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Siri more intelligent than we thought, explains which phone is the best ever [ video ]

MSicc — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:08:26 +0000

Of course we would think Siri is going to tell us the best phone ever is the iPhone. We are wrong!

Just have a look on this image:

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Windows Phone gaining momentum in Finland at the expense of iPhone and Android ?

Saijo George — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:58:55 +0000

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With the Microsoft Nokia partnership Windows Phone is slowly gaining momentum. In the US the Lumia 900 secured the best seller spot on amazon and the 2nd best seller on AT&T in April . The general buzz on the Lumia series is positive ( though the device seems to have its fair share of issues ). If we consider the home ground of Nokia ( it is Finland, for those who didn’t have a clue ) and try to see the marketshare , while there are no official numbers we can get our hands on. We can always go through sites like statcounter which tracks browser usage.

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US Windows Phone sales in the last three months … :(

Saijo George — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:38:59 +0000

Smartphone-OS-share

In a recent article on PCWorld they ran a story ” Windows Phone Market Share is So Small, Nielsen Doesn’t Even List It ” which refers to the report by Nielsen where they said almost 50% of U.S. mobile subscribers are smartphones users. They break down smartphone ownership in the past 3 months where iOS won more users from the Blackberry and Others market and they commanded an ownership of 43% , while Android sat on a 48% ownership share. In the past 3 months Blackberry ownership was 5% and others which probably includes Windows Mobile, Windows Phone , etc sat at 4% , a number that has steadily been dropping down in the charts.

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AT&T Offering Nokia 900 The “Red Carpet” For April 8th Launch And Explains Update 8107 Reasoning

WinPhan7 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:40:59 +0000

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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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Nokia Filling More WP Gaps: DLNA Streaming App “Play To” Goes Beta

WinPhan7 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:31:52 +0000

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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Join The “WinPhan7!” Movement: Get Your WinPhan7! Icon Here

WinPhan7 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:20:41 +0000

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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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What is a WinPhan7?

WinPhan7 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:49:26 +0000

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Hello, howdy, and how do you do? I am going to be joining this incredibly talented staff of writers and I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Sean Johnson, but I prefer WinPhan7. I reside in the US in beautiful Northern California. I am 38 years of age and gaining stride in life. I’m a loving husband, proud father of 4, and I’m sarcastic. I enjoy technology, writing, and well most importantly, I LOVE MY Windows Phone! Nothing comes before my family though. I am a hard worker, most of my time is spent in the woods. Although there is rarely a moment indoors or outside that my trusty WP isn’t in my hand or holdstered to my side!

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Windows Phone Mango shows Android and iOS5 how modern mobile browsers work

Saijo George — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:25:55 +0000

This is not the first time we have seen Microsoft using this particular test to show off the exciting hardware acceleration in IE9 on Windows Phone Mango. But since then Apple has released the beta of iOS and Microsoft has decided to run the test again. This time we have a BlackBerry Torch, the Samsung Droid Charge, the iPhone 4 ( beta 3 of iOS5 ), and what looks like the HTC Mozart running Mango. The frame-rates achieved by the devices were as below via WMPU

BlackBerry Torch only managed to pull off a pathetic 9FPS
iPhone 4 even with beta 3 of iOS5 managed only about 14-16FPS
The Android powered Samsung Droid Charge got around 20-22 ( something like that from what I can see)
But the Mango Powered HTC with graphics acceleration came out with an amazing 50FPS !!!

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Lets play a game : Guess the Twitter Client

bishnoo — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:47:50 +0000

Imitating the Metro look

Guess the Twitter Client shown above … Too hard ? Well guess the OS on which this Twitter app is available ? If your answer was WP7 you are wrong. If what they say about imitation being the best form of flattery is true, we should be seeing a few switches from iOS to WP7 soon.

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IE9 on Windows Phone 7 makes Safari on iPhone 4 look pathetic

Saijo George — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:49:03 +0000

Well this is still in the works and is a tech preview but the processing power demonstrated here will surely turn some heads. With the news IE9 is heading to WP7 in 2011 from the WP7 keynote at MWC. Microsoft demoed the “work in progress ‘ build of IE9 on Windows Phone 7.

You will see the magic of hardware acceleration in IE9 on Windows Phone 7 which can easily render 50 fish using HTML5, and the animation looks quite fluid while Safari on the iPhone 4 is having a hard time with it.

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