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In episode eighteen of the All About Windows Phone Insight Podcast, we start with the details of Microsoft’s launch event for Windows Phone in China. The team then cover the latest updates to Nokia Drive (version 2.0) and Nokia Maps (version 1.3), plus the release of Nokia Transport and Creative Studio, before Ewan shares his Windows Phone related experiences from SXSW. We finish, as usual, with an app pick from each member of the team.
It’s been a busy week in the Windows Phone world, what with CES, new models, and some great app announcements. What better way to catch up on all the news and make sense of it with the All About Windows Phone Team and our weekly podcast?
In this episode… we bring you all the Windows Phone related news from CES. There’s discussion of the Microsoft keynote, upcoming Xbox Live titles and the first Windows Phone LTE devices, the HTC TITAN 2 and the Nokia Lumia 900, both of which will be available through US operator AT&T. We finish, as usual, with an app pick from each of the team.
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Paul Thurrott on the whole one hundred million dollars of PR for Microsoft and Nokia stories going around. This is why blogging rumours on top of rumours on top of guesswork to chase page-views really damages a lot of tech reporting online.
I’ve been sitting on this information for weeks so that Microsoft can make its big announcement at CES this coming week. But with these leaks, as with the equally inaccurate LTE leaks last week, I felt the need to set the record straight. The way tech blogs work these days is that any information, no matter how inaccurate, is simply parroted between all the gadget blogs and then, inevitably, to the increasingly lazy mainstream news as well. So let’s at least get it right.
Anyone following All About Windows Phone will not have seen this story in our news headlines, or in the “flow” sidebar of interesting links. It’s long been the rule of thumb at “All About…” that we don’t cover leaks, rumours, spy shots and similar topics. Does it leave us looking a bit behind the curve? In the eyes of some, yes, but we think it makes for a better experience and helps build up the trust between the writers and the readers.
What to make of the Nokia Lumia 800 after more than a week? How about this… when Stephen Elop proclaimed on stage this was “the first real Windows Phone”, it felt a little presumptuous. After using it on last week’s transatlantic trip to Los Angeles, working the connected aspects on the trade show floor of BlogWorld, and relying on it for the entertainment side of things in Cattle Class on the Boeing 777, I’m beginning to agree with him.
The short answer is yes, but I throw in an occasional curveball towards the online geek attitudes to the 800. All About Windows Phone has the full article.
I keep finding cute things to like in Windows Phone, and here’s another one.
Let’s take a random app in the All About Windows Phone app directory that I want on my phone. Picking up the Lumia 800, I hit search, and the Bing Vision charm icon, hold the camera up to the screen over the QR code, and touch the link that appears on the screen. Boom, I’m into the Marketplace and there’s an install button. Job done, seamlessly, and in under seven seconds the app is installing.
Congrats to the Windows Phone team, and congrats to Rafe as well, for including it on AAWP.
