Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager for IE Mobile, said that IE9 Mobile for Windows Phone was now “code complete”. This means that there will not be any new features added from this point and forward. The team will now focus on ironing out bugs, and doing performance tuning. The main focus is on the graphics performance. Ever since Microsoft started talking about IE9 Mobile, they’ve talked speed. At MIX 11 they showed a development version of IE9 Mobile on a WP7 device running different speed tests. In the demo, the...
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A bombshell for this Sunday – 9 new Windows Phone 7 devices coming next week!? According to a WMPowerUser tipster, this is the case, and we’ll really see the next-generation of WP devices being released next week. Two of these devices will be manufactured by HTC, two by Acer, one by Dell and a whopping four by Samsung. The lonely Dell device will most probably be the Dell Wrigley, that was seen in a roadmap earlier this year. At least one of the Samsung device’s will resemble the Galaxy S II. Let’s hope this is...
Microsoft has been sending out invites to Windows Phone 7.5 events around the world. The first event will be held in New York, May 24. In Poland, a journalist of the site WP-7.pl, received the invite you see above. The invite is pretty special since it includes an actual fresh mango! I like this kind of special treatment Hit View Post for the unboxed view. ...
The HTC Trophy will hit Verizon Wireless on May 26. The HTC Trophy is priced at $149.99 with a two-year-contract and after a mail-in rebate. If you buy the device before June 15, you’ll also get a free copy of Halo: Reach, Kinect Sports or Lode Runner for your Xbox 360. Those of you who don’t know what the HTC Trophy has eaten, here is a short spec list:Windows Phone 7 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU 3.8-inch capacitive display, WVGA resolution 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and 720p video recording 16GB internal storage WiFi b/g/n GPSGood...
It seems like the world is waiting to hear more about the Nokia and Microsoft deal, and when we’ll actually see some Windows Phone powered Nokia’s in the store. Now we have a little more insight into this, when Denis Liudkovski, boss of Russia’s second largest retailer Sviaznoj, stated that his stores will get the Nokia Windows Phone before the end of this year. He extracted this bit of information from a meeting with Stephen Elop himself, where they discussed Sviaznjo’s Nokia shop-in-shop concept. “We are the...
Angry Birds fanatics need to wait a little bit longer for the game to be released for Windows Phone 7. The game was supposed to be released on May 25, but has been delayed by over a month to June 29. There’s no word on what caused the delay, but Microsoft commented that when the game is available on June 29, it will cost $2.99 and include 195 levels. Other big games for Windows Phone 7 that will see the light of day in the future:Hydro Thunder GP, May 25 Doodle Jump, June 1 Geodefense, June 8 Sonic The Hedgehog Episode 1, June...
A press shot has apparently been leaked somewhere in New Zealand. The image above shows two new features of Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, a Linked Inbox and a new People Hub live tile. We’ve seen the Linked Inbox announced a few days ago, together with a few other business oriented details. The Linked Inbox will let a user combine many inboxes into one. This is something that many users have been waiting for, me included. The second thing that is different in the image is the People Hub live tile. In currently shipping Windows Phone 7...
Samsung has today released a patch for those who experienced an update error when trying to update their Omnia 7 to software version 7392. If you got the update error 801812C1 when applying the udpate, then this patch is for you! The software will fix the bricked device, and will let you update it again using Zune. After the update finishes, the Omnia 7 should run the post-NoDo update with build 7392. If the device got successfully updated to version 7392 prior to today’s patch, then there should be no need for the user to install...
