Advertisements No new flagship, even more Android competition along with a strong resurgence from the bigger iPhones mean mostly a decline for WindowsPhone. Overall in the big EU5, WP was down 1.5% to 8.3. Up: Germany, Australia, Japan Down: Spain, Italy, France, China, GB, USA (EU5) Android, surprisingly was down, losing more by percentage […]
This WindowsPhone related story was on my front page at the top of reddit/r/bestof, It’s one of if not the bigger discussion thread I’ve seen there with 892 comments in the original r/windowsphone thread. Redditor finds “strange numbers” underneath the time on his phone, discovers that it is the current date: http://np.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/2rilpy/what_are_those_numbers_in_the_top_right/ what are those #-# […]
A couple of tweets from Tom Warren. The first is a purposely blurred look at Spartan browser – the new browser for Windows 10 that does away with the legacy stuff; cleaner, lighter, with new add-ons. First look at new Spartan browser pic.twitter.com/xgIwkBmrRS — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) January 7, 2015 Tom reminded us that we’ll also […]
You can grab VLC for WP today. Thomas Nigro says it’s still in beta so there’ll be crashes and experimental stuff. The VLC team would also love to hear your feedback so they can get fix them and improve it for the full release. https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/vlc-for-windows-phone/44fa83f7-a98d-4647-b9d4-c35ed729d0c9 Reddit user, DeaderThanElvis, found it refreshingly beautiful: …but I have to […]
Check out this new concept UI for Windows (phone) 10. I like it! There’s the usual tile interface but now with a background. The bigger change is the persistent tabs on on that show the start, programmes (essentially the same) but then a file browser and search function (which somewhat does what the old search […]
What’s happening regarding Windows Phone’s Future, aka Windows 10 on phones? No explicit details have been officially confirmed; only a few tiny snippets here and there in leaks. Over on Weibo, Beliore has supposedly shared a message that outlines the following: Thanking users for their continued support acknowledgement of frustrations regarding launching iOS/Android versions of Office without any corresponding news […]
Another video, this time, on top of the faster start up time we have faster shot to shot time. I can’t even tell if it took the photo or not. It just looks like it’s auto-focussing and then the finger is released. BUT we are assured that the 1520 is saving the pictures almost instantly. […]
This video gives a longer overview of Lumia denim changes, as demoed on the Nokia Lumia 930 below. Here’s the first time I’ve seen the training portion of the always listening Cortana. Just say “Hey Cortana” 5 times during the recording portion and it will then always be listening and will activate under a lock […]
Are you on Lumia Denim with the latest Lumia Camera update? These two videos show just how fast Lumia Camera with denim starts up so you’re less likely to miss a shot. The first video shows the Nokia Lumia 1520 (denim) against the Nokia Lumia 930 (cyan). Different devices but essentially similar under the hood. […]
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