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Huawei Working on Windows Phone 8 Smartphone and Windows 8 Tablet [Rumor]
One company that is yet to join the Windows Phone fray is Chinese company Huawei but if rumors from WPDang are to be believed, that is about to change. He said that Huawei has assembled a group of engineers 70 people strong to work on two devices that will feature the upcoming Windows 8 OS. One of the devices which is a phone will be making use of components found in the company’s Android smartphones while the other is apparently a tablet which is 4G LTE enabled. The phone in question is set to run Windows Phone 8 Apollo and will allegedly cost $315 while the rumored tablet will run Windows 8 with no additional details about its potential pricing.
The question that has been raised here is how Huawei’s entrance into the Windows Phone market will affect the Nokia Lumia’s sales. Huawei is not for using above-average specifications and charging bottom dollar for them. Since all Windows Phones run the same software on what is basically the same Qualcomm processor, the only reason for someone to opt for a Nokia Windows Phone would be if the design was much better and that remains to be seen since Huawei’s option has not even been announced yet. As for the tablet, nothing much is known about it yet except for the fact that it will be running Windows 8. If the manufacturer chooses to manufacture a x86 machine it will be up against companies like Lenovo and HP but on the other hand, if it goes with an ARM based chip it might find itself up against the giant of the lot, the iPad from Apple.
It is quite a feeling to have a smartphone getting the latest operating system update up and running, that is for sure. After all, you can never quite tell just what kind of goodies that your handset would receive now, can you? Those who are rocking to a Windows Phone 8.1 device might be looking forward to spending Christmas with a Windows 10 Mobile update but it seems that such hopes will have to be shelved for the moment.
It seems that there will be no Windows 10 update arriving this month as originally speculated, and the time frame itself has been altered, being even more vague in nature – where it has been mentioned to be “early next year”, which could jolly well mean any time, even in April. Looks like patience needs to be had in boatloads here.
So, you are still rocking to the Xiaomi Mi 4 and are more than happy with the device, right? Well, how about enjoying an operating system upgrade when December 3rd rolls around? This is what will happen to the Xiaomi Mi 4, where it has been teased by Xiaomi’s Founder and President Lin Bin on Weibo, citing the December 3rd date. I suppose it is encouraging to take note that this bit arrives close to nine months after Microsoft and Xiaomi came to an agreement, where there would be support for the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Mi 4 handset.
Just in case you were wondering, there is another device from Xiaomi which will rock to the Windows 10 OS, and that would be the recently announced Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet, with that particular device arriving in a 64GB memory configuration alongside an asking price of $205 thereabouts.
Trivia lovers, here is something that might just pique your interest. After all, don’t you wish you had all sorts of information at your fingertips? Windows Phone lovers will be pleased to hear that there is a leak concerning information about the Windows Phone Store, and such information can be said to be ‘ancient”, as it dates back all the way to October 2011 with the introduction of Windows Phone 7.5.
So far, the most popular downloaded app happens to be Facebook with more than 112 million installations – no surprise there at all, I suppose. WhatsApp is behind Facebook considerably at 92 million downloads, while OneDrive has 62.5 million downloads. Located close to the bottom of the food chain would be PayPal that picked up a mere 1.6 million downloads all this while, and 2.5 million for Telegraph.
Third party apps as well as games have had their fair share of hits, too, like Tube HD that handles the playback of YouTube videos with more than 13 million downloads. Of course, these figures would pale in comparison to what Android and iOS platforms have garnered all this while.