Update

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Last month, Microsoft talked about the developer side of their upcoming Windows Phone 7 release, codenamed Mango. Yesterday, Microsoft showed the consumer side of those updates. The update will have more than 500 new features, although I think we can all agree that a large percentage of that 500 are small changes or improvements that [...]

Building a Better Keyboard in Windows Phone 7

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I used to be a big physical keyboard guy. When it came down to maximizing my productivity on a mobile device, I found that devices with a physical keyboard just couldn’t be beaten. While there still is a part of me that prefers the olden days, I have to admit that I’m now hammering out [...]

Microsoft Kicks Off MIX with Fan Made Windows Phone Video

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This week at MIX, a Microsoft event focusing on developers that are focused at creating content online, Microsoft kicked off the Windows Phone sessions with a fan-made video. We’ve talked about these before and how some of them became very popular. Well, Microsoft was listening and they asked Brandon Foy to create a fan video [...]

Is Google Not Sharing YouTube Access with Windows Phone?

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Here’s an interesting piece of news that I came across today. Microsoft is getting involved with the European Union’s antitrust investigate regarding Google. The claim from Microsoft is that Google is not sharing information with the Windows Phone team so they can build a more feature rich YouTube client for the Windows Phone platform. When [...]

Dude, Where’s My Windows Phone Update?

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There’s been a lot of talk about Windows Phone updates and the features and advantages that will come along with it. At launch, it was said that Windows Phone would see it’s first update in “early” 2011, and with that speculation ran wild. Is early considered January, February, March? Or is early a more broad [...]