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Data Usage Issue Not Exclusive to WP7?

February 3, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Confirmed? Yahoo! Mail was to blame for High Data Usage!

January 31, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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High Data Usage Bug Fixed!?

January 19, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Nokia Begins to Advertise the Lumia 710 – Welcome to the Amazing Everyday (video)

With the Lumia 800 being Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone at the moment, its no wonder that it has been getting...

Lenovo LePhone S2 Running Windows Phone Coming 2012

Lenovo announced yesterday its LePhone S2 running Android which seemed to kill any chance of them making a Windows...