In an effort to build anticipation for one of the most highly-awaited blockbusters of the year and to somehow promote its new Lumia 900 smartphone, Nokia has released an exclusive trailer for the movie The Dark Knight Rises. As we all know, the Finnish mobile phone company is heavily sponsoring the film with the release of its Batman-themed Dark Knight Rises Nokia Lumia 900 mobile phone. The limited edition phone comes in a Batman matte finish and is embossed with a cool Batman logo. The phone is free on contracts from £31 a month, while...
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It appears that Apple is not the only tech company that has problems handling secrets. Reports say that a Windows Phone program manager at Microsoft has been fired after posting a tweet about a Nokia device running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. Joe Marini, a program manager for Windows Phone at Microsoft, made a harmless tweet confirming an unnamed Windows Phone 7 device being developed by Finland-based phone giant Nokia. This will be the phone manufacturer’s first attempt at running another operating system...
Samsung Galaxy S II is selling like crazy nowadays, and by reading its specs and online reviews, its safe to say that its a hot piece of hardware. Now, it seems like the company is about to try and use the phone’s success to make a new Windows Phone 7 device. A number of reports said that clues to a possible release of a Windows Phone 7 version of the Samsung Galaxy S II have surfaced, and those are pretty convincing. It all started when a device labelled SGH-i937 appeared on the website of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth...
Finally, some good news for Windows Phone 7 users! Rovio’s popular Angry Birds game franchise, which is available on the iOS and Android platforms, as finally landed on the Windows Phone platform. It would feel like something is missing on your smartphone if you don’t have Angry Birds installed, as there is something about attempting to collect three stars that make everyone go gaga. Angry Birds is available for download in the Windows Marketplace for $2.99 in the US, and for those who don’t want to pay for the game,...
Windows Phone 7 owners will have to wait a little longer for Angry Birds and a few other top end games despite previous announcements from Microsoft which suggested they would arrive next week. In February Microsoft announced a major overhaul of their mobile operating system which would include advances in gaming, this is still happening and will bring some cool new titles to the table including Hydro Thunder Go on 25th May. Doodle Jump will be available on 1st June with other titles rolling out each week after including GeoDefence on...
NFC may very well be the payment method of the future, but we need to all get access to it first, don’t we? Well, some leaks which have just appeared suggest that Microsoft may be working on exactly that idea right now. The news has come from unnamed people at Bloomberg and the smart money is on this change being implemented in a significant software update to the Windows Phone 7 later on this year. October is being talked about already but we will need to wait and see what happens on that score. Whenever the change happens, and it now...