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Windows Phone 8.1 Developers Prevew picks up its third update

While others still waiting for the OTA 8.1 updates, which is about a month away from being released, those phones who registered as developers already have Windows Phone 8.1 up and running, and today, it picks up its third update for the OS. To give you a recap, the first update was to deal with the […]

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Xbox Music got update for June, brings transparent Live Tile

Although Windows Phone 8.1 has been praised by many, the Music hub is one of the most buggy parts of the newest update. Trouble with shuffling music and lag are some of the real trouble that this app has. Well, luckily, Microsoft is working at a very fast pace to solve some of this issue. In […]

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Kinect gesture-based phone is coming to Microsoft’s flagship Windows Phone

The few weeks, we’ve heard some rumors that Microsoft’s newest Windows Phone flagship after the Nokia acquisition, codenamed “McLaren,” and will be available on three big carriers, those are AT&T, Verizon and T-mobile as soon as this fall. Although we had speculated that with this time frame, it is possible that this will be the […]

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Microsoft plans to update Cortana twice a month

Although with all the praise that Cortana gets from reviewers, there is no denying that she is still in Beta mode. Weak voice recognition and result data base make her a bit immature, even know it is available for the US, and will soon roll out for the UK and other English-speaking regions (and China […]

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Schedule for Cyan Update leaked

    Although I enjoy Windows Phone 8.1 on my phone, it’s just the developer preview version, and no where near finish. There are still numerous update to fix bugs and lag that still exist, and although the overall looks to be ready, there was no official schedule of when will Nokia release Windows Phone […]

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Microsoft shows off new hardware from Blu, Prestigio and Yezz

Today, Microsoft’s Nick Parker (a Microsoft executive) came to Computex 2014 (at Taiwan) to announce some new hardware that from new partner that was announced at Build 2014 in the beginning of April. The new partners that came out with new Smartphone that is running Windows Phone 8.1 are Blu, Pretigio and Yezz. First off, for […]

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Microsoft and HTC are preparing some “new things”

  During the past year, Microsoft and HTC didn’t have the best relationship. On one hand, the growth of Windows Phone in sales and even in the maturity of the platform itself is too slow for a company that has almost all of their phone run Android; on the other hand, HTC did not do […]

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Windows Phone 8.1 Preview Update 12393

At 1 PM ET, Microsoft releases a new update for Windows Phone 8.1. But changes are minimal. The second update, the first one came in May and that was just an improvement in battery life. This update feature was unclear, but some report shows a change in boot screen Icon, and take Quite Hours from Cortana and […]

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HTC rumored to be release a Windows Phone handset for Verizon

It really has been a long time since the last time HTC released a Windows Phone, and we are tired of all the One-Windows Phone rumors. Well, this time it’s actually a legit news it seems. Verizon has been picking up a lot of high-end Windows Phone this year, from the Samsung Ativ SE to […]

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BBM is coming to Windows Phone 8

  Well, we all see the success of WhatsApp, got bought for $19 billion and still making about $49 per user (500 million active users monthly). Instant message apps are a booming business, and that was why less than a year ago, John Chen opened up the BBM service to other platforms other than its […]