Tag: all about windows phone

Chinese Whispers style reporting is why tech blogs can’t have nice toys

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Paul Thurrott on the whole one hundred million dollars of PR for Microsoft and Nokia stories going around. This is why blogging rumours on top of rumours on top of guesswork to chase page-views really damages a lot of tech reporting online. I’ve been sitting on this information for weeks so that Microsoft can make its big announcement at CES this coming week. But with these leaks, as with the equally inaccurate LTE leaks last week, I felt the need to set the record straight. The way tech blogs work these days is that any information, no matter how inaccurate,

Does Nokia’s Lumia 800 work in the real world?

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What to make of the Nokia Lumia 800 after more than a week? How about this… when Stephen Elop proclaimed on stage this was “the first real Windows Phone”, it felt a little presumptuous. After using it on last week’s transatlantic trip to Los Angeles, working the connected aspects on the trade show floor of BlogWorld, and relying on it for the entertainment side of things in Cattle Class on the Boeing 777, I’m beginning to agree with him. The short answer is yes, but I throw in an occasional curveball towards the online geek attitudes to the 800. All About Windows

An eye on software – Windows Phone’s super easy install method

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I keep finding cute things to like in Windows Phone, and here’s another one. Let’s take a random app in the All About Windows Phone app directory that I want on my phone. Picking up the Lumia 800, I hit search, and the Bing Vision charm icon, hold the camera up to the screen over the QR code, and touch the link that appears on the screen. Boom, I’m into the Marketplace and there’s an install button. Job done, seamlessly, and in under seven seconds the app is installing. Congrats to the Windows Phone team, and congrats to Rafe as