Category: Windows Phone 8

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Microsoft’s Steady Comeback Has Begun

Microsoft was in bad shape when CEO Steve Ballmer left this year. It was very fiscally healthy, but it had failed twice in two years to release a successful tablet despite billions spent on marketing. Microsoft’s Windows phones picked up only a fraction of the global smartphone market. Microsoft’s most lucrative products, the  Office Suite and Windows, faced steep competition from Google’s own offerings. Over the past decade, Microsoft...

iPhone 5S Vs Nokia Lumia 1020: An Objective Comparison

Everyone has compared the new iPhone 5S to the 5C, the Samsung Galaxy SIIII, and the nexus 4, but nobody has really compared it to Nokia’s Lumia 1020 Windows phone… until now. Design Both phones are rather beautiful in their own way. The Lumia 1020 is vibrant, boxy, and minimalist with a punch. The iPhone 5S is smooth, premium in look and feel, and...

Microsoft Buys Nokia (sort of): A Caveman Could Have Predicted This

In a move that literally anyone not living on a remote island in the middle of the atlantic could have predicted, Microsoft bought Nokia’s devices and services division. Essentially, Nokia kept its profitable corporate products, while Microsoft bought the division behind the infamous Lumia 920, Lumia 1020, and other Windows phone devices. Engadget is reporting the deal to be worth around $4.9 billion. Why...

5 Ads That Convince Us Microsoft Has No Clue What They’re Doing – Microsoft Worst Commercials

Despite hiring political advertising superstar Mark Penn, Microsoft seems to have no clue how to advertise their own products. Here’re three commercials that show this. These are certainly Microsoft’s worst commercials Microsoft Loves The iPhone They say no press is bad press. This commercial for the new Lumia Windows 8 smartphone, seems more an ad for the iPhone, than for the Lumia. The Lumia...

Quick Review: WhatsApp Messenger

iMessage is great when all of your friends have iPhones, but when your friends and family around the globe have Droids, and Blackberries, and Windows Phones too, it gets frustrating to send them all messages (and downright expensive). That’s where WhatsApp messenger comes in. I had family abroad last year with a Blackberry (i Know right?) so I turned to a combination of WhatsApp...