Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Former manager of the Windows Phone app platform Charlie Kindel has been tempted to leave his nascent start-up by Amazon to be the “director of ‘something secret’. As they say in Catchphrase, the clue is in the question.
The Lumia 620, Nokia’s mid to low range Windows Phone 8 handset, is a pretty attractive prospect: [It’s] not that threatening a smartphone. Its svelte size combined with the live tiles make it easy to use for those starting out on a smartphone path, and while the smartphone geeks of the world aren’t going to throw away their existing handsets, I can see a lot of them picking up the Lumia 620 just to see what all the Windows Phone fuss is about, and use it as a second handset. If you want the definition of an good all-round smartphone
Another notable apps for Microsoft’s mobile platform. As an exclusive promotion Pandora, when used on Windows Phone, will be ad-free and have no monthly streaming limits. Pandora usually charges a $3.99 per month subscription (or $36 a year) for ad-free listening and limits free mobile listening to 40 hours per month, but there will no charge or limits for Windows Phone users throughout 2013… Pandora is a significant addition to the Windows Phone app catalogue because it’s a well known app and service on other mobile platforms. In July of 2012 Pandora announced that it had 54.9 million user, a number
I want to trust Windows Phone implicitly. Right now I can’t do that. Looking around the current choices of smartphone, there are handsets and operating systems that I trust at various levels, but I’ve yet to feel the same connected way as I did with Nokia’s Symbian-powered N95 8GB. Along with millions of others, I’m still happy to use Windows Phone, but I find it a fragile relationship that could easily be undermined by another platform. As Windows Phone approaches the critical point in the two year contract cycles and people are looking to renew, it’s this trust that will
In a longer than usual episode of the AAWP Insight (number 56), Podcast Ewan and Rafe start by talking about the UK’s 4G auction and Eurovision, before moving on to talk about the installed based numbers and the continuing importance of Windows Phone 7. Ewan has the latest news on Xbox Live titles, while Rafe’s being looking at some of Qualcomm’s technology announcements. We also preview Mobile World Congress 2013, talking about the Windows Phone related news and the general trends we expect to see emerge at the Barcelona based event.
Some of my thoughts on the love in the room for BlackBerry, and not Windows Phone, over on All About Windows Phone: Anyone watching the online coverage of smartphones over the last month can’t have helped but notice something peculiar. There’s a huge amount of love in the room for BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) and their ‘comeback’ smartphone the Z10. That love has given BlackBerry a fair amount of leeway over many issues in the handset (not least battery life and the unfocused UI elements), and I can’t help wondering how Windows Phone’s last two years would have been
