Microsoft Outs Yahoo! Mail as Windows Phone 7 Phantom Data Menace

From DailyTech: Microsoft has finally gone public with the "third party" behind the phantom data menace afflicting a "single digit" percentage of its Windows Phone 7 smartphones. That app is Yahoo! Mail (previous speculation that HTC apps might be implicated now seems incorrect).

Not everyone is satisfied with Microsoft's response. Paul Thurott, who runs the Windows SuperSite, and is typically a strong Microsoft defender/proponent writes, "I realize I’m just stating the obvious, but there’s no reason, and no excuse, for this information to not have been provided earlier."

Average cases involved approximately 10 MB of excess data transferred a day. The Seattle Pi claims that one customer experienced an incredible 50 GB of data use in a single day. That would represent near-continuous transmission over good signal conditions, and would necessitate the phone to be plugged in (or the battery would have gone dead), nonetheless, its an extreme example of this frustrating issue that has been plaguing Microsoft and its users.

Now that the WP7 platform has its data issues behind it, it can focus on bringing the platform to the Sprint and Verizon's networks. It can also focus on rolling out updates to fill in missing functionality like third party multitasking support and copy and paste.

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