Current Windows Phone devices not upgradeable to Apollo

[quote] If you ever needed any proof it's anything but roses ans sunshine over at Microsoft's Windows Phone division, it's this. The next version of Windows Phone, WP8, will run on the NT kernel, which marks a pretty substantial departure from the ...

Message posted on the April 19th, 2012 - 1:08 AM ET

Updating WM6.5 to Windows Phone 7 – yes and no

Will it be possible to update current Windows Mobile Smartphone’s to Windows Phone 7 Series? Different statements from Microsoft representatives certainly haven’t helped clarify this subject.

News published on the March 1st, 2010 - 12:20 PM ET

WM6 applications won’t work on Windows Phone 7

With the upcoming MIX conference, tongues are certainly wagging, and rumours are starting to take shape. Charlie Kindel confirms that Windows Mobile applications won’t be compatible with Windows Phone 7 Series.

News published on the March 5th, 2010 - 12:15 PM ET

Conduit Streamlines Windows Phone App Development, Publishing, Promotion

Conduit Mobile is the first development platform to allow code-free creation of Windows Phone apps and enable seamless submission to the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Press published on the February 22nd, 2012 - 11:00 AM ET

Windows Phone 7 Series, are good ergonomics back?

Announcing change but only revealing limited amounts of information is certainly a common theme among the large players at this years MWC show. At Microsoft, we have been introduced to the general look of their Windows Phone 7 Series interface, but ...

Review published on the February 22nd, 2010 - 5:10 AM ET

Windows Phone 7 not planned for tactile tablets

For tactile tablets, Microsoft will push their Windows 7 OS and Windows Embedded 7, not Windows Phone 7.

News published on the October 13th, 2010 - 12:30 PM ET

Verizon ready to support Windows Phone 8

Microsoft should find a new ally in the carrier Verizon to help in the distribution of their future Windows Phone 8 platform.

News published on the April 20th, 2012 - 11:24 AM ET

Windows Phone 7: a HTC handset ROM out in the wild

A ROM from a future Windows Phone 7 has been presented to the XDA Developers forum. While this belongs to an as yet unknown HTC handset, it probably won’t take long before it is adapted to an existing phone.

News published on the May 17th, 2010 - 12:30 PM ET

Windows Phone 7.8: hollow, pointless and essentially useless

posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2013 18:25 CET [/quote] A few days ago, Microsoft released the long-awaited Windows Phone 7.8 update for all those users who will be stuck on Windows Phone 7 forever because there's no upgrade path to Windows ...

Message posted on the February 3rd, 2013 - 1:02 PM ET

Windows/Nokia - not so good in Europe

<quote> HELSINKI (Reuters) - European consumers show little interest in Nokia's first smartphone using Microsoft's Windows Phone software, a survey by Exane BNP Paribas showed on Friday. "With only 2.2 percent of surveyed buyers firmly ...

Message posted on the December 18th, 2011 - 12:18 PM ET

The Ultimate Windows Mobile Business Phone - A Comparison

There is little question that Windows Mobile has been primarily geared for the enterprise market. While many - including me - have faulted Microsoft for forgetting the consumer market (or seeming so at time), few if any can question their ability to ...

Message posted on the March 22nd, 2009 - 7:41 PM ET

Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop

<http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/2152226/windows-8-mail-leaves-users-pining-for-the-desktop-or-even-their-phones> <quote> "The e-mail client in Windows 8 is the shell of a potentially good application — but Microsoft ...

Message posted on the July 14th, 2012 - 12:18 AM ET

Copying windows to another box and activating it

Copying windows to another box and activating it? Now I have been given an old Dell PC that is still a lot newer than my current mobo, and it is licensed for XP-home, which I'm using now. My plan (LOL) is to clone*** my XP partition and my data ...

Message posted on the May 3rd, 2011 - 8:44 PM ET

Playing IMA ADPCM encoded WAV files on Windows Mobile 6.1

I have wave files that I'm receiving as part of a voicemail text transcription service from my cell service provider. The wave files have the original voice message as an email attachment. However I cannot play these on my HTC Touch Diamond that ...

Message posted on the June 11th, 2009 - 12:20 PM ET

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