Microsoft yesterday announced that Nokia, HTC, Huwei, and Samsung were all on board to offer Windows Phone 8 devices. Both HTC and Huawei have independently committed their support for the next version of Windows Phone. HTC indicated that it will launch “new Windows Phone 8 smartphones” later this year, suggesting that more than one device is in the works. “HTC […]
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Windows Phone 8 devices to use Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus chipset
Qualcomm confirmed back at Computex that its Snapdragon chipsets would continue to be found in Windows Phone devices beyond the current models. The Verge has now learned that Windows Phone 8 devices will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Plus mobile processor. The 28nm Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus comes dual-core Krait processors running as high as 1.7GHz and can be paired to […]
Windows Phone Summit summary
Windows Phone Vice-President Terry Myerson and Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Windows Phone Program, today took to the stage for the Windows Phone Summit. Here is a summary of the event: Event focused on Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8 will have a Shared Windows Core with Windows 8 (kernel, networking, multimedia, etc). Shared Core will allow a much larger […]
Rumour: Windows Phone 7.7 upgrade coming to current Windows Phone 7 devices
A report by Wirtschafts Woche, the German version of Business Week, supports earlier rumours that current Windows Phone 7.x devices will not be upgraded to Windows Phone 8 (Apollo). According to its Microsoft and Nokia sources, these devices will instead receive a “feature update” likely to be known as Windows Phone 7.6 or 7.7. This update will consist of the […]
Computex 2012: Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 headed to Windows Phone 8 devices
Given that Qualcomm’s processors are the only ones you will find in Windows Phone 7 and 7.5 devices, it should come as no surprise that they will also make their way into Windows Phone 8 devices. Confirmation came from Rob Chandhok, senior vice president at Qualcomm, during Computex. These Snapdragon S4 chips will come with integrated LTE. The news gives […]
Microsoft to offer future of Windows Phone “sneak peek” on June 20th
Microsoft announced its Windows Phone Developer Summit early last month but gave few details about what the developer event would focus on. New invitations suggest that Microsoft will offer a “sneak peek of the future of Windows Phone,” suggesting that Microsoft may shed some light on its upcoming Windows Phone Apollo release. The Verge has learned that Microsoft will introduce […]
Four upcoming Nokia Lumia devices revealed?
A number of screenshots captured on a Nokia Lumia 800 running wpbench, a benchmarking app for Windows Phone 7 devices, appears to have revealed the presence of four new Lumia devices. These, the Nokia PureLambda, Nokia Phi, Nokia Pure Phi and Nokia Alpha, are presumably codenames for upcoming Windows Phone-powered handsets. Of these, the Nokia PureLambda is shown to be […]
Rumour: Windows Phone 8 to RTM in July
A “reliable source” has apparently told Russian site WP7Forum.ru that the next major version of Windows Phone (codenamed Apollo) will RTM (Release to Manufacturing) in July. This is the step where Microsoft hands the code to it manufacturing partners to allow them to finalize their new devices. The report adds that partners could be provided with prototypes, current generation devices […]