Tag Archives: Windows Phone

With Android and iOS dominating the market, you’ll be hard pressed to find a good smartphone that runs on a different operating system. That’s precisely why I figured that some of you may be interested in some alternatives, so I decided to dig around a bit and see what I can find. As fate would have it, the Samsung Z1 was finally ...

Spectra is the first game from Gateway Interactive. Gateway teamed up with Chipzel (best known for his work on the Super Hexagon soundtrack) to create a retro style racer that uses gorgeous music and breakneck speed to create a game that is fun, beautiful, and addicting. The goal of Spectra is pretty simple: you’re racing on a procedurally generated track that is covered ...

The Windows Phone app ecosystem often, and with reason, receives criticism. The Windows Phone app selection isn’t as great as iOS or Android, and many of the WP’s titles come no where close to parity with its competition. It’s one of the biggest things holding Windows Phones back. If you’ve ever played something like Infinity Blade on iOS, WP apps ...

Microsoft announced a surprising partnership with Xiaomi, starting with enhancing the Xiaomi Mi4 with Microsoft’s own Windows Phone ROM. The partnership means that users who choose to, will be able to flash a Windows Phone ROM onto the Xiaomi Mi4, a feature which will most likely expand to all Android smartphones in the future. Until now, Windows Phone came pre-installed, ...

Here Maps is one of the best navigation applications that can easily rival with Google Maps and it just received a worldwide update today. The new Here Maps update brings more roads and buildings into your app, no matter where you live. You will start receiving new notifications telling you about new maps that are available for Here Maps, and ...

Acer has announced that it would be launching new Windows Phones in March, after a long two year break from the platform. Since 2012, Acer has been focusing its products around Android, even though the company had launched a Windows Phone running W4 handset in 2012.  CEO Jason Chen confirmed this week that the company is planning to announce a ...

There have been rumors and hints about Windows 10 permanently replacing Windows Phone for some time, but now we’re also finally starting to see some evidence as well. Interestingly, Microsoft themselves recently spilled the beans and they did right on their official website. If you look up either the Lumia 532 or the Lumia 532 Dual-SIM on the said website, ...

Even though Nokia can’t do any manufacturing until 2016 as per the contract with Microsoft, the company is still prepping the Nokia C1 phablet for a launch this year. As usual, Foxconn will be making the handset for the Finnish company and from a series of leaked renders of the phone, we are looking at a pretty attractive device. I ...

Microsoft’s upcoming Lumia Denim update is finally rolling out to Windows Phones and the OTA has quite a few nifty tricks up its sleeve, including 4K recording. Naturally, not all Lumia phones will be lucky enough to get Lumia Denim. Microsoft said that the Lumia 830, Lumia 930, Lumia Icon and Lumia 1520 would be getting the update shortly. What’s ...

Microsoft McLaren is the successor of the Lumia 1020 and should end up being called the Microsoft Lumia 1030, if all things are correct. Microsoft McLaren is currently the code-name for the device that has been circulating in rumors on the internet and the device so far certainly looks like the McLaren of phones, that’s for sure. Rumors so far ...