According to a recent rumor, Nokia is planning to release a new Windows Phone featuring a vertical QWERTY keyboard, similar to the E6.
We’re as perplexed as you are in finding out about this, especially since the Windows Phone OS doesn’t support these types of resolutions.
Of course, if Windows Phone 8 were to be running on the vertical QWERTY Windows Phone device, then we might assume that Apollo could also be bringing support for some new screen resolutions (four to be precise).
The next in line in the Xbox Live “Must Have Games” series is Toy Soldiers: Boot Camp and we’re happy to announce that it’s finally available for download on Windows Phone.
We’re been expecting this title for quite a while and it’s great that today we get to announce its release on Xbox Live, especially for the small price of $2.99.
Considering that other “Must Have Games” like Splinter Cell: Conviction and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit have been available for $4.99, suffice to say that the new Toy Soldiers: Boot Camp is a bargain.
According to The Verge, Microsoft is currently testing the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset (also known as MSM8960) and the device housing this processor might be landing at Sprint by the end of the year.
The 1.5 GHz dual-core chip is supposed to have some impressive performances and it even surpassed the Samsung’s Galaxy S II and Motorola’s Droid 4 with ease.
Sprint has made it clear a while back that it’s not interested in releasing any Windows Phone device until Windows Phone 8 is launched and also available with full LTE support.
The beta version of the Nokia Transport app for Windows Phone is finally available for download to all those that are interested in taking it for a spin.
In case you missed it, the app was first spotted at the Mobile World Congress a couple of days back and it’s supposed to bring complete door-to-door routes when traveling on foot, by bus, train, tram, or underground.
Featuring some pretty amazing integrated data for travel, information from over 700 of the leading public transit agencies and availability in 46 countries, 512 cities, and 24 languages, the Nokia Transport app for Windows Phone is by far the most comprehensive transportation app ever.
Kelly Ripa, the host of the morning talk show LIVE! with Kelly, has given away free Nokia Lumia 710 devices to everyone that was part of the live audience studio.
About 180 members were lucky enough to receive a free Lumia 710 Windows Phone device along with 6 months of free service with T-Mobile.
As far as Windows Phone campaign goes, this publicity stunt that the guys from Nokia managed to pull off will definitely get them a lot more public awareness than ever before.
Yanko Andreev came up with a pretty sweet Public Transportation app for Windows Phone that we believe to be a success if it can be implemented the right way.
Nokia has already made public that they have something similar (Nokia Transport) but this new concept could access the GPS system on bus stations around you, meaning that you won’t be overwhelmed by irrelevant information.
Displaying only the nearest bus stations around your location, this public transportation concept will only show you relevant data and guide you using a radar-like compass system.
About a month ago, we reported that the online retailer Carphone Warehouse jumped the gun and started to accept pre-orders for the Nokia Lumia 900.
At the time, they had the delivery date set for June and we took that information as being perfectly accurate.
However, they’ve just bumped the delivery date ahead by one month, placing the arrival of the new Nokia Lumia 900 sometime in May.
The game goes officially by the name Pah! Voice Activated and you can easily find it in the Windows Phone marketplace if you search the “voice activated” tag.
The amazing thing about Pah! is that you get to control a laser shooting spaceship using only your voice and two simple sounds: “Ahhhhhhhhh” for flying up and down and “Pah” for blasting the enemy.
It’s definitely entertaining (to say the least), but you’d better make sure that you’re alone when you’re playing the game because your family won’t really appreciate your shooting or screaming.
The Soundtracker app for Windows Phone has just received a major update, being bumped to version 2.6 with quite a few new and interesting features.
For one, you can now listen to your favorite artists in the background and not have to worry that as soon as you open another app it will “pause” the playback.
Also, a new redesigned player is now available that will significantly speedup your browsing process making the 11 million tracks database a lot easier to go through.
The Nokia Lumia 800 has just become available in Australia but it seems that enthusiast are already interested in learning more about the internet sharing feature that failed to be present on the device.
The guys from WPDownUnder have managed to find out that a tethering update could be heading for the Australian Lumia 800 so that internet sharing can be enabled on select carriers.
If so, we’ll be seeing a new update being rolled out to the Nokia Lumia 800 after seeing the battery fix not long ago.
Although we were pretty fond of the old Nokia Maps and even Bing Maps, the two companies have decided to update their service to something that will make navigation a lot simpler.
Nokia Maps and Bing Maps have been update on both websites so that you can easily find your way across the urban chaos without having to get caught up in the details.
With a strong emphasis on orderly presenting roads, locations and directions, both mapping services now make it a lot easier for you to spot your favorite locations and even get from A to B without too much of a headache.
Windows Phone is getting more and more customizable thanks to the guys at Windows Phone Hacker, because it seems that they’re currently working on a way to bring widgets to your lock screen.
We know, you’re probably thinking that it will resemble Android too much, but if you think about it the idea is actually pretty good because you’ll be able to check out favorite feeds and even the whether without having to visit the home screen menu.
Currently under development and pretty much a work in progress, the team might be persuaded to release a homebrew app if a lot of you are interested in seeing the idea manifested.
The Nokia Lumia 610 has been promoted as a low-end Windows Phone device that has been specifically launched for emerging markets.
However, this doesn’t mean that it’s overall design and hardware features turn it into less of an attraction, because it already won two awards at the Mobile World Congress a couple of days ago.
Being awarded the Best Budget Smartphone by Laptop Magazine and also winning the Best in Show from Tom’s Hardware, the Nokia Lumia 610 seems to have made quite the impression
Samsung has just confirmed to the guys at TechRadar that they’re planning to release a bunch of new Windows Phone 8 devices later this year that will significantly emphasize the synergy between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
Matt Brum, head of product management at Samsung, also goes on in saying that Samsung is currently looking for new ways to better optimize their devices in preparation for the Apollo release, meaning that support for dual-core processors could be something that Windows Phone 8 might be featuring.
Although the exact number of Windows Phone handsets out there has been greatly debated, it looks like we could finally have an estimate on just how many devices are there out in the wild.
A recent statistic involving active Windows Phone Facebook users confirms that the 1.5 million milestone has just been crossed and that there could be about 10 million Windows Phone devices running around.
Not long ago, Gartner estimated that Windows Phone sales between Q4 2010 and Q1 2012 have reached 8.3 million devices, thus feeding into the whole 10 million shipped smartphones theory.
