An interesting article posted on winphone7.info showing a long comparison chart between Windows Phone Mango and iOS features. This chart covers the general features of respective OS including the newly announced iOS 5 features. From the iOS side, this chart also breakdown specific features from iPhone and iPad. There’s no specific purpose addressed by this [...]
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Microsoft’s Own-brand Windows 8 Tablet PC Rumored for End of 2012 Launch
June 8, 2011
In this emerging market of tablet computers, it’s really strange to see Microsoft not yet join the battle leaving Apple and Google in the competition. Digitimes recently reported that Microsoft is planning to launch it’s self-branded Windows 8 tablet pc by the end of 2012. Microsoft is said to collaborate with Texas Instruments and Taiwan-based [...]
Microsoft Officially Confirms the Skype Acquisition for $8.5 Billion
May 10, 2011
Microsoft officially announces the Skype acquisition for $8.5 billion on Tuesday. With this acquisition, Microsoft will bring Skype integration to Microsoft devices including Xbox and Kinnect, Windows Phone and other Windows devices. Microsoft also will continue to support clients on non-Microsoft platforms. Skype which is currently has 270 million users will be a new business [...]
New Windows Phone Handsets will be Released on May 24th
May 10, 2011
Microsoft will held a Windows Phone event on May 24th, 2011 in New Your City. On the invitation sent out to the press, it’s clearly said that Microsoft will unveil the next major release of Windows Phone handsets. So we’ll likely to see some new devices from previous Windows Phone 7 manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, [...]
Microsoft Launched New iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping Tools & Guides
May 4, 2011
Mobile apps store no doubt is a multi-million business and the growth still doesn’t seem to stop yet. Apple with it’s App Store and Google with it’s Android Market are two of the leaders on this market. While others including Microsoft are still continuing to grow as more apps coming to their store. And many [...]
Microsoft Bing will Power BlackBerry Mobile Search and Maps
May 3, 2011
Looks like Microsoft is now working their best efforts to compete with Android. After joined forces with Nokia few months ago, now Microsoft together with RIM announced a strategic mobile partnership. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today at BlackBerry World 2011 announced that future BlackBerry devices will use Bing and Bing Maps as default mobile search [...]
Windows Phone Marketplace Now Hosts More than 9,000 Apps and Games
March 8, 2011
The latest update from Windows Phone team said that the Windows Phone Marketplace now host more than 9,000 apps and games from over 32,000 registered developers and continue delivering an average of 100 new apps every day. Not a huge number though, but surely it shows a consistent growth and soon will reach the 10,000 [...]
Microsoft Brings IE9 to Windows Phone 7, Much Faster than iPhone 4 Safari
February 15, 2011
At the MWC event, Microsoft announced the Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7 along with other features to be delivered via update in 2011. According to the IEBlog, the IE9 for Windows Phone uses the same browsing engine, the same code, the same standards support, the same hardware acceleration, the same security and privacy [...]
Second Batch of WP7 Devices Coming at Mobile World Congress 2011
December 16, 2010
One of the reason many people believe that cause Windows Phone 7 has not made any significant growth is the lack of the device variants. This indirectly has caused stock shortage in the first weeks of the release of the Windows Phone 7 devices. But a good news just posted by Digitimes. According to their [...]
Windows Phone 7 "Mango" to Bring Major Updates in Late 2011
December 15, 2010
Windows Phone 7 updates has became a hot news in the last few weeks including the “minor” updates in January and February which one of them will bring copy/paste to the Windows Phone 7. But actually that’s just the beginning as the “major” update will come during fall 2011. This update will be codenamed “Mango” [...]





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