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GoMo tries MusicQubed’s O2 Tracks on Windows Phone
Rating: O2′s site thought that we were using an iPhone not WP7.5
Having just chatted to Chris Gorman who’s in charge of MusicQubed, the company that created the technology and service behind O2 Tracks on iOS, Android and Blackberry, we thought it best to try out the service. Especially since the company has only just announced availability of the app for Windows Phone which you can find here. It is already available via other devices’ app stores: - Android, BlackBerry, and iOS. We had a bit of fun and games downloading the WP7.8 version, of course. Continue reading
Posted in BlackBerry, Music, WP7.8, android, iOS
Tagged Musicqubed, O2 Tracks, windows phone
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Big surge in UK sales of Windows phones
Consolidating position as No.3 platform
Sales of Windows smartphones have grown by a staggering 240 per cent in a year and now account for 6.2 per cent of the UK market, latest figures from research firm Kantar reveal. In the past year some 700,000 new Windows users were added, while in the three months up to end of January 2013 the Microsoft-based devices – spearheaded by Nokia’s Lumia 800 and HTC’s 8X – surpassed those of BlackBerry in Britain. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, BlackBerry, Microsoft, WP7, WP7.8, WP8, android, mobile news, nokia
Tagged Kantar, Lumia 800, UK phone sales, windows phone
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Windows Phone will fail to rule the world by 2017 says Analysys Mason
Rating: Apparently this will happen sometime in 2017
According to new research from Analysys Mason, Microsoft will ship as many Windows Phone units by 2017 as Apple will ship in 2012. This is taken from a recently published report, ‘Smartphone markets: worldwide trends, forecasts and strategies 2012–2017′. The firm reckons that Windows Phone will become the fastest-growing mobile OS in terms of number of shipments within the next five years. GoMobile News has followed the fortunes of Microsoft for many years and this conclusion is indeed very hard to swallow. Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile OS, Mobile Stats, WP8
Tagged Analysys Mason, Microsoft, Ronan de Renesse, windows phone
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Revolutionary messaging app, ZMS, confuses GoMo
Rating: it’s nothing to do with SMS
When the authors of the ZMS app for Android and iOS , inZair, described the product as, “Set to revolutionise smartphone messaging,” – they managed to confuse us here at GoMobile Towers. We thought the product (because of the name) was revolutionising the text/SMS market. The blurb talked about ZMS users specifying the time and/or the location that recipients receive their text, picture, video or voice messages. Initially, we thought that would enable us to trigger an SMS when we reached a particular venue, for example. Sadly, this ability only applies to those with the app loaded and the app creates a ‘ZMS’ rather than an SMS or MMS. Continue reading
Posted in BlackBerry, Mobile Messaging, Mobile applications, WP8, android, iOS, mobile location
Tagged BBM, inZair, location, messaging, time, windows phone, ZMS
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Rumours point to Windows Phone 7.8 being imminent
Rating: Plus there’s something called Windows Phone 7.x
Well there has been a spurgle of stories about the impending release of Windows 7.8 for those with existing W7 Mango (7.5) smartphones. As we all know now such handsets will not be upgradeable to Windows Phone 8, so we will just have to be content with 7.8. Or will we? One site says there is something called Windows Phone 7.x. The drawback to these stories (for us here at GoMobile Towers at least) is that the main source of the leak is a Chinese site – WinP whilst the secondary source is a German site WParea. So we can’t be 100 per cent sure what exact details have been leaked. However, both sites have anonymously received Windows Presentation slides which appear to have emanated from Nokia itself. Continue reading
Posted in HTC, Microsoft, Mobile OS, WP7, WP8, nokia
Tagged 7.8, 7.x, HTC, nokia, W7 Mango, windows phone, WinP China, WParea Germany
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Nokia investors braced for more disappointment
Storm clouds are thought to be gathering over Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia as it braces itself for its Q3 results tomorrow [18th October 2012] when results are expected to be weak.
Analysts will be looking to see just how poor Nokia’s performance has been in the period, especially for sales of smartphones which are expected to be sluggish despite the introduction of new Lumia handsets based on the Windows Phone operating system. Continue reading
Posted in Samsung, WP7, Windows Mobile, mobile news, nokia
Tagged nokia, Q3 results, Samsung, symbian, windows phone
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Ex Nokia workers to unveil first fruits of new mobile OS
Picking up where Finnish phone giant left off
A new mobile phone using discarded Nokia software is to be unveiled next month by a group of ex-employees capitalising on patent violation fears elsewhere. With the feud over design and intellectual property rights between Apple and Samsung showing no signs of abating, and growing concern it could spill over into Android phones, the former Nokia executives and engineers believe the time has never been better for an alternative operating system. Their Finnish start-up business, Jolla, has already raised $258 million with the help of unnamed partners said to include a telecom operator, chip manufacturer as well as device and component firms. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Meego, Mobile OS, Windows Mobile, google, mobile developers, mobile news, nokia, patents
Tagged android, Apple, Jolla, meego, nokia, Sailfish, windows phone
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Guest Post: What does the Firefox OS mean to me
by Rob James, occasional blogger for Boxmodeldigital
The Mozilla Firefox OS has been receiving a lot of attention, and for good reason. As an alternative to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone – an open source, HTML 5 based OS could be the solution to problems with the former, and an excellent way of getting hold of lower cost, but still effective, smart phones. For me, the prospect of an OS that can replicate the speed and performance of a web browser without the problems of a proprietary system would be an excellent way to customise and simplify how I use my phone. Continue reading
Amobee launches user generated mobile ads for Windows Phones
Mobile Advertising company Amobee, has launched a new ad unit for the Windows Phone OS. These ad units are called User Generated Ad (UGA).
What?
The UGA is an ad that will allow consumers to enable consumer to determine which ads they want to receive on their Windows Phones. This will be determined by their personal preferences and user patterns.
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RIM pair win accolade for all the wrong reasons
Rating: Balsillie and Lazaridis in hot water with The Canadian Press
If you’d won the award for The Canadian Press’ ‘business newsmakers of 2011′ in an annual survey of editors and broadcasters, you might expect to be proud. Unfortunately, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis – who together run Research in Motion (RIM) – won it for making headlines as the BlackBerry maker slipped off its pedestal. Worse still a group of activist investors are calling for their removal and there have been constant rumours of a takeover. Plus hints that a new generation of BlackBerries could well be delayed. The fact that RIM won the award indicates exactly the problem GoMo News has always highlighted – the company is terrible at PR. So we’re inviting RIM to make a good start in 2012 by telling us some good news. Continue reading
Posted in BlackBerry, Mobile Devices, Mobile OS, RIM
Tagged android, Anil Doradla, bada, Balsillie, BlackBerry, Jaguar Financial, Lazaridis, RIM, Vic Alboini, W7 Mango, William Blair & Co, windows phone
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UK Nokia boss says W7 Mango will triumph
Rating: Apparently there’s such a thing as iFatigue
UK and Ireland general manager with Nokia, Conor Pierce, appears to have coined the term ‘iFatigue’ to describe British retailers attitude towards the very latest iOS devices from Apple. He was speaking to The Sun here, which just so happens to be the UK’s best selling printed daily newspaper. Nice scoop, Conor. Apparently, Pierce reckons that W7 Mango (Windows Phone) is the company’s secret weapon which will enable the Finnish mobile handset producer to claw its way back in the UK smartphone sales charts Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile OS, WP7, nokia
Tagged Conor Pierce, iFatigue, Lumia, Mango, Microsoft, nokia, UK, windows phone, WP7
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Nokia adds gig guide to Music for Lumia
Rating: We’ve no idea how you get the update, of course
Only days after the final release of its W7 Mango phones, Nokia has apparently created an update to its Music for Lumia app. The key addition here is a gig guide – Gigfinder. GoMo News has yet to discover whose technology powers this app. There are a few scant details on an official Nokia blog here. It says that the app, “Starts with your location and today’s date and lists the nearest, soonest gigs happening round you. Where available, you can click through to booking information. You can now also share the gig details with friends using SMS, email or social networks.” Great. But where do you get this update? The Mobile Indian here says, “Customers will get this update as and when they purchase and activate their devices.” Continue reading
Posted in App stores, Mobile Music
Tagged 900, ace, Lumia, Mango, Market Place, Mobile beat, Mobile Indian, nokia, Pocket.at, windows phone, WP7
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Nokia dodges Qualcomm and goes with ST-Ericsson
Rating: Chips for Windows Phone and maybe Android
There’s definitely more to this deal than meets the eye, we reckon. Specialist chip supplier, ST-Ericsson, has just announced it’s been selected by Nokia as a “supplier for future Windows Phone devices” using its NovaThor platform. This will apparently “enable Nokia to extend Windows Phone devices to new price points and geographies.” Hmm. We always knew that Nokia would feel uncomfortable using chips from old rival Qualcomm. Now it’s selected ST-Ericsson which was established as a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics and Ericsson back in February 2009. Could this be connected with the fact that Ericsson no longer has any connexion with making handsets having recently been bought out by Sony – its former partner? Continue reading
Posted in WP7, android, nokia
Tagged android, nokia, Samsung, sony, ST Ericsson, windows phone
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Watch out for WP7 Mango arriving tomorrow (15th)
Rating: Lots of hints from reliable sources
All the signs are that the very latest release of Windows Phone (7.5) – better known as the Mango update – will arrive tomorrow. The initial source for this rumour is the Windows Phone Dev Podcast team. They’ve been chatting prior to their ‘BUILD conference’ which takes place … you guessed it, tomorrow September 15th [2011]. Now GoMo News has run plenty of Mango release stories before but when we quoted Microsoft’s manager for the Nordic territories, Peter Wissinger, here asking the handset manufacturers why they were hanging around, it was obvious the release was imminent. The final piece of the jigsaw comes to us via winrumors here which discovered a very interesting update on the Vodafone (Australia) support site here. It implies Vodafone is merely waiting for Microsoft to give the go-ahead. Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Mobile OS, Vodafone, WP7, Windows Mobile
Tagged 7.5, australia, Build, Dev Podcast, Expert reviews, Mango, Microsoft, nokia, Peter Wissinger, Vodafone, windows phone, Winrumors, WP7
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