As the world has witnessed the disastrous fall of BlackBerry over the past month, it’s now readily apparent that Windows Phone has won the contest to be third place among smartphone platforms. It’s a distant third — both iPhone and Android have much bigger slices of most markets — but the new No. 3 has momentum, and today it’s getting an extra boost in the form of a major software update that will support larger screen sizes.
The update — the third for Windows Phone 8 in less than a year — will finally let phones running the OS brandish screens with 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, also known as full HD or 1080p. Since the update is already in the hands of Microsoft’s OEM partners, some “phablet” size Windows Phones are likely imminent (Nokia is holding an event in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 22). Read more…
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