Pandora Launches Its Windows Phone App, Windows Phone 8 And Minimum 512 RAM Required

Pandora had been one of those apps missing on the Windows Phone platform, until now. The music streaming service has finally released a Windows Phone version, albeit it’s region restricted.

As a special gift to Windows Phone users, you get an ad-free experience for the rest of 2013. That’s still 9+ months to go. The app is free, of course.

Windows Phone Store Now Let’s You Side-load Apps, Sort Of

Ah, side-loading. Android has had this feature, and Symbian too. You can side-load apps on your iPhone after jailbreaking it. But on Windows Phone, you cannot, no matter what (only if you’ve dev-unlocked it etc), you cannot side-load an app. Microsoft, however, had mentioned that you can side-load apps starting with Windows Phone 8. No one knew how, though, but the Windows Phone Marketplace Store received a facelift recently,…

“Apollo+” Update To Windows Phone 8 Will Add Features Which Missed The Train

Remember how there were talks about Microsoft rushing the Windows Phone 8 software, and some of the important features being skipped so as to ship the shiny new version to the OEMs for their Windows Phone 8 devices. Nokia insiders also tell that Microsoft gave them the new version…

Windows Phone 8 Invites Out, Launching October 29th

The details are out… of the launch event, of course. Microsoft is sending out invites to the press members, asking them to join in for the official unveiling of the next version of Windows Phone, 8, aka Apollo, at an event in San Francisco.

What this means is that we’ll be knowing…

Samsung Ativ S Goes Up For Pre-order For $705

Remember the Samsung Ativ S? Samsung had launched the device out of the blue, pipping Nokia as the company to launch the first device running Windows Phone 8. That aside, the device does look nice, and has good…

Nokia Lumia 920 And 820 Europe Pricing Revealed, Seem Expensive

Nokia had announced the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820, but hadn’t revealed the pricing information and availability bit. Now though, we have official prices for three European countries – Germany, Italy and Russia, with rumours suggesting that the devices will become available sometime in November.

The Lumia 920′s price varies from €600 to €650, in the three…

HTC Set To Unveil A “Beautiful Hardware With Stunning Software” On 19th September

…and it’s going to run Windows Phone 8. Yep. So far, there have been numerous leaks, some being bad Photoshop jobs, some being borderline ugly. Now though, HTC is teasing a new device.

Here’s what HTC tweeted, along with the image above.

https://twitter.com/htc/status/248107584236695554

And the official Windows Phone channel on Twitter, @windowsphone, tweeted this, which was enough to all but…

Is A Slimmer PureView Possible? I Look Into Some Of Those Ways

We still don’t know what Nokia has in surprise for us when it launches its new Windows Phone 8 running Lumia smartphones in less than 24 hours from now.  Nokia is known for superb cameras in its smartphones. With 808 PureView Nokia made sure that no one questions their authority when it comes to camera performance. However the 808’s camera module…

Alleged Windows Phone 7.8 vs Windows Phone 8 Feature Set Leaked

Leaks are always welcome, really. But some times, some leaks are really obvious. Here’s one such leak, from WP7Forum. The site’s in Russian, and I’ll save you some time here.

The said leak suggests that there won’t be any Skype integration in Windows Phone 7.8 (is there a name for this version?). That’s not…

Nokia, Samsung, Huawei And HTC Will Make The First Windows Phone 8 Devices

Microsoft revealed in its Windows Phone Summit held yesterday that 4 OEMs will be the first to come out with phones running its latest version of Windows Phone, v8 aka Apollo. The four OEMs are Nokia, Samsung, Huawei and HTC.

No major surprises there, except for Huawei, who are going to come…

Microsoft unveils WP7.8; says existing WP devices will not be upgraded to WP8… may get official port!

Along with the major announcement of WP8, Microsoft also announced Windows Phone 7.8. It may also be the last update for existing Windows Phone 7 devices. The big reason for update incompatibility is hardware support. While WP7 was designed to run smoothly on single core devices, Microsoft changed a lot of core things in WP8 including support for new…

Nokia World Gets A New ‘Format’ – Separate Event For Carriers/Retail Partners And Others

I’ve always wanted to attend the Nokia World, Nokia’s annual event, but it doesn’t look like I’ll be making it. Nokia has just announced that it has re-imagined the event, and also, it has bumped up the date. Instead of October, it’s now going to be held on September 5 and 6. That’s…