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The effort to bring full Windows to old Windows Phones seems to be rolling along at a rather rapid pace, and the latest development should make the work a lot more relevant.We have previously seen hackers install Windows 8 RT (a now dead operating system) on a Lumia 640 XL, but today we have a very much living operating system, the recently introduced Windows 10 on ARM, ruing on a more recent and more powerful handset, the Lumia 950.The effort has of course been enabled by WPInteals, and according to Blaze_CW, has allowed him to installWindows 10.0.16299.15 for ARM on his handset.It remains to be seen if anything useful will come of this, but I am sure many of our readers either have a Lumia...

if you’re one of the two users still using Windows Phone 8 and below (not 8.1), and using WhatsApp at that, it may be time to evacuate from the aging smartphone platform or get adapted to a fairly spartan existence. WhatsApp will be shutting down support for Windows Phone 8 users from December 31 2...

We wrote yesterday that a security researcher, Adrien Guinet from France-based Quarkslab, has found a way to retrieve the encryption keys used by the Waacrypt ransomware without having to pay the $300 ransom.His application, WCry, plucks the key ri...

The NuAns Neo was one of the most unique Windows Phones ever made – though not one that reached its full potential. The NuAns, originally aounced nearly a year ago in Japan, was a Windows phone built as a hipster device in an era where smartphones were slipping into staid black and gold suits. It didn’ttake part in the spec rat race, nor did it try to be an iPhone clone like many handsets aspire to be nowadays, it took on a unique and very customisable design of its own but fell short of being a good phone with a mediocre camera, and a poor processor. Due to funding limitations, Trinity tried to launch a Kickstarter to bring the NuAns Neo to other countries outside Japan. While the Kickstart...

[embedded content] Microsoft recently leaked the keys to the Secure Boot kingdom, allowing users to install alteate operating systems on devices locked down by Secure Boot. On PCs this was not much of an issue, as most motherboards allowed users to disable Secure Boot in the BIOS in any case, but it was expected to allow hackers to install other operating systems on Windows Phones and Windows RT tablets. Now hacker Triszka Balázshas demonstrated Android Marshmallow ruing on the Lumia 525. It is not clear if he is using this exploit or another, as he writes that he has a “reset vector exploit only for S4 SOC series” and thatany device that supports WP Inteal for bootloader unlock can now run ...

Microsoft introduced a feature called “Secure Boot” with Windows 8. The feature basically prevented users from installing operating systems that aren’t signed by Microsoft — for example, if Secure Boot was enabled on your Windows 10 device, you won’t be able to install Linux on it. In addition to Windows PCs, Secure Boot was also […]...

Regardless of where you live in the world, you must feel jealous of China, for one thing, they make great cheap-priced electronics gadgets. We came across one such product today called the Teclast X80 Pro, and boy is it one amazing product or what. Let’s get into the specifications. The Teclast X80 Pro sports an 8-inch 1200p (1920×1200 res) display. It is powered by Intel Atom X5-Z8300 SoC paired with Intel HD Graphic Gen8 GPU, 2GB RAM, and 32GB inteal storage ROM. The tablet isn’t strong when it comes to photography, though, as it only has 2MP sensor on front and back. But it makes up for it with software: dual-boot option between Windows 10 and Android 5.1. Having used one of Teclast’s pro...

Microsoft at MWC 16 didn’t have much of a presence compared to last year If you recall, last year was the year when Microsoft aounced the Lumia 640, 640 XL and showed off some more Windows 10 Mobile features. It wasn’t much, but it was interesting. There were also other Windows Phone (referring to the previous brand of Windows on phone devices) from other OEMs shown off like Freetel’s Katana and Acer’s very low-end Liquid M220.The Windows on phone ecosystem was all Microsoft last year, and that wasn’t very encouraging to fans of product diversity.This year, Microsoft has taken a step back from MWC. After aouncing its entire Windows 10 Mobile product line-up before MWC, it was left up to its ...