Windows Phone

Whether Hurricane Sandy or the odd timing left you wondering, here's the quick take on what's new in the Windows Phone and Android worlds today.

Let’s review the best ways you can grab a screenshot from an iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone. Or even a WebOS phone, if you're feeling esoteric.

With the iPad 3 out, the rumor mill is mostly focused on Android, particularly on the upcoming swath of LTE-enabled phones due out soon. Because those phones have to get their radios approved, roaming agreements confirmed, and their newer chipsets tested, more news than normal leaks out about them than is usual. And that’s great for us!

Here’s a short list of the things worth talking about at CES in 2012, at least in the mobile realm.

Microsoft thinks Windows Phone really needs is its own version of a Droid--a heavily marketed, easily recognizable version of its operating system that nobody in the U.S. can avoid hearing about.

Steve Ballmer's timing was a little off this week as he gave a rousing speech praising the ability and prospects of Windows Phone on the same day the already more impressive Android got another big upgrade and the secure version the Army wants moved closer to market.

The aftershocks of Nokia's surprise deal with Microsoft to move foward with Windows Phone as Nokia's primary mobile platform continued today with the announcement that Nokia has sold the commerical branch of its Qt business to Finnish software services company Digia.