Microsoft has launched Windows Mobile 6.5, and announced that Windows-branded handsets with the operating system will go on sale around the world on Tuesday. The 'Window phones' branding marks a shift ...

Microsoft has finally taken the wraps off Windows Mobile 7 — sorry, Windows Phone 7 Series phones (it was very amusing hearing their execs trip over that lengthy phrase again and again at today's ...

The mix of phones in North America -- both new phones and existing phones updated for Windows Mobile 6.5 -- includes units by Hewlett-Packard, HTC, LG, Samsung and Toshiba and mobile operators AT&T, ...

When Apple announced the iPhone three years ago, the entire mobile industry started to play catch-up to what Apple was doing. It took a while, but slowly companies like Google, RIM, and Palm ...

You probably haven’t thought about Windows phones in a while. After all, why would you? The last Windows Phone handset to be released was the Microsoft Lumia 650 in 2016, so it’s been a good eight ...

Steve is a Senior Writer at AP, where he covers over 40 smartphones a year. Steve has carried the latest and greatest around in his pocket for nearly 30 years, with everything from Motorola StarTACs ...

Editor's note: this is the first in an occasional series of stories on the behind-the-scenes efforts by Microsoft to bring Windows Phone 7 to market. REDMOND, Wash.--The first Windows Phone 7 devices ...

From our Archives: The dream of the phone that's also a PC was announced today, 11 years ago, at Microsoft Build 2015.

Once upon a time, the name “Windows” stood for something. Several things, actually. It was (and is) the world’s dominant personal computer operating system–a huge, powerful, feature-rich, messy, often ...