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Nokia are due to announce the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 devices, which run Microsoft Windows Phone 7, at today’s Nokia World event in London, UK.
They should both hit the market before the end of the year.
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Thankfully, Microsoft have put a stop to the masses of poor quality apps being approved in the Windows Marketplace. The apps are basically RSS readers that focus on different subject matter. The problem is that these apps get in the way of the high quality apps that genuine publishers want to promote and consumers want to hear about.
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Now that the new Mango update is nearly upon us, Microsoft has officially flipped the switch on their web marketplace for markets across the world.
There’s a great UI and single sign-in using Windows Live ID. Purchasing is simple using a credit card linked to your Windows Live ID and many apps allow you to “try before you buy”. There are rumours that operator billing will be possible soon so you can buy apps and have them charged to your mobile phone bill.
It’s not clear yet whether it is possible to publish apps within the MENA region without having to go through Yalla Apps. This’ll be great because publishers will then be able to earn 70% of gross revenue just like on every other platform.
We’re looking forward to the Mango update to Windows Phone 7 operating system any day now 
Visit the Windows Marketplace here.
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Microsoft and Nokia have just released a suite of tools to help mobile app developers port from Symbian to Windows Phone 7.
This is great news. And I just hope that Microsoft stop penalising app developers & publishers by forcing them to cover the 20% slice required by Yalla Apps. For the record, I appreciate that Yalla Apps provide a service and should be paid; I just think they should be paid out of the Microsoft slice as opposed to the publisher slice.
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Another great article by Natasha Stokes at Mobile Choice which brings you up to speed on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 updated called Mango.
I too am a big fan of WP7 and I just hope that Microsoft get their Marketplace sorted for local (MENA) app publishers because we really don’t want to have to use a third party and give up an additional 20% of the gross revenue!
Click here to read the full article at Mobile Choice.
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This Windows Phone 7 event will cover a variety of topics to get developers up and running on their app development …
*** And every attendee will walk away with something special! ***
The event will be at Microsoft’s offices in Dubai Internet City on Saturday 11th June 2011 from 10am to 6pm.
Click here for more information and to register.
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