Software

Ask Ziggy: Siri For Windows Phone

People love Siri. Well, unless they have an accent or a slight speech impediment. What’s important is that Apple really wants everyone with an iPhone 4S use Siri to schedule appointments and look up coffee shops. The Android Market is already filled with enough Siri clones to keep Apple’s lawyers busy for years. It’s time for Windows Phone to get in on the talk-to-your-phone-in-public fun with Ask Ziggy.


Mobile

New Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone Details?

We adore the Lumia 800. It has that historically lovely Nokia build, and is terrifically small. Like — the size is perfect. Now it’s getting a bigger brother.


December 29, 2011
Mobile

What Are The 2012 Windows ‘Superphones’?

A leaked Windows Phone roadmap shows what we’ve got to look forward to in 2012. In the short term there’s a batch of cheapy phones for the masses, but by the end of next year we could be looking at “superphones”.


December 19, 2011
Mobile

Windows Phone SkyDrive Features: Gizmodo Reader Video

Gizmodo AU

Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive service gives you 25GB of free cloud storage to store your files. But how does it integrate with Windows Phone 7 Mango? Giz reader Michael takes a look.


December 15, 2011
Mobile

Microsoft Wants To Give Free Windows Phones To Android Users Who Got Screwed With Malware

Windows Phone evangelist Ben Rudolph, with endorsement from Microsoft, is asking Android users to explain their #droidrage on Twitter. That is, to explain how Android malware has screwed Android users over. If people’s stories are epic enough, Microsoft will give away free Windows Phones.


December 14, 2011
Mobile

Themes For Windows Phone 7 Are A Travesty

Windows Phone 7 is a beautiful mobile OS precisely because you can’t screw it up. Microsoft created something clean and gorgeous, and no phone company can slather their themed dreck all over it. However, if you’re a masochist, try this!


Mobile

A Single Text Can Destroy Windows Phone’s Messaging App

You had better hope the gent who discovered this WinPho security exploit is the only one who knows how to do it: this video shows just how easy it is to permanently ruin a WP7 handset.


November 17, 2011
Mobile

Did Nokia Leak Its Next Windows Phone?

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A Nokia promotional video for developers appeared to show an entirely new Nokia Windows Phone handset — until Nokia pulled it from public YouTube view. But as with anything online, once it’s out there, it’s out there.


November 9, 2011
Mobile

Nokia Lumia 800 Review: Unattainable Foreign Beauty

Windows Phone has been sort of a ship without a port for a while now, getting along as a platform without a must-have, lightning-rod handset. Nokia’s Lumia 800 is the first serious contender for that honour, but Mango’s knight in shining polycarbonate might not be enough to make its presence felt across the pond.


November 8, 2011
Mobile

Telstra Will Have WP7 Tethering By Year’s End

Gizmodo AU

Good news everybody! Well, everybody on Telstra’s Windows Phone 7 devices anyway; you’ll be getting Internet Tethering by year’s end. In best Professor Farnsworth fashion, however, there’s a sting in the tail; it looks like you’ll never get Visual Voicemail.