A few days after showing a series of pictures of a Windows smartphone that had been under development by Dell, Evan Blass has a more detailed look at the phone/PC hybrid that never made it to market. It was called Dell Stack, and it wasn’t just a phone… it would have been a whole ecosystem of […]
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HP Elite x3 smartphone sells for $699 without the desktop dock ($100 off)
The HP Elite x3 is the most powerful Windows smartphone to date… but it’s also the most expensive, thanks to a $799 price tag. That price includes a desktop docking station though. So how much would you save if you bought the phone without the dock? About $100. Windows Central notes that the HP Elite x3 […]
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Microsoft now selling HP Elite x3 for $799 (or other Windows phones for far less)
The Microsoft Store is now selling the HP Elite x3 for $799. With a 6 inch, 2560 x 1440 pixel AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, a fingerprint reader, and iris recognition, it’s the most powerful Windows smartphone to date. But it’s also one of the most expensive. […]
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Alcatel Idol 4 Pro leaked: Windows phone with Snapdragon 820
After launching the well-received Idol 3 smartphone in 2015, Alcatel added two new Android smartphones to the Idol family this summer: the $350 Idol 4S and the $200 Idol 4. Neither phone has what I’d describe as killer specs, but they’re reasonably affordable phones, especially when you consider that they ship in a box that […]
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Lumia 525 hacked to run Android 6.0 instead of Windows Phone 8.1
The Nokia Lumia 525 is a smartphone with a 4 inch, 800 x 480 pixel IPS display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage. It was released in early 2014 and shipped with Windows Phone 8. While Microsoft rolled out a software update that allowed the Lumia 525 to run […]
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Microsoft sold 13.8 million Lumia phones last year
It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Windows software for smartphones has a relatively tiny market share. But the same week that Apple is trumpeting the sale of its billionth iPhone, Microsoft has released financial documents showing that the company sold just 13.8 million Lumia phones in 2016… and just about 1.2 million in the last quarter. The […]
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HP Elite x3 smartphone coming August 29th for $699 and up
As expected, HP’s Elite x3 smartphone will be available in the US soon. But it has a somewhat lower starting price than had been anticipated. The HP Elite x3 is a Windows 10 Mobile smartphone with top-tier specs and support for Microsoft’s Continuum for phone software, allowing you to use the phone like a desktop computer […]
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Acer Liquid Jade Primo Windows 10 phone now available for $649 (including dock, keyboard, and mouse)
Comments Off on Acer Liquid Jade Primo Windows 10 phone now available for $649 (including dock, keyboard, and mouse)Acer’s Liquid Jade Primo is a Windows 10 smartphone with support for Continuum software, allowing you to connect it to an external display and run some apps in desktop mode. The smartphone made its debut at CES in January, but the phone didn’t start shipping until April… and that was a European launch. Now the […]
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Lenovo launches a Windows 10 smartphone (in Japan)
There aren’t a lot of companies making Windows smartphones anymore, but the list just got a little longer. Lenovo has introduced its first phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile operating system. The phone will be available through Japanese wireless carrier SoftBank, which helps explain the phone’s name: SoftBank 503LV. Lenovo and SoftBank are positioning the […]
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Microsoft “streamlines” smartphone hardware business to focus on enterprise market
Microsoft has been making smartphone operating systems for just about as long as anyone, and the company started selling its own hardware under the Lumia brand after acquiring Nokia in 2014. But Android and iOS continue to dominate the smartphone market and Gartner estimates that Windows had a market share of just about 1 percent last […]