Sony Ericsson’s current CEO Bert Nordberg in an interview Monday regretted that his company ignored Apple but also wouldn’t assuage Microsoft. Although he wasn’t CEO at 2007, the executive explained to the WSJ that his company “should have taken the iPhone more seriously” when it launched. Sony Ericsson was once near the top of the […]
Microsoft has quietly acknowledged a privacy problem with its Windows Phone 7 software, following a number of critical reports. The company posted information on its privacy pages admitting that its mobile OS exhibits “unintended behavior” by sending location information, such as details of nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers, even when a user declines […]
The HTC Radar is headed to T-Mobile, the carrier announced Tuesday. The Radar, which HTC first announced on Sept. 1 without naming a carrier partner, will run Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Mango and feature a 3.8-inch display with a 480 x 800 resolution. It also looks like it will have a slickly designed aluminum and […]
Microsoft in a follow-up post outlined the speed at which its Windows Phone 7.5 Mango rollout would take place. In an attempt to keep quality in check, only about 10 percent of users will get the update pushed out in the first week. That could expand to 25 percent later if everything went well, Microsoft’s […]
Instructions for installing a software update have been posted to the support page for the HTC Arrive on the Sprint website. Although it is not referred to by name, the timing and list of features indicate that this is the widely-anticipated Mango update for Windows Phone 7 devices. Features listed on the support page that […]
Android is still growing in the US, but is taking all its share from non-iPhone rivals, Nielsen found on Monday. Google was up from 40 percent in July to 43 percent in August, but Apple was still at the 28 percent it has held since June. Most of that decline came from Microsoft, which took […]
The Kindle library book lending has now gone live, with Amazon now making the official announcment. It had been in beta in the Seattle area. Those with Kindle readers or Kindle apps can borrow e-books from more than 11,000 local libraries throughout the US. The system fully supports the Whispersync feature that will synchronize margin […]
NPD’s Connected Intelligence in a new study showed major shifts underway in smartphone interest that could play into Microsoft’s hands, not just Google’s. Regardless of the platform, exactly half of everyone looking at a phone was considering a smartphone now. While Android was still the primary choice for users, about 44 percent of those who […]
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer during the company’s Financial Analyst Meeting acknowledged that Windows Phone 7 still wasn’t performing well. Treating it as a first-year wrap up, he said Microsoft phone partners hadn’t sold “quite as many as I would have liked” between its October release and today. He didn’t quantify the numbers, but shipments have […]
AT&T did a hugh launch of Windows Phones on Monday with details of a widened Windows Phone strategy for the fall in sync with the Mango update. The launch will be headlined by the Focus S, better known so far as the i937; the device is effectively a slightly slower Galaxy S II and shares […]
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