Nokia announces Lumia 610 NFC , the first Windows phone with Near Field Communications

We have seen this phone appeared in WPBench charts in March. Via a video posted on youtube, and then make it private, Nokia has just "officially" announced the Lumia 610 NFC, the first Windows phone with support for Near Field Communications.

While waiting for the company's new smartphone ads actually remains to be seen whether they will be presented with two versions of Lumia 610 or if the smartphone seen in Barcelona, ​​via a firmware update, will support the Near Field Communications.

 

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Windows Phone “Tango” will be officially launched in China on March 21st

Microsoft China has begun to send invitations to the various media in the country for an event on March 21st for the official launch of Windows Phone 7.5 Tango in the country. 

The event held in Beijing on March 21 will mark the arrival of Windows Phone Tango and the arrival of the first devices that will have this new version pre-installed. HTC was the first on the Chinese market with a device with onboard Windows Phone Tango, Triumph is HTC (HTC Titan called in Europe). The smartphone went on sale today and its the first Windows Phone device to officially arrive in the large Chinese market.

Even Nokia is ready to launch new smartphone in China Series Lumia, in fact, several Chinese newspapers have reported that March 28 will be available three new smartphones in the Finnish giant board with probably just the latest version of Microsoft's operating system.

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Windows Phone “Tango" limitations and new features officially confirmed

Microsoft revealed the next update to Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed “Tango”, during MWC this year. However, the company had been particularly silent about this update, mainly due to the fact that the update is targeted at bringing the OS to lower device requirements (such as supporting Qualcomm 7x27a processors and 256 MB of RAM) rather than bringing new features.
LiveSide has rounded up all the restrictions that will be placed on handsets that sport 256MB RAM - the revised system requirement which will introduce low-end budget devices

Certain restrictions were placed on devices with 256 MB of RAM, and while the company mentioned 5% of current apps in the marketplace won’t work on these devices, they haven’t been talking much about the other restrictions. However, Microsoft had been silently updating their Windows Phone How-to website, and these restrictions are now officially confirmed in these documentations. We’ve pulled them all out for you here so you don’t have to go digging:

• Windows Phone Marketplace app restrictions – Some processor-intensive apps have memory requirements, and won’t work on phones with 256 MB of RAM. You can check how much memory you have on your phone by tapping Settings > About.
• Podcast Subscriptions and Video Podcasts – You won’t be able to manage podcast subscriptions on your phone or watch video podcasts if your phone has 256 MB of RAM.
• Local Scout – You won’t be able to use Local Scout if your phone has only 256 MB of RAM.
• Fast app switching – This feature will not work if your phone has 256 MB of RAM.
• SkyDrive automatic photo upload – You won’t be able to upload pictures automatically to SkyDrive if your phone has only 256 MB of RAM.
• HD video playback – You won’t be able to play video compressed with some of the listed codecs if your phone has 256 MB of RAM.
• Background agents – To free up RAM for the foreground on 256MB devices, generic background agents (PeriodicTasks/ResourceIntensiveTasks) are disabled.

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An icon will alert you when your applications use the location service in the Tango update

Microsoft has recently updated its page devoted to information about Windows Phone inserting a new feature that will come with the Tango update. 

A new icon will be added in the notifications bar hidden link at the top of Windows Phone, this icon will be displayed only when an application uses the location service on Windows Phone(GPS or network).

This new icon (you can see in the picture above), will be displayed only if we enabled the "position" on the settings of Windows Phone, which allows applications to precisely know our exact location.

Microsoft informed that this feature will be included with the next update of Windows Phone (Tango) , which will first pre-installed on new devices and later as an upgrade for the "old" devices.

"After the new devices are out, we'll start the process of working with mobile operators to bring an update to current customers"

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