We already knew that the Lumia 800 was due to hit Aussie shores in March, and we’ve already seen what our US reviewers thought of Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 smartphone. Nokia’s just tweeted out the local RRP for when it does arrive, when it’ll cost you $699. More »
According to Nokia’s financial results, released today, Microsoft paid the Finnish company a cool $US250 million in the final quarter of 2011 for adopting Windows Phone. That’s just the first payment: in total these “platform support payments” will likely add up to billions. No wonder Nokia’s keen. [Slash Gear]
Oh, analysts! You can somehow make the wackiest ideas ever sound somewhat reasonable. Never change! Like the latest projections from iSuppli, which claims that Windows Phone 7 market share will overtake iPhone in 2015. More »
Probably more than any other app, Instagram attracts the envy of many non-iPhone owners. The insular social network, is simple, fast and easy to use. And while the company has stated plans to release on Android, the latest talk suggests that we might see it on Windows Phone first. More »
Americans will be able to get your mitts on the gorgeous Nokia Lumia 900 in March, according to a newsletter published on the Nokia Developer website. Now what about us Aussies? More »
Microsoft surprised the world last year when it dropped $US8.5 billion to buy Skype. Yet despite the deal being finalised in October, we’re still yet to see the VoIP application rear its pretty little head on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. What’s going on? More »
When Steve Jobs took to the stage at MacWorld and announced the very first iPhone, heads around the world turned at just how innovative and consumer-friendly the product was. Microsoft’s initial reaction was dismissal, a decision that has hurt the company ever since. More »
According to the New York Times, Nokia will officially introduce the rumoured — and possibly already leaked — Lumia 900 at CES tomorrow. But besides being “sleek” and “metallic”, there’s not much else revealed. More »
I like apps that serve absolutely no purpose other than amuse myself. Like this free Face Swap app created by Microsoft Research. It’s only available for Windows Phone 7 (gasp). More »
Microsoft was keen to tell the world that there was over 500 improvements to Windows Phone 7 in its 7.5 Mango update, but was less keen to list them all out. It turns out that one of those features was NFC support caked into the OS, although so far there’s no hardware support for the technology. More »
