Windows Phone

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones. It is the successor to Windows Mobile, although it is incompatible with the earlier platform. With Windows Phone, Microsoft created a new user interface, featuring a design language named "Modern" (which was formerly known as "Metro").

Octa-core processors are the hot new thing in mobile, with many higher-end smartphones now shipping with eight-core chips, but now MediaTek has upped...
8 years 11 months ago
T-Mobile’s been steadily shutting down MetroPCS’s legacy CDMA network and repurposing that spectrum for GSM use for a while now, and today it’s been...
8 years 11 months ago
Back in October 2014, it was rumored that the Lumia 735 might be making its way to Verizon in 2015. We haven’t heard much about the device since, but...
8 years 11 months ago
Following our early peek at a then-unnamed LG Windows Phone for Verizon last month, a cornucopia of details about the device have now leaked out....
8 years 11 months ago
A couple of months ago, Microsoft said that it wouldn’t be launching a new flagship Windows Phone device until the second half of the year, following...
8 years 12 months ago
Microsoft didn’t mention any U.S. release plans when it announced the Lumia 435 back in January, but it looks like the low-cost Windows Phone is...
8 years 12 months ago
Microsoft has made a habit of releasing affordable smartphones that we can’t help but admire. The Lumia 640 XL is the latest in that long line of...
8 years 12 months ago
Right now, Nokia is unable to make any smartphones that carry its name due to Microsoft’s acquisition of its Devices & Services division. That’ll...
9 years 3 days ago
Acer today made a couple of smartphone announcements: the first about an Android phone with a beefy battery, and the second regarding an affordable...
9 years 5 days ago
Today Microsoft announced the results of its fiscal Q3 2015, which is the three-month period that ended on March 31. There are a lot of details...
9 years 6 days ago
Google isn’t the only company that’s pushing out a smart wearable update, as Microsoft today announced some new goodies for the Microsoft Band....
9 years 1 week ago
Heads up, Facebook users, because the social network is changing the ways that it shows content in your News Feed. Facebook says that it’s rolling...
9 years 1 week ago
The Snapdragon 810 is one of the top-end mobile processors currently available, and so far it’s only appeared in a handful of devices. That hasn’t...
9 years 1 week ago
Wireless charging hasn’t yet gained real traction with consumers yet, but many manufacturers continue to push the feature in their devices. For...
9 years 1 week ago
In the months following the launch of Android 5.0, Google updated many of its apps to fit in with Lollipop’s Material Design. Now it looks like...
9 years 1 week ago
As promised, I’m back; this time taking a look at the little brother to the BLU Windows HD LTE, the BLU Windows JR LTE. For $100 off-contract, the...
9 years 1 week ago
This is one of two recently announced BLU Windows devices. This is the BLU Windows HD LTE smartphone running the new Windows 8.1 operating system,...
9 years 1 week ago
LG was around at the start of Windows Phone’s life with the Quantum and Optimus 7, but since then the Life’s Good crew hasn’t exactly been a major...
9 years 2 weeks ago
Microsoft has been filling the market lately with low-cost Lumia Windows Phone devices, including the Lumia 430, 435, 532, 535, and 640. Now we’ve...
9 years 2 weeks ago
Back in March, we got to take a look at the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL at MWC and I was pretty impressed with it. Now, we have it in its retail packaging...
9 years 2 weeks ago

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