October 24th, 2011

T-Mobile HTC Radar 4G Gets $99 Price Tag, November 2 Launch Date

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Calling all T-Mobile Windows Phone fans — you can finally put your aging HD7s out to pasture. T-Mobile has just announced that the Mango-powered HTC Radar will officially debut on November 2, and it’ll cost you just a hair under $100 after a $50 mail-in rebate. → Read More

September 27th, 2011

Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”

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Microsoft promised just a few days back that the Windows Phone 7.5 update (otherwise known as “Mango”, because updates need funny little names now) would roll out “sometime in the next week or two” — and sure enough, said roll out has just begun.

As for who it’s rolling out to… that’s still a bit of a mystery. → Read More

September 27th, 2011

Windows Phone Marketplace Is Now Available In A Browser Near You

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All the way back in May, Microsoft revealed that they were hard at work developing a web version of the Windows Phone marketplace. Now that the new Mango update is nearly upon us, Microsoft has officially flipped the switch on their web marketplace for markets across the world. → Read More

September 26th, 2011

Trademark Watch: Windows Phone 7.5 Will “Put People First”

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Microsoft has filed for a trademark on “Put People First”, the tagline it has recently attached to the imminent Windows Phone 7.5 update (often referred to as ‘Mango’), which is expected to roll out this or next week.

The tagline has thus far appeared on Microsoft’s Windows Phone Facebook page and in promotional YouTube videos (see below). By filing for a trademark on the slogan, Microsoft aims… → Read More

September 21st, 2011

Microsoft: Mango Will Roll Out “In The Next Week Or Two”

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File this one under “It’s about time” — Microsoft has announced today that they intended to roll out their Windows Phone 7.5 (a.k.a “Mango”) update to current devices within “the next week or two.”

Sure, it’s still not an exact date, but Microsoft has a good reason for this: they can’t really provide one. → Read More

August 25th, 2011

Fujitsu’s IS12T Windows Phone Mango Launched In Japan Today (Quick Hands-On)

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Last month, Fujitsu in Japan unveiled the IS12T, announced as the world’s first cell phone running on Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango. And the country’s second biggest mobile carrier (and exclusive provider of the handset) KDDI au, didn’t lose much time: the IS12T became available today over here (here‘s Fujitsu’s official press release in English from today).

As we reported previously, the Mango… → Read More

August 12th, 2011

Windows Phone VP Debunks Mango’s Sept. 1 Release, We’re Still Not Convinced

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If you’re keeping up with Windows Phone Mango (which you totally should be because it looks pretty awesome), you’ll remember that we reported on a possible September 1 release for the update. Trusted, yet unnamed, Pocket-Lint sources had confirmed the rumor. Well, here’s the thing. We were totally right. We’re just not sure which part we were right about yet — that its a rumor, or that we’ll… → Read More

August 1st, 2011

Windows Phone Logo Refresh Fits A Square Peg In A Round Hole

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Well, what is this we have popping up all over the place? It’s pretty familiar with that Windows logo in the center, but shouldn’t it be bundled nicely in a circle? Nope. Not anymore.

According to Japanese Windows Phone evangelist Takahashi, that little glowing Windows Phone circle is no more — the revolutionary and innovative shape called “square” will now represent Windows… → Read More

July 18th, 2011

Report: Fujitsu To Launch World’s First Windows Mango Cell Phone In Japan Next Month

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First, Fujitsu-Toshiba unveiled the world’s first Symbian/Windows 7 dual boot cell phone in May, now this: Japanese business daily The Nikkei is reporting that the same company is ready to out the first handset in the world running on Windows Phone Mango, the mobile OS that Microsoft officially unveiled in May. → Read More

June 1st, 2011

Acer Announces First Windows Smartphone: The Mango-Flavored W4

Back in February, we heard that Acer had plans to join Nokia on the WP7 platform and release a Windows Phone in September or October of this year. Luckily, September and/or October are just around the corner, and Acer has officially announced its first Windows Phone, dubbed the W4, during the Computex trade show in Taipei. The Acer smartphone will launch with the rest of the forthcoming → Read More