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Windows Phone 7.8 Port For HTC Titan

Sibtain Ali — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:53:46 +0000

Since the Windows Phone 7.8 have been leaked it is observed that several Windows Phone 7 devices are getting this update, Ofcourse it has no comparison with Windows Phone 8 but the feel and application are increasing the crave day by day as a result people are going crazy for cooking ROMs and updating their Devices.

Recently HTC HD2 received its first port of WP 7.8. Next within the line HTC Titan which has also blessed with a port for the same with the efforts of XDA Member Azzlio.

This ROM is a new update of dev’s current ROM, what you need to do be sure that your HTC Titan is fully unlocked via HSPL which was earlier brought by the efforts of XDA Elite Recognized Developer Cotulla. The ROM have a number of features lovely than one another i.e USB to video capabilities, registry editor, file explorer, all the Nokia goodness that you can shake a stick at, and of course, the ability to flash a custom ROM. As stated,

Some other Windows Phone 7.8 ROMs already available based on the leak for the Titan, so you will get some good features and App for selection.

Feature and App add:

- Background Colors

- Google Search

- Update to 7.8

- Nokia / Lumia App (Counters)

- DigitalPower_V0.5

- RegistryEditor

- FileBrowser

- DFT_BTFileTransfer

- USB 2 Video out

You can find more information in the original thread.

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HTC Windows Phone 8X VS HTC 8S VS Nokia Lumia 920

Sibtain Ali — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:01:35 +0000

Windows Phone 8 Smartphones are fighting to each other into the market as HTC has just announced two HTC high end Windows Phone 8 Based devices HTC Windows Phone 8X and HTC Windows Phone 8S, Initially HTC has made this launch for AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Both the phones are colorful immaculate, on the end if we talk about one of the renowned Windows Phone 8 Smartphone by Nokia which is Nokia Lumia 920, no doubt in it that all three devices has resemblance between each other and also both HTC and Nokia launched their Smartphones in rich colors and slab type body design, Lets Compare all three devices to precise the decision making have it HTC Windows Phone 8X VS HTC Windows Phone 8S VS Nokia Lumia 920.

HTC 8X VS HTC 8S VS Nokia Lumia 920

Features	HTC 8X	HTC 8S	Lumia 920
Body	Weight: HTC Windows Phone 8X weighs 130 grams Dimension: 132.3 x 66.2 x 10.1 mm	Weight: HTC Windows Phone 8S to be around 113 grams in weight. Dimension: 120.5 x 63 x 10.3 mm	Weight: Lumia 920 is bit heavier, it weighs 185 grams Dimension: 130.3 x 70.8 x 10.7 mm
Display	Screen size: HTC Windows Phone 8X S-LCD2 capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.3 inches (~342 ppi pixel density)	Screen size: HTC Windows Phone 8S S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors 4.65″ display 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches (~233 ppi pixel density)	Screen size: Lumia 920 sports a bigger 4.5 inches display with 768 x 1280 resolution.
Power	Processor: HTC Windows Phone 8X Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait with GPU Adreno 225, Battery: It is powered by Standard battery, Li-Ion 1800 mAh.	Processor: HTC Windows Phone 8S is powered by Dual-core 1 GHz Krait, Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1700 mAh	Processor: Lumia 920 is revealed with Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait processor. Battery: It is powered by 2000mAh battery.
OS	Microsoft Windows Phone 8	Microsoft Windows Phone 8	Microsoft Windows Phone 8
RAM/Storage	HTC 8X is equipped with 16 GB storage, 1 GB RAM. MicroSD card: No microSD card slot	HTC Windows Phone 8S features same 4 GB, 512 MB RAM MicroSD card: microSD, up to 32 GB	Lumia 920 is equipped with 1GB RAM, and has 32GB storage. MicroSD card: No
Camera	Rear Camera: The phone is designed with 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, 28mm wide, F2.0, LED flash Secondary: Yes, 2.1MP, 1080p video	Rear Camera: HTC 8S has 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash Secondary: Yes, 1.3MP	Rear Camera: The phone is designed with 8MP rear shooter Front camera: It has 1.3MP camera at the front.
Status	HTC 8X announced in 2012 September and will be available Exp. Coming soon. Exp. release 2012, November	HTC 8S is Announced in September and release in November 2012.	Nokia Lumia 920 announced in September 2012 and will be available Exp. release 2012, Q4.

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Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone 7.8 Leaked ROM

Sibtain Ali — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:18:03 +0000

If you are Nokia Lumia 800 owner and disappointed about the announcement of Microsoft that you are ineligible to upgrade your device on Windows Phone 8 so we have a good news for you that a leak of Windows Phone 7.8 have been appeared with a home screen containing smaller tile sizes with some of Windows Phone 8 embedded features.

Get back to the Microsoft announcement of Windows Phone 8 Microsoft’s Smartphone Operating System where they also mentioned that the existing Windows Phone devices having Windows Phone 7 may not be able to be upgraded to Windows Phone 8,

The Windows Phone 7.8 leak’s news have been viewed on a Polish Windows Phone forum WindowsMania by one of XDA Senior Member Budniu, It shows off the updated home screen neatly organized with the small app tiles.

The ROM isn’t available yet for download, you can view the post on discussion thread for more details.

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Samsung ATIV S VS HTC 8X VS Nokia Lumia 920

Sibtain Ali — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:58:28 +0000

Samsung launched Samsung ATIV S on pre-IFA event, that was a first official Windows Phone 8 Smartphone by Samsung, Nokia has also launched Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 on Sept 5 with an official Windows Phone 8 this is one of a hyped device and grabbed a huge number of user intentions on the end HTC competing both the devices by its HTC Accord also known as 8X, All Smartphones are pretty refined and attractive, so what do you think which one should buy? No answer , this is why we are presenting a comparison of all three Smartphones Samsung ATIV S VS HTC 8X VS Nokia Lumia 920 to let you clear about your decisions.

Samsung ATIV S VS HTC 8X VS Nokia Lumia 920

Features	Samsung Ativ S	HTC 8X	Lumia 920
Body	Weight: Ativ S is 135 grams in weight. Dimension: 137.2 x 70.5 x 8.7 mm	HTC 8X Weight 130 grams. Dimension: 132.4 x 66.2 x 10.1 mm	Weight: Lumia 920 is bit heavier, it weighs 185 grams Dimension: 130.3 x 70.8 x 10.7 mm
Display	Screen size: Ativ S screen is 4.8 inches in size with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels resolution.	Screen size: HTC 8X sports a bigger 4.7 inches display with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution.	Screen size: Lumia 920 sports a bigger 4.5 inches display with 768 x 1280 resolution.
Power	Processor: Ativ S has by Dual-core Krait 1.5 GHz on board. Battery: It is designed with Li-Ion 2100 mAh battery.	Processor: HTC 8X is revealed with Dual-core 1.2 GHz Krait processor. Battery: It is powered by 1800mAh battery.	Processor: Lumia 920 is revealed with Dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait processor. Battery: It is powered by 3300mAh battery.
OS	Windows Phone 8	Windows Phone 8	Windows Phone 8
RAM/Storage	Ativ S boasts 1 GB RAM it comes in 16/32 GB storage options. It supports microSD card to add up to 32 GB storage	HTC 8X is equipped with 1GB RAM and has 16GB storage. MicroSD card: It has microSD Card slot up 32GB	Lumia 920 is equipped with 1GB RAM, and has 32GB storage. MicroSD card: No
Camera	Rear Camera: Ativ S features 8 MP rear shooter Front camera: It has 1.9 MP front camera	Rear Camera: The phone is designed with 8MP rear shooter Front camera: Yes	Rear Camera: The phone is designed with 8MP rear shooter Front camera: It has 1.3MP camera at the front.
Status	Samsung Ativ S Exp. release 2012, Q4.	Motorola HTC 8X Announced in September 2012 and will be Exp. release 2012, Q4.	Nokia Lumia 920 announced in September 2012 and will be availableExp. release 2012, Q4.

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Contract Killer and Copy and Paste Dialer Aaps for WP7

Sibtain Ali — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:35:58 +0000

Lack of applications and video development in Windows Phone 7 is commonly observed although it is not that least that a Windows Phone 7 user face difficulties, considering this matter it has been introduced two very useful applications to make Windows Phone 7 users happy.

First one is a dialer app have been released to fix the large size issue of inability to copy and paste the phone numbers from different locations to the dialer of Windows phone 7, this one of a great app has been introduced by XDA Forum Member monotheist. The dialer app as a fact have a bunch of features list given below.

Copy and Paste Numbers to Dial or Text

Search Phonebook directly from the dialler

T9 based address book name search from dialler keypad

Phone number search from dialler keypad

Ability to Edit number before call

Send Contact Number via Text

History of 500 dialled numbers

Such kind of problems mostly occurs to those who join Windows Phone 7 and switched from different other platforms.

Second application is a first person shooter called Contract Killer this is a game from XDA Member Bidniu. This game is also available in the Zune Marketplace in free. It has very eye catching graphics and some very clear mechanics, more or lesser but at least the applications are here so its good to be happy with least hopefully some other apps will arrive timely.

For more info, check out either the Contract Killer thread or the Copy and Paste Dialer thread.

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TVCatchup Live TV App for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows

Sibtain Ali — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:11:58 +0000

TVCatchup one of the renowned app to watch free UK’s free to air TV programs all in one have earlier been developed for iOS and PC, now took another step by launching Google Android based TVCatchup app. Most of the Android users were waiting for its final release as it has been in its beta version since long.

By using TVCatchup app you may watch over 50 Free Channels, including BBC One, ITV, Channel 4, Five, Dave, CBeebies, 4Music, movies4men and Film4. TVCatchup is the very first and only app allow you to watch all chanels in a single app.

TVCatchup app is available to download for Google Android user at Google Play Store, if you want to download TVCatchup for iOS you may go to Apple’s iTunes Store. It has a plugin available for Windows users to watch TV chanels using Microsoft Media Center on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Platform:: iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8
Price:: Free
Download:: iTunes, Google Play, Windows Media Center

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iOS 6 vs Android 4.1 vs Windows Phone 8

Sibtain Ali — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:56:10 +0000

Apple, Microsoft and Google all together being busy to bring innovations to their majorly Smartphone and Tablet Operating Systems whether it is Android 4.1, or iOS6, Windows Phone 8, they are trying hard to capture the biggest market share , they don’t spare any single effort from the back end to derive craving into their users for the immaculate customer experience. Guess who’s gonna give you the feelings so that you mark him the Winner, is it possible without a comparative analysis?? .. NO, not at all this is why we brought to you the comparison between all the three operating systems from Google, Microsoft and Apple iOS 6 vs Android 4.1 vs Windows Phone 8.

iOS 6 vs Android 4.1 vs Windows Phone 8

Features	IOS 6	Android 4.1	Windows Phone 8
Apps	650,000 apps. 225,000 for iPad.	Android is currently at 600,000 total apps.	Windows Phone currently has 100,000 apps
Full Device Encryption	pseudo	TRUE	pseudo
Cloud Support	iCloud	Google Drive, Google Sync	SkyDrive
Multitasking	pseudo	TRUE	pseudo
Security	Yes	Prone to malware	Yes
Flash Support	No	No	No
Wi-Fi Syncing	Yes	No	No
Maps	Yes	Yes	Yes
Browser Sync	Yes	Yes.	Rumored
Social Media	Facebook and Twitter	Facebook and Twitter	Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn, and Windows live.
Voice Commands	Siri	Google Now	Voice commands
Mobile Payments	Rumored	Yes	Yes
Call Features	Yes	Yes via Google Voice	Yes build in Internet Calling

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Samsung ATIV Tab Vs Microsoft Surface (RT)

Sibtain Ali — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:36:50 +0000

We have seen that Samsung has strong bounding with Google Android and a number of Smartphones and Tablets in line from 2011 to year 2012, but when we talk about Samsung ATIV a Windows Phone based Tablet have a natural design evolution from the Galaxy Tab 10.1, It has a spread display of 10” very similar to the Microsoft Surface a Microsoft Home base Tablet , there are a lot to say on both the devices Samsung ATIV Tab and Microsoft Surface but the batter idea to present a comparison before you so that you may choose the best choice for you. Lets have a comparison Samsung ATIV Tab Vs Microsoft Surface Tablet.

Samsung ATIV Tab Vs Microsoft Surface (RT)

Features	Samsung ATIV Tab	Microsoft Surface (RT)
Body	Weight: ATIV Tab is hybrid device, it weighs 570 grams,	Weight: Surface RT has 675 grams body weight.
Display	Screen size: Samsung ATIV Tab sports 10.1 inches display with1366 x 768 pixels resolution.	Screen size: Surface RT boasts 10.6″ display &1280 x 720 px resolution
Processor & Power	Processor: ATIV Tab houses Dual core, 1500 MHz. Battery: A 8200mAh battery provides juice to its hungry processors	Processor: Surface RT is NVIDIA Tegra 3+ Battery: unkown
OS	Windows (RT)	Windows (RT)
RAM/Storage	ATIV Tab is developed with 2 GB of RAM and 32GB storage option MicroSD card: It has microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC Card slot	Surface RT : Ram still unknown and Its have 64GB internal storage, MicroSD card: microSD, microSDHC
Camera	Rear Camera: Designed with 5MP rear shooter Front camera: It has 1.9MP camera at the front.	Rear Camera: Note Unkown Front camera: No
Status	Samsung ATIV Tab was announced on 29 Aug 2012.	Surface RT announced on 18 Jun 2012

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Nokia Lumia 920 PureView vs Nokia Lumia 900

Sibtain Ali — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:34:41 +0000

Nokia Lumia 920 PureView is a Windows 8 driven smartphone from Nokia is in Que there is a huge hype which can be seen in truth by a recent leak, anyhow the expected date is 5^th September , 2012 so the reality will take the places of all perceptions, earlier in 2011 we have seen a grand launch of Nokia Lumia 900 it was a state of the art from Nokia having an amazingly fast way to connect to the Internet, share your pictures, use free GPS navigation, but whats new in Nokia Lumia 920 PureView our comparison will make you able to find the difference, Let see Nokia Lumia 920 PureView VS Nokia Lumia 900 a Comparison.

Nokia Lumia 920 vs Nokia Lumia 900

Features	Nokia Lumia 920	Nokia Lumia 900
Display	Screen size: Nokia Lumia 920 sports a 4.5 inches display with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution. Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors	Screen size: Nokia Lumia 900 boasts 4.3″ display & 480 x 800 pixels resolution Type AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
OS	Microsoft Windows Phone 8	Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
Data	GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes HSDPA: Yes HSUPA: Yes 5.76 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi: yes 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth: Yes, with A2DP, EDR USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support	GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes HSDPA: Yes HSUPA: Yes 5.76 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi: Yes 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth: Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera	Rear Camera: Is designed with 12-16 MP shooter Secondary: Yes	Rear Camera: 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels at the back Secondary: Yes
Status	Nokia Lumia 920 is Rumored and Exp. release 2012, Q4.	Nokia Lumia 900 is Available in the market and Released in 2012 May.

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Nokia Lumia 800 vs Nokia Lumia 820

Sibtain Ali — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:31:34 +0000

It seems a long journey since Nokia and Microsoft are together in a connection by Nokia’s Smartphones launching, now by an expected launch of Nokia Lumia 820 on September 5^th, It is a well designed and colorful Windows 8 phone. Nokia Lumia 800 have been launched in 2011 with an intention to long term sounds , We think a comparison between Nokia Lumia 820 and Nokia Lumia 800 will take us to the right direction Lets have it Nokia Lumia 820 VS Nokia Lumia 800 a comparison for you.

Nokia Lumia 800 vs Nokia Lumia 820

Features	Nokia Lumia 800	Nokia Lumia 820
Display	Screen size: Nokia Lumia 800 sports a 3.7 inches display with 480 x 800 pixels resolution. Tye AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors	Screen size: Lumia 820 boasts 4.3″ display & 800 x 480 pixels resolution Type Capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
OS	Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango	Microsoft Windows Phone 8
Data	GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes HSDPA: Yes HSUPA: Yes WLAN: Yes Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth: Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0	GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes HSDPA: yes WLAN Wi-Fi: Yes 802.11 b/g/n Bluetooth: Yes, with A2DP, EDR USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0
Processor	Single-core 1.4GHz Snapdragon	Dual-Core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4
RAM/Storage	1GB RAM 8GB Internal Storage (+ 32GB microSD)	512MB RAM 16GB Internal
NFC	No	Yes
Camera	Rear Camera: Is designed with 8MP shooter Secondary: N/A	Rear Camera: 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels at the back Secondary: Yes
Status	Nokia Lumia 800 coming soon.	Nokia Lumia 820 is coming soon.

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