According to AT&T 2012 roadmap leaked, the device will be available for only $99.99 with contract bridge. Check out the hands-on video below and re-think what the gimmick volition be able to offer you.

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The customers will also receiving a Nokia Play 360 Speakers and a Nokia Monster headset when they purchase the device. Unfortunately, price to be announced. However, we would assumed around $500 to $700.

Nokia Lumia 710 Now Available, and US Availability for Nokia Lumia 800 also Confirmed

Las Vegas, US – CES – Yesterday during a joint press conference with AT&T, Nokia broadened its portfolio of Nokia Lumia devices with the introduction of the Nokia

Lumia 900 soon to be available through AT&T in the coming months. Additionally, Microsoft announced the availability of the Nokia Lumia 800 through Microsoft Stores and online channels. Finally, Nokia announced the Nokia Lumia 710 with Rogers Communications and the Nokia Lumia 800 with TELUS for the Canadian market.

Today, Nokia continues the smartphone excitement at CES by announcing that the Nokia Lumia 710, introduced in December with T-Mobile, is available tomorrow for order on www.t-mobile.com, in the T-Mobile retail and authorized retail store locations and in Target, Walmart and Costco locations nationwide tomorrow – plus first and exclusively only on Nokia, apps from CNN, Univision, ESPN and Sesame Workshop.

The head-turning Nokia Lumia 800 will also be available from Microsoft Stores and available online in three vivid colors (cyan, magenta and matte black) and sold together with the equally amazing Nokia Play 360 Speakers and Nokia Monster Headsets. The unique Nokia bundle will be in store and available online in early February.

Building on the 50,000 apps already available in Windows Phone Marketplace, the new and exclusive app experiences for Nokia Lumia smartphones includes apps from CNN, Univision, ESPN and Sesame Workshop. These partnerships bring new, apps from the world’s biggest brands exclusively to Nokia consumers before they are made more widely available to all Windows Phone consumers through Marketplace.

With the Nokia Lumia footmark increasing globally, Nokia is proud to deliver unique and exclusive app experiences via agreements with both applications developed by Nokia and some the world’s biggest names in consumer content. Exclusive content, iconic device design and other Nokia-only subject such as Nokia Drive provides Nokia Lumia users with an enhanced smartphone experience. Nokia-only exclusivity periods vary by content provider.

“With exclusive apps from some of the world’s leadership global, and most locally relevant brands, we are focused on making Nokia Lumia an outstanding smartphone experience for consumers,” said Marco Argenti, senior vice president, Developer Experience and Marketplace, Nokia. “We are collaborating with our partners to build and deliver first and exclusively on Nokia app experiences across keystone categories including news, sports, games, multi-cultural and kids and family, all of which are unique, fresh and fun,” he added.

Within the key categories, new app experiences include:

NEWS: CNN for Windows Phone application – First and exclusively for Nokia

The CNN App for Windows Phones will provide the latest news and video from CNN’s reporting around the globe. Offering a robust user experience, the CNN App takes full advantage of Windows Phone 7 features to offer a vivid, panoramic interface, the ability to pin sections of the app to a home screen, Live Tile for real-time news updates, and direct access to iReport, CNN’s participatory news community. For the first time on an app, users volition have the ability to submit an iReport while simultaneously capturing the consequence. Launching globally for free in the next month, the CNN App will be exclusive to Nokia users for 90 days and then available on all Windows Phone devices as they come to market.

“The CNN App will offer Windows Phone users a customizable CNN experience shaped for their environment,” said Louis Gump, vice president of CNN Mobile. “The Windows platform and Nokia phones will enable millions of people to hack in using the CNN app and interact with the world – where, when and how they wish.”

MULTI-CULTURAL: Univision for Windows Phone application – First and exclusively for Nokia

Univision offers a wide range of unparalleled content that resonates with Hispanics, the fastest growing segment in the US. The Univision app provides reporting from news and entertainment to sports and soccer, as wellspring as cooking and local content for several U.S. markets including New York, Miami and San Francisco. Users have access to real number-time information, clips of Univision shows and special events, and newsworthiness and weather based on their location. The app will be exclusive to Nokia consumers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico for 18 months on Windows Phone devices.

“We are excited to work with Nokia to extend Univision’s reach even further with this enhanced app,” remarked Kevin Conroy, president of Univision Interactive Media and Enterprise Development. “The Hispanic mobile marketplace is growing rapidly and Univision is committed to continue providing unparalleled content to our biotic community on their favourite devices.”

SPORTS: ESPN Sports Hub Windows Phone application – First and exclusively for Nokia

From the worldwide leader in sports, the ESPN Sports Hub app brings Nokia Lumia users a truly unique smartphone sports experience. With great localized subject wherever you are in the world, the user experience enables sports fans to fully customize the app and enjoy newsworthiness, scores, video and analysis via a single screen which can be navigated with the swipe of a finger. Whether it’s Football or Futball, NFL or Netball, this exclusive delivers the very best sports app experience.

ESPN, Inc., The Worldwide Leader in Sports, is the leading multinational, multimedia system sports entertainment company featuring the broadest portfolio of multimedia sports assets with over 50 business entities.

KIDS& FAMILY: Sesame Workshop rich meter reading titles – First and Exclusively for Nokia

Utilizing Nokia’s interactive rich reading eBook experience, Sesame Workshop designed their apps based on extensive research, adapting these Sesame Street book titles to help an adult teach her kid to become the storyteller while the adult becomes the listener, the questioner, and the audience for the kid. Building on a three-year coaction between Nokia, Sesame Workshop, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the exclusive apps include both a free book, 100th Day of School, and three additional titles: Big Block Party, Color Carnival and Abby in Wonderland. Each title incorporates familiar Sesame Street characters including Elmo and Grover. These titles are exclusive to Nokia consumers globally for a minimum of six months.

“With the latest Sesame Street app offerings, we’re continuing our 42-year tradition of encouraging families to read together with some of their favorite furry friends,” said Scott Chambers, Sesame Workshop Senior Vice President, Worldwide Media Distribution.

About Nokia

Nokia is a global leader in mobile communication theory whose products have become an integral part of the lives of citizenry around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 one thousand million citizenry use their Nokia to gaining control and share experiences, access selective information, discovery their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia’s technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia.

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The new leaked video show off the gimmick in 360 degrees slant. The gimmick look very slim and thin. It has a large exhibit, also metal accents on the volume controls and around the phone’s camera. Take a look at the video recording.

[via BGR]

Nokia also said the liberation of their first base WP handset will take place on Q4 this class. The hexad countries includes France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands. The device volition begin hit other countries by 2012.

[via BGR]

HTC Surround’s NoDo is still under examination phase according to Microsoft Windows Phone 7′s update agenda. But we ar sure there volition be someone out there trying to jade the NoDo. So you tin get an early update.

[via PhoneDog]

Microsoft said it cadaver on running to start delivering the next version of Windows Phone to new and existing devices by the end of this class. Windows Phone Developer Tools will be available in May, and Microsoft announced that new features will enable the following:

•Live Agents create superior client engagement with real-time interactions via Live Tiles, Push Notifications, Deep Linking and Background Agents. Multitasking is also enhanced to allow for fasting applications switching, as wellspring as backdrop audio and file transfer.

•Phone integration has been greatly improved for developers wanting to do more with their apps. The Live Tiles functionality has been expanded to spring developers more flexibility and engage with their customers bettor.

•Developers will rich person approach to the Motion Sensor library and the camera, enabling augmented reality experiences. The integration extends deeper into the operating organization via sockets and database approach now available to apps and games.

Getting Apps to Market

Providing developers with the tools they motivation to bring their creativity to life is all wellspring and goodness. However, Microsoft has also put a considerable measure of thought into creating a path to the market for developers.

Part of broadening app photograph involves first step the global market further. Brandon Watson, senior director of developer experience for Window Phone 7, noted that since the launching of Windows Phone in November, the number of countries that support origination and commerce of apps has jumped from 16 to 35. He also said that deuce-ace additional countries — most notably China — will soon documentation app origination.

Expanded opportunities through Windows Phone Marketplace include:

•More countries – 35 countries with origination and commerce, up from 16 with the first base version of Windows Phone

•Expanded reaching – dedicated games Marketplace, parental controls and new beta distribution service

•Improved discoverability – exposure through Bing Search “extras,” expanded hunt functionality and new merchandising opportunities

•Additional monetisation opportunities – more mobile hustler billing, expanded country support for advertising SDK

•Streamlined processes – App Hub diligence submission, update, management and coverage capabilities

“We’re double the number of countries that support creation and commerce, and we’re creating conservation of parity to the countries that only supported creation before and didn’t have the ability to sell their apps,” Watson said. “From an chance point of view, that’s huge.”

Kik Interactive and Windows Phone 7

One recent convert to the Windows Phone platform is Kik Interactive — the Ontario-based inauguration responsible for Kik Messenger.

Kik began by development for Android, iPhone and Blackberry only. However, when the troupe stopped developing for Blackberry earlier this class, it decided to take a goodness, hard look at the Windows Phone 7 platform. It didn’t take long for Kik to see the light source.

“Our developers felled seam in love with it almost immediately,” said Ted Livingston, CEO of Kik Interactive. “We had been doing Android and iPhone for over a year. Within unity calendar month, we’d developed our first app for Windows Phone 7.”

Livingston said that Kik’s decision to build for Windows Phone did not come easily. For Kik, and developers in general, construction apps and games for a new chopine is a major committal of meter and resources.

This, coupled with the fact that Windows Phone had a customer base of zero just months ago, means developers could be less likely to invest the time and vigor required to build on a new platform.

Microsoft’s Watson acknowledges the stream environs from a developer’s linear perspective.

“We’re not the first base choice for many developers right field now — we know that,” Watson said. “But developers rich person nothing but opportunity in movement of them in the mobile quad. So we’re doing everything we can to give them the best tools.”

Livingston said that he and his developers at Kik ar reluctant to physique on any new platform. However, after trying the Windows Phone Developer Tools, and seeing how easy they are to manipulation, it was clear the real risk for his young company would be not to build an app for Windows Phone.

“After exploitation the tool set, and knowing about the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia, it would be loony for us not to develop for Windows Phone,” Livingston said. “We wish to be ready to drive the wave before the wave happens.”

Kik’s new app is just one of the next-multiplication Windows Phone apps announced today at MIX11. Other new apps and games include Skype, Australia-based airline Qantas, the biz “Plants vs. Zombies,” and the augmented world app Layar. Microsoft also announced that the wildly popular biz “Angry Birds” volition be available at the Windows Phone Marketplace beginning on May 25, 2011.

Building a Mobile Ecosystem

A keystone firearm to Microsoft’s strategy in the mobile ecosystem is establishing long-term relationships with developers to ensure that this community plays a key function in shaping what’s next in mobile.

According to Matt Bencke, general coach of developer and marketplace for Windows Phone, a big function of construction these relationships comes from devising it easy to develop for all Windows Phones, and allowing them to reach as many customers as possible. As developers succeed, he said, so too will operators, gimmick-makers and, ultimately, end users.

“Developers are, in many shipway, the best early indicators in terms of how successful an ecosystem is going to be,” Bencke said. “As we come out with more aplomb computer hardware, more software features and more services enabled, more citizenry will buy more Windows Phones. Developers ar understanding and they know that.”

To buff this flame, and create the flywheel impression Bencke describes, Microsoft has provided developers with tools that are powerful sufficiency to lucifer their ambition and creativeness.

“One thing that is really important to us is to unleash all creative ideas and amazing things developers tin do,” Belfiore said. “We looking at some of the stuff people out there rich person done for Kinect, and it’s just head-blowingly cool. We intend to hold adding capabilities to the platform so we can see similar amazing things.”

Momentum, by the Numbers

Since the release of the first Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools last class, more than 38,000 developers have registered with the Windows Phone Marketplace. In addition, there rich person been more than 1.5 million downloads of the Windows Phone Developer Tools, which have resulted in more than 13,000 apps and games that ar now available.

This impulse serves as grounds that developers ar exploring and thaw up to the Windows Phone platform. As wellspring, some industry analysts point to Microsoft’s partnership with Nokia as a crucial consequence that could change the competitive landscape in the smartphone market.

Research firm IDC forecasts that by 2015, 20.9 percentage of smartphones shipped will be powered by Windows Phone.*

Although only 21.8 percent of mobile phones shipped in 2010 were smartphones, IDC forecasts that the marketplace for smartphones volition nearly double by 2013.** In other actor’s line, the majority of mobile phone users have yet to bosom smartphones, and the partnership with global giant star Nokia volition only aid people discover Windows Phone.

“It’s a pretty strong confederation of core competencies,” Bencke said. “We like to think we’re very goodness at software and services, and Nokia is great with hardware and services as well. The combining is potent.”

*Source: IDC: Press Release, “IDC Forecasts Worldwide Smartphone Market to Grow by Nearly fifty in 2011,” March 29, 2011.

** Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, February 2011.
]]> http://your-cell-phone.net/new_developer_tools_and_resources_extend_the_windows_phone_7_platform.htm/feed 0 http://your-cell-phone.net/windows_mobile_os_to_include_nfc_technology.htm http://your-cell-phone.net/windows_mobile_os_to_include_nfc_technology.htm#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:42:00 +0000 admin http://your-cell-phone.net/?p=18503 Reporters from Bloomberg have learned from deuce people “familiar with the plans” that Microsoft is working on incorporating NFC engineering into the next version of its Windows mobile operating system. The first smartphones expected to include this technology whitethorn be released as early as this year.

Microsoft is also developing a relationship with Nokia to manipulation its Windows software system on next-generation devices. Nokia has committed to making all its Symbian smartphones NFC capable beginning this year.

Bloomberg also notes that Microsoft has been awarded 14 patents referencing NFC. The most recent was awarded March 22.