We’ve just been reported via email that eBuddy XMS for Windows Phone and MeeGo has been published to Marketplace and Nokia Store respectively, while another email from eBuddy XMS team has informed that a new beta version of eBuddy XMS for iPhone, iPod and iPad is now available with new features and bug fixes.
Sports Tracker has previously released its version for Windows Phone which now has been updated and available with couple of bug fixes and added support of German language.
This is “Nokia Collection” in Marketplace which will not show up in all Windows Phone devices from other OEMs but only in the ones from Nokia. This is what they were talking about back in February 2011 when both companies Nokia and Microsoft partnered. For now these are available for Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. Lumia 900 is yet near to its launch. We did hold on to this topic of Nokia Collection before and wanted to brief about it once we had a Nokia Winodws Phone device in hands.
Nokia has recently shared a news about MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan 1.2 beta developer update that will be released shortly to the developers with Nokia N950 (Developer’s device.) This early release is supposed to be giving developers some time to test their applications and verify they work flawlessly on the new version of the platform. This shows somewhere to assume that alpha release for Nokia N9 users is also near and coming after wards.
Correcting earlier story of $100 Million, The Microsoft’s marketing push on Windows Phone will count up to $200 Million and not $100 Million which will not only be helped by Nokia for Nokia Ace but other hardware manufacturers or OEMs e.g. Samsung for their Windows Phone line-up. More of it is the same as we learnt earlier that all it will be campaigned in United States and on AT&T. However Nokia will be outspending Microsoft 2-to-1.
Nokia Ace to be promoted with a marketing campaign of $100 million. This is yet unclear that exactly how these $100 million will be divided up among the partners AT&T, Microsoft or Nokia. As a part of the campaign AT&T will be giving status “Hero” to the smartphone.
Well, we’ll see what else is still there which will be leaked earlier before the official announcement at CES which is also near. But for now we have another few things about the most anticipated Windows Phone smartphone from Nokia which is yet to be announced officially sooner. The Lumia 900 or Nokia Ace will be codenamed as “Eloko”. There are more to it in specifications.
Nokia Car Mode, that runs within your smartphone to provide easy access and simplified user interface to the most relevant applications for in-car use. The simplified user interface and well designed interaction creates less distraction for the driver than traditional smartphone user interface.
The guys at pocketnow have got their hands on and leaked the images of Nokia Ace, an unannounced Windows Phone from Nokia. The images are supposed to be as same of another rumoured Nokia Lumia 900 resembling Lumia 800 but in a bigger body with readjustment of components and features as well as the addition of front-facing camera.
WhatsApp was first released for Windows Phone a couple of months ago and has been updating with various bug fixes and improvements. Until now a very required feature of Group chat wasn’t an option in WhatsApp for Windows Phone. Now with a new updated version of WhatsApp, group chat feature and hyperlinks in the chat page have been made available.
