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Intel hiring Windows Phone engineers

http://www.neowin.net/news/intel-hiring-windows-phone-engineers

 

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Report: Nokia to bring blockbuster 41MP EOS Windows Phone to the US this summer

http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-bring-41mp-eos-windows-phone-us-summer

 

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Nokia Flame 4G Windows Phone added to T-Mobile's April roadmap

http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-flame-4g-windows-phone-added-t-mobiles-april-roadmap

 

[mike123abc]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nokia-Lumia-520-720-Smartphones,20995.html

An unnamed source revealed purported details of the devices to My Nokia Blog. The Lumia 520 will apparently sport a 4-inch Super Sensitive touch screen, a 1 GHz dual-core processor, 512 MB of RAM, 8 GB of storage, a microSD card slot and a front-facing 5-megapixel camera. The smartphone will reportedly run on Windows Phone 8.

The higher-end 720 is said to feature a 4.3-inch screen that utilizes Nokia's ClearBlack display. It's powered by a 1 GHz dual-core chip, 512 MB of RAM, 8 GB of storage, a microSD card slot, a 6-megapixel rear camera and a front-facing 2-megapixel snapper. It'll also have Windows Phone 8 as its platform.

 

[John Kotches]

Mike:

Those specs are so 2010.

Just like my old HTC EVO 4G.

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[Peter Parker]

Windows Phone 8 and Outlook

I am coming up on the end of my contract for my work phone. Since it has tweo main functions---calls and reading and sending email I was seriously considering a Windows Phone 8. However I am hearing a lot of anecdotes telling me that the WP 8 platform is not rally all that grat for email.


I supect that there area few WP 8 users here and maybe a few ex users as well. Do you think it plays well with Outlook. I have to say I thought that this was the one area where WP 8 would likely excel.

 

[Peter Parker]

Mike:

Those specs are so 2010.

Just like my old HTC EVO 4G.

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk HD

They are intended as lowend devices.

 

[harshness]

I have to say I thought that this was the one area where WP 8 would likely excel.

Reasoning that Microsoft can reliably handle e-mail is not a good starting point. If it were easy, Blackberry would have disappeared years ago.

There is something decidedly wrong when an enterprise begs for a dedicated e-mail server and administrator(s) for same. Having said that, it has been almost a month since I got my last winmail.dat file.

 

[Peter Parker]

Reasoning that Microsoft can reliably handle e-mail is not a good starting point. If it were easy, Blackberry would have disappeared years ago.

There is something decidedly wrong when an enterprise begs for a dedicated e-mail server and administrator(s) for same. Having said that, it has been almost a month since I got my last winmail.dat file.

So you are saying that WP 8 is not so great at this?

 

[Poke]

Nokia to look to the sky and bring solar charging to Windows Phones?

http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-bring-solar-charging-windows-phones

 

[harshness]

So you are saying that WP 8 is not so great at this?

I'm saying don't expect it to be great.

 

[Peter Parker]

So does anyone have experience with a WP 8 phone and email they would like to share?

 

[Ronnie-]

Nothing besides using basic gmail. Sorry. If it means anything that works fine lol.

 

[John Kotches]

Geronimo, I'll check with one of my colleagues and try to post back here if I get any useful information.

 

[Peter Parker]

Thanks guys. Any actual experience is useful.

 

[John Kotches]

Thanks guys. Any actual experience is useful.

I'll get it when I can. The guy that uses the WP8 phone is home sick with the norovirus (Stomach Flu) that's going around. Not good!

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[Peter Parker]

Yeah I would put off contact with him. I hope he gets beter though.

 

[Poke]

Man that would be big if Verizon get's the 920

FCC filings foretell of Lumia 920 variant on Verizon

http://www.wpcentral.com/fcc-filings-foreshadow-lumia-920-variant-verizon

 

[John Kotches]

Man that would be big if Verizon get's the 920

FCC filings foretell of Lumia 920 variant on Verizon

http://www.wpcentral.com/fcc-filings-foreshadow-lumia-920-variant-verizon

Why would this suddenly catapult WP8 into the ranks of relevance? Even with all this push, IIRC, market share has gone down.

 

[Poke]

T-Mobile announces Nokia Lumia 521 with Windows Phone 8

http://www.wpcentral.com/t-mobile-announces-nokia-lumia-521-coming-soon