Samsung has actually reigned supreme in the year 2011, and looks like the year 2012 will be in their hands too. The Omnia W is a representation of what a company like Samsung is capable of. The device is considerably cheaper than its competition but has excellent specs and usability. Here is our review on the Samsung Omnia W ( Wonder).

 

Build Quality 

The Omnia W is well built, not the best build you would find in this price range, but definitely well built. The construction is all plastic and appears flimsy, but is actually quite good. The back panel has some shell/metal elements [...]

Samsung Omnia W is the first official Windows Phone from Samsung in India. The smartphone has been aggressively priced seeing the massive launch from Nokia for their Lumia Series. The Samsung Omnia however beats the odds of the Nokia Lumia series trumping them in a certain aspects. The Omnia W weighs just 115 gms making it a fairly light phone. The 3.7 inch Super AMOLED screen is exceptionally vivid and has rich deep black levels. The form factor and over all size of the device is very comfortable in the hand.

The Omnia W features a 5 MP camera with autofocus and LED flash, 720p [...]

A new SMS bug has been found in the Windows Phone 7.5 devices, WP devices that receive a text containing a certain string of characters will reboot and return with a non-functional messaging client which can only be restored via a hard reset. The bug does not affect any particular device, but the OS. The funny bit is that the same bug message could be received via Facebook messenger or MSN messenger.

Android and iOS have had their fair list of SMS bugs, But never one that disables the messaging interface all-together.

 

There is a lot of buzz about the launch of Nokia Lumia Windows phones, and its possible that Nokia will announce them today at a secret even in the capital. 

The Lumia 710’s Specs include

3.7-inch ClearBlack display  Colors :”stealthy black” and “crisp white”  Replaceable back covers €270, or $375 (INR 18000) possible price Windows Phone Mango Nokia Drive, Nokia Music and ESPN Sports Hub inbuilt into the OS.  #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption [...]

Nokia has also announced a Lumia 710 alongside the Lumia 800. It has the same 1.4GHz CPU found in the Lumia 800,

Specs include

3.7-inch ClearBlack display  Colors :”stealthy black” and “crisp white”  Replaceable back covers €270, or $375 (INR 18000) Windows Phone Mango Nokia Drive, Nokia Music and ESPN Sports Hub inbuilt into the OS. 

Lumia 710 will be available in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK in November and then Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan by the end of the year, with additional markets in the first part of 2012.

 

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Nokia has finally unveiled its first Windows Phone to the world, dubbed the Lumia 800 the device is the only relief to millions of Nokia lovers worldwide.

Powered by a 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 CPU  12.1mm (0.48-inch) thick polycarbonate plastic ClearBlack AMOLED (800 x 480) display Carl Zeiss optics-enhanced Camera  16GB of internal storage 512MB of RAM 25GB of free SkyDrive space Nokia Drive, Nokia Music and ESPN Sports Hub inbuilt into the OS.  Windows Phone Mango Camera has an f/2.2 aperture Quad-band GSM support, with HSDPA up to 14.4Mbps Priced at €420, or about $585 (INR 28,500)

The device has gone up for pre-order now, and is all set to ship  out across France, [...]

Microsoft has already started seeding the Mango 7.5 builds of Windows phone to existing device holders.  The company’s eager to do a much more efficient job , considering they wern’t able to do it properly during the NoDo update.

As far as supported devices go, According to MS almost all phones are covered in their update schedule. The new update brings over 500 new features and additionally allows users to install apps from third party developers without the need of sideloading them. Microsoft confirmed that Internet Sharing — the long-awaited mobile hotspot functionality — will not be available [...]

According to Microsoft’s official Windows Phone Blog, the Windows Phone 7 Mango Update should be available to all existing WP7 devices within another week or two. The Windows Team indicates it won’t be pushed to your phone OTA when the time comes, so you’ll need updated versions of the Zune for PC or Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac installed on your computer.

Looks like this time around the Update may come out the same day, unlike with No-Do when it was over several weeks.

 

 

Microsoft’s upcoming “Mango” update is the next exciting thing for all Windows Phone 7 users. Windowsphonesecrets.com revealed the new features of the upcoming update and they seem to be adding quite a few interesting things.

Bing Audio, which will identify songs by listening to music Bing Vision, which will provide barcode scanning + Camera assisted search Turn-by-turn navigation in Bing Maps Speech recognition support in messaging Native podcast player

Microsoft has accidentally confirmed that its next major Windows Phone update aka Mango will be infact Called WIndows Phone 7.5.

Mango update will bring

Multitasking Internet Explorer 9 mobile Twitter integration

Microsoft also showcased several new features of the Mango Update Earlier this Year at the MIX developers confrence.

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