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Winamp has announced Winamp 5.6 for the desktop. The new version is capable of pairing with the Android OS version and allows users to transfer music wirelessly to and from a mobile device as well as to other functions.

Winamp 5.6 features a new device management interface that supports wireless syncing of media, simple management of multiple connected devices and faster encoding and transferring of media to your devices over USB or WiFi. Stream media from a connected device without the need of transferring media to the local library. Wireless device syncing and streaming only available with Winamp for Android installed.

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Engadget is reporting today that Microsoft [MSFT] will not be paying Windows Phone 7 developers until at least February 2011. At that point, it will be five months since apps were allowed to be submitted to the Market Place.

The problem here is of course that developers prefer to be paid quicker. Microsoft is already taking money for app it sells, but at this point seems to be holding on to it until everything (ie, technicalities) are ironed out. [Read more…]

We hear today that the Windows Phone 7 update will be “MASSIVE” and that the release date could be sometime in January.

Features that it might bring to the new smartphone OS includes Copy/Paste, Bing turn-by-turn navigation as well as improvements to that surface. Multi-tasking is expected (in some shape or form) and custom ring tones are supported. [Read more…]

Apple [AAPL] has passed RIM in the US and now holds the top spot for smartphones by a fraction of a percent.

Reports indicate that the total smartphone share (compared to feature phone share) is at 29.7 percent. When the smartphone section is broken down (seen below in the graph), iOS is showing to have a 27.9 percent share. This is now slightly ahead of RIM that has 27.4 percent. [Read more…]

HTC has clarified that the HTC Gratia is still set for the same release date here in the UK. Previously, reports indicated that it was being delayed, but HTC has made a statement about the release date of the phone.

“HTC Gratia is now available across several European markets, and is on track to be released in the UK in Q1 2011 as originally planned.

“We are looking forward to seeing people’s response to HTC Gratia.”

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Angry Birds for smartphones on the Android platform seems to be catching up with iOS installs. So far, the game has been download 7 million times to Android handsets.

On iOS based devices, that number was at 10 million on the last announcement which means the game is fast reaching 20 million downloads across both platforms. [Read more…]

Microsoft [MSFT] hasn’t released any official numbers yet about how the new Windows Phone 7 operating system is doing. However, WMPowerUser managed to grab some statistics from the WP7 Facebook app that shows how many users are active in using that app.

The graph above shows how many Windows Phone 7 users accessed the service while the second graph shows how many users installed the Facebook All (which is the second most popular app in the app store). [Read more…]