Looking for our original Dell Venue Pro review from 2011? Check it out here. Wondering about the tablet family with the same name from 2013? Peep this. Want a sweet nostalgia trip? See below.•There was a time when manufacturers still pushed the boundaries of industrial design, when Windows Phone was the newest smartphone platform around, and Dell still called ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Google’s new update to the Windows Phone search app that many have waited for the longest time. We later talk about Android, some leaks to its source code, and some possible updates that include RAW photo support, along with a new API. Qualcomm follows the news as the company has just released a smartwatch that’s being dubbed the Toq. Apple follows the news as the company has just released iOS 7.1 beta to developers. We end today’s show talking about the iPad mini With Retina Display, some complaints about its color ...
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In case you are not using the Beta version of Facebook for Windows Phone (both 8 and 7.5), in order to get access to the latest improvements (and some bugs that come with the Beta package), you might be interested in updating your non-beta/final application. There’s a new version that brings some features to your phone. You can, with the latest version, batch-upload pictures in messages, you can unfriend someone or unlike something, as well as use the improved inline @tagging capabilities. There are ...
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Admit it: if you’ve been following mobile tech for as long as we have, there’s probably been at least one occasion when you’ve confused ASUS and Acer. And why not? Both are based out of Taiwan, both make Android as well as Windows-running products, and while we’ve seen phones from each, they’re both probably best known for their tablets. Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about mergers and acquisitions –
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Feature-for-feature, the official Twitter app for Windows Phone may lag behind the software available on platforms like iOS or Android, but it still endeavors to do improve, and today we see the arrival of an update that manages to pack in a whole bunch of new features. More than one of these improvements are photo-based, like the app now supporting external lens apps in Windows Phone 8. The app itself gets eight new built-in effects filters. It’s also now more convenient to ...
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When it comes to apps on Windows Phone, users of the platform have come to live with two unpleasant realities: they have access to fewer apps than other major platforms, and they often end up paying more for the same apps than users on iOS or Android might. Microsoft’s got a new promotion to help ease the pain of expensive apps, at least, announcing yesterday the arrival of some new weekly promotional offers. Microsoft tweeted its announcement of the forthcoming deals, alerting users to be on the lookout “for the red stripe in the Windows Phone Store.” Indeed, today ...
The latest U.S. numbers are in from comScore for the three-month average period ending January 2013 and, while there aren’t any changes in the ranking, the percentage points are just a tad different. Apple and Samsung are still in their comfortable leading positions in the OEM standings, both registering a slight growth, while HTC, still in third, is losing a bit of ground. Compared to October 2012, Apple has managed to strengthen its leading position by adding 3.5% to its figures for a total of 37.8%. Samsung is also on the rise only adding 1.9% this time for a total of 21.4%, ...
BBC’s iPlayer is already present on platforms like Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS or BlackBerry’s BBOS and, as a direct effect of an agreement between BBC and Microsoft, Windows Phone users should get their own flavor soon. By the looks of it you should not wait for a dedicated application but rather for a browser-based access with a Live Tile. To quote Cyrus Saihan, Head of Business Development, “we will be releasing a shortcut to BBC iPlayer in the near future which will be available in the Windows Phone Store, enabling the BBC iPlayer website to work on ...
Sitting on the couch the other night, I saw a commercial that really piqued my interest. Lumia 920 from AT&T – buy one get one free. Holy Crow! That’s just the excuse that I’ve been looking for! Sure I’d have to go on contract again – I haven’t bought an AT&T phone since June of 2010 – but this might just be worth it. But wait. As much as a Lumia 920 would fulfill a good portion of my smart phone naughty dreams, is this REALLY the best time to pony up $100 and the next two years of my life on a new phone? Can the Lumia 920 still be considered a “new” phone? It ...
Part of me has always rooted for the underdog. I was a huge fan of webOS when I first caught wind of it; I loved Android long before it ever came to market; I pulled for MeeGo until it was evident the OS had no future with Nokia; and I’m currently rooting for Jolla’s MeeGo-based Sailfish OS, Ubuntu Phone OS, Ubuntu for Android and Open webOS. While not all of these up-and-coming platforms will succeed, I continue to pull for them – they each have a golden nugget of potential. Some consider Windows ...