Yesterday the white Nokia Lumia 800 was officially announced to the public, and today we’ve got yet another white Lumia to look forward to: the Nokia Lumia 900. Nokia was supposed to publish photographs of the white Lumia 800 on its Facebook page, but due to an unfortunate mistake or intentional move, it put up pictures of a white Lumia 900 instead. If you look carefully you can see that ... Read More

On Tuesday, Microsoft noted several of the Games Hub changes that will go into effect when Windows Phone Mango launches this fall. Mango’s Games Hub will include new “Avatar Awardables” which, much like on the Xbox 360, will allow you to dress your avatar up with a number of unique clothing items. The first title to support Avatar Awardables will be the game “Chickens Can’t Fly.” Games Hub will also feature ... Read More

According to research firm Gartner, although Microsoft shipped 2 million Windows Phone units during Q4 of 2010, it sold 1.6 million units during Q1 of 2011.”Windows Phone saw only modest sales that reached 1.6 million units in the first quarter of 2011,” wrote Gartner. “Devices launched at the end of 2010 failed to grow in consumer preference and CSPs continued to focus on Android.” Gartner is, however, predicting big things for ... Read More

Nokia has stated in a  press release that the Nokia E7 has started shipping and will be hitting select markets this week amd the availability will be broadened in the coming weeks. Nokia is marketing the E7 mainly as a business phone. They are stating that with it’s tilting 4″ Clear Black Display, full hardware QWERTY keyboard and a fast access to a wide variety of apps directly on the homescreen, ... Read More

Held in high esteem due to its BlackBerry-like portrait QWERTY keyboard, the Dell Venue Pro has had a rather inglorious launch when it went on sale with Microsoft on November 8th. The handset hit the wild in early November and was quickly plagued with reports of poor WiFi connectivity, units shipping with engineering sample batteries, and troubling SIM card issues. The handset was expected to launch with Dell in mid-November but ... Read More

Today Microsoft launched its new KIN platform of socially connected cell phones. KIN was developed with carrier partners Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, and hardware manufacturer Sharp. KIN is the result of Microsoft's infamous Project Pink initiative. Both of the new KIN devices, the KIN ONE and the KIN TWO, sport QVGA resolution touchscreen displays, hardware QWERTY keyboards, and a user interface that shares much of its clean, "chrome-less" look with ... Read More

Although at some point it seemed that T-Mobile and Microsoft will not be able to recover that Sidekick lost data, the two companies figured out a way to recover stuff after all. The first thing to be fully restored is the contacts list of your phone. What you have to do is go to My T-Mobile webpage, download your contacts and restore them. While you’re at it you could also ... Read More

Roz Ho, Corporate Vice President, Premium Mobile Experiences, Microsoft Corporation in a press release says: Dear T-Mobile Sidekick customers, On behalf of Microsoft, I want to apologize for the recent problems with the Sidekick service and give you an update on the steps we have taken to resolve these problems. We are pleased to report that we have recovered most, if not all, customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was ... Read More

Microsoft formally announced the coordinated, worldwide release of smartphones running on its new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. The company said that it expected its partners to deliver more than 30 new phones in more than 20 countries by the end of 2009. The platform has come under increasing pressure from other players in the smartphone space, notably Google's Android operating system, Apple's iPhone OS and Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform. ... Read More

According to a tipster over at Engadget, UK mobile operator 02’s intranet list the “HTC HD2″ (also know as the HTC Leo) as being launched on October 12th. Only time will tell, but I’m not holding my breath. The HTC Leo/HD2 isn’t officialy announced yet and history has proven that it takes nearly a month after the official announcement for the devices to hit the market (like the original Touch ... Read More