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Steve Ballmer Promises over 500 New Windows Phone Features in Mango Tomorrow, Live Feed info.

May 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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As invites went around a couple of weeks ago for a special Windows Phone Event in NY City it becomes more clear that the specifics of the Mango update, possible named Windows Phone 7.5, will be revealed tomorrow.  Steve Ballmer mentioned over 500 new features for the Windows Phone operating system in this update.As we reported earlier together with our sister site WP7.nl the Mango update will bring an extensive added experience and functionality in the Bing client on the devices. However … [Read more...]

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Nokia rebrands OVI services to Nokia services anticipating Windows Phone

May 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The word is out: the name OVI will disappear. Nokia has announced to start rebranding the OVI services in preparation for the move to Windows 7 Phone. Right now it sounds more dramatic than it is. The only change we will see is that all OVI services will be called Nokia services instead. This will take place from July 2011 and the whole name change process should be completed late 2012.The services themselves and the roadmaps for all these services remain unchanged. It's purely a name … [Read more...]

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Verizon Samsung Droid Charge Reviewed – Unboxing

May 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Verizon's second 4G LTE phone to be launched is the Samsung Droid Charge. After the launch of the HTC ThunderBolt Verizon is having some small issues with the stability of the LTE network. This might be the reason why the official launch date of the Samsung Droid Charge has been moved from April 28th to "Coming Soon".With an 8 megapixel camera and a 1.3  megapixel front facing camera in combination with the Super Amoled Plus Display and a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor this Samsung promises to … [Read more...]

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Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Update Features: Bing Audio Vision, Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Voice SMS

May 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Mango update for Windows Phone, as reported on our Dutch sister site WP7.nl, will feature Bing Audio/Vision, Turn -by-Turn navigation and speech to text SMS .In a Windows Phone Developer Podcast by Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk several new features were announced that will come with 'Mango'.At MIX11 mainly the new developer tools were explained. But those new tools will give the end user some great added experiences. Bing will get voice guided turn by turn navigation and audio and … [Read more...]

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Personal hotspot or portable 3G router?

May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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During a recent trip to Spain I used a local sim card for internet access. More and more countries have prepaid options for affordable mobile internet these days. There are currently multiple options to use mobile internet also on Wifi connected hardware such as a laptop or wifi enabled tablet. Most smartphones these days have a portable hotspot option, like can be found on WebOS, Android and more recently iOS. And then there are dedicated portable 3G routers like the Novatel Mifi (reviewed by … [Read more...]

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MobilityMinded is looking for contributing editors!

May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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As you may have noticed, we have been caught up with another exciting project and the flow of new articles must go on. As we all have daytime jobs and new challenges ahead of us, time to write articles has become somewhat limited and we are looking for some help which we hope find at our loyal readers. Are you interested in mobile technology and want to contribute on a regular basis by writing articles and/or reviewing programs or hardware ?When you are interested, have a look at the … [Read more...]

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Windows Phone 7 update 7.0.7392 now available

May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Since May 3rd, the latest update for Windows Phone 7 devices is being rolled out. The first reports started in Europe to be soon followed by reports from the USA. This 7.0.7392 update contains all previous updates like 7.0.7008 and 7.0.7390 (NoDo). So if your device for some reason missed one of these previous updates, you'll be up to date with this update. What does 7.0.7392 contain? This update contains a fix for fraudulent third-party digital certificates. This update includes a critical … [Read more...]

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LG Optimus 2X review: world’s first dual-core Android-phone

April 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The LG Optimus 2X is the world's first dual-core Android-phone using the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset, a mobile processor with both a dual-core ARM Cortex a9 CPU and a NVIDIA GeForce class GPU. LG claims the Optimus 2X is the fastest Android-phone on the market today and it will be the benchmark for other Android-phones to be released in the near future. In this review we'll take a closer look at this new Android super-phone. Is it really the best your money can buy? Specifications Let's start with … [Read more...]

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