Poll: Has your Nokia Lumia 920 battery life improved?

Poll: Has your Nokia Lumia 920 battery life improved? December 8, 2012 | By Surur Has your NL 920 battery life improved NoYesIt has always been good VoteView ResultsPolldaddy.com I went through a period when my phone would drain between 0.5 to 1% battery life every 10 minutes, even when using the battery saver. However over the last week my battery life has improved dramatically to back...

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A Comixology Christmas: 12 Days of Free Digital Comic Books

Digsby IM, Email, and Social Networks in one easy to use application! http://digsby.com Tis’ the season for giving and everyone’s getting into the spirit–even digital comics’ distributor Comixology, which today announced a special promotion to give away 12 free comics to iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 device users. Comics fans certainly have heard of the popular Comixology app. In October, the app topped 100...

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HP to Apple: We already make PCs in the US, thank you very much

Apple's CEO Tim Cook made a lot of headlines this week when he announced the company would start making some of its Mac PCs in the U.S. sometime in 2013.  Some have been critical of Apple making its devices outside the US, particularly in China where the labor is cheap and many fear the workers in factories such as Foxconn are overworked for low pay. This week, HP quietly posted word on its website that it already assembles many of...

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Winner of Microsoft Build 2012 HackaThon, Social Squares, now in the Windows Phone Store

Winner of Microsoft Build 2012 HackaThon, Social Squares, now in the Windows Phone Store December 8, 2012 | By kenga This is a great game built off your Facebook friends. It was the winning Windows Phone 8 at Microsoft Build HackaThon this past October – they judges said that they could not put it down. This app runs on both Windows Phone 7 and Phone 8 – on phone 8 NFC is enabled to allow two people to challenge...

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HTC 8S now available on Three UK for only £17 on contract, £180 unlocked

HTC 8S now available on Three UK for only £17 on contract, £180 unlocked December 8, 2012 | By Surur It seems the age of affordable and even cheap Windows Phone 8 handsets is now really upon us. Three UK has announced that they will be carrying the HTC 8S online and in all their stores. The Windows Phone 8S by HTC is available for £19 a month with no upfront cost on the Ultimate Internet 100 plan, which gives you all you can...

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Rogers drop prices on Windows Phone 8 handsets

Rogers drop prices on Windows Phone 8 handsets December 7, 2012 | By Surur Canadian carrier Rogers have increased their subsidy of their Windows Phone 8 range, including the unreleased Samsung ATIV S. The Nokia Lumia 920 is now available for $99.99, the HTC 8X 8GB for free and the 16 GB for $30 and the Samsung ATIV S to $79.99.  All the prices are on a three year contract. See the deals at Rogers here....

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Pay Now, Save Later: T-Mobile to Ditch Phone Subsidies in 2013

Next year will bring an end to T-Mobile’s iPhone drought, but that’s not the only major hardware change coming to the magenta-loving carrier in 2013. While T-Mobile may be the last major U.S. cellular provider to receive Apple’s vaunted handset, it will be the first to ditch subsidized phone pricing. That’s right, starting next year T-Mobile customers will need to bring or buy their own paid-for phone in order to sign up for a subscription. Europeans...

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Vimeo Releases Windows Phone 8 App With NFC Tap-to-Share Integration

Vimeo Releases Windows Phone 8 App With NFC Tap-to-Share Integration December 7, 2012 | By Pradeep Vimeo has released their updated app in Windows Phone Store. This new app brings new features such as NFC Tap-to-Share in Windows Phone 8 devices. Features: • Watch and manage all your existing Vimeo videos• Watch videos from your Vimeo inbox, Watch Later queue, or videos you have liked• Use NFC Tap-to-Share to share Vimeo...

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New Samsung Galaxy Phone to Sport Unbreakable, Bendable Screen?

With manufacturers fast running out of more innovations to cram in to the smartphones of today, Samsung seems to be readying itself to debut a stunner of a phone early next year when they would possibly launch a successor to the current king of the ring – the Galaxy S III. Because rumour has it that Samsung’s next generation Galaxy branded flagship – the Galaxy S IV might sport an unbreakable, bendable display. This is apart...

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Surface “killing” blamed on lack of distribution

The general reaction to the Microsoft Surface is that people are quite taken with the device. There’s no denying it’s a good looking piece of tablet. But outside of a Microsoft store or their online store, has anyone actually seen a Surface on the shelves? The answer is no; for the foreseeable future, Surface is only available in Microsoft stores. And with these stores being few in number, the lack of consumer facing devices is hurting...

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HTC 8X and 8S to launch on all China’s major networks in mid-December

HTC 8X and 8S to launch on all China’s major networks in mid-December December 7, 2012 | By Surur There is some indication that China is already one of the biggest markets for Windows Phone, with AdDuplexnoting the country had 13% of Windows Phone usage, vs only 14% for US. With the influx of new Windows Phones this trend is likely to continue.  HTC has announced that both the HTC 8X and HTC 8S will be released in...

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Official BitTorrent Remote app for Windows Phone 7.5/8 released

Official BitTorrent Remote app for Windows Phone 7.5/8 released December 7, 2012 | By Surur BitTorrent has released an official Bittorent Remote app for Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8. The app provides secure access to BitTorrent from anywhere, allowing one to control the client on one’s PC. The app supports: Add, remove, start, stop downloads on your home computer Check download progress Check your RSS feeds Automatically...

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Christmas App – Decorate Christmas Tree

Christmas App – Decorate Christmas Tree December 7, 2012 | By Oleg Derevenetz Have you already decorated your Christmas Tree? Christmas Tree Decorating is one of the best parts of the holiday! Decorate your own virtual Christmas Tree with a variety of beautiful ornaments and tree toppers and save image of decorated tree to your phone’s photo gallery. Have fun by choosing different background and tree variations. Choose toy...

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Xyo Launches App #Switch Section For Lumia Windows Phone Devices

Xyo Launches App #Switch Section For Lumia Windows Phone Devices December 6, 2012 | By Pradeep When a consumer now looks for a smartphone choice to choose from, availability of apps on a platform plays a significant role. Apple iOS and Google Android platforms are the leaders in apps availability and Windows Phone platform is growing in a rapid way. In partnership with Xyo.net, Nokia has launched a website where one can...

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Did the HTC 8X help turn around HTC’s revenue nose dive?

Did the HTC 8X help turn around HTC’s revenue nose dive? December 6, 2012 | By Surur HTC has finally reported a financial result which did not make analysts cry. For November they reported a boost in their monthly sales from $NT 17.21B in October to $NT 21.2 billion in November, up 23%. The sales generated  $NT 4 billion (US $ 137M) in profit. The only significant product launch in this period was HTC 8X and 8S, suggesting...

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A guide to Microsoft Licensing types

While everyone knows that you need to have a legitimate license to use a Microsoft product at home or at work, licensing from a business point of view is extremely complex. Even the licensing options available to retail products is adding a level of complexity that the regular home user would seldom need. With that in mind, I wanted to put together a guide to licensing for the Microsoft product family, to give users new to the concepts...

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LCD Football Games Are Back!

LCD Football Games Are Back! December 6, 2012 | By TechPunbit For those of you who may have had your start with handheld gaming in the 70s or 80s there are a couple of interesting games available in the Windows Phone Store that may take you back to your youth (and for those of you too young to remember these, these games will give you a history lesson for what games used to be like). Electronic Football and Red Blip Football...

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Qualcomm Announces Ultra-Low Power NFC Chips For Mobile Devices

Qualcomm Announces Ultra-Low Power NFC Chips For Mobile Devices December 6, 2012 | By Pradeep Today Qualcomm’s subsidiary Qualcomm Atheros announced a new ultra-low power NFC chip for mobile devices. NFC Chips in mobile devices allows contactless communications and data exchange, including next-generation mobile payments. NFC is already included in several Windows Phone device including Nokia Lumia 920. But the main issue with...

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Windows Phone 8 version of WhatsApp to be 6 times faster

Windows Phone 8 version of WhatsApp to be 6 times faster December 5, 2012 | By Surur WhatsApp is not available for Windows Phone 8 yet, and an impatient WLWP reader emailed the company to ask what the hold-up was. They received the helpful reply above.  While the support staff could not say when the software would become available, they did say the new version would be 6 times faster than the current software, and would...

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AAPL have their worst day this year as NOK climbs 12.79% on iPhone China miss

Apple share holders did not have a good day today, with the company losing $35 billion in value today on fears that its margins are being squeezed, that it is losing tablet market share, and crucially that the company was edged out by Nokia in negotiations to have their smartphone released on China Mobile, the world’s largest carrier with 700 million subscribers. Nokia today announced that they will be releasing their flagship, the Nokia...

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Design, Create and Print 3D Paper Models on Your iPad with Foldify

Digsby IM, Email, and Social Networks in one easy to use application! http://digsby.com Just when you thought you’ve seen everything the iPad is capable of, along comes a nifty app like Foldify, which takes the tablet in a new and totally awesome direction. What is Foldify? It’s an upcoming app that lets you design foldable papercraft creations right on your iPad, then print them out and bend them into the 3D figures you’ve...

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Amazing weather updated – optimized for Windows Phone 8

Amazing weather, a very good and well-designed weather app, just got updated and is now called Amazing Weather HD. What I noticed so far is that the Live Tile and the UI of the app look much sharper and clearer and that it appears optimized for HD resolutions. Before the update, the Live Tile as well as the UI were unclear and fuzzy due to the lack of high-resolution elements (like icons etc.) which Windows Phone 8′s HD resolutions need. Also,...

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