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the Nokia Lumia 900 close to launching an AT&T a nokia tablet seems to be like the next best thing and sorry guys angry birds space is not planning to come to Windows Phone all this and more coming up right now hello everyone I'm Jaime with pocketnow.com and welcome to Windows Phone view the show we wrap up all this week's good and bad inside the world of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform let's write this week off of what's good the Nokia Lumia 900 is probably one of the most anticipated windows phones of the year it incarnate the LTE Windows Phone powerhouse that we've been waiting for and we had some time to play with it at CES at mwc so you know that we're all geared up and waiting for the device to be out to review it and give you the full coverage that you're expecting now it's interesting to see that AT&T apparently has everything ready to launch a device on april 9th so prepare your wallets and you can bet that we will be seeing a lot more of this phone coming up because it seems that AT&T is planning to give their employees of free Lumia 900 to play with so I'm glad to see that they're now taking seriously how they have to sell the phone because in the past you don't even see when those phones and sales stores aside from dummies so really good news speaking of Nokia they recently committed to providing certain features that are not available in Lumia models in the market first of all is the wireless hotspot feature that we saw advertised on the Lumia 610 kind of a no-brainer not sure why that's not available yet and second is made of panorama photo mode in camera settings and just the wireless hotspot feature alone as a deal-breaker for many people I mean hey that's the only reason why I'm rocky an HTC Titan and not a Lumia 800 so let's hope they have these features out on the market soon because we have no date so far out of this week's coverage make sure you catch Adam lanes recent editorial regarding the no kick concept redesign for windows phone it's from it a lot of controversy because Nokia acknowledges it and says that they're entitled to tweak Windows Phone however they want but microsoft says otherwise so i kind of don't like it just hit the link in the description look at the redesign and tell us what you think on the comments down below and aside from that make sure you also catch his recent coverage on project Detroit which is a sort of merger for Windows Phone and Windows 8 tablets to play with cars kind of nice and speaking of controversy we were all kind of underwhelmed with Microsoft's limit of five applications running in the background in mango and interesting enough we came with some recent ROM images that show Windows Phone tangle which is supposed to be for low-end phones running as much as eight applications at the same time so hopefully this is some sort of just mango limit and apparently we will be getting tango on every device not necessarily the low-end smartphones and hopefully that will allow us to have more applications running in the background because if tango can do it why not mango and what about Windows 8 tablets what seems that as markets keep converging as technology keeps evolving tablets or the next best thing and nokia has plans to bring a tablet to the market their chief of design recently came on record to state that a tablet design has gotten busy completely so it seems that Nokia will provide a tablet eventually now we have no release date so the earliest we can expect this when the plan launch date for Windows 8 is which is pretty much around the fall so it seems like the next possibility and for those of you that consider it odd for nokia to bring a tablet to the market just remember that Nokia started as a paper company back in the 19th century so why not that does it for what's good let's continue on with what's bad and probably the worst news of the week is the fact that rovio just stated that they will not be providing angry birds space to the windows phone marketplace according to them the numbers are not big enough for them to be putting their resources into developing another gay man it's kind of a bad situation because first of all we all know that Microsoft has provided some really good tools support iOS and Android applications to Windows Phone quite easily it's kind of a no-brainer but it seems that and call as a personal rent I think that the low numbers and sales at the windows for marketplace have nothing to do with the amount of customers or the amount of apps being available the apps are good but the problem is it's four times more expensive to buy an application on Windows Phone and an Android I mean angry birds and Android is free in some cases it only costs one buck and then on the iOS App Store it also costs just one dollar so why should you be paying 299 or 399 for angry birds on the windows phone marketplace and pay less money on other platforms I think that it has to do with the business model and before you die hard fans come up to me and say that hey the business baller has to deal with the fact that there are less customers and Windows Phone just cut the excuses I feel that and remember that back in the day when there was no App Store no marketplace for Android hey Angry Birds cost the same dollar that it cost now it has nothing to do with the amount of customers it has everything to do with the platform and the owner of the platform this time being Microsoft controlling the prices of not they're not going to push applications in the windows phone marketplace and therefore you're not going to be selling more phones that really has to change again that's a personal round of mine leave a comment down below and tell us what you think about why applications are more expensive in the windows phone marketplace compared to other platforms what's the reason that's it for today's show thank you very much for watching I'm high metal you better remember to give us a thumbs up if you liked what you saw that's it for now 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