Microsoft is probably feeling the heat from the new wave of Android powerhouses, particularly the modular LG G5 and water-resistant Galaxy S7/S7 Edge duo. Beside those key selling points, superior RAM counts and faster processors, these high-end rookies are also
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For a mobile OS iteration that’s been struggling with various bugs and stability issues essentially since its very inception, putting off updates of devices running on older builds more than once, Windows 10 is ...
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Microsoft picked and chose which carrier would get its new Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL devices in the US. The company wanted to be the source of clean software updates, something Apple can be for pretty much all of ...
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Man, when it rains, it pours, and already today we’ve been talking about delay after delay in the smartphone world. It looks like we’ve got at least one more for you before the day’s out, and this time we’re swinging back around to a company already wrapped up in some of that earlier delay talk, as we get an update on Microsoft’s planned distribution of Windows 10 Mobile updates for Windows Phone handsets – and
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We will probably never know for sure if Lumia 950 and especially 950 XL’s recent availability woes were caused by software and firmware glitches or a simple case of demand exceeding supply (or a bit of both), but all’s well that ends well, and
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There’s a very delicate balance between smooth software and polished hardware Microsoft needs to strike before calling the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL ready to thrill, and with Windows 10 Mobile relatively stable (for a beta OS) after recent patches, it’s time the firmware on the two devices got revised in more markets.
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Well, that didn’t take long. Redmond officially announced roughly 24 hours ago the latest minor but important maintenance update for the recently stabilized Windows 10 Mobile was pulled from its servers on account of unforeseen glitches, and already, the 10586.29 build is again available to download.An unnamed ...
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How ironic is it that Redmond rolled out build 10586.29 of its newest mobile Windows iteration specifically to take care of minor bugs and performance issues yielded by previous software updates, and the system refurbishment effort in turn gave birth to more severe stability glitches?Ironic, as well as sad for ...
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A decades-old rule of journalism says never to end a news headline in a question mark. But the latest scoop on Microsoft’s prospective Windows 10 Mobile growth plans is too puzzling to provide any sort of guarantees, yet too juicy to be altogether ignored.What comes after the Lumia 950 and 950 XL? A pair of 960 flagships with Snapdragon 820 processing power seems like the safest bet, though a business-oriented
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What! Free hardware!? That’s something worth putting in an interrobang for. Specifically, Microsoft Insiders who were involved with Windows 10 Mobile were recently given surveys that let slip hints and nudges towards a hardware testing initiative. As the Lumia 950 and 950 XL are officially out for sales as well as the Display Docks, it seems that other shoe’s dropped.A Redditor has relayed a letter from Microsoft that he’s ...
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Forget ominous, isolated reports in the UK hinting at system instability on Lumia 950 and 950 XL units running the RTM version of Windows 10 Mobile. The platform is likely silky smooth, or else Microsoft wouldn’t expand the newest maintenance update from the Technical Preview channel to the general public in a matter of days.Yes, build 10586.29 made its way from
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Indonesia is an Android user’s market. It’s not unlike most other parts in the world. But while Microsoft is struggling to keep Windows 10 Mobile market share, the country is still a hotspot of activity for other companies. It seems that Redmond doesn’t want to ignore it. Of concern to us is whether Microsoft wants to deliver its hotness in either a variant of an existing Lumia device or a new one.
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This fall’s Lumia flagships have been a long time coming; Windows smartphones fans have been waiting for a new top-tier model for a while now, and they just got two in the form of the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL. But do these models really deliver on our admittedly high expectations? Just the other day we brought you our in-depth Lumia 950 review, and while features like Continuum were big stands-outs, the presence of some annoying bugs and an overall uninspired design combined to a bring us a handset that ...
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Just because the mobile-dedicated rendition of Microsoft’s greatest desktop operating system yet has finally been released to manufacturing, so at least theoretically it’s fully stable and polished, it doesn’t mean Redmond’s engineers will abruptly stop trying to make the platform better.Insider feedback shall continue to be appreciated as well, starting with the first cumulative update to Windows 10 Mobile ...
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Just because the mobile-dedicated rendition of Microsoft’s greatest desktop operating system yet has finally been released to manufacturing, so at least theoretically it’s fully stable and polished, it doesn’t mean Redmond’s engineers will abruptly stop trying to make the platform better.Insider feedback shall continue to be appreciated as well, starting with the first cumulative update to Windows 10 Mobile ...
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