Nokia has confirmed that its upcoming Lumia 610 Windows Phone handset will feature Wi-Fi hotspot capability; news that existing Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 owners will not take so lightly.
The Finnish smartphone maker said on its official website that its Nokia Lumia 610, slated to arrive in Q2, could share Internet accessibility “as a Wi-Fi Hotspot for up to 5 Wi-Fi-enabled devices”.
Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 are higher tier handsets as opposed to the 610, but owners of both devices hope to …

The next update for Microsoft’s mobile operating system, Windows Phone, is coming really soon, and more information from various sources and reports leaks several specifications to expect from the software such as its official release name.
The codename Tango has appeared several times among media channels, but Stefania Duico, Head of Windows Phone Italy, begs to differ, saying the official name for its upcoming update will be Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh.
The clarification is thoroughgoing, as …

Microsoft has announced to users of its outdated Windows Mobile operating system the shuttering of the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace.
With the Redmond-based software maker closing down support for Windows Mobile, handset owners have no other choice but to switch to better smartphone platforms after using the old OS.
Microsoft told Windows Mobile 6.x users that starting May 9 of this year the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace would shutter down, which slices off a chunk from app sources on Windows …

Nokia has witnessed how its Symbian market share faded over the course of last year, the latest analytics figure from Kantar Worldpanel indicates.
The Finnish phone maker teamed up with Microsoft early last year in an attempt to exploit the Windows Phone mobile operating system, but the partnership has only brought two devices to the market so far.
After Nokia changed its flagship smartphone platform to Windows Phone, Symbian market share dropped sharply such that several regions saw more than …

LG is about to finish the development stage of a new Windows Phone called LG Miracle, as a press photo of the handset starts to appear online.
The information did not come from an official source, but images like this sometimes emerge briefly ahead of the actual official photo and device launch.
According to PocketNow, a Romanian LG tester allegedly sold the LG Miracle to an XDA-Developers forum member.
The source also shared some hardware specs of the upcoming LG Windows Phone such as the WVGA …

Microsoft seems intent in crossing over Apple store domains with the entrance of its self-branded US stores since last year.
The company still has a few existing stores and needs more effort to rival Apple’s numbers, but it plans to build a 75-store network first before further expansion.
However, Microsoft currently lacks the reach that rivals have regardless of its better intentions.
The company has 16 stores and now starts to provide an exclusive promotional offer to work over consumer …

Nokia has just announced that it is in the works with another color variant for its popular Lumia 800 Windows Phone, adding a different glossy snow-white theme to existing cyan, magenta and black models.
The Finnish company, which dubs the Lumia 800 as the first real Windows Phone, is gradually turning the heads of mobile market consumers since the handset’s launch in October.
According to a post on Nokia Conversations, the “smoothly crafted polycarbonate unibody case” is an ideal offset …

Third-party statistics from OccasionalGamer, which claims to have installed more than a million games on different Windows Phone handsets, indicates that HTC still has the most number of WP smartphones overall but Nokia is hot on its heels by taking almost half of the second-generation phones using Microsoft’s mobile operating system.
OccasionalGamer’s report shows that more than 50 percent of WP phones carry an HTC logo, followed by Samsung with almost one-third of the handsets and LG at …

Nokia has yet to release the AT&T-exclusive Lumia 900 in the U.S on March, and now Carphone Warehouse wants to be first in the U.K. to offer the handset.
A post on the official Carphone Warehouse website says that the Nokia Lumia 900 is “coming soon”, with availability date set on June this year but the price has been left blank.
During the CES 2012, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop specifically said that the Lumia 900 targets the North American market, so this announcement from a major U.K. …

Nokia has released the promised update for Lumia 800 that will fix battery performance and Wi-Fi issues.
According to the Finnish phone maker, a software glitch caused the problems for Nokia Lumia 800 users, and now the company announces the roll out for the fix, which will happen in steps over the next two weeks.
“The update will not be delivered to every Lumia 800 simultaneously, but rather will be staggered over the next two weeks through Microsoft’s standard update process. This helps …