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Windows Phone updates, after Mango comes Apollo
We’re anxiously awaiting the next update for Windows Phone, codenamed Mango, which supposedly hit around September of this year (if Microsoft can adhere to their proposed timeline). What we know as the Windows Phone 7.5 update (Mango) is bringing a huge amount of features to the platform, that will bring it up to parity, if…
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WP7 Mango Update, more features revealed, looks juicy!
The guys at Windows Phone Dev Podcast have done it again, and appropriately they have titled it “More Mango Madness”. The almost insane fascination of early adopters of WP7, with what is seen to be the most significant update to the OS, we will see, hopefully this year, that fascination hasn’t been dulled. SO what…
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The ChevronWP7.Updater saga continues
Yesterday, I was greeted by the Update Notification for for the 7.0.7392 update for my non carrier branded HTC HD7, which of course updated normally. I then for the sake of it, tried the update process on my HTC Mozart 7, which, in what has now become part of the Windows Phone 7 world’s permanent…
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Chinese HTC HD7 knockoff, a 4.8 inch dual-SIM monster!
As my HTC HD7 languishes in a warehouse on the outskirts of Melbourne, waiting to be whisked into my obsessive hands, little knowing that it’s heading to a mobile phone Doctor Frankenstein. In other parts of the world , crazed body snatching mad mobile scientists are tacking together disparate parts from here and there, to…
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HTC Promises New Windows Phone Devices
HTC has obviously had a big year, and as a brand, gained in recognition in leaps and bounds in the European, Asia Pacific and of Course the US markets over 2010. First quarter 2011 has also thrown up a slew of new devices that are incredibly exciting, bringing 4G/LTE devices, and the Flyer, HTC’s first…
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State of the Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” Update
As I posted yesterday, the Windows Phone update is rolling out, and while it was not a blanket deployment of the pre update and the “NoDo” update, it proceeds in batches. Vanilla HTC phones will likely receive the updates first, while carrier branded phones will have to wait for the Telco’s to test the ROM’s…
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New app usage report shows HTC as top Windows Phone 7 manufacturer
A new report released by mtiks indicates that HTC’s market dominance from the old Windows Mobile days has continued with the introduction of Windows Phone 7. The mtiks report tracked mobile apps usage in February on Windows Phone 7 devices and displays the numbers by location and individual handsets. At the top of the list…