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Windows Phone Continues to Dominate in Marketplace Growth

July 28, 2011 1 Comment

We all know that the road to mobile domination victory for Windows Phone will be a long one. They are fighting a constant war against many things like Windows Mobile leaving a bad taste in consumers mouths to Apple and Android market-share dominance. One huge weapon that Microsoft does have in its arsenal against its […]

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Survey Places Windows Phone 7 in Second Place in Customer Satisfaction

July 18, 2011 No Comments

Many of us who have taken the leap of faith with Windows Phone 7 know that it does not disappoint. A recent survey by ChangeWave Research was conducted in order to figure out how satisfied people were with their OS. Unfortunately for the study Windows Phone was grouped with Windows Mobile. Because of that fact Windows […]

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New HTML5 Speed Test, The Battle Continues

July 13, 2011 No Comments

If you have been following along on the happenings of Windows Phone for a while then you know that at Mix11 Joe Belfiore showcased the difference in browser speed working at tht time with the latest Mango build for Windows Phone 7, an iPhone 4 and an Android device.  The video clocked the iPhone speed […]

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Seesmic Discontinues Blackberry Support: Focuses Support for Popular Platforms Like WP7

June 21, 2011 No Comments

With RIM’s world crumbling down this past year and more of their users switching to other platforms. Seesmic drops support for blackberry all together and decides to focus their energy on popular platforms like Windows Phone 7. In an open letter on their website to Blackberry users, Seesmic says that they are discontinuing support for blackberry […]

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Windows Phone Mango will Have More Integrated Features than iPhone

June 13, 2011 No Comments

If you didn’t already know, there is a battle for OS supremacy and while there are more contenders people seem to constantly pit Windows Phone 7 and iOS against each other. In the latest battle, winphone7.info created a chart displaying the features of Windows Phone 7 (with Mango), iPhone and iPad (both running iOS5) and […]

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Developer: Microsoft Makes Coding From Android to WP7 Easier

June 10, 2011 No Comments

In April we covered a story that Microsoft was making a really smart move in trying to convert IOS developers by creating the necessary tools to make it simpler to develop on WP7. Fast forward a few months and they have now made the same tools for Android devs. This tools a very thorough and […]

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Apple’s IOS 5 Rips WP7 – Microsoft Flattered

June 7, 2011 2 Comments

My eyes were locked in on E3 yesterday since Microsoft’s media briefing was taking place. It was really awkward that Apple scheduled it’s WWDC 2011 event during the prestigious E3 event. Nonetheless Apple’s Steve Jobs took the stage and announced new features coming to IOS. Another awkward moment was when I (and a bunch of […]

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WP7 Sales Low Q1 – Nokia Deal to Brighten Up Future (Gartner)

May 19, 2011 4 Comments

Gartner, Inc. has released actual sales numbers for all mobile device manufacturers and operating systems. We all know that it would be a long hard fought race to the top for Microsoft and WP7. So these number shouldn’t really surprise anyone – especially Windows Phone users. Windows Phone saw only modest sales that reached 1.6 […]

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Pyramid Research Corrects Us All: Windows Phone Will Beat Android by 2013

May 11, 2011 No Comments

A few days ago, I wrote an article stating that Pyramid Research was placing their bets on Windows Phone 7. We stated that they were guessing that by 2015 Windows Phone would overtake Android and take the No. 1 spot in the mobile world. They say that we and others were wrong…. They are stating that […]

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App Playing Field Leveling Out Against iPhone

May 3, 2011 No Comments

We all know that lots of people choose to buy a smartphone because they have done a good job of marketing the fact that their app store has an abundance of apps. PCWorld did an analysis of all the popular OS markets to figure out what it really means to have that many apps, and […]

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Nokia Lumia 900 Launching Early 2012 in the US With Tango (Specs)

  BGR has inside information regarding Nokia’s launch of Windows Phones in the US. With this comes new that...

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