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by Daniel Rubino
May 04, 2012
Business Insider is reporting that Skype is causing Microsoft and by extension Nokia problems in terms of sales of their Lumia line. The information comes from the shareholder...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 18, 2012
Despite all of us not knowing much about Windows Phone 8 "Apollo" we're sure discussing a lot about it this week.
Netbook News ran a story today about a supposed summit meeting between...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 18, 2012
Speaking of Windows Phone updates and rumors, our friends over at Mi Movil Windows have confirmed with two sources that Windows Phone Tango (finalized as OS build 8773) will be released...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 17, 2012
It would appear that mobile operators in Europe aren't impressed with what Nokia (and Windows Phone as a whole) has to offer to battle Google and Apple in the market. According to Reuters, four...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 28, 2012
Canadian carriers have been pleased with how the Lumia Windows Phones have been selling, according to a report by MobileSyrup. While carriers aren't known to reveal negative sales publicly often...
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by Rich Edmonds
Feb 27, 2012
Paul Thurrott has revisited his Windows Phone review, specifically the part that covers the update process. Now we're all more than aware of how awful previous Windows Phone updates have been (...
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by Rich Edmonds
Feb 13, 2012
According to a report by Professeur Thibault, Microsoft France is using an external agency to help tackle sales staff issues the software giant has experienced with their mobile platform since its...
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by Rich Edmonds
Feb 03, 2012
While Microsoft already has a feedback website dedicated to Windows Phone owners providing suggestions on features in the OS, what was missing was an official location to allow users to voice their...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jan 25, 2012
O2 has come under fire as reports are coming through of the network sharing mobile numbers with websites when browsing the web via 3G. Whenever you connect to a website from a mobile device you...
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by Rich Edmonds
Dec 05, 2011
While the HTC Titan and Samsung Focus S are both proving to be fairly popular in the U.S., we've heard analysts down Nokia for Lumia 800 sales and the manufacturer bouncing back with positive...
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by Rich Edmonds
Nov 21, 2011
On CNET, Roger Chen has written an article pointing at Nokia and Stephen Elop regarding the U.S. market and how the manufacturer should step up their game. He went into talk about customisation,...
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by Daniel Rubino
Nov 03, 2011
We know a few things about about Android: they're ubiquitous, have fragmentation, range from super cheaper to top of the line and now evidently they cost carriers a lot of money in service calls...
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by Seth Brodeur
Oct 16, 2011
Progressive cellular company CREDO Mobile (web site) told Kevyn, over at Glance and Go Radio, that they will be adding a WP7 handset to their lineup later this year. While they did not specify...
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by Daniel Rubino
Jun 22, 2011
We've been covering the seeming anti-Windows Phone/Microsoft bias that local carrier stores have been exhibiting for awhile now--namely that sales reps are giving the shaft to WP7 and instead are...
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by Daniel Rubino
Jun 14, 2011
A few days ago we reported on PC Mag's "study" (we use that terms loosely since the sample was so small) on carriers and how they are pushing/not-pushing Windows Phone 7 in the stores,...
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by Seth Brodeur
Mar 24, 2011
Tired of waiting for NoDo to hit your device? Well, despite some reports that the carriers are to blame for the hold-up, it could in fact be Microsoft's doing. Two European carriers have said that...
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by Daniel Rubino
Jun 04, 2010
Five Windows Phone 7 devices from HTC are rumored to have found homes with various wireless carriers.Conflipper is reporting that the HTC Gold_W is headed to Sprint (the "_W" refers to "World...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 19, 2010
In a leaked document, evidently found by Tweakers.net, some more information has emerged on the internal design, some limitations and drivers in Windows Phone 7.Most the information seems to...
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by George Ponder
Jan 05, 2010
So you're sitting back, enjoying your the new Windows phone you received over the holidays. Downloading apps, emails, and sending text messages to your hearts content on that "unlimited" data...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 05, 2009
This should come as a surprise to no one, given that it was painfully obvious in the Marketplace screenshots Malatesta broke over the weekend, but Microsoft apparently is in talks with carriers...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
One question we get a lot as moderators or technical writers in the WM world has to do with Sprint and their MMS service called
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
PCWorld has just posted a general overview of the basic issues that face somebody interested in buying a Smartphone. For those of us in the mobile world, there's no new information here, but it...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Verizon did it, Sprint did it, and Cingular did it, now T-Mobile has too: raised the per-message cost of SMS messages. I guess they were just feeling left out. I'm still bothered by the fact...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
You really want to check out a couple of posts over at the Consumerist:
"7 Confessions of a Cingular Sales Rep" and "8 Confessions of a Former Verizon Sales Rep". Both are chock-full of tips and...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Bully to Skype, who recently used Tim Wu's stirring (though academic, in both senses of the word) call for Mobile Net Neutrality as support for a petition to the FCC. At issue is that...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
A week ago I wrote a long rant about the wireless carrier business model after the news that a few carriers were plotting a walled-garden-style rival to Google and Yahoo. Well, it looks like I'...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
A new rumor, that a group of companies wants to create a walled-garden-style search engine for mobile devices, is just the latest in a long string of abuses heaped upon the consumer by mobile...
