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Refresh Roundup: week of September 26, 2011

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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy fo…


Mobile Miscellany: week of September 26, 2011

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This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here’s some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of September 26, 2011:

Last week we heard the rumor…


Windows Phone SDK 7.1 goes gold, seven new languages in tow

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Mango developers across the globe now have reason to hunker down and bring their apps up to snuff for Windows Phone 7.5. Microsoft has released version 7.1 of its SDK, which means no more coding with beta tools. In addition to the handful of bug fix…


Long live the Samsung Taylor: prototype device to receive Mango?

Keep looking at Microsoft’s “where’s my Windows Phone update” page, concerned that Mango may never make it to your WP7 device? You may be comforted to hear that even the Samsung Taylor — the beta device awarded to devs last summer that got left i…


PSA: Force Windows Phone 7.5 Mango to update, right now

Windows Phone 7.5 has officially landed, but unless you’re among a fortunate few, Redmond’s tropical getaway might seem like only a twinkle on the horizon. In a wild turn of events, we’ve now stumbled across (and confirmed) a method that promises in…