Nokia Lumia 900 - T-Mobile will not sell the device in Germany for the inability to upgrade to WP8?

The events in the marketing of Nokia Lumia 900 in the German market by T-Mobile is back in the limelight because the media echo gave a statement officious telephone operator. The statement was issued by a member of the team T- Mobile and clarify the reasons for choosing not to start the deployment of Nokia Lumia 900 in Germany. A basis for the decision is the inability to update the new flagship of the Finnish manufacturer to Windows Phone 8 . Declarations of T-Mobile, as you might guess, have a scope that goes beyond the specific case, representing an unofficial confirmation of the impossibility of terminals Lumia update the next release of Microsoft's operating system. For the record, we point out that, after the release of the declaration, other members of the T-Mobile have made ​​it clear that it is not an official statement, suggesting that the reasons which may lead to the choice of whether to market a device are many.

The declaration, from a few days ago, contains a phrase that apparently leaves no room for interpretation: 

We will not take the Lumia 900 in our product range as it is not software-update-means clustering enabled.What That is if the new WP 8 Should the fourth quarter as of 2012, 'which will not be updated 900th Lumia Lumia not insert the 900 in our product portfolio since it is not upgradeable.This means that if the new WP8 were to be distributed in the last quarter of 2012, the Lumia 900 will not be updated 

At present the only certainty is that T-Mobile does not release the Lumia 900. For reference, we note that another German mobile operator (O2) was of the opposite opinion, and has begun selling the Lumia 900 in Germany.

The suggestion is to wait for further confirmation that may come after the official launch of Windows Phone 8. Only after this event will be possible to trace with certainty the border between the terminals will be upgraded and those that will be forced to renounce the last version of the Microsoft operating system. We recall that the official position of Nokia does not confirm or deny the news of the distribution of the update to Windows Phone 8 for the line of smartphones Lumia.

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Survey - Windows Phone is the third platform chosen by the game developers with 8.8%

The Game Developer Magazine has published the results of its latest survey for the developers of games on different mobile platforms.


From the findings it is clear that the developers of games for mobile devices are more focused on the Apple platform with 94.6%, to follow with 70.7% of developers are dedicated to the Google platform and in the third position with 8, 8% of the developers interested in the Microsoft platform. 
The figure of Windows Phone is insignificant compared to the competition but keep in mind that the new system from Microsoft has a market share at the time, very small, about 2/3% worldwide. 
From the graph we can see that the developers have now left BlackBerry, Symbian and Bada platforms despite having a greater number of devices.


Recall that because of the impossibility of using native code in Windows Phone from developers porting this limitation makes the rather complicated and laborious. Microsoft should fix this problem with future updates, especially with Windows Phone 8 (Apollo).

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Windows Phone Marketplace extends to 22 new countries

Although, Microsoft’s Windows Phone marketplace is far from the likes of the gigantic Apple app store and the Google Play store, in terms of both the number of apps and its reach, the latest news from the Windows Phone makers reveal that their marketplace is now available across 22 new countries. The web-based marketplace has now been made available for Windows phone users across Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Israel, Thailand, and Vietnam. 

Microsoft also has plans on some making some improvements to its marketplace. It has decided to clean-up spam and reduce the noise level. 

The Microsoft blog also reveals that a new clean-up initiative taken up by them will aim at putting an end to consumer complaints regarding app searches - when a user tries searching for an app by typing in a keyword or name, the expected app does not show up, thereby causing some inconvenience. The team has started reviewing the keywords that developers assign to their apps and are also removing the ones that aren’t relevant. 

The blog also states that one will require Windows Phone 7.5 to buy, download, or update apps from Marketplace. The new requirement is said to be a part of the larger Marketplace improvement effort. 

More info at Windowsteamblog

Windows Phone 8 shows up in the statistics of I'm WP7 app

While we are are awaiting the Tango update for Windows Phone, Microsoft is already testing a first version of Windows Phone 8. This information comes from the application "I'm WP7" that shows us the different builds of Windows Phone from the users that have installed this application.

As we can see from the image build  running under Windows Phone 8 is signed 8.0.9662.0. Many were the doubts about the veracity of the result showed the application. The developers have promptly declared that Windows Phone 8 is running an emulator, there appears to be counterfeit because they are using on the location of the emulator by default and there is a difference in the time zone.

Moreover wpcentral colleagues claim to have had a tip from reliable sources that Windows Phone 8 has begun internal testing aka "dogfooding" at Microsoft on March 30th.

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Job post from Microsoft confirming Windows NT kernel in Windows Phone?

It was speculated for a long time that Windows Phone 8 will be running the Windows NT kernel, but so far these rumors have not been confirmed.

A recently published job post by Microsoft seems to indicate that Apollo and Windows 8 will indeed share some components and that Windows CE will be completely scraped.

The full job post after the break

Date: Apr 9, 2012

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development Location: Redmond, WA, US Job ID: 790735-78786 Division: Windows Phone Division In this world, there are few chances to work on a product which will change the industry, when all eyes are on you. Many people go through their entire career without ever experiencing the excitement and anticipation of building such a product; but you don’t have to. Come join the Windows Phone team to define and build experiences that will propel Microsoft to the top of the most competitive market in years! Our phone is winning accolades from delighted reviewers and customers, and we are busy building on that momentum. The OS Platform group’s mission is to deliver a robust, performant and extensible OS for the Windows Phone. This team delivers key platform components, works closely with teams across the phone organization to build seamless user experiences and partners with our hardware providers. We are looking for experienced engineers who are passionate about building a world class mobile operating system and excited about working in a dynamic and quality-oriented team environment. You must be passionate about producing well-engineered and robust code which can meet the demanding requirements of mobile platforms.

Qualifications for this position include: 5+ years of professional software development experience 5+ years of C++/C coding, debugging and software design skills Experience with Win32, WinNT Embedded development experience is preferred Experience with kernel, device driver, wireless networking or wireless protocol development is strongly preferred BA/BS in Computer Science or related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience

Nearest Major Market: Seattle Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue Job Segments: Computer Science, Developer, Embedded, Engineer, Engineering, Network, Software Engineer, Technology, Telecom, Telecommunications

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