Christmas Phone - Get your kids in the Holiday Mood

Christmas Phone, the app that we propose today will make Christmas atmosphere much more pleasant and  fun for your little ones. 

Android and iOS Capture a 92% Share of Global Smartphone Shipments in Q4 2012

According to Strategy Analytics, it seems that Google's Android and Apple's iOS , together, have covered in the fourth quarter of 2012, as many as 92% of the smartphone market, leaving really only the crumbs to competitors, such as from Microsoft and RIM, hoping that the new Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry 10 OS should turn the tide.

Nokia to produce 4.7" inch smartphones, but no 5" smartphone in 2013

The race to achieve the smartphone with the larger display has long history in the Android World. And currently is holding  market leadership from this point of view with devices that are starting to use more and more 5" + displays. Nokia, according to recent rumors, could market it's first smartphone with 4.7 " display in 2013.

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.

According to Nielsen over half of U.S. teenagers now own a smartphone

Time after the summer break, it is time to take stock and Nielsen certainly does not wait, with a small table showing which are the trends of new subscribers in the United States. We start from the first point underlined by the agency, which sees a significant number of new smartphone owners now on U.S. soil, which went from 41 to 55.5% of the population in a single year.

Microsoft will collect $ 800 million royalty from Android this quarter

The cross-licensing agreements that Microsoft signed with the major phone manufacturers and other companies earn more than $ 800 million per quarter, which is reinvested to fund the losses of Windows Phone and other projects.

Microsoft earns more than $ 800 million with royalties from phone manufacturers , so even if the operating system Windows Phone has a negligible market share for now the Redmond company is among those who earn more from sales of smartphones.

Microsoft Surface with Windows RT on sale from October 26

October 26, 2012 will be a key date for Microsoft, with the debut of Windows 8 and probable conjunction in a single event that could also include the Windows Phone 8 OS too. A date which will, according to the latest rumors from the net, will be start of the sales of the the first Microsoft Surface carrying RT Windows and ARM chipset (Nvidia).

Nokia publishes financial results for the 2nd quarter of 2012,with first signs of a turnaround and 4 million sold Lumia devices

As expected, this morning, Nokia has released the financial results of the 2nd quarter of 2012 and what we learn from the figures in the summary tables (see below) are the first signs of a turnaround , although the Finnish company is still at in a delicate and difficult period of transition.

The numbers and percentages than in the previous quarter appear to be more encouraging and demonstrate a greater hold of competitiveness in the mobile industry with the introduction of new feature phones family Asha Lumia and sale of devices with Windows Phone,which have been sold in 4 million units, a reasonable result considering that the new operating system is still young and not yet known by the great mass of consumers.

ComScore confirms the leadership of Android in USA

ComScore has released the final report for the market for producers and their piattafome for the period February to May in the U.S. market, photographing what was the situation of this first part of the year now coming to an end, which devotes more than a few surprises .Confirming the trend that has been dragging on for months, IOS and Android are now vying for the smartphone market with almost 80% market share with Apple off of almost 20 points compared to Google's system, for both regiostrando in the period under review a gain of between 0.8 and 1, 7%.

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.

Vodafone Australia ready to update its Nokia Lumia 800 and HTC Trophy to Tango

Vodafone Australia was working to approve the update to Windows Phone Tango for its branded smartphone.

On the updates page of Vodafone Australia, we can now see how the approval phase of Windows Phone Tango (call from Vodafone "Mango Consumer Refresh 3") for your device is finished.  

Analysts checks confirms that the Nokia Lumia 900 continues to sell well in U.S.

Officially presented during the first months of 2012 , the new smartphone Nokia Lumia 900 ,a member of the famous family of Smartphones created highly successful collaboration between Nokia and Microsoft , is available on the market in various countries around the world for some time now. 

The results recorded up to now have been positive for Nokia demonstrating the excellent reception received by this device evaluated positively by the international critics, but recently some items, at least for the American market, presaged some suffering resulting drop in sales of smartphones due to the launch of the HTC One X.

Nokia Lumia 710 sighted in Canada with Windows Phone Tango on board

While the information on a possible upgrade to Windows Phone 8 for the current devices are scarce, it seems that Nokia has started pre-installing Windows Phone Tango on Lumia smartphones.

As was reported by WPCentral one of there tippers send his smartphone for repair, a Lumia 710 with Roger (Canada) and received replacement device with pre-installed WP7 OS Build 8773. The firmware is, as we know, the new version of Windows Phone, or Tango / Mango Refresh.

Is this a sign that the official Tango release is really very close?

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Intel may make x86 chips for Windows Phone, but only if the platform will grow!

From the statements of Hermann Eul, president of Intel Mobile Communications Group, released during an interview with IDG News Service during the Computex 2012, we learn that Intel would be interested in making x86 chips to support Windows Phone platform. 

The Windows Phone marketplace exceeds 100,000 applications!

Another important goal for  Windows Phone marketplace has been reached today, according to a scan performed by  AAWP , the number of applications / games published in Windows Phone marketplace passed the 100,000 mark.

Windows Phone 8 OS builds with WXGA display resolution spotted in the wild

It's a little more than a rumor but insistent voices echo in the network. Unconfirmed sources reveal the presence of four different resolutions related to the upcoming Windows Phone 8.The operating system then support the resolution of 480 × 640, 480 × 800, 720 × 768 × 1280 and 1280.

Nokia Lumia 900 launch pushed Windows Phone users to 13 million

As you can see from the chart above, the number of users who use Windows Phone Facebook is growing.The data comes directly from a research done by Microsoft and has been established that there are approximately 2 million monthly active users.

The data obtained are also due to strong sales of Nokia's Lumia Lumia 610 and 900, besides the fact that to sell well in Finland, are proving very popular elsewhere.

Nokia shows again the Nokia Lumia 900 Magenta on Facebook

The Magenta Nokia Lumia 900 first appeared in a Microsoft Store with AT&T and later in a webapp in the official Nokia Facebook page and now the Lumia 900 in Magenta was again anticipated by the Finish manufacturer in photo albums on Nokia Australia Facebook page.

Survey - Windows Phone is the third platform chosen by the game developers with 8.8%

The Game Developer Magazine has published the results of its latest survey for the developers of games on different mobile platforms.


From the findings it is clear that the developers of games for mobile devices are more focused on the Apple platform with 94.6%, to follow with 70.7% of developers are dedicated to the Google platform and in the third position with 8, 8% of the developers interested in the Microsoft platform. 

Nokia Phi: Nokia's first smartphone with Windows Phone 8 peeps in WPBench?

A screenshot of WPBench , the well-known benchmark dedicated to all Windows Phone, might have revealed the code name of the alleged first Nokia smartphone based on Windows Phone 8 . The following information must obviously be considered within the assumptions based on the analysis of the screenshot that in addition to the name of the device, also shows the version number of the OS, far enough from the current so as to be deemed a the first test release of Windows Phone 8.