At the Mango event in Berlin, some features that were not announced at the event in the United States were shown off. Throughout the 11 minute video, the presenter shows off how to upload video, how custom ringtones work, and battery saving mode, amongst others. Users have been wondering...

In our first of a series, we interview Windows Phone 7 app developer Elbert Perez. If you own a WP7 device, and you enjoy gaming, you probably have downloaded one of Elbert’s games. Creator of Impossible Shoota, and the recently released Armored Drive, Elbert Perez was kind enough to...

Halo fans rejoice! Xbox 360 World magazine may have slipped some of Microsoft’s E3 secrets. It will be a Pre-E3 special and on the cover, it lists the long rumored Halo CE remake that fans like myself have been dying for. This also corresponds with Microsoft’s E3 press badge that...

Three new trademark filings, titled “Fusion,” could be a new Xbox, a new Kinect, a new gaming series, or something else entirely. E3 is quickly approaching, coming the second week of June, and everyone wants to get their word in on what they think Microsoft will do next. The...

Microsoft is making about 5% of revenue in software sales in China compared to the United States, where PC sales are about the same. China is soon set to be the number one market for PC sales, said Steve Ballmer at the R&D headquarters in Beijing. Office software is being sold on...

The HTC Trophy began selling today online through Verizon’s website, making it the first Windows Phone to be available on the number one carrier in the United States, but could it really already be selling out? It is, or at least it did, according to reports Entertainment Connected...

Microsoft is set on supporting higher priced applications for its Windows Phone apps Marketplace and wants to encourage developers to charge more for their work. It’s an attempt to seem more enticing in respect to their competition — Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android...

Wet & Wild Published by Microsoft Game Studios Price: $4.99 Today Microsoft released this week’s Game of the Week. Hydro Thunder Go comes to you via the Zune Marketplace at a price of $4.99. This title is a throwback to old Hydro Thunder games, the ones you’ve come to know in...

When Windows Phone 7 was announced in 2010, the news was welcomed with aplomb by gamers invested in the Xbox platform. Finally, a way to carry our Xbox Live account in our pockets and gain gamerpoints on the go. The allusion of a connected, cloud based, mobile device that could play Xbox...

Microsoft announced on Tuesday morning its new version of the Windows Phone operating system, codenamed Mango, with over 500 new features. Only a handful of those were actually demoed at the official event, all outlined right here on Zunited, and thankfully during the announcement we saw that...

During today’s Mango announcement, Mobile Communications Business President Andy Lees announced that the developer tools, also known as the SDK, for Mango have been made live online. Not a huge surprise since the Microsoft Romania press release indicated as such. The SDK, which is in...

It may get hard to digest all of the features Microsoft announced for Mango earlier today, but Joe Belfiore (missing from the announcement, which we believe is a first) demoes those features in an easy to watch video. There are a ton more hosted on the Windows Phone official YouTube page, so...

Microsoft’s Zune has been the victim to some harsh rumors over the past couple of months, most notably that the brand was going to disappear forever. Just this weekend another rumor sprung up that Zune was going to be split up into Xbox Mobile, Xbox Live, and “Windows Live...

Microsoft announced today the hardware partners for the new Windows Phone operating system, codenamed Mango. On that list was Samsung, LG, and HTC — all of which have been partners with Microsoft on WP7 up to this point, and all of which have been making new models. HTC has a Verizon device...

Microsoft announced today its latest version of the Windows Phone operating system, codenamed Mango. In fact, there was no mention of “7.5″ at all during the announcement, leaving rumors suggesting the official name will be 7.1 up for validity. Unfortunately for us Windows Phone...

Microsoft Romania has released the official press release for Windows Phone 7.5 before the event actually takes place. Now, it’s roughly translated to English below, but it seems to indicate what we know so far. Mango will be available for download at the beginning of this summer,...

What’s better than a live blog for the Windows Phone Mango event taking place tomorrow? Actually watching it live. Who said you need to travel to New York or New Zealand to do it? In fact, you can watch it in the comfort of your own home (or workplace, we don’t judge) with...

In just fourteen short hours, Microsoft will be unveiling the next version of its Windows Phone operating system to the entire world. Thankfully, those fourteen hours means everyone will be cramming their last-minute rumors out into the blogosphere. The same is true for this interesting tidbit...

You may or may not have realized that Zunited launched a new design over the weekend as an ongoing process of a revamp to the entire site: a refocus from its forum to becoming a great news resource. The first step in that process was tweaking the layout a tad to help shift that...

Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer accidentally let it slip that Windows Phone 7.5 Mango will contain over 500 new features during the Microsoft Developer Forum in Japan. That’s a heck of a lot more features than we’ve seen leaked or confirmed — combined. So far, we know...

We’re a wee bit behind on posting this, but since we’re even closer to the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango event taking place this Tuesday, May 24th, we figured we’d adopt the motto that late is better than never. In perhaps the sweetest invitation Microsoft has ever sent, the...

It’s been close to two months since rumors died down that Microsoft was going to rebrand its Zune services into another part of its own company — the most popular of which was Windows Live. The debate was such a hot topic that our April Fools’ Day prank that claimed Microsoft had...

It was recently announced that Bing and Facebook would be teaming up and the moment for a commercial featuring both online companies working together is finally here — with two different ads, to boot! Both commercials feature avatars of “your” friends telling you things they have...

We’re only two days away from Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango announcement taking place this Tuesday, so the only shocking part about this rumor is why it took so long in the first place. WMPowerUser received an anonymous tip that Microsoft will be showing off at least nine new...

Zunited Logo | May 2011 As a part of our announced changes to Zunited, we have updated our websites theme today! The inspiration behind it is to show more content and the diverse amount of articles we offer on our homepage and to make the site “feel more substantial”. Much...

Samsung has been suffering some problems with its devices for the Windows Phone NoDo update. It’s other WP7 devices, namely the Focus, seems to have made the update transition perfectly. Microsoft even announced that the Omnia 7 would receive the update officially soon. But for those...

Woe are the Android users who desperately want to own a Windows Phone and dying for that Zune media experience. Perhaps the operating system just isn’t available on their carrier yet (though Verizon consumers, that’s not really you anymore!), perhaps they just haven’t found...

Pioneer Studios, which opened just about three years ago as a place for Microsoft to “capture consumer imagination,” has since been closed, CNET has learned. The unit was based in downtown Seattle and was behind many conceptual products (like the Courier tablet). Aside from that,...

AT&T has announced that the HTC HD7S, their version of the HTC HD7 on T-Mobile’s network, will be launching on June 5th. The HTC HD7S features a 1GHz processor, 4.3″ WVGA Super LCD, 5MP camera and Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” update on-board. The HTC HD7S will be available for $199...

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. Verizon Wireless is set to launch its first ever Windows Phone 7 device in just one week with the HTC Trophy landing on the number one USA carrier on May 26th. That date is just two days after Microsoft’s announcement of...

Who said Apple was the only one who could offer summer deals for students? Not Microsoft. (Albeit, this is definitely not the first deal Microsoft has done for students but it’s perhaps the most enticing). The company is giving away free Xbox 360 Slim consoles to students who purchase a...

An exclusive post on This Is My Next reveals T-Mobiles new cellphone lineup for 2011, full of HTC devices. None of the phones listed were described as Windows Phone devices, until the final two unmarked devices both from HTC. They are the Bresson and the G-Infinity. This Is My Next speculates...

Microsoft is apparently gearing to answer requests to have a unified email inbox for multiple email accounts. That is if a leaked screenshot, allegedly sent to the media in New Zealand as a teaser for next Tuesday’s event, is to be believed. Neowin was the first to report of the leaked...

Xbox customers have been receiving emails from Microsoft that alleges their console is incompatible with the new spring update for Xbox Live. The firmware update, among other things, is supposed to bring support for Microsoft’s new disc format, XGD3, which has added security measures and...

Nostalgia on Speed Published by Bandai-Namco Price: $6.99 This week’s Xbox Live game for WP7 is Pac-man Championship Edition DX. The classic game gets a makeover and it’s infused with a 21st century coat of paint. Improved graphics, music and challenges are added to make it a new...