Just when will AT&T end up releasing Nokia's Lumia 900, the first Windows Phone handset to feature high-speed LTE data? Shortly after the phone's official announcement at CES, a leaked AT&T roadmap suggested that users would finally be able to get their hands on the 900 this month, on March 18. As that date has been getting closer, we saw the Lumia 900 get its FCC certification, clearing the way for its release, and more recently witnessed AT&T putting up a new "Coming Soon" teaser, making us think the 900 was nearly here. Today a new rumor suggests that read more

The SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) has received the 20-F form (registration statement/annual report/transition report) from Nokia -- as any publicly traded company should send it in -- and it looks like things aren't going that well in the Windows Phone department. The Finnish company reported a EUR1.4b (around $1.85b) annual loss which can't even compare to the EUR1.3b in profit reported the year before. However, after the company told the world -- with the occasion of its Q4 2011 financial report -- that they have sold "well over 1 read more

Details regarding the new 12070 update for Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 Windows Phones emerged yesterday, complete with changelog as well as roll-out regions. At the time it appeared that only India and Singapore users could grab it (with others to follow soon) and now our friends over in the U.K. can get their updating cables ready. Only the Lumia 800 page features the firmware refresh but we're quite positive that the U.K. Lumia 710 will follow shortly. As far as details are concerned, we're looking at the same 1600.2487.8107.12070 refresh which read more

Alongside its flagship Lumia 900, Nokia also announced the budget Lumia 610 Windows Phone at this year's MWC. After taking a look at the phone itself we reported that the company itself thinks the price point should be lower in order to make the device competitive with Android phones. Thanks to the FCC you can have an early look at the Lumia 610 manual, which is available to download from the source link below. One interesting bit is that you will be able to turn your phone face down in order to silence an incoming call, pretty much like in the good read more

Sony Ericsson -- in its old iteration because now it is Sony Mobile Communications -- somehow avoided to jump in the Windows Phone game throughout the years but we've been hearing of a prototype since the early days, which kept on popping up time and again. It now looks like a Sony Ericsson Windows Phone prototype, codenamed Julie, is up and available on eBay. It seems like the device is the same we've seen in the past, a Windows Phone-powered QWERTY slider but with an eight-megapixel camera (according to the description) which is considered above read more

It's been a long and good ride for Windows Mobile. Some of us still love it and keep at least one of these true power houses just for old times sake. Sad news for all of us 14 people that still own one since Microsoft has just begun to distribute emails regarding the final closure of the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace as of May 9th. Things actually got quite rocky since June of last year because even if the Marketplace still worked, it was pretty much useless. You could still install apps the old-fashioned way, but it just proved how Microsoft wasn't read more

As we've previously mentioned, the Nokia Lumia 800 is getting a software update in certain regions. From the official Nokia forums we find out that the update refers to devices in India and Singapore and contains the 1600.2487.8107.12070 refresh. It brings essential improvements: enhanced battery standby and talk time performance, battery capacity icon instead of question mark on top right of screen, improved bass in audio performance, soft-key illumination at all brightness levels, fixes for device performance issues including self-reboots, freezes read more

We've already heard quite a bit about the limitations that new budget-priced Windows Phone Tango hardware with 256MB of RAM will face. Microsoft recently revealed a bit about compatibility issues existing apps might have when trying to cram-in to the newly-reduced memory space. We've also seen some leaked screenshots that attempted to highlight broader changes to the platform that Microsoft is making in order to keep Tango running smoothly on these handsets. Today, Microsoft acknowledges those rumors, updating its Windows Phone support pages to describe read more

Shortly after Windows Phone 7 first launched, Google released a search app for the platform. We took a look at Google's offering at the time, but were soundly unimpressed with what we saw and how little it had to offer over the mobile web version of Google. That was a long time ago, though, and Google's ready for a second shot at showing Windows Phone users just what its search technology can offer. To that end, the company has today come out with a newly-redesigned Google Search app for Mango handsets. In our initial video review of Google's old app, read more

Last year the smartphone world saw quite a few shake-ups regarding misuse of location data, with first iOS, then Android, and finally Windows Phone going under the magnifying glass. All too often, by the time things resolved it became clear that the initial panic of phone software tracking users, or otherwise sharing location data without consent, was somewhat overblown. Nevertheless, the publicity these incidents generated has been reminding companies that plenty of users take these kind of concerns very seriously. Microsoft may have been thinking back read more

Ever since mobile smartphones stopped syncing Exchange notes, I've been keeping track of usernames and passwords using a much more secure method: eWallet. Today, the Windows Phone version of eWallet Go! has been updated with one feature that was sorely missing from the previous version: search... and one feature that's pretty nice to have: the ability to pin specific eWallet "cards" to your start screen. The software still does not support automatic cloud-syncing like eWallet Go! on the desktop and other mobile platforms though. You still have to read more

Apple, as usual, set out a new trend with its Siri on the iPhone 4S once it was launched and, whether you like it or not, other platforms are seeing more and more "assistant" applications. Ask Ziggy for Windows Phone got its debut at the beginning of the year and now it is back with a new version and new features. As of version 2.0, Ask Ziggy can do much more, aside from the fact that it also received a slight facelift. It is free in the Windows Phone Marketplace (check the source link below) and it can now create reminders, call people (or email as read more