Articles about Windows Phone – Page 8 of 12

Microsoft to Windows Phone app makers: Less sex, please

Microsoft is taking steps to improve its Windows Phone Marketplace, notifying developers this week that it’s keeping an eye out… Read More

Wozniak loves his Windows Phone: Apple co-founder calls mobile OS ‘beautiful’

Microsoft is trying hard to win fans for Windows Phone. And while the mobile operating system is still way behind… Read More

Skype releases Windows Phone app, gears up for Xbox

Skype took its Windows Phone app out of beta this weekend, releasing a 1.0 version with updates including video calling in… Read More

The new shape of Microsoft’s entertainment unit: More diverse, less profitable

Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division has long been synonymous with the Xbox 360 and video games, which have traditionally represented… Read More

Verizon vows to back Windows Phone as ‘third ecosystem’

Microsoft and Verizon Wireless have been through some difficult times together over the years. (Anybody remember the Microsoft Kin? No,… Read More

Nokia: Windows Phone sales strong in U.S. but ‘mixed’ overall

Reporting its quarterly results this morning, Nokia said sales of its Lumia line of Windows Phones have surpassed its expectations… Read More

Good sign for Windows Phone? Lumia 900 selling out online

If you’re looking to buy a new Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone this week, it might not be as easy… Read More

After awkward holiday launch, Nokia and Microsoft look to build Lumia 900 buzz

Did anybody at AT&T, Microsoft or Nokia check the calendar before picking a launch day for the Lumia 900 Windows… Read More

HTC profits decline, overshadowed on both Android and Windows Phone

HTC, the mobile phone giant with North American headquarters in Bellevue, posted a decline of 70 percent in profits this… Read More

Nokia Lumia 900: Hands-on video and early impressions

The release of Nokia’s Lumia 900 this weekend is a critical moment for Microsoft’s Windows Phone in its attempt to come… Read More

Majority of U.S. smartphone users now own an Android device

For the first time in history, a majority of smartphone users in the U.S. now own an Android device, according… Read More

Nokia’s ‘Smartphone Beta Test’ teaser sets stage for Lumia 900 launch

A mysterious site that emerged over the weekend actually isn’t so mysterious upon closer investigation. It’s a marketing campaign, apparently… Read More

Windows Phone gets ‘smoked’ by Android user; Microsoft apologizes for its response

A few weeks ago on the GeekWire podcast, Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph challenged Todd Bishop and I to a speed test,… Read More

Microsoft and Nokia pump $23M into AppCampus to spur mobile app development

Just last week, Microsoft announced that developers have created some 70,000 applications for the Windows Phone. Not a bad start,… Read More

Can you hear them now? Windows Phone hires Verizon campaign vet

Microsoft’s newest Windows Phone marketing executive, Thom Gruhler, is no stranger to advertising in the mobile industry. In fact, you’ve… Read More

Mobile vets: Windows Phone is great, but it has a long way to go to catch Apple and Android

We brought together some of the top thinkers in the mobile industry Wednesday afternoon for the GeekWire Summit in Seattle.… Read More

Nokia debuts cheaper Windows Phone, upstages it with 41MP Symbian phone

Nokia this morning confirmed plans to release a new Windows Phone called the Lumia 610, taking advantages of changes in… Read More

Microsoft brings Skype to Windows Phone, finally

At long last, Microsoft just released Skype for Windows Phone, albeit a few months later than originally expected and not… Read More

Nokia, Microsoft to expand battle vs. Android and iPhone

The mobile industry will be gathering in Barcelona, Spain, this week for the big Mobile World Congress, providing a glimpse… Read More

Samsung’s Android Street Challenge: A ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ knockoff?

Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph has been getting lots of attention lately for his “Smoked by Windows Phone” contests, in which he… Read More

Estimate: 2.7M Windows Phones shipped in Q4, Nokia now top vendor

Nokia shipped an estimated 900,000 Windows Phones in the fourth quarter, quickly making it the largest vendor of Microsoft smartphones,… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Microsoft’s Windows Phone vs. our iPhones in an on-air speed test

Can the GeekWire guys avoid getting “Smoked by Windows Phone”? That’s the question this week as we welcome Ben Rudolph… Read More

Name that Tech Tune, for a chance to win an HTC Titan

Updated below with answer and winner. We’ll tell you right off the bat that this week’s Name that Tech Tune… Read More

Microsoft’s Facebook app for Windows Phone getting an upgrade — thank goodness

If you’ve ever used Microsoft’s Facebook app for Windows Phone and tried to find out who clicked ‘like’ on one… Read More

Microsoft wants you to publicly dump your Android phone for Valentine’s Day

Microsoft wants to put an arrow through the heart of Android this Valentine’s Day, and it is turning to a… Read More

Aviary bringing photo-editing tech to Windows Phone apps

Aviary, a photo-editing tech startup backed by investors including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is placing a bet on Nokia and… Read More

Windows Phone app leader goes to Amazon Kindle team

Brandon Watson, who oversaw Windows Phone’s work with third-party app developers, is leaving Microsoft to join Amazon.com’s Kindle team. Watson… Read More

Windows and Windows Phone: Their worlds are colliding

Earlier this week, a veteran Wall Street analyst said in a note to clients that development of Microsoft’s Windows Phone… Read More

Google shows some love for Microsoft’s Windows Phone

We’re still waiting for that official Google+ app for Windows Phone, but the Google Sync team just released some updates that… Read More

Report: Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone will be $99

The Nokia Lumia 900 is being positioned as the flagship Windows Phone in the United States, but a new report… Read More