Yesterday, Microsoft finally took the wraps off Windows Phone 8, unveiling a whole host of new features — but the company didn't quite have the time to give us all the details, instead focusing on eight major features of the updated OS. There's a lot more new under the hood, though, and...
Windows Phone 8 has a lot of tricks that Microsoft hasn't detailed yet
I first met Steven Bathiche when I took a trip to Microsoft's campus to check out what the company had been doing in the research and development department. Microsoft PR had sworn to me that I would be blown away by the "cool things" the company...
Not many people remember this, but the original Xbox got its name from Microsoft's plans to deliver a "DirectX Box" to the home console market. Feeling the need to counteract the growing influence of consoles at the turn of the century, Microsoft sought to bring DirectX — its proprietary collection of programming interfaces (APIs) used to build games for Windows — to the living room. While...
After yesterday's official look at Windows Phone 8 from Microsoft, we've received some details from a knowledgeable source on exactly what HTC — arguably the most important Windows Phone 8 licensee right now outside of Nokia — has planned to kick off the platform.
Starting at the bottom of the range, there's "Rio," featuring a 4-inch WVGA display, 14.4Mbps HSPA, and a 5-megapixel camera with 720p video capture. There's only 512MB on board, but the processor isn't bad — expect a Qualcomm MSM8227, a member of the company's Snapdragon S4 Plus line. One step up from Rio is the "Accord," which swaps in a 4.3-inch 720p Super LCD 2, an 8-megapixel sensor with 1080p capture, 42Mbps HSPA+, NFC support, and 1GB of RAM atop a slightly beefier dual-core processor (tentatively an MSM8260A, though that may change).
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Microsoft unveiled its Windows Phone 8 operating system earlier this week with software improvements and support for new hardware, but the bombshell for current Windows Phone users was the news of no updates to the new OS. Existing Lumia Windows Phone devices, and some other handsets, will be...
The Nokia Camera Extras app —detailed at yesterday's Windows Phone Summit — is coming to Lumia phones in the US and China by tomorrow, along with the Play To DLNA application. The rest of the world will have to wait until some point in July....
That infamous Xbox 720 document — which Microsoft has been busily taking down from any website that has posted it — is impossible to link to directly when shared on Dropbox. First spotted by WPCentral, this behavior seems to have been prompted by Microsoft laying a...
