Nokia has launched the Lumia 610, the most inexpensive Windows Phone 7 handset offered by the company so far. It's an entry-level smartphone which should offer full WP7 functionality at a very affordable price. Nokia actually collaborated with Microsoft to relax the stringent system requirements for the WP7 operating system, but the Finnish company was forced to assure Microsoft that functionality - responsiveness, reliability and so on - would not suffer. As a result Nokia can target a younger consumer base with less cash to throw around, and is using the XBox Live tie-in to further tempt potential buyers. The Nokia Lumia 610 is priced at $189. Among the advantages of the WP7 experience, [...]

Windows Phone 7.5 mango will be featured on the new Titan 2 when it arrives, possibly at MWC in Barcelona, so to set the scene we're going to take a closer look at the original Titan, complete with Windows Phone 7 OS. Mango or not, the 4.7-inch display is the most striking feature of the Titan. The Titan stretches a mighty 131mm x 71mm but weighs in at a lightish 160g. For all that screen real estate the Titan is still not too chunky - just 9.9mm thick. The included headset is poor, but swapping the stock headset for decent headphones proves there is nothing wrong with the audio output of the Titan as such, it's just a question of how you capture and render that output. So Titan buyers [...]

HTC announced its huge Titan 2 Windows Phone at CES 2012, sporting a 16MP camera. Detail in shots taken by the Titan 2 was truly astounding thanks in part to its rear-illuminated sensor. The Titan 2 camera also offers image stabilization, a selection of focus modes, 720p video capture and a dedicated button for the camera. But it's not all good news - all tha extra photo-capabiliy means the batery is no longer removeable but has at least been souped-up from a 1600mAh pack to a 1730mAh version. Design-wise the Titan 2 if anything resembles the HTC Thunderbolt most of all, and its smooth rear surface is good to the touch. Inside there's a 1.5GHz Snapdragon CPU with a slightly meagre [...]

Sorry, that’d a bit of a daft title when I look back at it. Of course Windows phones are looking to grab a major share of the action in the smartphone world – just as Apple OS phones (i.e. iPhones) want to grab a big slice of the pie. Because smartphones are where the money is, so the more share they have the greater profits they’ll make. The smartphone is the new mobile device for the second decade of the 21st century – an all in one communications hub that is as comfortable delivering broadband class connecting speeds as it is getting you in touch with social media sites or making your life easier with an app. More and more phone users are choosing smartphones, as a solution for [...]

  Nokia, once the undisputed king of the mobile phone world, has been wandering in the wilderness for a few years now. Since the launch of the first iPhone in 2007, Nokia has been slow to adapt its business model. Although they have produced a few touchscreen models such as the N97 and N8, these have not really kept up with the changing face of phone design and user expectations. 2010's N8 was a hugely popular phone, largely thanks to its fabulous 12 megapixel camera, but in most areas it felt clunky and archaic. Not just in its physical design, but also in its outdated Symbian operating system. The more recent MeeGo powered Nokia N9 showed that the company still knows how [...]