Apple is now the fourth-largest cellphone maker in the world, Gartner said in its own roundup of mobile market share figures. The iPhone’s market share of real, end-user sales shot up almost 92 percent from year to year to give it 4.6 percent, moving it ahead of not just RIM but Motorola and Sony Ericsson, […]
Skype’s forthcoming Windows Phone app will integrate deeper than the Skype app for both the iPhone and Android devices. After its $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft is approved by European regulators (expected by the end of the year), the future Skype division of Microsoft has plans to make Skype functionality an integral component of the […]
Nokia’s North America lead Chris Weber took quickly to shadowing Microsoft’s perspective in an interview late Tuesday. He claimed that the app as a primary concept on Android and iPhone devices was “outdated.” Apple had largely established a concept of frequently jumping in and out, but Google “commoditized it” without really changing anything, he told […]
Nokia’s US president Chris Weber said in an interview Tuesday that his company was dropping Symbian entirely in North America. It would shed all its basic feature phones and Symbian smartphones by the time the first Windows Phones reach the country. The US would be a priority for design and was responsible for the first […]
Windows Phone Team General Manager Charlie Kindel revealed he was leaving the company in his blog. The 21-year veteran will quit as of September 2 to found a startup focused on a mix ads, the cloud, mobile, and athletics. He told GeekWire that he had already moved his Windows Phone tasks off to mobile general […]
The Inquirer is reporting that Qualcomm does not have an arrangement to be the sole chip provider for the next generation of Windows 7 phones. Qualcomm made the claim earlier this year, contradicting a statement from ST-Ericsson made days earlier. Now Qualcomm’s VP of Product Management Raj Talluri is admitting that “there is no written […]
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Partner Group program lead Reid Kuhn said in a response Monday that his company would desensitize its location tracking system. Following a discovery online that the system had published the locations of phones and notebooks on a public map, Microsoft would no longer guess at the position of a source when only […]
Insider sources on Thursday narrowed the launch of all Windows Phone 7 Mango devices, not just Toshiba-Fujitsu’s IS12T, to September. Acer, HTC, Huawei, LG, Samsung, and ZTE are all expected by Digitimes contacts to unveil their phones at the same time. Only Nokia’s first phone, likely the Sea Ray, would show later, at Nokia World […]
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that Windows Phone 7 ‘s Mango update had been finished. The new mobile OS has reached its Release to Manufacturing (RTM) stage and is being sent off to phone makers for production-level hardware. Carriers also use the RTM build to make sure the OS doesn’t create problems on their networks. Actual […]
The officially-sanctioned ChevronWP7 unlock tool for WP7 handsets and developer use will cost just $9, according to a Twitter post from ChevronWP7 dev Chris Walsh. It will let developers avoid the usual $99 per year cost to be a full-fledged Windows Phone developer. It allows developers to unlock their devices and experiment before signing up […]
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