Nokia has unveiled a Nokia City Lens 1.5 beta app for Nokia Lumia handsets that run on Windows Phone 7.
Nokia City Lens, developed exclusively for the Nokia Lumia family, is the first app to provide what the Finnish phone maker calls a LiveSight-enabled experience.
The firm said the beta version is available to download for Nokia Lumia 900, Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 users who want to test and provide feedback about the experience. Support for the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 is underway.
The …

Nokia has updated the Nokia Transport (Nokia Transit) app for Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 7 and Symbian OS to improve its user interface.
“We’re taking our commitment to regular updates for our location apps very seriously and a good example is Nokia Transport (aka Nokia Transit in North America), which has been recently redesigned with a more intuitive and glance-able interface, specifically for Windows Phone 8,” said Pino Bonetti a blog post on Nokia Conversations.
The Finnish phone …

Microsoft has announced that existing Windows Phone handsets will not have support for in-app purchasing since it will be exclusive to Windows Phone 8 devices.
In-app purchasing allows developers to sell items within their applications. The Redmond-based software giant unveiled its plan to include in-app purchasing on Windows Phone devices at the Windows Phone Summit in June.
Two months after the announcement, Microsoft now says it will limit the feature to Windows Phone 8 only. Consequently, …

During an event held a couple of days ago in San Francisco, Microsoft detailed a set of new features for the next version of its Windows Phone platform – Windows Phone 8.
Although the event focused more on the details addressed by developers, Microsoft also revealed some of the innovations of the new mobile OS.

Windows Phone 8 Will Bring Substantial Changes. Would This Be Enough?

Here is a brief presentation of the most important elements discussed during last week’s Windows Phone …

Brandon Watson Leaves Microsoft / Image via OnWindows

Microsoft team is far from the lack of capable people to keep the company in motion, but it’s always sad when one of them is leaving.
In this case it’s Brandon Watson, a person leading the team of developers of Windows Phone 7, who after it was rumored for a long period of time that he would leave Microsoft, has confirmed rumors on Twitter. The next adventure of Brandon Watson will take place at Amazon, where he will be the Director of …

Microsoft Pays 250 Million to Nokia / Image via Flickr

Microsoft has paid the amount of $ 250 million to Nokia to adopt the software giant’s operating system Windows Phone 7 for the new series of Lumia smartphones. We are talking about the agreement reached last year between the two companies while Nokia was having big sales problems because they did not have a powerful operating system. The Finnish company needed an operating system already designed for mobile platforms, but also with some …

IHS has released a forecast that said Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will catch up with iOS in 2015.
The analytics firm estimated that Microsoft’s mobile operating system would rise into second place and bump Apple’s iOS to third in smartphone shipments three years from now due to Nokia’s ramped up efforts to promote its new flagship operating system.
“Combined with Nokia’s efforts to drive the development of the Windows Phone ecosystem, the Lumia 900 and its successors will help …

Nokia has released an update to its highly anticipated first Windows Phone 7 device, the Nokia Lumia 800.
Lumia 800 hit shelves just less than a month ago and Nokia is now hot on its heels to release the first software update for the company’s new flagship mobile operating system ever since the jump from Symbian OS to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform.
The software update implementation should finish its round in the next two weeks for users who received the blessing and indulgence of …

A latest study is showing that Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform has gained a lot of interest from developers during the quarter while Research In Motion’s BlackBerry operating system saw a sharp drop in developers interest.

Developers are becoming more and more interested in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform. Image: bfishadow / Flickr (CC)

The new study comes from IDC and Appcelerator which surveyed 2,160 Appcelerator Titanium developers from November 2-3.
Here are the main points …

Microsoft has stealthily changed its requirements for phones which will run on its Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform to allow smartphones without camera to be powered by its mobile platform.

Microsoft has relaxed its Windows Phone 7 specifications requirements to allow camera-less WP7 devices. Image: richlyc / Flickr (CC)

The change is said to have been done by Microsoft towards the end of September which means that hardware manufacturers looking to put WP7 on their phones now have the option of …