Windows Phone Tango increases App Switching Limit To 8 and will bring enhanced MMS support

The guys at XDA have managed to extract the build and install Windows Phone Tango in different handsets, including the HD2 and the Samsung Omnia 7 

The entire community that has installed the build of Windows Phone Tango is looking for any change from the current version of the operating system. From an initial analysis shows that with Windows Phone Tango you will have up to 8 screens for multitasking bringing greater convenience to you.

First images of the Nokia Lumia 719 Windows Phone leaked

After the first confirmation of the Nokia Lumia 719C sight thanks to Bluetooth certification that we showed in a previous article, here comes the first image of alleged new device for the Asian market.

Among the various rumors leaked earlier today, it was thought that the Nokia 719 Lumia was the variant of the Nokia 710 Lumia but given the image of the terminal is clearly visible between the two devices, there are substantial differences between that design and aesthetics keys classic Windows Phone.

The Nokia 719C Lumia should arrive in China soon and will support the CDMA network and probably also the GSM network. Nothing official about it yet, we hope to arrive early and clarify ideas.

Via WPCentral

Video: Hands-on HTC Triumph Windows Phone device created for Chinese Market

HTC has managed to score an important outcome in China launching the marketing of its first smartphone Windows Phone . The Taiwanese manufacturer has been able to anticipate competition from Nokia and ZTE. The device is essentially dedicated to the Chinese market version of ' HTC Titan.

HTC Triumph, unlike Titan, using the latest release of Windows Phone operating system,recently renamed Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh (ex-Tango) . 

The Triumph isn’t exactly a new device. It’s just a rebranded HTC Titan, so it features a large 4.7 inch WVGA display, 8MP rear camera, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 1.5GHz single-core processor, and 16GB of internal memory. Windows Phone Refresh / Tango runs smoothly on it  as you can see from the video above.

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Windows Phone “Tango” will be officially launched in China on March 21st

Microsoft China has begun to send invitations to the various media in the country for an event on March 21st for the official launch of Windows Phone 7.5 Tango in the country.

The event held in Beijing on March 21 will mark the arrival of Windows Phone Tango and the arrival of the first devices that will have this new version pre-installed. HTC was the first on the Chinese market with a device with on board Windows Phone Tango, Triumph is HTC (HTC Titan called in Europe). The smartphone went on sale today and its the first Windows Phone device to officially arrive in the large Chinese market.

Even Nokia is ready to launch new smartphone in China Series Lumia, in fact, several Chinese newspapers have reported that March 28 will be available three new smartphones in the Finnish giant board with probably just the latest version of Microsoft's operating system.

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Nokia Lumia 719, passes certification in China

Nokia Lumia 719 has passed qualification on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) website. While we didn’t see this device unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2012, details of the device has surfaced once again, this time from the official Chinese government radio management agency SRRC showing that the device has recently passed certification


The Nokia 719c is a CDMA version of the Nokia Lumia 710, that according to some rumors was suppost to come to Verizon.

Not much is known about the Nokia Lumia 719 device yet, except the fact that it will have a 3.7” ClearBlack Display screen and 5 megapixel camera, which places it in similar category to the Lumia 710 and mainly targeted at the Asia, North America, and South America markets.

Source Liveside ; Via WMPU

Nokia Lumia 800c appears with Tango OS and new firmware

As a representative of China Telecom would soon revealed that the operator should include in their lists several Windows Mobile Phone from Nokia, the Lumia 800C (which is the CDMA variant of our Lumia 800) has appeared in photos with the preinstalled firmware 8763.12080.

In contrast with the upcoming update, numbered as 8107.12070, this version of the operating system may be the first official build, but not final, Windows Phone Tango.

Source wpxap Via WPCentral

Nokia is bringing "Flip to Mute" option to Windows Phone

According to the manual coming from the Federal Communications Commission report, the Lumia 610 will come on the market with the new "Flip to Mute" option.The Flip to Mute will only make the phone silent when another user is calling simply inverting the handset.

HTC has a similar feature but it goes through their external Attentive Phone application.Unfortunately it is not clear whether this will be a feature of Windows Phone Tango or will be exclusive to Nokia.

Via Windowsphonedaily

Windows Phone “Tango" limitations and new features officially confirmed

Microsoft revealed the next update to Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed “Tango”, during MWC this year. However, the company had been particularly silent about this update, mainly due to the fact that the update is targeted at bringing the OS to lower device requirements (such as supporting Qualcomm 7x27a processors and 256 MB of RAM) rather than bringing new features.

Rumor:Microsoft testing Windows Phone 8 with dual-core Snapdragon S4

As was reported by TheVerge Microsoft engineers are testing the new MSM8960 chipset from Qualcomm on Windows Phone. The Dual Core clocked at 1.5Ghz should go into business with Windows Phone 8 in the second half of 2012.

Meanwhile it seems that the American operator Sprint is very interested in launching a new terminal operating system with Microsoft, but it should do so before the arrival of Windows Phone 8.The first manufacturer to have received the specifications for Sprint, LTE or more processor MSM8960, would your Nokia. It is therefore reasonable to expect the first dual-core Nokia in the second half of 2012?

Please note that this processor, better known as Qualcomm S4, these days at the Mobile World Congress is amazing some beating all the benchmarks and actual performance of NVidia Tegra 3 (quad core).

Via TheVerge

Windows Phone “Tango” details revealed, coming in April to all devices

Windows Phone "Tango" will still be identified by the version number 7.5, this information comes from various posts made by Microsoft and Nokia in the day today. However, the development tool will be updated Windows Phone to version 7.1.1, supporting handset emulation with 256MB RAM.

According to a press release Nokia, the new version of Windows Phone will be available in April (in line with the release of low-cost terminals Windows Phone coming in the second quarter of 2012).

Thanks to improved paging support to enable apps to automatically take advantage of more memory than is physically on the device, Windows Phone “Tango” will support devices with Qualcomm 7x27a processors as well as 256 MB of RAM while still enabling 95% of existing apps to run properly on these new phones.

Via LiveSide

Nokia Lumia 610 specs and pictures leaked

Pocketnow have added to the Nokia Lumia 610 spillage by leaking 4 new renders of the handset, in white, black, magenta and cyan.  The handset will supposedly be available in these colours, and Pocketnow expects will have a 5 megapixel camera, contrary to the rumours of a 3 megapixel version.

According to the reports, the 610 Lumia should have a display of 3.2 ", a 3MP camera and 256Mb of RAM. The selling price should be around € 175.

Considering that the license of Windows Phone costs about 30 € and that a terminal will have a team of developers for at least 12-24 months so that it can be supported, so it will be convenient to launch such a product at such a low cost?

Hopefully on Monday morning we will know for sure if those rumors are true.

Via Pocketnow

Report:Huawei will begin to develop Windows Phones in the first half of 2012

According to DigiTimes and its sources, Huawei in China would like to spread the new Microsoft OS in the first half of 2012, during which time Nokia also will attempt the same maneuver with their devices Lumia. 

Unfortunately (for Microsoft), the Chinese territory is dominated by the bitter battle that ZTE, Huawei itself, Coolpad and Technology Xiaomi are "fighting" for dominance in the low-cost market segment, where the open policy of Android that law.

MWC just around the corner, where Microsoft could officially declare the new partnership with manufacturers to increase sales in China and other markets in Asia

Via Digitimes

Compal expects big boost in smartphone orders mainly thanks to Nokia’s WP Tango devices

Compal Communications is one of the world’s major mobile device makers and Nokia’s ODM for the Nokia Lumia 800.

Compal saw its operation turn from the red into profitability by shipping 1.5 million handsets in the fourth quarter of 2011. As Nokia will launch Tango smartphones following Microsoft's unveiling at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, during February 27-March 1, Compal expects its smartphone shipments to rise 20% in the second quarter, the company indicated.

According to Taiwan-based handset component makers, Compal will ship at least 9.6 million smartphones in 2012.

Via Digitimes and WMPU

Nokia Lumia 719: Confirmation of its existence thanks to the Bluetooth certification

Among the many rumors recently seen and heard of the new Windows Phone Nokia smartphone, finally get here is a concrete proof of the existence of the Nokia 719 Lumia.

The confirmation comes from bluetooth.org , the official website dedicated to the certification of Bluetooth mobile devices, where the card appears in your database dedicated to the Nokia Lumia 719. The information that are displayed are the screen 3.7 "Clear Black technology, 5 mpx camera with auto-focus and all of the software from  Nokia that we already know of.

Another curiosity that appears on the site Bluetooth.org is the geographic availability limited to American and Asian markets. We'll see if the Nokia 719 Lumia will be officially unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2012 to be held in Barcelona on February 29.

Via Pocketnow

Nokia Lumia 610 appears in WPBench with Tango on board

The Nokia 610 Lumia has been indicated on several occasions as one of the first Windows phone equipped with the new operating system release Tango, designed for entry level device. The reference to the terminal has been recently reported in the benchmark WPBench.

As you can see with the screenshot at the beginning, the reference to the Lumia 610 is explicit, but it helps to attract the attention of the reference to build the operating system that is 7.10.85.57, a release different from the current one based on Mango could just be the version of Windows Phone operating system reserved for entry level device.

The new "sighting" of Lumia 610 supporting the hypothesis that future presentation could take place in Barcelona just a little less than a week, while not absolute proof of a version of the operating system used by the terminal.

Via windowsphoneapps.es

Tango will be released in mainland China in the first three weeks of March.

Chinese website WPDang has shared some more news about the next big Windows Phone update named Tango.

According to WPDang website all Mango devices can be updated to Tango, and in China special modifications will be included.

The Chinese specific changes will include :

• Tango of China would have the Xbox Live function removed
• WeiBo (Chinese version of Twitter) and RenRen (Chinese version of Facebook) would be used to replace Twitter and Facebook which cannot be accessed in China
• Bing search result would be based on a combination of Bing and BaiDu, the Chinese no.1 search engine

Tango will be announced at Mobile World Congress 2012 and will launch in Beijing in China at an event in the 3rd week of March, attended by HTC, Nokia, ZTE and LG who will be showing their Tango-powered devices off there.

Source WPDang ;Via WMPU