Nokia Lumia 920 & Nokia Lumia 820 now shipping

Nokia has just announced that it has begun the first deliveries to telephone operators who will market the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 in France, the UK, Russia and Germany. The sales of these highly anticipated smartphone will start already during this first week of November and will therefore be the first Windows Phone 8 on the market!

Wireless Charging Contest, participate and win a Nokia Lumia 920!!!

Nokia has just launched the Wireless Charging Contest where you can win 5 Nokia Lumia 920.The participation will be possible until 16 November 2012 and it's really very simple: just go to this page on Facebook, answer a simple question and enter the required data.

From all those who will  participated will be five lucky winners will be drawn, and in addition to the above Nokia Windows Phone 8 smartphone will win even one of the accessories that allow wireless charging.

More details and information can be found at Nokia's Facebook page.

ZTE ready to enter the smartphone market Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8

It seems that ZTE is pretty close to launch its smartphones with Windows Phone 8/Windows Phone 7.8.At the moment, the only smartphone based on Windows Phone is the ZTE Tania, but this is about to change.

In a tweet from  Dennis Lui, marketing manager of ZTE, was seen the photos taken by him (at the beginning of the article) with the caption " Two heads are better than one  . " This could mean many things, among others, the possibility for ZTE to adopt both Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 7.8, it obviously dedicated to the low end of the market.

Rumor - HTC To Announce three new Windows Phone 8 Devices In 3rd Week of September

HTC has announced its commitment to the Windows Phone platform and along with Nokia and Samsung is one of the producers who will introduce the first smartphone based on the new Windows Phone 8 OS.

The first rumors were that three models: Rio, Accord, and Zenith will be presented by HTC and now new rumors are trying to narrow the launch date of the three devices that could coincide with the third week of September.The event dedicated to the presentation of the new devices could be in London or New York. 

Windows Phone 8 Live Tiles will feature up to 9 different images

From Mirego senior developer Sébastien Lachance comes an interesting news about Windows Phone 8.The news is related to Live Tiles that make up the main screen on the Windows Phone devices. Directly through a video released on their own blog ,Sébastien Lachance shows a twisting motion related to the LiveTile.

Each Tile, in fact will boast of nine different images, obviously connected to as many applications, thus shaping a true interactive menu and especially able to offer a considerable number of applications.

Samsung unveils the new Odyssey and Macro Windows Phone 8 smartphones

Recently Samsung has shown interest in returning competitive on the Windows Phone platform and after several months of silence here came  first concrete information on the alleged arrival of two new devices with Windows Phone 8 with lots of technical data yet to be confirmed.

Overview of the main features of the upcoming Windows Phone 8 thanks to the emulator (screenshot)

Some of the main features of the new Windows Phone Release 8 are already known, but thanks to the recent release of the SDK Developer Preview and on the emulator, it was possible to view some screenshots for a quick peek at what will be the peculiar feature of the next operating system Microsoft.

Windows Phone 8 SDK preview leaks online

Only a few months to the official debut of Windows Phone 8 and the Redmond company knows how important it is to support the release with an ecosystem full of applications. Just this morning, has spread on the internet download link of the new SDK 8.0 , which is useful for all developers who want to develop for the operating system who is to be released in October.

Chinese OEM Oppo may release Windows Phone 8 smartphone in 2013

From the Chines site WPDang comes an interesting rumor that reveals how the interest in Windows Phone 8 is growing,even among smartphone manufacturers.It seems, in fact that even the Chinese company Oppo has intention to bring to the to Asian market WP8 device with the new Microsoft operating system in 2013.

Rumor - Nokia will introduce two new WP 8 smartphones on September 5th

The rumors on the official presentation of next Lumia smartphone based on Windows Phone 8 are becoming more intense. The last rumor is that Nokia will show two new WP smartphones on September 5th.

While the reference to there latest release of Microsoft's operating system as standard is not at issue, the same can not be said for the integration of PureView technology that could be integrated within the Lumia devices probably later this this year with a reminder that the information should be considered mere rumor until is confirmed by Nokia.

Speculation - Nokia will start negotiations with European carriers for the launch of the exclusive Lumia WP8 devices

Nokia may have already planned a new marketing strategy for the deployment of the new Lumia WP8 based smartphones on the alliance with some European telephone operators. With these new Nokia partnership may decide to market the first terminals Lumia WP8 selected exclusively by telcos. Was revealed by the Financial Times that refers to the negotiations already under way with France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom .

Rumor - Nokia could get 1 month period of exclusivity for the commercialization of its Lumia WP8 devices

In recent days, CEOs Stephe Elop has released a statement regarding the arrival of Windows Phone 8 and the special ties of cooperation between Nokia and Microsoft.These statements have triggered a series of speculations, including the last in order of time makes reference to a possible period of exclusivity granted to Nokia for the sale of the Lumia WP8 smartphones.

Rumor - Microsoft rumored to buy Yammer for $1B

Microsoft is ready to buy Yammer, the social messaging service for businesses, for anything close to a billion dollars, at least according to Bloomberg.

Yammer is a social network service company, primarily used in business for online collaboration among the various employees of the same company.

Nokia Care thinks The Nokia Lumia 900 is upgradable to Windows Phone 8

Microsoft has not announced Windows Phone 8 Apollo or even communicated if any of the current smartphones can be updated. Meanwhile, although it could be an announcement very reliable, the Nokia Care team during a chat support said that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8.

So, as soon as possible we are hoping to learn something more, since then we remind you that Microsoft would be introducing Apollo to the public on June 20.

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Universal Search Coming with WP 8 Apollo

One of the features that come with Windows Phone 8 will be to make instant searching of content, at least according to insideris.com

Already last year we heard rumors that with the  arrival of Windows Phone Tango, wp users will have ability to use universal search by simply swiping your finger left to right on the home screen. Now we know the (few) features that implements this minor update we have confirmation that this rumor proved unfounded.

Windows Phone 8 build numbers revealed

The long-awaited Windows Phone 8, scheduled for later this year, is beginning to be talked assiduously on many blogs and this time it does show the versions of the operating system that Microsoft is testing before release.

Metro reimagined - Beautiful Windows Phone 8 concept

As usual,  the guys at 1800PocketPC and like to seduce us with their concept in a big way. This time they do it by showing an interface of Windows Phone 8 really well designed and edited to perfection.

Windows Phone 8 shows up in the statistics of I'm WP7 app

While we are are awaiting the Tango update for Windows Phone, Microsoft is already testing a first version of Windows Phone 8. This information comes from the application "I'm WP7" that shows us the different builds of Windows Phone from the users that have installed this application.

As we can see from the image build  running under Windows Phone 8 is signed 8.0.9662.0. Many were the doubts about the veracity of the result showed the application. The developers have promptly declared that Windows Phone 8 is running an emulator, there appears to be counterfeit because they are using on the location of the emulator by default and there is a difference in the time zone.

Moreover wpcentral colleagues claim to have had a tip from reliable sources that Windows Phone 8 has begun internal testing aka "dogfooding" at Microsoft on March 30th.

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Job post from Microsoft confirming Windows NT kernel in Windows Phone?

It was speculated for a long time that Windows Phone 8 will be running the Windows NT kernel, but so far these rumors have not been confirmed.

A recently published job post by Microsoft seems to indicate that Apollo and Windows 8 will indeed share some components and that Windows CE will be completely scraped.

The full job post after the break