The Nokia Lumia 900, the Finns’ latest flagship Windows Phone, has been given its first UK release date, courtesy of Phones4u. It’ll be missing 4G, but it will be coming this month, and with some extra goodies in tow.
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Update: Vodafone now has the Nokia Lumia 710 for the even cheaper price of £150.
Eying up Nokia’s influx of Windows Phone-running Lumia handsets? If your needs aren’t demanding enough to warrant the Lumia 800 or upcoming Lumia 900, why not dip your toes in one of the more budget offerings? But which one? There’s some serious price confusion going on at the minute… Read more
Microsoft has been running a viral campaign in the US over the past few months called ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’. It’s a series of videos showing hapless members of the public battling to do simple smartphone tasks quicker than a trained Microsoft user on a Nokia Lumia 800. Now the test has come to London. Are the speeds still enough for Londoners to get merked by Windows Phone? Read more
Like the look of Nokia Drive for Windows Phone but have the letters ‘H’, ‘T’ and ‘C’ scrawled across your phone? We’ve got some good news for you: HTC has just seriously specced up its pre-installed HTC Locations app for Windows Phone, bringing offline satnav guidance for absolutely nothing. Read on for the full details. Read more
We’ve been keeping an eye on the ZTE Tania Windows Phone over the past few months: long time readers will know we’ve heralded it as the start of a new era for Windows Phone, in the budget market. Compared to all the cheapo Android phones out there, a £150 Windows Phone on Pay As You Go gives a far more pleasant, hassle-free user experience.
Here’s the thing: it’s great. But there’s a problem: you can’t buy it anywhere.
Last Friday, we reported on the current state of Windows Phone app development: specifically, that Rovio’s hesitation to port Angry Birds Space to the platform was a massive blow for Microsoft.
Reuters has even dubbed the situation a “Catch-22”: no one wants to make apps because there are no apps on the Marketplace. But Microsoft is hoping to cut that Gordian knot with a new initiative: it’s clubbed together with Nokia to create a new “AppCampus” at a Finnish university.
Angry Birds Space, the fourth game in Rovio’s hit franchise, launched on iPhone, Android, PC and Mac yesterday, but another platform was conspicuously missing from the list: Windows Phone.
That doesn’t look likely to change either with Rovio boss Peter Vetserbacka telling Bloomberg that it has no plans to port Angry Birds Space to Windows Phone.
“We want to be on all screens, but we have to consider the cost of supplying the smaller platforms. With Windows Phone it’s a lot of work to technically support it.”
The company has since retracted that statement, and announced plans for a port, but regardless, that’s an unfortunate message for a giant of mobile gaming to send out – especially when Rovio is one of the few companies making large sums of money from the Windows Phone Marketplace.
