After making do with an "app" that was little more than a hyperlink to YouTube's mobile web version, Windows Phone users finally get a fully supported (though still Microsoft-designed) YouTube app to call their very own. Read More >>

After over three months, Windows Phone finally has a Spotify app again. The app just went up in the Store, and is rolling out as a beta. You might have to wait a bit for it to show up. We'll add details as we have them. [Windows Blog via Verge] Read More >>

The Amazon Kindle app for Windows Phone 8 got an update today. It's a good one, too, fixing the awful three-sided letterboxing and giving the app a more Metro-y tile. But it's massively late, and tripped over itself coming out the gate, too. In a way, it's a perfect encapsulation of everything that's wrong with Windows Phone 8 so far. Read More >>

Last week's Shooting Challenge was all about the camera in your pocket: the mobile phone. The brief was simple and gave you masses of creative freedom -- shoot an image on your mobile phone and if you so wish to, edit it using one (or many) of the apps available for your camera phone of choice. And let me just say, you didn't disappoint.. Read More >>

Microsoft just hammered out a deal to get Windows Phones access to 12 million Wi-Fi hotspots from its new partner Devicescape. Read More >>

Windows Phone 8 is better. Better than the auspicious mobile re-imagining Microsoft trotted out in 2010, and better than the bag of promises it delivered last year. Those felt like betas compared to Android and iOS, a half-baked platform long on promise. Read More >>

Nokia has been alone on the vanguard of worthwhile Windows Phone hardware for a while now. But that's no longer the case. Here's HTC's 8X. And it's got enough firepower to go toe-to-toe with anything on Android or iOS. Read More >>

Microsoft has tried it everyone else's way, and Windows Phone still hasn't made much headway. That could still change, but two separate reports, from WPCentral and BGR, are claiming that Microsoft's taking the next step and making a phone on its own. Read More >>

We've seen a few Windows 8 phones in the flesh, namely the HTC 8X and 8S, plus Nokia's Lumia 920 and 820, but no one's had a chance to thoroughly poke around Microsoft latest and greatest yet. Until now that is; courtesy of a leaked, final WP8 SDK, meet Windows Phone 8. Read More >>

Here's a side-by-side-by-side of the Nokia Lumia 920's PureView camera up against the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S III. It's pretty darn impressive. Read More >>

We're also going to hear from Microsoft about the rest of Windows Phone 8. We'll fill you in on everything new Microsoft announces today. Read More >>

Nokia has another bonkers teaser video for us today, which features a woman walking along a city street. Facts about shoes pop up in the sky, the point being how she's substantially empowered by her choice of telephone. Read More >>

Probably for the better, Nokia's CEO has insisted that the company's future lies no longer with Symbian (thank God), but rather with Windows Phone and nothing else. At all. Read More >>

Microsoft had previously told us that Windows Phone 8 will be out this autumn, but Mary Jo Foley at ZDnet is reporting some new dates, including one for WP8: The OS will go to manufacturers in September, and devices will be available to the general public in November. So maybe hold off on getting a Windows Phone until then, yeah? [ZDnet] Read More >>

Qualcomm and Microsoft are continuing their cozy relationship with Snapdragon S4 Plus processors set to power Windows Phone 8. Read More >>