The Nokia Lumia 900 is perhaps the most talked-about smartphone after the iPhone 5, maybe even more so. The successor to the Lumia 800 has generated quite a bit of buzz and there is good reason why.
The metro-style UI is one thing that cannot be compared to any other smartphone as well as the fact that Nokia has put in a whole bunch of gee-whiz specs in the phone to offer one of the best smartphone experiences on the market today.
The big question, however, is whether the phone will perform …

Microsoft has made a fearless forecast of its Windows Phone platform surpassing Apple in China, a new report says.
The comments came from Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for the Greater China region Simon Leung, Bloomberg says.
According to Leung, Windows Phone will pass the Apple iPhone in terms of market share in China on its way to the primary goal of Microsoft which is to displace Android as the dominant mobile operating system in the Chinese market by market share.
As such, …

LG has turned a blind eye to Windows Phone and the company is not making any excuses for it. In an interview at the ongoing , LG’s smartphone unit leader Ramchan Woo said that sales of its Microsoft-powered handsets had been “slower-than-hoped-for.” This meant that whereas the company is still developing Windows Phones, it currently has no release dates to reveal.
This telling statement serves as a chilling harbinger for the yet-to-go-mainstream Microsoft Operating System. …

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 have today announced a hefty loss on its overall earnings for the year ending December 2011. Nokia, which recently partnered with Microsoft to feature Windows Mobile on its range of smartphones, reported a loss of $1.4 billion in a sharp contrast to the $980 million profit it made in a similar period 2010. This loss is attributable to a cocktail of issues that conspired to hand Nokia the huge loss it has incurred. Top of these is the 29% drop in phone sales during 2011, a loss factor that …

The Nokia Lumia 710 will have its U.K. release this coming February 1, reports from the U.K. reveal.
According to 3G.co.uk, the Nokia Lumia 710 will be launched on the wireless carriers Three and Orange.
Another report from CBR Online says that the date of the launch of the Lumia 710 in the U.K comes from Nokia U.K.
The Lumia 710 will join the Lumia 800 which has a lot of similar specifications as the lower-end 710.
The Lumia 710 and the Lumia 800 both run on the same single-core 1.4GHz …

HTC is reportedly working on a new phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, the HTC HD8.
The existence of the HTC HD8 was seemingly confirmed as the phone’s data – which also reveals what build of the Windows Phone 7 OS it is running on – has been spotted in app stats from the Windows Marketplace.
The discovery was made by WPCentral’s Daniel Rubino who says in a report that the HTC HD8 first appeared via stats from the “…I’m a WP7” app on December …

Microsoft has reminded people that Windows Phone has had Siri-like voice control capabilities for more than a year to date.
The comments come from Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, in an interview with Forbes’ Eric Savitz.
Mundie reminds that Apple is really good at marketing and it’s blinding people from seeing other platforms with similar technology.
“People are infatuated with Apple announcing it,” Mundie said referring to Siri.
“It’s good …

The market share of Apple’s iOS platform dropped to 15 percent for the third quarter of the year as Android leapt in the smartphone market share wars, a new report from Gartner reveals.

Apple iOS market share dropped in the third quarter to 15 percent as Android takes more than half of smartphone market. Image: willy-photographer / Flickr (CC)

According to Gartner in a recently-published report, the iOS market share dropped from the 16.6 percent smartphone market share it had during the …

A senior executive at Samsung has left the company to go on to lead the Microsoft Windows Phone  team, a report says.

A senior Samsung executive has left the South Korea-based company to lead Microsoft’s Windows Phone team.

In an exclusive report with an interview with the executive, Gavin Kim, BGR says that the “Kim will have a direct impact on the future success of the Windows Phone platform”.
According to the report, Kim said that he will “be responsible to help set the future …