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Episode #117 of the SMRPodcast, Chicken Wings And Ribs, has been recorded, posted online, and is ready for download. This week feels Rod sick and Robb and Chris picking up the slack. In this episode we cover Some surprising market share stats between Windows Phone and BlackBerry. We also talk about Windows 8 and the [...]

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Paul Thurrott came across some of the app updates coming to the Windows 8 Release Preview and listed them out. So far I have been running the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and am looking forward to installing the Windows 8 Release Preview on the Acer Iconia. One of the aspects of the Consumer Preview is [...]

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What better way to sell more BlackBerry Playbooks that the ability to run the Windows Phone operating system on it and here is a video of it working. One thing that many HP Touchpad owners are dreaming of is a port of Windows Phone or Windows 8 onto the the tablet which would instantly add [...]

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LinkedIn the professional social network used my many people, has now released an official application to the Windows Phone marketplace. Even though the official app was just released, that is not to say that Phone 7 users didn’t have access before as the social networks functionality was built-in to the OS just like Twitter and [...]

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Episode 116 of the SMRpodcast, A Phone With Ebola, has been recorded, posted online, and is ready for download. Chris is back on the show after a week of travel and Robb is actually in studio. We talk about the Facebook IPO and some copy cat Ultrabooks. We are also scratching our heads over the [...]

Post image for Nokia City Lens Augmented Reality App For Windows Phone Goes Into Beta

One of the things that Nokia promised Windows Phone users is that they would be contributing to the ecosystem and they are certainly delivering on that with the City Lens app for Windows Phone. City Lens is an augmented reality app which uses your camera to display the area ahead of you on the screen [...]

Post image for AT&T Samsung Focus 2 Available May 20th For $49.99

We all were wondering if Samsung was going to wait until Windows Phone 8 released before they released another Windows Phone and apparently that is not the case as the Samsung Focus 2 will be available on May 20th for $49.99. Ben Rudolph has posted some shots of the Samsung Focus 2 that he was [...]

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Episode #115 of the SMRPodcast, Mr Telephone Man, has been recorded, posted online, and is ready for download. We jumped right into BlackBerry 10. Despite my best effort Robb will not give up his Android phone for BlackBerry 10. To his credit he said RIM need to earn the right to be my primary device [...]

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The other day Skype For Windows Phone was released to the Marketplace and to celebrate Microsoft is giving away 10 unlocked Windows Phones. All you have to do is watch the introduction video and then fill out a form for a chance to win either a HTC Titan II or the Nokia Lumia 900. To [...]

Post image for SMRPodcast #114: Get Back in the Corner

Episode # of the SMRPodcast, Get Back In The Corner, has been recorded, posted online, and is ready for download. This week we try a little twist to the opening of the show then jump right into cloud storage with the new offerings from Google and Microsoft. We also talk about first quarter earnings and [...]