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Nearly 40 World-Leading TV and Entertainment Partners Have Joined Xbox

October 5, 2011 No Comments

Whoa!!! Now that’s alot of partners Microsoft has just announced for their launch of Live TV on Xbox 360. HBO Go, Comcast, Verizon Fios, and many more have just signed up to have their content up on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 for Live Gold members. Not only that but everything will can be controlled through the kinect. […]

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Zune Players (Zune HD) Still Hanging Around?

October 5, 2011 1 Comment

This has played out like a regular daytime TV drama. First Zune.net refreshed their homepage and doesn’t mention the Zune HD as a compatible device. Then Microsoft turns around and says that it was just a mistake. Yesterday we noticed that one of the Zune support pages finally revealed that they would in fact be […]

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Stephen Elop Confirms What We Already Knew

October 4, 2011 No Comments

In a not so surprising announcement, Stephen Elop, chief executive officer of Nokia confirmed today that they will be unveiling their first Windows Phone devices this quarter. It has been expected that Nokia would be making their Windows Phone announcements at the Nokia World trade show on October 26th. What makes this confirmation news worthy […]

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Zune Hardware is Dead (for real this time) RIP

October 4, 2011 No Comments

We published an article yesterday on how Microsoft was through with Zune hardware when on their newly updated site, they failed to place the Zune HD on their list of compatible devices. Soon after they edited the homepage on Zune.net and claimed it was in error. However now on their support pages they have updated […]

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Facebook Issues On People Hub? Don’t Blame Your Windows Phone!

October 4, 2011 3 Comments

For those of you that find it quite odd that some of your friends status updates aren’t coming through in your people hub, it’s not a Windows Phone thing – its a Facebook issue. Facebook has set up a few privacy options in your account that control who can see your updates and from where. […]

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T-Mobile to Launch the HTC Radar on November 2nd

October 4, 2011 No Comments

At least we now know the exact launch date of one Windows Phone Mango device coming to the US. tmonews has gotten their hands on a T-mobile roadmap which contains a few devices coming to the carrier this fall. One of the devices is the HTC Omega, now know as the HTC Radar. We all […]

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Mango Update Already Out For 50% of Windows Phone Users

October 3, 2011 No Comments

Mango has not been out for a week yet and we are already getting word from Microsoft that Mango has just been sent out to about 50% of Windows Phone users around the world.  That’s quite a large number of updates and Microsoft is not wasting time touting the large number,   Eric Hautala from […]

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Zune: Streaming Music Videos is Now Available (sort of)

October 3, 2011 No Comments

We recently wrote about Zune updating their Zune pass by including music video streaming as one of the perks. Well streaming music videos through Zune has officially started. Not all videos are working yet and still show up as preview but i would say half of the videos I have sampled show up as play […]

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Samsung Has Launched the Samsung Omnia W in India

October 3, 2011 No Comments

 Samsung has recently launched the Samsung Omnia W in India. The new Windows Phone device running Mango has been made available in India for Rs 20,000 ( $405.34 US ). Samsung Omnia W Product Specifications Network – HSPA14.4/5.76Mbps 900/2100 EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 Processor – 1.4 GHz Processor Display – 3.7” WVGA(800X480) Super AMOLED Camera – Main(Rear) […]

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Today, We Bid Farewell to the Zune HD [UPDATED]

October 3, 2011 No Comments

In a final effort to ditch the Zune HD, Microsoft has officially removed the device from the Zune music pass page. It is no longer listed as an option for which your Zune pass can be used. It hasn’t exactly been a big secret that Microsoft was going to choose to discontinue Zune hardware. Microsoft […]

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Leaked: Nokia 800 Marketing Images Surface (pics)

Nokia has been very quiet and secretive as their big conference is only two weeks away. PocketNow however has gotten their...

Hands On: HTC Titan Unboxing Video – Plus a Few More Just For Fun

I imagine that the HTC Titan will be a popular within the Windows Phone community and hopefully it will...