Devices

Buy First Generation Unlocked Windows Phone Devices For As Low As $160

December 27, 2011 | By Pradeep

Few days ago we posted about Dell Venue Pro selling at a dirt cheap price of $249. After the post, many readers pointed out that other first generation devices are selling at price less than $249. As you can find in Amazon, unlocked Samsung Focus is selling for about $239, unlocked HTC Surround at $195, LG Quantum at $160 and Samsung Omnia at $289. With Mango update available for all of the above devices, these devices are great replacement for poor android devices at this prices and some feature phones as well. Spread the word among your friends to grab this opportunity to buy these devices before they are being discontinued.

You can buy at Amazon here.

Thanks to everyone for the heads up.

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Windows Phone 7 OEM Marketshare Stats

April 21, 2011 | By Pradeep

The chart is not based on the actual sales of the devices instead its based on the devices running applications using the adgac user control. As we all know, HTC leads the chart because of its more global availability of devices followed by Samsung and LG. Below is the chart of percentage of devices by specific model.

Source: Nickharris Via: Mobiletechworld

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Nokia To Re-Enter Into CDMA Space Through Windows Phone Devices

March 22, 2011 | By Pradeep

In countries like USA, Nokia currently have devices only running on GSM networks like T-Mobile and AT&T. But the situation is going to change soon as Nokia has confirmed its plans that its going to re-enter into the CDMA market of carriers like Verizon and Sprint with Windows Phone 7. In an interview at the CTIA Wireless conference, Nokia USA Vice President and General Manager Mark Slater have told Forbes that

“Our go-forward smartphone platform for CDMA will be Windows”,“We will have high-end Windows smartphones, but with Nokia’s scale, Windows will have to play in all parts of our portfolio,” .

So this confirms that no Symbian devices will be released through CDMA networks before its Windows Phone devices.

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Rogers’ Venue Pro pricing scheme revealed

February 10, 2011 | By l3v5y

rogers-dell-venue-pro-prices Rogers Wireless – Canada’s largest mobile carrier – has released a pricing scheme for the Dell Venue Pro, ahead of its expected March release.

The phone will be C$600 without a contract, or C$150 with it; the contract is three years, (which is a usual length for Canada, rather than the usual 18-24 months enjoyed by the rest of the world – thanks, Jason), and at a meaty minimum tariff of C$45 per month. This is, of course, assuming that any of the handsets actually make it to Canada by March.

Via mobilesyrup; thanks to Steve for the tip.

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HTC HD7 Launched In Canada From Bell

February 10, 2011 | By Pradeep

As we reported months back citing mobilesyryp that HTC HD7 to be launched in February, Bell has launched HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 device in Canada today. Find the pricing details below,

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No contract: $599.95,

3 year contract: $99.95,

2 year contract: $549.95,

1 year contract for $574.95.

HTC HD7 comes with Bell TV Remote PVR,

Out of the house and forgot to record your favourite show? No problem. Schedule and manage your Bell TV HD PVR from anywhere. A familiar interface allows you to search for shows intuitively. Conveniently browse your program guide and recording schedules, and edit or delete existing recordings. You can even use your smartphone as a remote control.

Source: Bell

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HP Reveals 2 New WebOS Smartphones And A WebOS Tablet, Is This Enough?

February 9, 2011 | By Pradeep

I didn’t even dream that HP(cheaters) will take a website’s poll seriously and mention it at their product launch. That is just sad.

Anyway, at their event today they announced HP Veer , a small webOS smartphone to be available this spring, HP Pre 3 , a webOS smartphone with vertical slider keyboard as our Dell Venue Pro and to be available this summer and HP TouchPad, a webOS (optimized for tablet) powered tablet. A WiFi version of HP’s TouchPad will be available in the summer, followed by 3G and 4G versions. No word on pricing on these devices. Also HP is working on to bring WebOS to PC’s ! ! ! Microsoft, wake up soon.

Of course it is questionable whether the release of these devices will re-invigorate the webOS developer community. The number of applications in their application store, which has been open for around 20 months, was recently surpassed by the Windows Phone 7 marketplace in less than 3, and the platform has been abandoned by high profile ISVs like Skyscape, who withdrew their medical products from the webOS Catalog. The OS had also continued to lose market share and users, with only 3.7% of subscribers in USA using an OS from Palm in December, down from 4.2% just 3 months earlier, and less than 2% of sales in December 2010.

What do you think of these products? Are they enough to compete with the tough smartphone,tablet competitors?

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Dell Venue Pro delayed again… and again… and again…

February 8, 2011 | By l3v5y

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Dell Venue Pro’s UK release has been delayed once again. According to Clove, the stock has been delayed until “early March.” The Venue Pro is now over four months past its original UK release, and counting…

Any bets on when the troubled smartphone will finally get here?

via pocketnow.com

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Dell Venue Pro Coming to Rogers Wireless In March

February 2, 2011 | By Pradeep

Rogers Wireless, one of the leading carrier in Canada will have Dell Venue Pro coming to its network in March. BGR has got some internal material stating the same. Windows Phone 7 already has 4 devices in Canada from all three leading carriers, Rogers with Samsung Focus, Telus with HTC Surround and LG Optimus 7 and Bell with LG Optimus Quantum.

Source: BGR

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Sony Ericsson Is Open To Windows Phone 7, But Not Yet Decided

January 17, 2011 | By Pradeep

We heard rumours that Sony Ericsson is working on a Windows Phone 7 device. Now we have a concrete information on that rumour, cleared by Steven Walker, Head of global marketing at Sony Ericsson. At an recent interview at CES on Windows Phone 7 he told Pocket-lint in a one-to-one interview that “We are keeping a watching brief” on it.

Here is his response,

“We’ve done a lot of work with Microsoft over the years. We’ve launched a number of 6.xx products, but we made a decision not to bring a product to market in the first wave. We absolutely maintain to keep an open mind towards Windows Phone 7. We continue to engage in a relationship with Microsoft, but we haven’t made any concrete announcement about when and how we would introduce Windows Phone 7 into the portfolio”.

When asked whether Sony Ericsson will stick to Android like Motorola in their smartphones,

“We shouldn’t limit ourselves to one opportunity, but we aren’t yet ready to make any specific announcement about products. At this moment in time, there is clearly a galvanising within the industry around Android as a creditable alternative to what’s out there, and we think that’s a good thing”.

He made some more comments on Sony Ericsson’s Android and smartphone strategy, head to Pocket-lint for the full interview. I think Sony Ericsson is trying to play safer game by skipping the first generation Windows Phone 7 devices, because it don’t want to take risks poor financial results. Will Sony Ericsson make a Windows Phone 7 device ? If yes, when? How will they measure Windows Phone 7 platform’s success? When they decide to make a WP7 device at later stage, all other competitors will have huge head start. What do you think?

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NewEgg Lists All Three Windows Phone 7 Devices On AT&T For Free

January 11, 2011 | By Pradeep

Just few days back we reported that Amazon Wireless selling Windows Phone 7 devices for mere 1 cent price and If you are not ready to spend even that single cent, here is the offer you were looking for, Newegg.com has listed all three Windows Phone 7 devices under AT&T contract starting from 450 minutes per Month for $39.99 per Month to Unlimited minutes per Month for $69.99 Per Month. Here is the device’s page to buy,

Source: wpcentral

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Dell Venue Pro Delayed Until Mid-Feb In UK

January 10, 2011 | By Pradeep

Dell Venue Pro, one of the hottest Windows Phone 7 device has been delayed in UK again until Mid of the February and the delay is being caused by a Microsoft software

issue with the MMS settings for the carriers. Previously we reported that that the Dell Venue Pro will be with European HSDPA hands will be hitting the Clove UK virtual

shelves on the 6th January 2011, due to delays on a “component issue”. Hope we get Dell venue pro this time without any further delay.

Source: Clove UK

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Get AT&T Windows Phone 7 Devices For 1¢

January 7, 2011 | By Pradeep

Recently we reported a news of carrier AT&T slashing the prices of the LG Quantum and Samsung Focus to $99 for US users. Also we reported that the price slash is a limited time offer and not permanent as previously reported. But now its better than ever, you can get all the three Windows Phone 7 devices from Amazon wireless for 1¢ by signing a 2 year contract. Here are the links to amazon’s page,

Hurry, this offer will last through January 17th.

Source: BGR

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Indian Mobile Retailer Univercell Lists LG Optimus 7(Updated)

December 19, 2010 | By Pradeep

Major south Indian retailer Univercell have listed LG Optimus 7 E900 for 25000 INR( Approx. 560 USD). As previously mentioned by us, LG will be one of the key launch partners for Microsoft in India. Still there is no word on time of availability,but I guess it will be sooner than expected. According to some insiders at Microsoft India,I got to know that January-2011 will be the time frame of the launch. Does this indicate that Windows Phone 7 will be launched in other Asian countries soon?

Update: Flipkart.com ,an Indian online retailer is taking orders for HTC HD7 with the price of 29999 INR (approx. 667 USD) and it states that it will deliver the device within 5-7 days, but according to some sources I found that the device will be shipped only after the official launch of Windows Phone 7 in India.

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