Mango is the name of new Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft and it was released to the manufacturers for OS testing and compatibility. It will probably be available in a few weeks in Japan first (by Fujitsu), then lately by Nokia, Samsung, LG and HTC. Let’s sneak a bit in the phone and see – [...]

Bloomberg is reporting that, perhaps unsurprisingly, Nokia will bust out its Windows Phone 8 handsets at Nokia World 2012. The shows, which kick off September 5th, will tour various locations to drum up trade for the new kit. The news agency is also reporting that any revamped Lumia phones will be ready to purchase for [...]

Industry rumors usually come with a heaping helping of salt, unless they’re being issued from a trusted source. In this case, it’s Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet spilling some beans regarding Microsoft’s release roadmap. Though we’ve already caught wind that Windows Phone 8 devices would be arriving sometime this fall with nearly all major carrier [...]

Microsoft showed off a ton of new features for Windows Phone 8 at the Windows Phone Summit back in June, but the company did mention that some functionality had yet to be revealed. WPCentral has noticed that Microsoft may be planning to enhance lock screen notifications in Windows Phone 8. Currently users will see notifications [...]

You may remember a certain, somewhat anticipated cloud service finally coming in to land in recent days. That wasn’t the only news in nebular computing last week, however: perhaps in anticipation of Google’s long-rumored Drive service, Microsoft made some updates to the Windows Phone app for its own offering, SkyDrive. This comes not long after [...]

Just in case June wasn’t busy enough for mobile app developers, between Apple’s WWDC and Google I/O, Microsoft has thrown its hat into the ring. It’s scheduling a Windows Phone Developer Summit in San Francisco for June 20th and 21st, just a week before Google’s meetup. Details are scant in the notice Engadget received, although [...]

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We first saw the ZTE Tania back in September of last year, and now the device is official and has launched in the UK, the Tania is designed to be a budget Windows Phone smartphone. The ZTE Tania comes with the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile OS, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, and it features a [...]

Microsoft will be hosting several events in the next two months to show off its upcoming Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices, which include the HTC Titan, HTC Radar, Samsung Focus S, and Samsung Focus Flash. The events are open to all and will be hosted in five major US cities: New York City, Chicago, Dallas, [...]

Microsoft may have inadvertently confirmed some details on Windows 8 today when Windows chief Steven Sinofsky posted a list of teams working on the next-gen operating system. The post, titled “Introducing the team,” was published on Microsoft’s recently inaugurated Building Windows 8 blog and revealed that the next-gen platform will indeed have an app store [...]