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April 8^th, the day in which the Nokia Lumia 900 introduces itself to the US Market via AT&T. There are a lot of consumers here in the states, who have been waiting for this day to arrive. This article won’t be about that however. Same date, same carrier, but a different story though. With no big promotion, no people clamoring for its launch, front page on AT&T’s website, heck not even on its own OEM’s front page on their website, the HTC Titan™ II will launch on April 8^th along with the Lumia 900. While kind of sad, it actually offers encouragement, the US market is showing Microsoft that they think WP is good, just not on a recycled Android device.

HTC Titan™ II

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Nokia 900 Award Winner

Let the frenzy begin! The Nokia 900 is now available for pre-order online via AT&T and WalMart! This is great news for many overly eager people who had a rumored day come and go without the Nokia 900 becoming available earlier in the month. The availability of the top-tier smartphone the Nokia Lumia 900 at the largest retailer in the US is important. A common complaint with our young OS is availability. While contractually you still will need to be an AT&T subscriber, there is a WalMart in almost every town or city in America and has a thriving online site as well. (more…)

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Nokia 900

AT&T has been in the Windows Phone headlines of recent with it’s snubbing of the 8107 Update, receiving much scrutiny for it’s decision not to rollout the update to it’s WP subscribers. Perhaps in an attempt to redeem themselves, AT&T announced they in conjunction with Nokia will be marketing the Nokia Lumia 900 with more force upon it’s April 8th launch date than when they released the iPhone. In addition AT&T has offered some explanation as to why their WP subscribers will have to wait for the 8107 Update and when to expect it. For more details read past the break.

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microsoft-challenge

Most of you are all familiar with Ben Rudolph or @BenThePCGuy, who has been busy with WP’s “SmokedbyWindowsPhone” campaign. This is where Ben is up against non-WP phone users in a battle to upload a photo taken then to FB from lockscreen, also referred to as Pocket-to-Picture-to-Post. If Ben wins, participants leave with a new WP and if the participant wins, they leave with a$100. Well Microsoft thought they would up the ante raising the stakes. A participant can win a limited edition Hunger Games PC (HP Folio 13 Special Edition) valued at $1,049.00 based on a seperate set of criteria. Unfortunately, this revamped event is now facing a new scrutiny.

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We’re less than a week in and we are gaining traction! Mark and I received a lot of good feedback through different networks and have spent some time bouncing ideas back and forth on ways to improve the WinPhan Movement. We appreciate all the feedback our great readership here offered on ways to improve the Movement! For starters, we got rid of the “7″ and will just refer to the Movement as WinPhan in order to simplify the issue of numerical changes with OS updates. Next, in addition the WinPhan SkyDrive, where you can download customizable WinPhan pics, we have started other social network outlets to get the word out there and generate a WinPhan community. Read past the break to find out how to connect to other WinPhan’s!

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8107update

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article here about why I consider WP and the US a bad match. Today AT&T helped to drive that point home to its many subscribers who are WP owners. In an unfortunate tweet today one of AT&T’s community managers informed us that AT&T will NOT release the 8107 Update that fixes the mysteriously disappearing keyboard and adds some additional security features. Instead they are opting to pass on yet another update, as Update 7740 came and went with barely a whisper since most WP owners were more concerned with the keyboard issue. Would you believe AT&T is Windows Phone’s biggest supporter in the US? Just sad…

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Nokia's Play To

It seems Nokia has picked up the whole WP world and put us on their shoulders! What will Nokia be responsible for introducing next involving Windows Phone? MS is leaning heavily on Nokia to bring notoriety to the WP platform and the Finnish company is not letting MS or us down! Today, Nokia released their Beta DLNA(Digital Living Network Alliance) streaming app, Play To, for Windows Phone bringing more aspects of the WP up to existing standards with Android and iPhone which both utilize DLNA streaming. DLNA allows you to stream your multimedia, such as photos and music to other DLNA connected devices such as computers, cell phones, and other media devices like a gaming consoles. This feature has been missing since WP’s inception and has been a heavily requested feature to be added to future builds to the Windows Phone OS. Congrats Nokia! Hurry up other OEM’s not named Nokia!
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Last month I introduced myself to you all here as WinPhan7. I want to get back to the WinPhan7 concept for this article. I described myself as a beyond avid fan, but I want to breakdown the WinPhan7! concept to you. Windows+Phone+Fan+7+!=WinPhan7! Myself and fellow WP enthusiast, Mark Tepper are now working hard to try and turn WinPhan7! into a movement. Are you still looking for a way to truly show your WP love? I want to give Windows Phone owners an opportunity to identify with something fun and easy way to express it to others! Android owners have the Fandroid moniker and iPhone owners, iFans. WP can’t and won’t be left out of the loop, so, WinPhan7!

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Nokia Lumia 610

In an attempt to bring Windows Phones to a younger crowd and people with a more limited budget, Nokia and WP’s other OEM’s are gearing up to release these lower-priced/lower-spec’d devices to the market. Now making the list of regions to be receiving the Nokia Lumia 610, will be the Netherlands. While the Lumia 610 won’t blow you away with all the features available to  its bigger and faster Lumia family members sporting 512MB of RAM, this new low cost device with 256MB of RAM will surely offer plenty of bang for its buck!

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Nokia Tattoo Patent

Have you ever missed a call even with your device’s volume turned up to 30 and your vibrate on? You’re not the only one and Nokia thinks they have a solution to this problem, based on a recent patent submission. Nokia’s concept revolves around a skin spray with “ferromagnetic” material, a tattoo, or a stamp attached to your body that would offer vibrating notifications directly to your skin from a paired device. Each vibration sequence or type could signal low battery, phone call, text message, and/or calendar alerts.
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