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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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Rumor: Orientation Lock Coming to Windows Phone

September 7, 2011 No Comments

A tipster sent wmpu images of a new feature for Windows Phone. The feature in question is an orientation lock of some sorts. The images have yet to be authenticated but they do look pretty real to me. Once the lock icon is clicked, the screen will stay locked to how you are holding the […]

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Unofficial HTC HD2 Windows Phone ROM Has Ability to Update Officially to Mango

August 31, 2011 No Comments

We have seen our old friend the HTC HD2 running Windows Phone before via Roms and hacks. This though is something completely new to us. The guys over at the XDA have developed a ROM The ROM that is Build 7.0.7004.0, which is the original Windows Phone ROM that launched last year. The crazy part is […]

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Zune HD Gets Some Update Love too: New Apps & Games

August 2, 2011 No Comments

Windows Phone isn’t the only one getting some update love from Microsoft. The Zune HD (which I dearly loved before the HD7 came around) has received a good amount of updates itself today. tromboneforhire a Zune MVP broke down all the new apps, games and updates for the best PMP I ever owned.   New Games: […]

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Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Yearly Updates to Windows Phone 7

June 13, 2011 No Comments

A recent job posting on Microsoft’s careers website indicates that Microsoft intends to deliver major yearly updates for Windows Phone 7. Good to knoe that they are already thinking past Mango. I love feeling reassured that through updates my device won’t be obsolete. Job Category: Software Engineering: Program Management Location: United States, WA, Tukwila Job ID: 753226 […]

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Where’s My Update? Page Receives its Own Update

June 3, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft has changed the Where’s My Update? page to better reflect the update people should be receiving. The updates are now associated with the build number of the update rather then the month in which it should have been released. Here is what the old one looked like: Click on photo to zoom and here […]

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NoDo Finally Rolling Out For HTC Mozart on Telstra – Spain Still in Testing

May 11, 2011 No Comments

Finally good news from Australia! Telstra has started rolling on the NoDo (March Update). Late last month we had shown that Telstra announced that their roll out of NoDo would be hitting their customers handsets early May. I am glad that finally most people all over the world are getting their updates. One place in […]

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AT&T’s HTC Surround – NoDo Update Soon

April 28, 2011 No Comments

Finally the only US phone left to update is getting NoDo. Now on the ‘where is my update’ page it shows the HTC Surround as scheduling. This means that we should see a rollout within the next 10 days. Eric Hautala from the Windows Phone Blog had this to say…. ‘We’re now scheduling the February […]

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NoDo Coming to O2 Starting April 5th

April 2, 2011 No Comments

All O2 Windows Phone 7 users can let out a sigh of relief because NoDo (March Update) is coming to you in a very few couple of days, April 5th to be exact. Remember folks, this is O2 starting their roll-out of the update so you personally might get it day or 2(or 5) after […]

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Dell Venue Pro: NoDo Rollout Start Today

March 30, 2011 No Comments

Looks like the Dell Venue Pro users will start getting their NoDo Updates starting Today. Dell’s Lionel Menchaca posted on twitter that the NoDo update will start to Rollout today and that a later Dell only update will be coming later. That update will probably tackle a few issues with the Venue Pro that has […]

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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...