Microsoft finally threw all you Windows Phone users, waiting for news about when to expect your Mango updates, a bone this week, officially confirming that Mango would get here "in the next week or two". For information on when progress was being made for individual carriers, the company refers users to its "Where's my phone update?" page, but that's yet to reflect the distribution of Mango. For more detail, we'll have to turn to the manufacturers themselves. Dell, for one, spilled the beans on its update plans earlier today. If you've got a fully-unlocked Dell Venue Pro, you'll have no ...

Dell sure takes its sweet time between releasing smartphones, so you'd better believe that we're paying attention when it finally does. The Dell Venue Android dropped early this year, and we're just now hearing about its next effort, the Streak Pro 101DL. Don't let the Streak name fool you; this time we're squarely in smartphone territory. The handset is supposed to have a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display covered in Gorilla Glass for extra resilience. A 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon will power the Streak Pro, the same chip being used in the HTC Sensation XE refresh. The Streak Pro is ...

In today's show we begin by talking about the recent confirmation we received from the Windows Phone blog regarding Mango and it's release date within either next week or the following. We also go through the Samsung Focus S and how it already received FCC approval. We talk about the reasons why Windows Phone 7 doesn't support dual-core processors, and why that's still not an issue any of us should worry about. We breeze through Windows 8 and how it seems to support more than the Metro UI with a phone call feature, and details on when we might get the WhatsApp messenger many of us have ...

Though once a major player in the days of Windows Mobile, Dell's mobile presence has taken a big dive in recent years. Devices like the Venue and Venue Pro have been few and far between, and we were surprised to see the company not make the list as one of Microsoft's hardware partners for upcoming handsets. More recently, the company pulled the plug on its nearly-smartphone-sized Streak 5 tablet. Just what could Dell be thinking about when it comes to its smartphone strategy? It turns out that its sights are set on one of the biggest markets around, as we've learned about an agreement to ...

Watch this week's Android Revolution as we go through all that's hot and all that's not inside the world of Google's Android project. We start with Google purchasing Motorola Mobility and what that represents to the Android community. We talk briefly about all the leaked devices for the week and all the official releases. As always, we go through software updates and which devices are now open for Gingerbread. And finally, we also talk about the Motorola Photon 4G getting it's boot loader unlocked, aside from all the rest of the devices, which can now be rooted. In what's not hot, we go ...

The original Dell Streak - formally the Streak 5 to differentiate it from larger models - debuted last summer. We were still in the pre-Honeycomb world back then, where Android tablets struggled even more than they do now to make a stand against the iPad. In spite of its limitations, we found the Streak to be a more than capable Android, so long as your needs lined-up with the specific niche its hardware and software created. Now, just a year later, Dell has officially pulled the plug on the Streak 5. The fact that the Streak was never meant to be easily toted around in your pocket, as a ...

After waiting for months, word finally came in June that an update to the Dell Venue Pro, one which would aim to address stability problems with the smartphone, would finally be arriving this summer. Some DVPs that were sent in for servicing reportedly came back to their owners with the update already installed, but there was still no way to upgrade your own phone. Then, just last week, the update landed, with an announcement that it was headed out to users everywhere. Well, that turned out to be premature, causing the company to backtrack and inform users of the phone on T-Mobile in the ...

The Dell Venue Pro is a great Windows Phone but is unfortunately plagued by some issues out of which the WiFi problem being the most serious. A month ago we heard that the update should be out soon and more details emerged and now it appears to be rolling out. According to Dell's Lionel Menchaca, the update for the Venue Pro "starts rolling out today for T-Mobile customers in the US + all other customers outside the US". Its purpose is to fix to WiFi -- and other -- problems users are experiencing with the handset (in a similar manner to the LG Optimus 7, Samsung Omnia 7 and HTC Mozart ...