Category: Windows Phone

Microsoft’s chief executive Steve Ballmer made a brief but very interesting appearance at Qualcomm’s keynote at the CES 2013. One of the most discussed parts of his statement seems to be what he said about Windows Phone sales. “Windows Phone was selling five times more devices than the same period last year,” – Ballmer said, referring to the periods around...

Here comes the first Windows Phone 8 OS update, provided by Microsoft. The new release version is named as “10211” and currently it has reached some HTCrap 8X devices. The notable new features of this update include: “WiFi” keep alive settings, Call reject with SMS, SMS draft, and SMS select all for mass deletion. In case you are rocking a...

Windows Phone 8 has finally been launched today, and there is no one better than Joe Belfiore, the Manager of the whole Windows Phone program at Microsoft, to walk us through all the neat little features the new platform offers. Which he does in the video here. While most of the innovation in WP8 comes under the hood with the...

When you take a look at a Windows Phone device you instantly notice – this thing is really different. And it’s different mostly because of the Modern UI (or what Microsoft used to call Metro interface). What is the Modern UI? Two things, mostly: Live Tiles and big typography. The Windows Phone so far has generated little “wow”-effect, despite the...

Microsoft is to hold a media event on October 29th in San Francisco, dedicated to their Windows 8 and Surface tablet. Finally, the world shall learn all details about the “mysterious” Windows Phone 8, so carefully kept in secret so far. Microsoft has also been very secretive of the latest iteration of its mobile OS, so it’s going to be...