Week in Review: January 6th

Welcome to the Week in Review, where we recap the top stories of the past week!

Windows Phone climbs ahead iPhone in numerous foreign countries

• Currently the 2nd most used smartphone in India, Mexico, and 12 more countries
• More Windows Phones shipped in 24 countries than iPhones in third quarter.

Candy Crush might come by end of Q1 2014

• Although quite late, the popular (and now fading) game is rumored to be coming to Windows Phone.

App folders available for Nokia devices

• Simply install Nokia’s “App Folder” app
• Lets you create numerous folders of apps, and various settings
• Opening a folder is slower than expected, though.

WP8 will be upgradeable to 8.1, confirmed by Microsoft

• In case you had doubts, Greg Sullivan from Microsoft confirmed that all WP8 handsets will be upgradeable to WP 8.1.
• However, how long it will take your carrier to actually approve and release the update is still a burning question.