February 3, 2011
Yesterday Yahoo released a statement pretty much putting blame on Microsoft for the problems with Yahoo Mail using a high amount of data (article can be read here). In a twisted turn of events Rafael Rivera has uncovered that Windows Phone 7 isn't the only platform experiencing this problem with Yahoo Mail. In fact the […]
Tags: High Data Usage, iPhone, Microsoft, WP7, Yahoo!News
January 31, 2011
Paul Thurrott has confirmed that Yahoo! mail was the culprit behind the high data usage on some Windows Phone 7 devices. What I discovered was shocking, although not surprising. Yahoo’s IMAP server (winmo.imap.mail.yahoo.com) does not respond to FETCH requests correctly. Yahoo is sending ~25 times as much data as it needs to. (This can also […]
Tags: High Data Usage, Yahoo!News
January 19, 2011
Responding to a question from seattlepi.com, Microsoft claims to have resolved the ‘bug’ accused of hogging up data on some WP7 devices. Last week we ran a story on how some were claiming that their phone was using up to 50mb a day on standby. The following is Microsoft’s response… We have determined that a […]
Tags: Bug Fixed, High Data Usage, Microsoft, WP7News