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The tech industry has been waiting for the official announcement of a Nokia Windows Phone device, ever since Microsoft announced they would be pairing with them. That day has officially come today. The Nokia Lumia 800 is the flagship device, out of the phones announced, so let’s go over some of the specs.

Before we get into the exact specs, over-all the device looks almost identical to the Nokia N9. With that said, it is a 16GB phone that has a single core 1.4GHz processor. Up front, it has a 3.7 (800X480) AMOLED display and comes in 3 colors black, cyan or magenta. Around back, the 8MP camera has the famous Carl Zeiss optics, and is capable of taking 720P video at 30 frames per second.

Nokia has added some specific apps like Nokia Drive (that is their own turn-by-turn GPS), ESPN Sports Hub, and Nokia Music. Lumia is a quad-band GSM device capable of 14.4Mbps HSDPA speeds and keeping it alive is a 1450mAh battery. The Lumia 800 is an intriguing device and we are very excited to see it. The bad news is, we are not hearing any talk about a US release at the moment. What do you think, you think this device is good enough to compete with the top devices in today’s market? We think so, but only time will tell that.

(via This is my Next)

Microsoft has plenty of money and it sure isn’t making a killing on Windows Phone, so they take all the licensing fees they can get from Android. Microsoft has landed another patent agreement with the Android manufacturer Compal. Lenovo is one of the companies that Compal is involved with and now they have to give a fair share of their 28 billion annual income to Microsoft.

Microsoft now cashes in on licensing fees from 55 percent of Android manufacturers. They make a lot more money off of Android than they do their own Mobile OS. It seems like in all the patents wars with the companies these days, every one has their own way of protecting their patents. Microsoft just chooses to sit back and let the money tree grow.

(via Android and Me)

Microsoft makes royalty money on a ton of Android devices that violate it’s patents, and the Kindle Fire will probably not be any different. Microsoft and Amazon signed a licensing agreement last year but the Kindle Fire does not fall into the agreement. Almost every Android device sold infringes one of Microsofts patents.

Microsoft has signed cross-licensing agreements with other Android vendors and in 2012 they are estimated to bring home around 444 million dollars in royalty fees. Microsoft has set themselves in a great position to make money off of the patents they own, and this could be very well, while it could be worth Amazon to purchase webOS and own their own software, for their mobile devices. The bottom line would be cut down quite a bit.

(via BGR)

We have been hearing that the official release date of Mango was going to be on September 27th and today confirmed that all to well. Seems they did it right in the wind of the news about Apple holding an iPhone event. How clever. Either way Microsoft is getting the update process down and rolling them out very smooth and quick.

Microsoft said “Today we’re starting the roll out of Windows Phone 7.5 to more than 98 percent of existing Windows Phone customers. This is a simultaneous, coordinated, global update that cuts across carriers, phone models, and countries. This time, almost everybody is going first.”

So plug up your phone, fire up your Zune Software, and see if your update is available because you have a better chance of it being available than not. We could only wish that Google could get their update process down like this, but it is a lot harder with open source software. So all you Windows Phone 7 owners, get your update and tell us how you like it, if you want to read about some of the newer additions, check out our Guru Inspection of Mango. Enjoy.

“For months, we and dozens of our partner companies have been laying the groundwork for the Windows Phone 7.5 update—and making solid progress. As a result, we now expect to start rolling it out in the next week or two. At that time, we’ll also refresh the Where’s My Phone Update? table to reflect the worldwide rollout status.”

For a sneak peak at some Mango features, head on over to our run down on some of the new additions!

via [Windows Phone Blog]

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This week Nic and Liz dive into a ton of stuff. They finish it off with a long discussion about something or other…you’ll see! Show notes after the break.

Nintendo posts first quarterly operating loss; 3DS now just $169.99

Internet as hard to give up as cigarettes, liquor, study says

Remote unlock and start for cars hacked

China shuts down two fake Apple Stores

Spotify sued by PacketVideo for patent infringement

“Linking is not a crime”: Czech Pirate Party declares war on Big Content

Rogue academic downloader busted by MIT webcam stakeout

Google wants e-mail in Android suit redacted

Facebook to pay hackers for bugs

Petition to revive Oscar the Grouch trash-can utility in OS X Lion

AT&T to throttle smartphone data starting October 1st

Hulu sued for patent infringement

Italian cyber-crime police hacked in AntiSec attack

http://m.lifehacker.com/5825746/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-internet-snooping-bill-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

FBI working from list of top 1,000 protestors in Anonymous raids

Police arrest 19-year old LulzSec hacker ‘Topiary’

Ultimate hack: LulzSec may have duped British authorities into  arresting innocent man

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This week we cover a wide range of topics. Apple stores being faked, hackers being hacked, and Wonderkind being stupid. It’s the After Party Episode 33 and it awesome!

Show Notes After the break…
RIP Amy Winehouse

Apple

Some members of Apple’s board of directors have informally discussed a possible CEO successor to Steve Jobs, according to the WSJ’s “people familiar with the matter.” Jobs called the rumor “hogwash.”

Fake Apple Store customers furious, employees don’t care

Google

Google+ will be squeezed out of social world, says LinkedIn CEO
Judge blasts Google/Oracle over damages estimates in patent dispute
Google: Sun offered to license Java for $100M
Security experts knock Google on PC infection warnings
Google Labs is set to shut down as the search giant refocuses its product development efforts. Some Labs experiments will be terminated, others will be integrated into products.

Hacking

Former Reddit co-owner arrested for excessive JSTOR downloads

House panel approves data breach notification bill

Anonymous is apparently branching out into social networking. After being rejected by Google+, a team is working to develop “AnonPlus”, a social network to allow anons to create a community free of censorship.

The FBI has raided three addresses in New York, looking for hackers belonging to the Anonymous group. Agents have seized computers claimed to have been involved in distributed denial of service attacks against several corporations.

Big Content’s latest antipiracy weapon: extradition

NBA star Wade goes after alleged Texas hackers

General

Microsoft is offering a reward of up to $250,000 for information that leads to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person or people behind the Rustock botnet.

Calif. man gets 4 years for stalking on Facebook

The BlackBerry PlayBook has become the first tablet certified for use by government employees.

After poor sales, RIM pushing for Android apps on the PlayBook

Lighter Side

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/yogurt-semen-indictment-076391
http://consumerist.com/2011/02/yep-there-was-semen-in-the-yogurt.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejaculation

http://www.sickchirpse.com/2011/07/19/real-life-peter-pan-the-woman-who-refuses-to-grow-up/

Microsoft released a quick video demoing some of the new elements of Windows 8. Looks like they slapped the Metro UI skin on it and multitasking will be a big part of the experience. This video demos something that is definitely geared toward tablets, so how this will all work with a mouse and keyboard we have yet to see.  Take a look below.