Fujitsu IS12T Windows phone mango launched in Japan today (fast service)

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Last month, Fujitsu in Japan unveiled IS12T, declared the first cellphone running on Windows phone 7.5 aka mango. And the country's second largest mobile carrier (and exclusive supplier of phone) KDDI au, not losing a lot of time: IS12T became available today, and here (this is Fujitsu, official press release in English today).

As we reported earlier, mango tubes, comes with a 3.7 inch LCD 800 × 480 resolution, 13.2 MP CMOS camera, the body is water and shock proof 32 GB internal memory, support the microUSB port, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi (do not bind), DLNA, GSM/CDMA, etc.

There are nine languages for user interface, and IS12T is available in three colors "Neon" (citrus fruits, black, purple).

I went to the store only a mobile phone in my area today, having a look at the phone, but unfortunately, I got a few pictures (see above) and play around with it for a few minutes before I had to leave (not video photo no).

My first impression was that the phone itself felt light and thin, but very cheap and plasticky (I couldn't give Xbox Live, Internet Explorer and other apps spin because Wi-Fi and 3 G have been turned off – within a few minutes, I played with it, the UI felt great).

Price-Wise IS12T is located at the upper end of the spectrum for mobile phones in Japan: storage (and all other retailers, for that matter) implements the phone up to $955 (but with steep discounts in certain circumstances). So if Fujitsu really starts selling mobile phone outside Japan (they have international plans), don't expect it will be a budget model.

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Failbook phone: AT&T, already is looking to ditch the HTC status, says source

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Surprise! Even a clever little trick as custom button Facebook cannot save a bad phone from an early death.

After only 36 days on the shelves of a trusted source, close to AT&T tells us that the carrier had already prepping to ditch HTC so-called "Facebook phone" status. The Reason For This? Things just don't sell.

Since the original tipster forward, we have confirmed with several sources of sales status much lower than expected. AT&T declined to comment.

To say that we foresaw the fate of status will be something of an understatement. The status was originally launched as ChaCha back at Mobile World Congress, where I stated that Chacha (real-time response companies) likely will not be too kindly name — and of course, Chacha turned around and filed a lawsuit against HTC over the weekend. When AT&T announced plans for the device (now called status), we predicted fail due to lack of exhausting and we're here just over a month post-launch rumor that the death knell for this time to prepare for the melody.

For those who may have missed status update state is Android phone in the same vein as the classic BlackBerry (2.8 touchscreen on top, with a QWERTY keyboard below) — design, which, if we are honest, probably most of the status of weak sales. The status of one of the potential saving grace was its context-sensitive button Facebook — a small, dedicated key placed next to the bottom edge of the tube strictly built one click Facebook sharing. At any time the user was browsing the content that could be shared on Facebook (photos, videos or website), the button will automatically light up. When pushed, the content will be packed and pushed into the Facebook user profile.

For what it's worth even Facebook never seemed all that interested in HTC'S efforts. Mark Zuckerberg called it in with the HTC initial announcement, providing a short, versatile video instead of the actual appearance. Even with a fair amount of time spent on Facebook headquarters in no time any of us here at TechCrunch have seen Facebook employee carrying status. They all seem to use iPhones.

Update: AT&T now decided to go on record with the comment, saying "the status of the HTC is a great product and have not changed our plans to be a part of our portfolio.

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Windows phone application 30000 reaches market opens for submissions mango

Currently available 30000 mobile applications for Windows phone, the latest mobile operating system from Microsoft Corporation. It is a huge leap from 11500 Microsoft reported in March, but remain far from industry leaders, iOS and Android. For comparison purposes have 425000 iOS apps and over 250000 on Android, at least according to the latest official figures. However, the 30 K apps not bad for an operating system that has not yet even a year ago, we approve.

All existing Windows phone applications will run on Microsoft Windows phone "Mango", Microsoft says – last updated mobile operating system due out sometime next month. No fragmentation is here!

Mango is a major update that will introduce a number of new features, including background sound, fast app switching, multiple double side live tiles, better search integration and hundreds of other functions.

Windows phone SDK hits RC status

Microsoft on Monday opened its Windows Marketplace phone app to accept submissions from developers of mango. And it also now updated phone Windows SDK (software development kit) 7.1 status release candidate (RC). The SDK is available in English and Japanese, says Microsoft.

The SDK includes "Go Live" license that allows developers to publish their applications on the market of mango ready after they have been recompiled. In addition the SDK includes the final version of "the market test Kit" and a new Profiler, which allows developers to test their applications for certification prior to its submission. This helps speed up the approval process – means that applications will hit the market soon. Telephone advertising Microsoft Windows SDK, a new SDK, too, for those developers who want to integrate ads into their mobile applications.

Microsoft is also giving developers a green light to cross to submit their games in the newly supported mango country, along with any game ratings information via hub App.

RC version of the SDK is not the final SDK, but is still set to arrive in September this year, presumably along with mango and public launch.

But there's a bit of bad news: Although mangos apps will arrive on the market back-end systems, those of you running mango beta build will not be able to run them yet. You'll have to wait until September, like everyone else!

Update: Android now has 250 K apps, Google spokesman tells us.

Update 2: we see that Microsoft's blog says there are "almost" 30000 apps. For what it's worth, the statement we got from Microsoft to post going read as follows: "... all Windows phone application and 30000 game titles will run on mango. (This is the first time we've Shared The 30 k Figure publicly). "

Whether it's "almost or exactly 30000 splitting hairs a bit, but is well worth noting.

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Demo of Microsoft's Xbox/Windows phone link with the giant cats

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Microsoft is touting Windows phone 7 's, Xbox Live functionality, starting from the first day, but it always felt a bit lacking. You can look at your cute little avatar and play games that bump up your gamerscore, but where is the Xbox experience, which we saw in the demo as this one?

It would seem people in Redmond are not quite there yet but the demos on their GamesFest in Seattle on Monday morning shows us that the idea had not yet fallen by the wayside.

Microsoft and Kinectimals team showed off a Novel method of moving furry friend from within Kinectimals Xbox games on Windows phone. Players who loved pets on their Xbox can have the game create a QR code that you can scan in Kinectimals mobile applications. While on the phone, players can take photos from your camera and strategically pets in for kicks.

When players grow tired of carrying their little digital Tiger around, the application creates the same QR code that gets scanned at Kinect camera and pet gets the re-import into the game. Geekwire is a demo video for those who have problems submitting it:

Kinectimals connection is part of Microsoft's plans to strengthen ties between their hugely popular Xbox Live and Windows 7 phone. Frankly, it's about time: it's one thing for Microsoft to use the brand of Xbox Live to get their mobile OS some gamer cred, but doesn't deliver almost useless, if this experience. As WPcentral points out, the only game before Kinectimals, which was characterized by any kind of integration with relevant House was a full House Poker which allowed gamers to transfer their winnings between sessions of play.

Between today's demo and concepts they have already come up with Microsoft considers potentially own a significant portion of the space in the mobile games if they can just get their game on.

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Source: IPhone 5 will really be dual-mode CDMA/GSM phone world

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The upcoming iPhone 5 will almost certainly be a phone that supports multiple networks, namely: CDMA (such as Verizon or Sprint in the United States of America), as well as GSM (used in AT&T and T-Mobile in the United States).

The rumors before, and even at one point half confirms Verizon Executive, but nothing like some good old evidence from the field to make the rumor in near certainty.

Recently I was approached by some of the most popular applications on the iOS today, who asked not offered solid evidence supporting the above claim and name.

According to this person and journals using the application, I was sent to the tiny number of people recently registered for one of their applications from a single, new Apple device that clearly dual-mode – meaning that it supports the CDMA and GSM.

The logs show that application briefly tested a handful of people use and almost certainly the iPhone 5, it is clear that running iOS 5, sporting two separate sets of mobile network codes (MNC)/mobile country code (MCC). These codes can be used to identify the mobile operators.

Of course some registrations for your application that the developer has also asked not to call – it was flown from the new Apple device, using the MCC MNC codes with Verizon and AT&T.

The first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, exclusively in the AT&T network GSM phone in the United States. 10 February 2011, the CDMA version of iPhone 4 to Verizon made its debut.

Now that Apple food carriers (and their respective networks), it makes all the sense in the world to combine in one device, turning it into a "world phone" or "global phone", as would say cool kids support CDMA and GSM.

In addition, rumors have been circulating since last year, Qualcomm will replace Intel as the main provider of Smartphone iPhone 5. In particular, Qualcomm is already supplying basic CDMA version of iPhone 4, but not the original GSM device.

Apple made the phone of the world "will be good news for consumers, especially in countries where some carriers use CDMA (United States, India, Japan, Argentina, Brazil and more). In particular, travelling abroad with a phone that only supports CDMA, is a major pain in the ass.

With the iPhone dual-mode 5 users can easily navigate between the two networks.

If all the above checks – and all signs point to Yes, mostly because – this would soon be unveiled iPhone 5 LTE device probably won't be possible disappointment to some, who still does not exclude the possibility of 4 G iPhone, despite mounting evidence of this phone is coming out this year.

It is expected that the 5th generation iPhone worldwide will be released in Q3 2011, inline with the release of iOS 5, the next generation of Apple's operating system.

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This is Jupiter, the future of Windows ...PC phone & pills?

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Is Silverlight really dead, or is it the future of Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Phone? This is a question weighing on the minds of legions of Microsoft developers right now – developers who were once promised that Silverlight was the answer to their cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility woes, only to be later informed that JavaScript and HTML5 will be the tools used to build Windows 8 applications. HTML5 is also supported in the IE9 browser, coming soon to Windows Phone “Mango,” due out this fall.

Does that mean HTML5, then, is the future of the Microsoft platform? Maybe not. A new, unannounced platform called “Jupiter” may soon have Microsoft developers leveraging their existing skills to write applications for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Which means, of course, apps that run on all platforms – not just PCs, but tablets and phones, too…and even the TV (via Xbox).

That “Jupiter” exists is not new information. There have been a number of leaks about the forthcoming platform in blogs, forum posts and some folks have even reversed-engineered leaked code to learn more.

Above: C# being used to invoke a Jupiter-based app. Looks like Silverlight animation!

For those not closely tracking Microsoft’s news, here’s what (we think) we know about Jupiter, based on the information out there:

It is a new user interface library for Windows. (source)It is an XAML-based framework. (source)It is not Silverlight or WPF, but will be compatible with that code. (source)Developers will write immersive applications in XAML/C#/VB/C++ (source, source, source, source)It will use IE 10's rendering engine. (source)DirectUI (which draws the visual elements on the screen, arrived in Windows Vista) is being overhauled to support the XAML applications. (source, source)It will provide access to Windows 8 elements (sensors, networking, etc.) via a managed XAML library. (source)Jupiter apps will be packaged as AppX application types that could be common to both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. (source, source, source, source)The AppX format is universal, and can used to deploy native Win32 apps, framework-based apps (Silverlight, WPF), Web apps, and games (source)Jupiter is supposed to make all the developers happy, whether .NET (i.e., re-use XAML skills), VB, old-school C++ or Silverlight/WPF. (Source? See all the above!)

That last item is especially important, since to date, Microsoft’s only public comment about Window’s 8's development platform is that it’s “based on HTML5 and JavaScript.” As Peter Bright of Ars Technica pointed out, Microsoft developers were “horrified” by this news.

Before you throw Microsoft developers under the bus for failing to jump on the HTML5 bandwagon, you have to understand that they’ve invested a lot of time and money over the course of many years to learn all the technologies Microsoft has pushed, including Win32, COM, MFC, ATL, Visual Basic 6, .NET, WinForms, Silverlight and WPF, explained Bright. It sounded like Microsoft was asking them to throw away decades of experience and switch to HTML5.

While obviously, HTML5 has come a long way in recent months, it’s arguably not quite ready to drive the entire Microsoft platform just yet. It’s an option, of course, as it is on iOS, Android and other modern operating systems with modern Web browsers.

But it’s not going to be Microsoft developers’ only option, it seems.

At the BUILD conference next month, it’s expected that Microsoft will reveal Jupiter to its developer community and the public, at long last.

Why does Jupiter matter so much? If it’s not clear from the technical details above, it’s because Jupiter may end up being the “one framework” to rule them all. That means it might be possible to port the thousands of Windows Phone apps already written with Silverlight to Windows 8 simply by reusing existing code and making small tweaks. Or maybe even no tweaks. (That part is still unclear). If so, this would be a technical advantage for developers building for Windows Phone 8 (code-named “Apollo” by the way, the son of “Jupiter”) or Windows 8.

Post-PC World: Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Google

Imagine if Apple was to announce something similar – an easy way to port iOS applications to the Mac, for example. Right now, there’s no simple method for this. While there are third-party tools that help, Apple developers still have to do quite a lot of work to get a mobile iOS app running on the Mac OS X desktop. That said, we imagine Apple is secretly hard at work on solving this dilemma as we speak. After all, you can clearly see iOS’s influence on Mac OS X with the latest release, Lion: there’s a iOS-like “LaunchPad” with rows of apps, support for apps that work in “full screen” mode, disappearing scroll bars, and more.

Meanwhile, at Google, there’s currently a lack of vision about how to merge desktop and mobile. Chairman Eric Schmidt has made vague statements about how, at some point in the future, Chrome OS and Android will merge. But it seems like Google has no clear idea as to how it will go about doing so.

That Microsoft is thinking about the merging of desktop and mobile is no small matter. It’s a post-PC world, as they say, and for now, Apple is the only company that seems to be able to compete here. Android is struggling in the tablet market. HP just killed its barely-launched webOS. With Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Jupiter, Microsoft, at least, seems to have a vision.

Developer Discontent Grows, Microsoft Stays Mum

But with Apple so far ahead at this point, the timing of that vision’s reveal may be key to Microsoft’s future. The fact that Microsoft has allowed discontent to grow in its developer community for the entirety of the year, just so it could have a splashy announcement at BUILD may be looked back on as a strategic mistake that contributed to Microsoft’s eventual downfall. Microsoft wants to be Apple, full of secrets and surprises, but it doesn’t have the culture to support it. With Jupiter, the news should have been officially announced months ago, as a tease, with a full reveal at BUILD.

But instead, Microsoft set aside developers and their concerns, in order to win the hearts of consumers, technologists and the media with promises of “big announcements” at BUILD regarding the future of Windows. Oh, Microsoft. Whatever happened to “developers, developers, developers”? Make them happy and the rest of us will come.

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Microsoft: Windows phone mango, manufacturers just have to release it

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Well this is something new. Here in the tech world, we hear of delay after delay, but very few companies come out and say: ' Hey! We are ideally come earlier! "

Today, Microsoft was that company and the product was Windows phone 7 mango.

Peter Wissinger, Director of Microsoft's mobile business in the Nordic countries, today released an official statement on the status of mango in:

And for those whose Swedish can be a little rusty, translation:

"Now it's up to our manufacturing partners to release mango for our clients. Microsoft has full mango earlier than planned for producers. Feels good right now. "

(Shout out to WinMobile .se to identify statement first)

The only hanging: just because Microsoft finished mango earlier did not mean that its OEM partners are ready to rock and roll. Microsoft is currently in the list of hardware partners includes HTC, LG, Samsung, Dell, Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE Corporation, and, of course, Nokia. We already know that Fujitsu has something (probably a Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T) in the works, scheduled for early September, and at the end of June, we got a quick peek at the Nokia first mango Smartphone, the so-called "Sea Ray".

There is really no telling how long will it take to get them out of WP7 devices based on mango or when we could expect-mango devices to start to see updates, but the ball is out of Microsoft in court.

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Android phone owners use their devices for an hour a day

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Nielsen found that Android users tend to spend more than an hour a day on their phones. Sixty-seven per cent of their time is spent working with apps, while the rest is spent on mobile Internet. Forty-three per cent of these applications are the top 10 apps market, while the top 50 applications used by 61 per cent of the time. Other applications – all 250 000 of them are used by the rest of the time.

The statistics come to Neilsen in a free webinar, which will be held on 15 September.

Nielsen will also release browsing habits/iPhone app users, potentially interesting metric for assessing the implementation of mobile Web applications is a native variety.

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Bing "we're in the" Windows phone is Foursquare the other half

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In the rare cases that I have not sat in a chat room and write on the phones I usually hang out, play the role of "facilitator" among my friends. You probably have too: Messaging people to see who's available, find out who wants to eat that for PVP against potential partiers, works. This is a bit distracting to say the least, but if you are usually stuck with this responsibility and you have a Windows phone and Bing recently, "we're in" application might be just right for you.

The process is very simple: when you use application to create events and invite people to him, the invitation goes out via text message. Once your friends respond (either from a Windows application or mobile website), their locations will be displayed on the map, which is perfectly suited to save bookmarks on that one friend who is always late.

All participants can leave status updates on the fly, so the first man who makes it into a restaurant can let others know that he snagged a table in the back. It's just a duck from the events that you carried out, although the Protocol suggests that you should leave a farewell status update in such a way as not to get a reputation as a cereal.

In a sense, it's almost like we're in is Foursquare the other half: while Foursquare lets you know when someone makes it somewhere, we deal with all the back-end logistics-getting there first. Instead of an individual and back and try to determine who knows that we are putting all of that information in one place. Bing team announced their intention to bring in other devices, but a pity international partiers: the United States just now.

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Microsoft patents the flat slider phone form factor, multi-touch gaming mice

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We've seen a lot of interesting patents from Apple in the last few days, but Microsoft loves patent stuff too — and they were given only a bunch of nice little designs for mobile phones in a special format and some Kinect slider and mouse tech for download.

They are patenting a simple slider, of course. They are patenting several specific designs of the sliding mechanism, which, after you finish sliding action, keyboard and screen are mostly similar to the plane. "i.e., mainly the flush. Check this:

Potentially, the advantage is more comfortable typing experience. Many complained to recruit around G1's "Chin", and other phones with sunken keyboards have similar problems. My problem with the design as it is that additional loops and such may increase weight and sturdiness. The second design looks more interesting, however, reduce the display, rather than increasing the keyboard. That actually could work.

I'd like to see is some patents on the slider keyboard with keys that are actually fun to type on. Or maybe a slide-out keyboard for tablets that do not increase the weight of the thing at 500%.

Microsoft also received a patent that explicitly refers to Kinect is the definition of the potential of space to gestures and track user's movement within a cone. I wouldn't say this is particularly interesting, but if you are interested in Kinect and Microsoft for its implementation, it could make for some fun reading this weekend.

More up my alley, Microsoft has patented a method of interaction with games through multi-touch mice. I'm very surprised this patent came because the games just a form of software, and must be hundreds of patents in the game on the interaction of the software and multi-touch surface. Mostly I liked looking at patent because they use illustrations that times back in the days of yore when multi-touch mice were a novel proposal.

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HTC 1 NFC phone HTC incredible is actually incredible s

Earlier this week, the creator of the Smartphone HTC revealed its first NFC devices allegedly called the HTC incredible. The phone is manufactured in China and will include support for mobile payments through a partnership with China UnionPay, China's banking network.

We do not know, however, was a stunning phone. Now we are doing: it's just incredibly S HTC with NFC chip. Furthermore it is not called the HTC incredible. This was a mistranslation from Chinese "unbelievable."

The strategic partnership between HTC and UnionPay will include technical R&D, promoting mobile payment services and opportunities for future growth, HTC tells us.

Users who buy this device will be able to pay their Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom bills and their utility bills, check your credit, loyalty points and reserve accommodation, purchase cinema tickets and tickets to other events.  Partner banks UnionPay will also offer mobile banking and payment services for telephone users, they can register online.

In addition, thanks to chip NFC phone (near field communication), the Chinese version of the incredible s will enable mobile payments at the point of sale.

According to Fred Liu, CEO of HTC'S research, development and operations, HTC believes that mobile payments will become one of the "core functions" Smartphone offers. He believes that using the strategic partnership with China UnionPay, you can install the system over mobile payments and popularity of smartphones, mobile payments can be strengthened.

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Windows phone VP razvenčivaûtsâ mango September 1 release, we are still not convinced

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If you keep up with mango Windows phone (which you absolutely must be, because it looks pretty awesome), remember that we reported on the possible release of September 1 for the update. Reliable, yet untitled, Pocket-Lint sources confirmed rumours. Well that's that. We were absolutely right. We're just not sure what part we were right about yet — that his ear, or that we will see mango 1 September.

Vice President of Microsoft's Windows phone Joe Belfiore sent out a Tweet debunking 1 September claims. "# mango 1 September? Just a rumor, "he tweeted. We want to believe you, Joe. Indeed, we do. But the Pocket-Lint, usually pretty solid with the rumors and the timing couldn't be more perfect with the IFA on the following day. IFA is the largest show gadget in Europe, and the Windows phone also happens to be incredibly popular in Europe. Connecting the dots?

Companies often uncomfortable to walk the line between teasing secrets and keeping them closely guarded. They want us to know that something is absolutely amazing is going to go, but they do not want us to know where, when, or what the situation. In this case, it would be very shocking, if Microsoft does not use the IFA show his latest and greatest OS. But it is very understandable that Belfiore wants to get the cat back in the bag, at least for the moment.

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Facebook: we didn't steal the phone numbers and their location, so that everyone can see

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Facebook responded to privacy can scare a meme stemming from recent flow HackerNews entitled "Facebook has full telephone" with the official post on the Facebook Wall and personal message Facebook Messenger engineer Ben Gertzfield on HackerNews.

In their efforts to dominate all kinds of human communication (yay Messenger!) Facebook decided to match and de-dupe numbers on your friends list and Facebook mobile contacts to form one consistent list of contacts, that only you can see. For those of you that didn't realize that the Facebook now has contact information for various aunts, bosses, cleaning, etc., this may come as a shock.

Facebook's official response:

"Rumors, claiming that your contacts phone number visible to everyone on Facebook are false. Our list of contacts, known as the phone book, there is a long time. The phone numbers listed here have either added to your friends, and made visible for you, or you have previously synchronized your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, you can see these numbers. "

Fair enough. So why noise? Well, this is quite eye-opening to see friends, you don't even think you (wow, I really must call random people and catching up) simply by clicking on this link. As Facebook get those numbers in the first place? With your permission, of course!

As HackerNews user "extension indicates that allows contact synchronization on Facebook mobile applications will lead to something similar to the following message:

"If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's privacy policy, and your friends ' profile photos and other information from Facebook will be added to your address book on your iPhone. Please make sure that your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information. [Cancel] [I agree] "

Thus, by agreeing) you essentially prefer to download the information you entered in your phone to Facebook and (b)) people decided to give you numbers. But yes, this is your buddy wine — these days, to avoid the monotony of reading something that sounds remotely, people will [agree] to just about anything like TOS, even if it is only two sentences.

Still not sure? You can delete phone numbers that have been imported into the Facebook contacts by clicking on this link https://www.facebook.com/c ontact_importer/remove_upl oads. php? r =% 2Fphonebook.

Facebook still owns his immortal soul though.

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First Windows phone device Tango (sort of) goes on sale in Slovakia

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Today's news from remote Tango tidbit shores of Asia is expected to storm, but rather a small, landlocked country of Slovakia. As it turns out, the first device Tango went on sale, but probably not what you were hoping for.

Photo grew up on a computer Forum Pretaktovanie. sk Facebook page advertising HTC HD7 for sale with three versions of the software: 7.0.7392, 7.10.7720 (mango), 7.10.8200 ("Tango"). Awful thoughtful salesperson, huh?

As it turns out, the rabbit hole is a little deeper. Pretaktovanie forums are where the world caught its first glimpse of tango and its search functionality for content posted by a moderator with the name of the snake. Judging by the size and location of the Windows button on the screen, a device used to demonstrate the content search is very likely a HTC phone and may well be the same HD7, which went on sale.

Long story short, we can actually have a legitimate Tango device awaits the first interested party willing to fork over 150 euros. If all goes well, and the buyer feel Chatty, there may be a lot more Tango insight soon.

I'm almost tempted to go at it myself, but I don't think I could make it fly at the expense report.

UPDATE: that was fast — a picture simply was pulled from Facebook.

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Job listings in Skype mean video on Windows phone

Skype has been popping up in the headlines recently, mainly due to their "will they/them" iPad app release. While it is true that Apple's iOS is a huge priority for companies wishing to expand into the mobile space, let us not forget that Microsoft paid a cool $ 8.5 billion to pick up messages juggernaut last May. The big question then is, where is the love for Windows?

Skype move to Windows 7 phone seems to have been on the back burner for a while, but if the new position, popping up on Skype's career is any indication, they may finally get going.

Everyone knew that Skype will eventually make its way onto the market # 4 mobile OS even before the formal acquisition, but the company stayed mum about anything resembling the specific details. New lists, inter alia, to specify a specific emphasis on Windows platforms and Windows phone 7 is a software engineer their responsibilities include "is responsible for the construction and optimization engine Skype video solutions for Microsoft Windows and Windows Mobile platforms." this is a long time in development, but it's kind of Nice to see Microsoft finally getting some benefits from the horribly expensive purchase.

Readers love connecting dots you can see that Skype "Fall" release window occurs simultaneously with Microsoft (vague) Mango timeline. With Skype is now an official part of Microsoft, it would be logical to assume that the new Skype application that supports video calling released side-by-side with the software upgrade we have all been waiting for, but it is impossible to say at the moment. One thing this announcement simply confirms that the appearance of turning the front camera on new WinPho equipment, useful supplement, if not the most amazing.

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