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Windows Phone 7 – only 40,000 devices sold on launch in the United States

Published on: 14th November, 2010

It seems that Microsoft has sold only 40,000 Windows Phone 7 devices on launch in the United States. A market research tracker claims that figures represent sales for all devices across both T-Mobile and AT&T. none of the two carriers has confirmed the numbers, although a representative of T-Mobile claimed “strong interest”. At least the [...]

Windows Phone 7 sales not limited exclusively to retail stores, says AT&T

Published on: 8th November, 2010

AT&T has recently made clear its policies related to the launch of Windows Phone 7 after a mistaken announcement coming from a store manager who said that the devices would only be available at retail locations. Orders can also be placed online, but no device will be available to pre-order. As it seems, the carrier [...]

Early WP7 applications cost twice as much as on iPhone

Published on: 8th November, 2010

After a first look at applications of Windows Phone 7, it seems that they cost twice the price on the iPhone, according to a recent study. There are 1,400 applications now in Windows Phone Marketplace and the average price is $6.16, which means 80 percent more than on the iPhone, where the average price is [...]

Samsung Galaxy S could be Google Nexus Two, front camera added

Published on: 1st November, 2010

The rumored Nexus Two, if unveiled this week, could be a quite modest phone. It seems that it could be made by Samsung and could resemble to a touch-only Galaxy S provided with a front camera and tapering on its front and back equally. It also may feature the same screen, the four-inch Super AMOLED. [...]

Apple is the world’s fourth largest phone maker

Published on: 1st November, 2010

According to IDC, Apple is now the fourth largest manufacturer of any kind of phones. Doubling to 14.1 million iPhones has pushed it to 4.1 percent of the whole market, ahead of the BlackBerry of Research in Motion and other long established producers of phones like Sony Ericsson and Motorola, both of them being now [...]

Google tests for real-time friend tracking on Android

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Google has recently rolled out its newest version of Latitude in Google Maps and introduced an experimental feature that allows real-time tracking. This feature temporarily enables users to get live updates from their individual friends. Android 1.6 is needed to see others, but Android 2.2 at least is required for those tracked to be able [...]

Palm team sees Mozilla hires leave after on year

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Another hit has shaken Palm’s team after the Hewlett Packard takeover, as the two key Mozilla leaders, hired a year ago, left. Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer have quit the company in order to start their own venture. With a favorable view of the roles they had as webOS developer community directors, they were leaving [...]

iPhone jumps over BlackBerry for second place in smartphones

Published on: 31st October, 2010

The 14.1 million iPhones sold by Apple made it jump over the BlackBerry’s market share, as Strategy Analytics say. The total of 77.1 million smartphones shipped in the summer helped the iPhone to leap to 18.3 percent of the whole market and pushed Research in Motion down to third place, with 12.1 million phones and [...]

Joe Hewitt from Facebook says Android is not more open than iPhone

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Joe Hewitt, the well-known developer from Facebook, dismissed the claims that Android was a more open platform than iOS, made by the vice president of Google, Andy Rubin. He pointed out some limitations in Google’s philosophy, by saying that the source code of Android was closed until major releases and would not allow any outside [...]

Austrian buyers of the Windows Phone 7 will get Xbox 360 free of charge

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Austrian residents have received an offer that would certainly tempt them. A free gaming console Xbox 360 will accompany each purchase of any Windows Phone 7 device. The handset had to be bought through Austrian career A1 on the day of the European launch of the platform, October 21st. the Xbox is the entry-level, Arcade [...]

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