I go to Starbucks pretty often, I’m a big fan of their iPhone app that allows me to pay for my coffee by having the barista scan a code on my screen. The process is quick and easy and I have fun earning stars and checking the balance of all my gift cards. By next year, a scan-less method will be more popular and available with more merchants and on more phones.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is Nokia's brand new Windows Phone 7 smartphone. In fact, it's the Finnish firm's first handset to be packing Microsoft's mobile operating system, and to say there is a lot riding on it is the understatement of the century.
Let's face it, internet tethering is one of the most useful features throughout the smartphone market, allowing any device to become a makeshift hotspot with just a few simple actions.
The Long-awaited unlocking tool ChevronWP7 is now available for Windows Phone 7 devices. The news comes from WinRumors - a blog dedicated to covering all things Microsoft - in a post where they talk about the launch of ChevronWP7 and its uses for developers and general Windows Phone enthusiasts.
While Android had support for folders since the very start, iOS only got them in 2010 with iOS 4. The third OS in the so called “three-horse race” - Windows Phone 7 - still doesn’t have any folder functionality but a homebrew solution has emerged today and it is what we’ll be talking about in this post.
One of the first things bloggers do when they attend an event where a new smartphone is announced is compare said smartphone’s performance against others, more established names in the smartphone industry. Our friends over at SlashGear did exactly this at yesterday’s Nokia World, where Nokia announced its first Windows Phone 7-based smartphone called the Lumia 800, comparing its browser performance against the iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S II.
Microsoft has seemed a great deal more focused on improving its product range and market influence in 2011, with Windows 8, Windows Phone Mango 7.5 and of course the acquisition of Skype for a small fortune back in May for a tidy 8.5 billion making up what has been a busy year for Steve Ballmer's company.