Microsoft's smartwatch coming this October, will work on cross-platforms

We have been reporting and covering rumors of Microsoft's smartwatch from many months. We saw many patent filling that indicated that Microsoft is working on wearable tech. Today a rumor is making the rounds that Microsoft's smartwatch will come this October with eleven sensors, open APIs and more. WSJ reported that Microsoft has...

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@evleaks: Microsoft To License Nokia Brand For Phones

@evleaks reports that Microsoft is attempting to license the Nokia brand, presumably for smartphones, so handsets can be called Nokia by Microsoft. Apparently the Lumia brand, which Microsoft already owns, will also replace the Surface brand. Microsoft can already use the Nokia brand for feature phones, ASHA handsets and Nokia X for...

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Cortana's latest update will let you predict Football results

A great news coming straight from Microsoft where Group Program Manager for Cortana on Windows Phone, Marcus Ash, has announced a new service update for Cortana on Windows Phone. Funnily, given the lack of popularity of football/soccer in USA, the update would have been more useful for the rest of the world who are actually interested in World Cup 2014. Microsoft recently started using Bing's search engine as a way to predict...

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Official 4shared app comes to the Windows Phone Store

It is always great for us and all the Windows Phone Community when a organisation or a company releases their official app on the store. Today we are looking at the official app for 4shared.com. The file sharing app lets you access up to 30 million files uploaded by others and also securely share content. The app has more than 50 million...

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Xolo debuts Windows Phone market with the lightest smartphone

As rumored earlier, LAVA is up with their first Windows Phone. The smartphone was launched today and the main attraction is its weight. The smartphone weights 100g and becomes the lightest smartphone available till date. Pre-orders have begun for a launch in the second week of July. The weight of the WIN Q900s is certainly the big selling...

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ProShot set to receive a huge update

ProShot is a well-received Windows Phone photography app that delivers a DSLR range of controls to your camera. ProShot allows you to control settings such as ISO, White Balance, Shutter Speed, Focus and more. You can shoot in full-auto or take the reins and shoot manual, tweaking the camera's settings to suit your tastes. Proshot is due...

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Tutorial: This work-around will let you get Nokia Cyan on your Lumia 925 now

Nokia has been rolling their latest firmware on Lumia 925 in Finland but it is currently available for only a few users. If you are not among the users who didn't received update, then don't feel unlucky as we have a nice clean trick to get it on Lumia 925. If you are the very impatient type, you can install the Nokia Cyan update, which not only includes the latest version of WP8.1, but also a number of other enhancements...

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Official Windows App Mania app lands on the Windows Phone Store

Guess what? It is Friday and the weekend is about to kick off. We are ready to make your weekend more techie with our own app. After many requests from our readers and one month of hard work, our app has successfully made through Windows Phone Certification and is now live on the store. Our app is just a simple one as it is a initial release. For now it just delivers the RSS feeds of our blog straight on your Windows Phone....

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Microsoft adds Windows Phone 8.1 to the platform update history page

Windows Phone 8.1 is just around the corner as the community waits for its release, unless you reside in Finland where update magic is well under way with the the Lumia Cyan firmware already rolling out. Microsoft has recently added the major platform update to the history page on the Windows Phone website, sitting on top of the three...

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Good news for Nexus 5/7 Owners - Android L Developer Preview

In a surprise move by Google, the company revealed its plans for the next version of Android. It’s currently called L Developer Preview, and it includes more than 5,000 new APIs. “We wanted to take a radical new approach to design,” Google’s Android head Sundar Pichai said. One aspect of Android L, material design, focuses on...

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Microsoft does it again!! Nokia X OS V 2.0 not coming to Nokia X, X+ and XL.

Nokia X2 is here and comes packed with a new version of Nokia X OS termed as “Nokia X software platform 2.0″. The new version has many useful enhancements like “Multitasking view”, enhanced pull-down bar, new Camera UI and some not so much required additions like extra Windows Phone like app drawer. But the Windows Phone 7 – Windows...

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Microsoft Ends Motion Monitor Beta App For Lumia 1520 And Lumia Icon Devices

Back in December last year, Nokia released a new beta app for Lumia 1520 devices called Nokia Motion Monitor via Nokia Beta Labs. As the name suggests, this app tracked your physical activity based on your motion and steps. This app runs in background continuously consuming very little power and you can have updates on your lock...

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Nokia X2 Dual SIM Smartphone with Android announced

Nokia has announced another addition to their X series of Android devices. It has a 4.3-inch WVGA screen, powered by a 1.2 dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor and runs on Nokia X software platform 2.0 based on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 720p HD video recording and a 0.3-megapixel front-facing...

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Samsung's bringing HDR, Smooth and Slow video to their Windows Phone 8.1 app

 Windows Phone 8.1 is around the corner for general release and with it, Samsung is bringing a new camera app. It's not secret that Windows Phone 8.1 unlocks a few advanced features in the camera, including slow motion recording and video editing. Samsung evidently is not letting Nokia get all the glory as their new Camera...

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Review: Hands-On with the Nokia Lumia 630

Nokia Lumia 630 is the first device to hit the stores with Windows Phone 8.1 out of the box. The device was announced by Nokia with its high end brother Lumia 930. While the Lumia 930 still awaits to go in the hands of customers in various regions, we got a Lumia 630 from Nokia Store for review purpose. Believe me or not but I had many...

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Microsoft now promoting non-Nokia Windows Phones on Hollyoaks

In May 2012 Nokia struck a deal with UK Channel 4 and Hollyoaks’s production company Lime Pictures to feature Nokia’s range of Lumia handsets in various product placements on the popular soapie. Research found that the placement was a great success, with Hollyoaks viewers seeing Nokia Lumia handsets as being best for social networking,...

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Microsoft accidentally confirms the existence of Surface Mini

Microsoft has inadvertently confirmed the existence of the Surface Mini in a user manual for the Surface Pro 3, which was recently published on the company's website. The Surface Mini is an interesting device that failed to show up at the Surface Pro 3 event after Microsoft emphasized on the event being "small". Unfortunately, the company...

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Subway Surfers receives monthly update, moves to Brazil

Subway Surfers has enjoyed a steady stream of updates with new content patches and today we're looking at the addition of São Paulo, Brazil to celebrate the this year's World Cup. The game has hit v1.25.0.0 today in Windows Phone Store. You can enjoy the game in fresh visuals. Before moving to the change log section of the new update, let me make it clear that the game still requires 1 GB RAM. It is a big disappointment...

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BBM coming to Windows Phone this July

BlackBerry Messenger is an instant messaging service, popular especially in businesses. The lack of this app for Windows Phone has been criticized but this seems to come to an end now. It has been confirmed the app will come to Windows Phone this year some time ago already, but a specific release date was not given. On yesterday's mornings...

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Microsoft updates a suite of system apps with mysterious improvements

Microsoft Mobile (previously the hardware division at Nokia) has released new versions for a number of system apps available for Lumia Windows Phones. Extras + Info and Call + SMS Filter are joined by Display and Device Hub, each receiving a new version with unknown changes due to the lack of up-to-date changelogs. The Extras + Info store listing (now on version 3.9.2.1) states that more minor improvements have been implemented,...

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Microsoft working on passive-voice activation for Cortana

Answering to a user question on Twitter, Marcus Ash, Microsoft’s Group Program Manager for Cortana on Windows Phone revealed that Microsoft is working on a passive voice activation feature for Cortana. Right now, you need to tap Cortana to listen to your voice commands. Some devices like Moto X, Kinect has a feature called passive voice...

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Russia’s Fly joins the growing Windows Phone OEM flock

WP7Forum.ru reports that the Windows Phone 8.1 OEM community may just have gained another member. According to their sources Russian smartphone OEM Fly is preparing to launch a Windows Phone 8.1 handset. The handset will be competitive with the Nokia Lumia 630 and will also feature dual-SIM support, a vaguely iPhone 5C-type styling...

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Facebook Beta receives a major update

Facebook Beta has finally received a must awaited update that Microsoft's Joe Belfiore mentioned during his recent Reddit AMA. The update brings the popular app up to version 5.3.0.1 (8.3.0.1) for those on Windows Phone 8 and 8.1, respectively. In addition, a detailed changelog has been added, noting a range of improvements including...

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Panorama App Photosynth For Windows Phone Updated To Version 1.7

It’s been more than a year since Microsoft updated its 360 degree panorama app Photosynth for Windows Phone. Today the popular panorama app picked up a minor bug fix update and bumped to version 1.7. Photosynth is one of the best panorama applications available on Windows Phone Store. The app allowing you to create interactive 360 degree panoramas of the places, people, and events that you can share. Version 1.7, unfortunately,...

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Lumia 930 available for pre-order in Finland

We've already covered some locations across Europe where consumers can pre-order the Lumia 930, but Finnish mobile operator TeliaSonera has the new Windows Phone available for pre-order, priced at €549 with an expected release date of July 10 (July 3 for Ireland). The new Windows Phone from Nokia, which sold its handset division to Microsoft earlier this year, is the new flagship from Microsoft Mobile and is available in a variety...

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Micromax launches two new Windows Phones in India

One of the biggest OEM in India, Micromax, as expected launched two Windows Phones for the Indian Market. Both the phones are entry level devices with some mind blowing specs. They are priced well. At a press conference in New Delhi today, Micromax unveiled two Windows Phone devices for the Indian market. Micromax is the first Indian smartphone...

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Deal Alert: Movie Maker 8.1 free for one day only

Windows Phone 8.1 has added a brad new category of 3rd party Video Editors to the App Store and the best app in this brand new category of video editors on Windows Phone 8.1 is Venetasoft’s Movie Maker 8.1. Their app is incredibly  sophisticated, close to desktop-level which is fitting given that the app is a universal one which...

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Microsoft Talks About The Future Of Cortana

Last couple of days, there were lots of speculation and confusion around whether Microsoft will/should bring Cortana on non-Windows devices. Marcus Ash, Group program manager responsible for Cortana on Windows Phone explained it all in a series of Tweets. He confirmed that Microsoft is focused on bringing Cortana to many other countries...

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