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  • A Archos Reveals New Android And Windows Tablets, Phones

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    plans to release the 40 Cesium smartphone, powered by Windows Phone 8.1 and a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor. This phone will be made available in September, sporting a 4-inch screen and a choice of three cases: yellow, blue

  • A Huawei Boss: Windows Phones "On Hold," Tizen "No Chance Of Success"

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    , after a long break) Windows Phone for its HTC M8 phone, Huawei seems to be going the other direction, having lost money on this platform over the past two years. "We have tried using the Windows Phone OS. But it has been difficult

  • A Nokia Lumia Icon & Lumia 930 Review: Windows Phone, Premium

    - in Articles > Verizon

    Windows Phone Gets A New Flagship surpassed Blackberry's market share in 2013, and shipped more than 10 million devices in Q4 of last year? Or that Windows Phone doubled its global smartphone OS market share in Q3, to just under one-third of Apple's? Now that it owns Nokia

    Design, Look, And Feel pull it open with a fingernail. The front face of the phone hosts a speaker/mic, with a 2 MP camera just to the right. There are three illuminated Windows Phone buttons right below the 5" screen, and another forward-facing microphone

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    Windows Phone 8 And Nokia Software Tour It's surprising to me how often other reviewers draw inaccurate, assumptive, and negative conclusions about Microsoft's mobile operating system. To be clear, I'm no iOS or Android hater, and when I first decided to give Windows Phone 8

    Availability, Options, And Accessories .0 and 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi radios. We couldn't get Windows Phone 8 to recognize a Bluetooth-attached keyboard or mouse, since the operating system doesn't support the required HID profile. That's going to become more of a limitation as form

    Benchmark Suite, Methodology, And Test System Specs Benchmark Suite Comparing smartphone performance is a little more challenging than comparing PC components, since we have to find benchmarks that work across Windows Phone 8, Android, and iOS. Of the three, Windows Phone 8

    Results: System And Graphics Tests 4.0 game engine, Rightware’s Basemark X is a cross-platform graphics benchmark for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8. This test utilizes Unity’s modern features via the OpenGL ES 2.0 render path. Features like high poly count models

    Results: Web And Battery Tests for iOS-based devices, while Internet Explorer is the only game in town on Windows RT and Windows Phone 8. Browsermark 2.0 Rightware’s Browsermark 2.0 is a synthetic browsing benchmark that tests several performance metrics, including load

    Results: Brightness, Black Level, Contrast Ratio, And Gamma of Windows Phone 8's lack of a brightness slider. Instead, this is as low as we can get using the low setting. Naturally, device comparisons are challenging with only three brightness options on the Icon. We typically dial devices into exactly

    Will The Icon Convert You From Android Or iOS? this package is tightly-built. If Windows Phone 8 already is your favorite, you can't do better than the Icon, which gets Microsoft on equal footing, hardware-wise, with some of the most advanced devices introduced thus far in 2014. Whether you're

    Camera Features And Example Photos . Even still, the Icon's 20 MP sensor, dual-LED flash, f/2.4 aperture, and Carl Zeiss optics with optical image stabilization are top-tier specifications, and they combine to yield impressive results. Being a Lumia phone, the Icon

  • A HTC One (M8) Cloned, Now Offers Windows Phone 8.1 Too

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    Mobile handset maker HTC revealed the HTC One (M8) for Windows, a new version of the company's flagship smartphone that uses Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1 platform instead of Android. The device will be available this Tuesday

  • A Our 20 Favorite Apps For Your Windows Phone 8 Device

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    Time To Give Windows Phone 8 A Chance it would get better. I kept the faith and followed up with HTC's Touch Diamond as friends with iPhones were enjoying their far smoother smartphone experience. When it was time to retire my Windows Mobile phone, I grudgingly gave Apple my money

    Chronos Calendar While the standard Windows Phone 8 Calendar app is serviceable, it's a bare bones affair that offers relatively little information in separate screens, and even less customization. The solution is Chronos Calendar. A $1.99 purchase

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    SkyDrive Microsoft's cloud storage service is called SkyDrive, and it's another free download from the Windows Phone store. Not only is SkyDrive a good backup system for photos you snap from the phone, but because every Windows Phone 8 comes

    Here Transportation Suite (Drive, Maps, And Transit) The excellent Here app suite was developed by Nokia. But Microsoft wisely purchased the rights to deliver them to all Windows Phone 8 users for free. Maps is a good alternative to Google Maps, and Transit is a surprisingly convenient

    MyAppFree Here's one that the iOS folks might envy, now that Apple's draconian policies have wiped AppGratis from the App Store. MyAppFree can be described as a Windows Phone 8 equivalent, spotlighting applications that are offered for free

    Shortcut Tiles Windows Phone 8 doesn't come with Live Tile shortcuts for connectivity settings, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Airplane mode, forcing you to dig into the settings to find them. The solution: Shortcut Tiles, an app that adds Live Tile

    Aupeo! Radio And Mixtapes Yes, Pandora is available for Windows Phone 8. But if you're not in the U.S., you're out of luck; that service is limited by geography. I use both Aupeo! Radio and Mixtapes, two free apps (with available subscriptions) that provide

    Bing Translator , German, and Chinese can all be downloaded for offline use. Most important, it's a free download from the Windows Phone store.

    Shrink Storage It's unfortunate that the otherwise solid Windows Phone 8 operating system has a storage glitch where, in some cases, the Other/Apps category can grow by itself. Fortunately, the free Shrink Storage app can take care of the problem

    Battery Level Windows Phone 8 provides a handy battery level icon. But if you want a bit more detail, the Battery Level app (by The OC) is the way to go. It adds Live Tile support, Lock Screen support, and a free-ninety-nine price tag.

  • A New Features Arrive with Windows Phone 8.1 Update

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    Microsoft's Joe Belfiore updated the Windows Phone blog with news that the company is gearing up to release the platform's first update. The changes include adding Cortana in other countries, live folders, an update to Xbox Music

  • A How to Try Windows Phone 8.1 Ahead of General Release

    - in Articles > Microsoft

    Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1 was announced less than two weeks ago, but Microsoft is already releasing this version of its mobile operating system to developers. Microsoft today announced that registered developers will have access

  • A Lumia 625 vs. Lumia 635: Entry-level Windows Phone 8.1

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    for Build. We've already met the Lumia 930 and the Lumia 630, and now we've got the follow on to the Lumia 625: the Lumia 635. Spec Lumia 625 Lumia 635 OS Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8.1 Screen 4.7-inch 480x800 pixels LCD

  • A Nokia Lumia 620 vs. Lumia 630: Budget Windows Phone 8.1

    - in Articles > Smartphones

    that was made available last year. Spec Lumia 620 Lumia 630 OS Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8.1 Screen 3.8-inch ClearBlack LCD 800×480 4.5-inch FWVGA display, ClearBlack LCD Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Qualcomm

  • A Windows Phone 8.1 Introduces Cortana (Update: Hands-on)

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    Today Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8.1 at Build, the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco. Windows Phone 8.1 adds a voice-enabled personal digital assistant called Cortana, along with a host of user experience

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