Tag: Windows Phone

There were bad news about Windows Phone when Microsoft released its 2016 Financial Year 2016 Q2 report. Even Microsoft still earning money, but their Windows Phone was keeping losting market shares. Microsoft has lost big money on their mobile products. Fewe and fewer people are still buy Windows phones, even Microsoft’s new flagship Lumia 950 XL and Lumia 950.

IDC had a report recently which was about global cell phone sales and related phone making factories’ market trend, but it even did not mentioned Windows Phone, because most of phone factories are giving up making Windows Phones since the bad customer reputation of Windows Phone.

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Update:

After the previous updating from WP 7.5 to 7.8, lots of users found the issue that Lumia cell phone battery power gone more fast than before. so later Microsoft released another update version 7.10.8860.142, the last version was 7.10.8858.136.

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We did not know when the Windows Phone 7.8 was available to push in Canada, but we just realized the Windows Phone 7.8 has been provided when we connected our Lumia 900 to PC using Zune software today.

Note: Our Lumia 900 was originally from Rogers, but we are currently using 7-11 speakout service which is actually using Rogers network. So we have not tested other Lumia phone which are from others cell phone network service providers.

And, during the update process, we found the interesting thing is that the updating is NOT only once time updating.

The following is the first window when we connected the Lumia 900 to computer, it noticed us a phone update is available, the new Windows Phone OS version is 7.10.8779.8.

When you click “UPDATE NOW” button, after some backup things, you will see Zune software start the phone update process, meanwhile, you will see your Lumia 900 restarted several times.

When the updating finished successfully. we see another updating followed right away, this time the OS version is 7.10.8783.12:

After the above update installed, there is another update found again, so the update is continued, now we can see the information which is about Windows phone new UI: Provides a new Start Screen experience with resizable small, medium, and large Live Tiles:

Finally, after another cell phone restart, there is no more update found. so the update finished. our Windows Phone 7.5 now updated to Windows Phone 7.8.

We have to find the newest OS version information through our cell phone, it is 7.10.8858.136.

Microsoft pushes big news in this week, just after their Surface tablet, today they announced the new smart phone platform: Windows Phone 8.

OK, what the main feature of Windows Phone 8 ? What the big different with Windows Phone 7 and Windows phone 7.5? I think the main changes based on previous Windows phone is: Windows phone 8 shares core with Windows 8 ! It means: Windows phone 8 will use the same core with Windows 8, and more, it means Windows Phone 8 will be more and more closer Windows 8, and further more, it means Windows Phone 8 will be just a kind of Windows 8 System. All applications on Windows 8 can run on Windows Phone 8 or just need minor changes and adjustments. This is really a new and great feature ! It will benefit to not only consumers, but also developers, and hardware companies.

The others features which were introduced today:

Multi-core processor support

Bigger, sharper screens

NFC wireless sharing

Internet Explorer 10

Wallet

Better maps and directions

Cooler apps and games

More details please visit Microsoft Windows Phone official blog.

 

Also, Windows phone 8 has new start screen, please watch the introduction video: