Tag Archives: Windows Phone

Windows Phone Mango vs iOS 5 Features Comparison Chart

June 13, 2011

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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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New Windows Phone Handsets will be Released on May 24th

May 10, 2011

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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, [...]

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Number of Apps in Android Market Close to the Apple App Store

March 10, 2011

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The smartphone battle continues and now not only about the handsets but also for the Application Store. A chart released recently shows the side-by-side comparison of the number of apps from the top 4 most popular mobile apps store Apple App Store, Google’s Android Market, RIM Blackberry AppWorld and Windows Phone Marketplace. From this chart [...]

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Windows Phone Marketplace Now Hosts More than 9,000 Apps and Games

March 8, 2011

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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 [...]

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Microsoft Brings IE9 to Windows Phone 7, Much Faster than iPhone 4 Safari

February 15, 2011

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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 [...]

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Windows Phone 7 "Mango" to Bring Major Updates in Late 2011

December 15, 2010

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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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ChevronWP7 Released Custom Ringtone Manager for Windows Phone 7

November 30, 2010

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ChevronWP7 team who released the unlocking tool with the same name few days ago for side-loading applications on Windows Phone 7 which enables people to install apps to Windows Phone 7 devices without using a Marketplace developer account has just brought another surprise. And this time they just released the custom ringtone manager for Windows [...]

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AllFacebook Statistics Shows Around 126,000 Windows Phone Users

November 30, 2010

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Microsoft has been so keen to keep updating the number of apps and developers in the MarketPlace. The latest one reported by Windows Phone Developer Blog, there are roughly 3,000 apps and games with more than 15,000 developers currently exist in the MarketPlace. However when it comes to the number of Windows Phone 7 device [...]

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Automattic is Working on Official WordPress App for Windows Phone 7

November 30, 2010

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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms at the moment. And in order to strengthen it’s dominance, Automattic (the company behind WordPress) gradually build apps for mobile devices. Currently it supports mobile platforms including Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Nokia. And the latest one which the company is working on is the Windows Phone [...]

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Microsoft Released VB for Windows Phone Dev Tools

November 29, 2010

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Mirosoft today released the Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools and now is available to download on the Microsoft Download Center. This release enables Visual Basic developers to create Silverlight applications for Windows Phone 7 using the final version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools. In addition to this release, the VB team also [...]

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