Alcatel One Touch WP7 smartphone launching soon in Russia

After October announcement that Alcatel is about to debut on Windows Phone scene, now comes information that new Windows Phone smartphone from Alcatel is coming to Russia. The Russian launch of the entry-level Windows Phone smartphone, the Alcatel One Touch View will be on the December 15th and the device will be sold at very low cost of 6990 rubles ($226.10 or 175.31 Euros).

Angry Birds Star Wars and Space are now available for WP7.5 devices

Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds franchise has released Angry Birds Star Wars and Angry Birds Space for Windows Phone 7.5 smartphones. So the two new games starring the birds angry, after arriving on the platform Windows Phone 8, now I've finally downloaded from the Store from the device even older, including those with only 256 MB RAM as the Nokia Lumia 610.

Spy Mouse and Trivial Pursuit, two new Xbox games exclusive for Nokia Lumia devices

The Nokia Collection section of the store that contains the exclusive software terminal Lumia, continues to grow, giving rise to two new games. The first is Spy Mouse, a title developed by Firemint, software house author of popular video games for mobile devices such as Flight Control and Real Racing. The other is the electronic version of the famous board game Trivial Pursuit. 

Windows Phone 7.8 features leaked in Nokia docs

The issue, regarding the update to Windows Phone 7.8 for the current WP 7.5 smartphones has not yet been fully clarified, both in terms of the exact date of launch of the distribution, both for what concerns the features that will be introduced, beyond Start screen, already confirmed by Microsoft. 

Nokia Lumia 920 vs Nokia Lumia 800 Speed Comparison (Video)

The responsiveness of the UI of Windows Phone 7.5 smartphones has never been a real problem, and from this point of view the increase in performance introduced with WP8, although present, is not so obvious. The situation is different with regard to the speed of launching applications, as proven by the video which is shown below.

Nokia Lumia 510 - First unboxing video

WPXBOX blog published the first unboxing video of the Nokia Lumia 510, the latest Nokia entry level smartphone running Windows Phone OS.

Windows Phone Store now has 125,000 published apps

According to the AAWP calculations  , the Windows Phone Store has exceeded 125,000 applications and many others are ready for publication to suit all needs, including those users who from November will buy a device with Windows Phone 8 on board.

The Music Hub now displays the artists biography and related content for markets outside the US

As some of you may have noticed, now has become possible to see biography and related content for artists directly from the music player for Windows Phone. It would seem, in fact, that Microsoft has made ​​some updates to Music + Video Hub in the importing its Windows Phone OS in several countries some features so far exclusive to the United States.

Nokia Lumia 610 to receive software update that that will improve the smartphone performance

Nokia through its Developer Comunity blog has a  posted a brief message , informing us that the Nokia Lumia 610 will be soon receive a firmware update that will improve the performance of the system, the general usability of the device and camera usage.

Nokia Lumia smartphone sales going strong in the business segment in Finland

Elisa and DNA, the two major mobile operators in Finland, have released the usual monthly sales stats of smartphones belonging to the both consumer and business segment.Windows Phone from Nokia are very well positioned, especially in business rankings: four of the top ten coincide with the current Lumia smartphone line-up .Important factor in determining success in the business segment of Lumia was the partnership between Elisa and Microsoft relating to Office 365, the cloud-based service dedicated to personal productivity. 

Nokia publishes financial results for the 2nd quarter of 2012,with first signs of a turnaround and 4 million sold Lumia devices

As expected, this morning, Nokia has released the financial results of the 2nd quarter of 2012 and what we learn from the figures in the summary tables (see below) are the first signs of a turnaround , although the Finnish company is still at in a delicate and difficult period of transition.

The numbers and percentages than in the previous quarter appear to be more encouraging and demonstrate a greater hold of competitiveness in the mobile industry with the introduction of new feature phones family Asha Lumia and sale of devices with Windows Phone,which have been sold in 4 million units, a reasonable result considering that the new operating system is still young and not yet known by the great mass of consumers.

Nimbuzz for Windows Phone is available to download from the WP Marketplace

Nimbuzz for Windows Phone has landed on the Marketplace. The popular multi-platform messaging client that allows you to chat, send pictures and video to all devices Java, Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone OS, Android and Symbian using the services of Live Messenger, Gtalk, Yahoo, Facebook and others, is in fact available for free download for our Windows Phone device.

Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 - New software update 8779 in Navifirm

The deployment of MCR3 (Consumer Mango Refresh 3) or Windows Phone Tango is already on a roll for  several days now and allowed many owners of Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 to complete the update. The software platform of the two smartphones Lumia seems to be intended to receive a new update. The information is obtainable from Navifirm , the server that contains all the new firmware and software updates for the Nokia. In Navifirm has just published the new 8779 software release , which should refer to an update post-Tango (8773). 

Here's more news of Tango left a little muted by Microsoft

Here is small list, published by colleagues WPCentral through their experiences with different Windows  Phone device running Tango:

• New wallpapers – Now including those new “nature” themed wallpapers in the Tango ROM
• Faster numeric PIN response – At least on our 8112 devices (Titan II, Focus 2, Lumia 900), when we would attempt to unlock our PIN on our phone it would sometimes be very slow and not register, requiring you to re-enter the number. While minor, it was annoying. That was fixed by updating all our devices.

Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 will be getting new software update from June 27th

Nokia has made ​​it clear in the past few hours the details on the next software update reserved for owners of Nokia Lumia 710 and Luma 800 , pointing out that the 'distribution will start from June 27 . The Nokia Lumia 710 and 800 are waiting out the updates to Windows Phone Tango and the new update should finally overcome the absence of some highly anticipated features, such as the one that will allow you to share your internet connection. The wait may cease to be just under a week.

Camera Extras, incoming new shooting features for the Nokia Lumia devices

Nokia will release in the coming days on Marketplace, inside the Nokia Collection,Camera Extras . This is an application that, as you will see in the video at bottom of page, add the Lumia 900, 800, 710 and 610 new features to allow users to create quality images in the following ways:

Group photo
Thanks to a sophisticated system for the recognition of faces and to an advanced internal algorithm to the software you can choose the best expressions of the subjects selecting from five photos that will be acquired in rapid succession as soon as you press the shutter button. Anything to get the best group shot possible.

The Nokia Lumia 610 and Nokia Lumia 900 featured in two new and original commercials (VIDEO)

The focus on aspects of marketing and advertising has always been a constant in the commercial policy of Nokia. Suffice it to mention the considerable investments made ​​by Nokia to launch new smartphone in key markets Lumia, to realize that even during the difficult time of transition is crossed by the company, its leaders have neglected the development of marketing campaigns very well structured. And between marketing initiatives devoted to recent Lumia 610 and 900 that must be part of the two spots distributed today by Nokia . These are two very well-made commercials that describe the same story seen from two different angles, namely that of a girl who uses the Lumia 610 and a holder of a boy Lumia 900. Not missing an epilogue happy endings in both videos that can be seen after the break.

Windows Phone Tango 8779 now available for HTC Titan and HTC HD2 | Custom ROM

The HTC Titan and HTC HD2 are now able to get the next Windows Phone OS update 8773 i,which eventually will be coming to all Windows Phone Mango devices, thanks to contributions from the community.Just are, you will notice the first custom ROM for the two devices based on the HTC build 8779 of Windows Phone Tango.

Disassembling the Nokia Lumia 610 (Video Tutorial)

The entry level of Windows Phone Nokia is leading an interesting tutorial that explains in detail how to disassemble the device. The guide can be useful both to discover what lies inside the shell of the Nokia Lumia 610, both users have the knowledge necessary to make repairs "do-it-yourself", such as those involving the replacement of the display of similar homes. 


The procedure for disassembling the Nokia Lumia 610 is best summed up by the video after the break.

Telus Canada announced the Tango update for LG Optimus 7 on 20th June,13 July for Nokia Lumia 800!

The Canadian phone operator Telus through a PDF in their official page dedicated to updates, announces the release of Windows Phone Tango "Consumer Mango Refresh 3"  for LG Optimus 7 will arrive Wednesday, June 20.