Microsoft today announced that its Zune Pass will be expanding to Canada, along with a couple of changes to the service. Effective on October 3rd, 2011, the Zune Pass will be $10 a month and will drop the 10 MP3s to keep model it’s been harboring for quite some time now. Old subscribers...

Have you always wanted a copy of Halo Reach? Here is your chance. We here at Zunited have a download code for the games on demand version of the game, and we would like to give it away. Here is how to win yourself a copy: Follow Zunited on Twitter (@Zunited) Tweet us (@Zunited) your favorite...

Windows Phone 7.5, also known as Mango, was released today… but there’s just one catch: the update won’t be available to all phones right away. In fact, only 10% of phones will receive the update by the end of the week; Microsoft hopes to cover 98% in a month’s time. But if...

Fresh off the news that Windows Phone 7.5 Mango was unleashed, Microsoft updated the official website — including an all-new web-version of its Windows Phone Marketplace. The web Marketplace has been expected for quite some time now. In fact, details from the Japanese language Windows Phone...

After months since Windows Phone 7.5 Mango was announced, earlier this spring, the mobile operating system update is finally finding its way onto phones all around the world today. Late last week, reports stated September 27th would be “Mango day,” earlier today support pages for...

Today is reportedly Mango day. AT&T is supposed to get the Windows Phone 7.5 update first before any other carrier but Sprint may be getting it themselves. Sprint updated its support page for the HTC Arrive today, September 27, to include a new version of the operating system that...

The WindowsPhoneUK Youtube channel has recently released a couple of videos showcasing HTC’s two new Windows Phone devices. If you haven’t seen them it’s the standard artsy fare that you come to expect from these reveal videos. They don’t reveal too much in the way of...

Xbox is streaming the iHeartRadio Music Festival live in HD right now (and tomorrow night, or watch it online on their website) as it happens live in Vegas, Nevada, but during the performance there was an announcement of the music application’s availability on Xbox. As reported by Elvis...

You like music. You have an Xbox. You don’t have a ticket to iHeartRadio’s Music Festival, self-touted as the largest music event in radio history. Well, you’re in luck because Xbox LIVE will be streaming the event live in HD tonight (Sept 23) and tomorrow (Sept 24) for all...

A report claims that Windows Phone 7.5, also known as Mango, will make its debut on September 27th and AT&T is the first carrier to receive the update. According to emails received by WPCentral, AT&T will unleash the Mango update for the HTC Surround, the LG Quantum, and the Samsung...

On Wednesday, September 20th, Microsoft has finally made an official statement about the timing of the Mango release on their Windowss Phone Blog. This specific post also served as a humble reminder and cautionary advice column about the dangers of updating via bootleg, or homebrew hacks...

Tom Bradley of PCWorld.com has taken Windows Phone as his next project in his ongoing “30 Days with…” series. The series is a monthly column that as the title suggests, focuses on one product to be used exclusively for 30 days. Each day Mr. Bradley posts a feature of the...

If you are wondering what the status of Nokia’s first Windows Phone device is, then a recent tweet might shed some light. Nokia stated in a September 14 tweet that their phones are still coming by the end of this year. As the screen capture above suggest, Q4 is still a very real target...

It’s September 15th, 2011, and while it may be the second anniversary of the Zune HD’s release, it’s definitely not the day Windows Phone 7.5 Mango makes its debut as the rumor mill had been predicting quite fiercely for about a month now. Yesterday, a T-Mobile support page...

It seems that is was just yesterday, when we all were jumping around internet forums, with joy and glee, the Zune HD had just been released. Now 2 years have passed and it comes to that time again where we look back to when we had no touchscreen Zune, no PGR, and we did not have our pretty...

T-Mobile’s support page for its Windows Phone HTC HD7 is currently displaying that an update for the mobile phone is available. At this point, the only update that would be available is Windows Phone 7.5, codename Mango, which has been rumored for a September 15th release (tomorrow)....

Labor Day has past, and according to radio show hosts everywhere, that means fall is now upon us — which is conveniently the timeline we were supposed to see the Windows Phone 7.5 devices debut. (All rumors point to a September 15 date for when Mango will be released on its own.) AT&T...

News broke late Tuesday that Microsoft’s Zune HD Senior Business Development Manager, Dave McLauchlan, would be leaving the company — which he did, this past Friday, to begin on a new startup called Buddy. McLauchlan, most commonly known online as DaveMac or DaveMacMS, was an integral...

Dave McLauchlan, known on the Internet as DaveMacMS, has relieved himself of his duties at Microsoft. McLauchlan is the Senior Business Development Manager for Microsoft’s Zune HD — or he will be until Friday, September 9th, McLauchlan’s last day with the company. He tweeted out...

Musically inclined, love Windows Phone 7, and need some cash? Then head on over to Nokia’s new website they’ve set up where you can create and submit your own Nokia ringtone. First prize is a whopping $10,000 to the person with the most creative tune out there and a healthy $1,000...

After Fujitsu released the IS12T last month, HTC became the second OEM to fully show off and have working models of their new Windows Phone devices. HTC recently had a showing of their two new Windows Phone handsets running on the 7.5 OS, codename ‘Mango,’ at the recent IFA...

We’ve been waiting for Mr. Blurrycam to strike and he finally has! WMPowerUser received an anonymous tip of what looks like a picture of a slideshow presentation from Nokia on their Nokia 703 phone — which bares a striking resemblance to the “leaked” Nokia Sea Ray device,...

  As the number of people owning smartphones seems to be growing at a steady rate, Microsoft’s percentage of total U.S. smartphone subscribers seems to be steadily declining. According to comScore’s July 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share Report, at the end of July...

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Phone Connector for Mac late Tuesday. The Windows Phone Connector for Mac software is a, as some might call it, bit watered down version of the Zune software — both of which are used to sync media between WP7 and Zune devices on Mac and...

So if you’re keeping count: we’ve got a comic strip creator, a technology reporter and podcaster, a basketball player, and now the next person to take the Windows Phone Challege (WPC, from here on out) is rapper Chamillionaire. Dilbert creator Scott Adams mainly started the WPC...

Lomography has taken a spot in the photography world; a niche yet cool technique derived from shooting pictures with low resolution, analogue cameras. The effects are more artistic and peculiar, rather than focused and professional. It’s all about feeling rather than perfection. So with...

We’ve all seen applications run on the new Windows 8 Metro UI look back when Microsoft unveiled the new operating system. But those Windows 8 apps were built by Microsoft specifically to show them off. Now, a couple of new app portfolios discovered by ZDNet, created by third party...

Rumor has it that Microsoft is gearing up to release an official SkyDrive application for their Windows Phone platform. Now, a new job posting hints that the SkyDrive clients and applications will become multi-platform. The filing, first spotted by LiveSide, is looking for a software engineer...

HTC’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices were reported to be codenamed Omega and Eternity, but as it turns out, they will have completely different names once they hit the market. The final names of Omega and Eternity will be HTC Radar and HTC Titan, respectively, according to WMPowerUser....

Something we here at Zunited have been a little wary of is that the different services on Windows Phone don’t exactly translate back to one single brand that can be identified easily. It seems Microsoft is looking for a solution to that problem as the Japanese version of the official...

500 features is right! You never know what else Windows Phone 7.5, also known as Mango, has up its sleeve. Another surprise feature: Hotspot, which is a way to share internet access from your phone with other mobile devices via WiFi. The picture to the left shows a Samsung Focus using the...

Back in the good old days, Zunited had a forum section dedicated to artist where they could display their creations. With the passing of the years and the improvement and focus of Zunited, the forums are gone, and thus there is no more user created art for our beloved Zune. However, now that...

It’s been a pretty busy week! And sometimes we can get caught up with all the news and, leaving some stuff un-posted. But here’s what we missed this week thus far. HTC has announced it will have an event take place on September 1st where it reportedly plans to unveil not one, but...

“Sprint to land Apple’s iPhone” When I read this headline on ZDnet.com my first reaction was a negative one. The impulse of dread that another of the top four U.S. carriers was now in the fold of the iPhone 4 or 5′s release window this year dampened my positive outlook...

Microsoft has finally updated their available services in a BIG way today as they announced the new version of the Zune software 4.8 in preparation for Mango. Zune HD player is still only available in Canada and the United States but the Zune Marketplace made a large leap forward into more...