HTC confirms the Windows Phone 8S will not come to the U.S.
We haven’t heard much about the HTC 8S since it was announced a couple months ago. The 8S is a slightly lower spec’d version of the 8X that comes in some crazier color combinations. So where is it? Speculation suggested that the 8S was not made for the U.S., and HTC has finally confirmed that. [...]
Words With Friends gets updated with stability improvements
Words With Friends finally came to Windows Phone several weeks ago, and today it’s getting its first update. A lot of users were complaining about WWF. It’s obvious Zynga just ported the game from iOS, so naturally there are some bugs. The changelog lists “stability and crashes” along with “performance and load times” fixes. it [...]
Santa keeps track of you with his live tiles in this new WP8 ad [Video]
Microsoft is continuing their holiday themed nostalgia commercials, this time featuring Santa and the elves and demonstrating how live tiles help you keep up to date on the people that matter most in your life. It’s a great display of how live tiles work and we applaud Microsoft for finally getting around to showing the [...]
New Nokia job listing could hint at Android if WP8 doesn’t work out
It looks as though Nokia is working on something Linux-related and while it could be Android and it could be something else, we’re curious nonetheless. Gizmodo is reporting that Nokia has posted a new job listing on its LinkedIn page, seeking a principle software engineer whose job description will be to “oversee the development of [...]
12% of developers are responsible for two-thirds of the Windows Store apps
With more than 20,000 apps available in the Windows Store, you expect a sort of diversity among the developers who have put them there. However, there seems to be a pretty big disparity in the amount of apps being developed by certain developers. According to a tweet from Win App Update, 12% of developers that [...]
Samsung ATIV S delayed in Canada until mid-December
The first Windows Phone 8 device has become the last Windows Phone 8 device. We’re talking about the Samsung ATIV S that was shown off before the Lulmia 920 and HTC 8X, but has been beaten by both to market. In Canada the ATIV S was expected on several carriers in November, but it looks [...]
Surface Pro: Why public perception is causing a pricing conflict
Earlier today pricing was revealed for Microsoft Surface Pro. Unlike it’s earlier sibling, this Surface runs a full build of Windows 8, and it is priced accordingly. There are two price points: $900 for 64GB and $1000 for 128GB. There has been much debate already about the pricing of this model, but how will Joe [...]
A look at Baconit for Windows Phone 8 [Video]
One of our favorite (and often mentioned) Windows Phone apps is Baconit. This Reddit client is one of the best and most feature packed apps you will find in the Windows Phone Store. Baconit was updated today with several new features to take advantage of WP8. The most notable WP8 features are the new lockscreen [...]
Microsoft reveals pricing details on the Surface Pro
The Surface RT has been available a little over a month now and with reports that it isn’t doing so well in the consumer markets, it makes sense that Microsoft would announce the Surface Pro in an attempt to put the Surface RT to its grave. Today Microsoft announced pricing for two different models of [...]
Windows Phone 8 hacked onto Windows Mobile 6.5 device
Remember all that hooplah about Windows Phone 8 not coming to current Windows Phone 7 devices because of hardware incompatibilities? Well that’s gone right out the window as Team DFT have managed to hack Windows Phone 8 onto the HTC HD2. The whole process is pretty remarkable considering Windows Phone 8 features some extensive security [...]
