Good news! Swype is preparing a beta release of its popular on-screen virtual keyboard to support Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which will probably be out to the end users having their Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of this month. Final tweaks and testing are supposed to be done in time.”
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.
We’ve received emails from eBuddy beta team informing us about the updates which are now available for Windows Phone users and MeeGo users. If you haven’t subscribed with eBuddy beta community, you will want to follow the instructions below to know how you can download and install eBuddy XMS beta update on your MeeGo device.
The first public version of Nokia Link was released a few months ago which initially was released for Windows 7 and MAC OS X 10.6 and 10.7. Nokia Beta Labs has now released a newer version of Nokia Link which will work on Windows XP and Windows Vista. This update was brought in against of the users feedback and is said to be the most requested option.
There’s a new release 10.2.10 for Nokia Belle Only of Nokia Play To with localization, improved connectivity handling from the top bar and on/off -homescreen widget for the server which you need to manually install to your homescreen (options… add widget… DLNA server).
