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Temple Run now supports 512 MB devices
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Camera comparison: Nokia Lumia 920 vs. 720 vs. Nokia N8
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Windows Phone Toolkit June 2013 update – summary
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Nokia RM-875 passes through the FCC, may be the EOS for the rest of the world
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WSJ: Microsoft and Nokia were recently looking to merge
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10 classic Xbox games from Gameloft on sale through June 25
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Nokia Lumia 925 officially launched in China
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Microsoft Promtes iAds-Like Window 8 Ads Within Apps
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Some more details about the Windows Phone Waze beta
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Nintendo 3DS Outsells Xbox 360 In May
Microsoft shows off early Windows Phone Design Concepts
Some concept designs for Windows Phone leaked some weeks ago but have since been pulled from Vimeo. Today however Microsoft published a page touting their commitment to design, which includes a video, showing the evolution of the Windows Phone Metro design.
As can be seen from the screen shot above, at one point things were rather garish, but became increasingly minimalist and more reliant on typography and clear symbols.
See the video below after the break.
Nielsen finds 2% of US smartphone owners use Windows Phones
Nielsen has released some data collected between March and May 2013. The numbers show 2% of US smartphone users have Windows Phones.
The number is up from 1.3% in Q2 2012. Unlike Comscore Nielsen counts only Windows Phones, not Windows Mobile handset.
| Q2 2012 | Q2 2013 | |
| iPhone | 34 | 40 |
| Android | 51 | 53 |
| Blackberry | 9 | 3 |
| Windows Phone | 1.3 | 2 |
| Other | 4.7 | 2 |
It seems Blackberry is the biggest loser over the period, having dropped from 9% to 3% of the market, with the iPhone gobbling up much of their fleeing users.
With around 138.5 million Smartphones in use in US in April 2013 according to Comscore, the numbers suggest 2.8 million Windows Phones are in use in USA, and at least 1.35 million have been sold in the last year, doubling the user base.
Of course these are just rough estimates, and Comscore and Nielsen prefers their numbers not be multiplied together.
With Nokia having sold more than 20 million Windows Phones so far, the numbers however continue to show USA is only a minor Windows Phone market.
