SkyMotion Weather App Now Available For Windows Phone Devices

SkyMotion Weather App Now Available For Windows Phone Devices December 29, 2012 | By Pradeep SkyMotion weather app is now available for Windows Phone users. This app lets you know exactly when precipitation will start and end for your exact location. Plan the next 2 hours with precise knowledge of how precipitation will impact you, your family or your business. The only downside of this app is that it is available only...

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AT&T HTC 8X now available from free on Amazon Wireless

AT&T HTC 8X now available from free on Amazon Wireless December 29, 2012 | By Surur While the HTC 8X is still $99 on contract on AT&T’s website, the handset is now available for much bigger discounts on Amazon Wireless. There the 8 GB handset can be purchased from free on contract if you are willing to wait a few weeks for delivery, or for either $39.99 for the 8 GB handset or $49.99 for the 16 GB version. While the...

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Mehdoh Twitter Client Updated With WP8 Support And New Features

Mehdoh Twitter Client Updated With WP8 Support And New Features December 29, 2012 | By Pradeep Mehdoh, one of the popular Twitter clients on Windows Phone Store just got updated with WP8 support. The new version 3.0  which is currently only available for WP8 devices brings many new features such as Lock screen notifications, fast app resume and more. Change log: + lock screen notifications (icon + text,...

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Windows Phone Hacker’s Notification Centre now in the Windows Phone Store

Windows Phone Hacker’s Notification Centre now in the Windows Phone Store December 29, 2012 | By Pradeep Jaxbot has finally managed to get his Notification Centre app in the Windows Phone Store. The app collects notifications from a variety of apps sent to the phone, and uses an online server component run by Windows Phone Hacker. For this reason it is unfortunately not a free app, but the $2.99 app does have a free trial....

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Portico hits UK as T-Mobile UK starts pushing out Windows Phone update to the HTC 8X

Portico hits UK as T-Mobile UK starts pushing out Windows Phone update to the HTC 8X December 28, 2012 | By Surur The Windows Phone 8 update has been making its very slow progression around the world, and we have just been informed that the software is now being pushed out to the HTC 8X on T-Mobile UK. As a reminder, built 8.0.10211.204 is meant to bring: Messaging improvements. A great messaging experience is now even...

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HTC updates ‘Make More Space’ app

HTC updates ‘Make More Space’ app December 28, 2012 | By Surur Here is an HTC exclusive app which I did not even know about. HTC has created an app which allows users to monitor the amount of free space on their phone and also tell you what is taking up your space, thereby allowing you to manage your content better. The app is meant for the HTC 8S, which only has 4 GB of storage, and does not work on the HTC 8X, which come...

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VLC KickStarter for WP8/W8 in last 24 hours, contribute now!

VLC KickStarter for WP8/W8 in last 24 hours, contribute now! December 28, 2012 | By Surur The VideoLan team is close to concluding their KickStarter round of funding, with only 17 hours left. After reaching their £40,000 goal 5 days ago, any additional money raised is targeted at speeding the release of VLC for Windows Phone 8, which means if you have not contributed already and want VLC on your Windows Phone sooner rather...

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IM+ Cross Platform IM Client Updated To v2.6 With Performance Improvements

IM+ Cross Platform IM Client Updated To v2.6 With Performance Improvements December 28, 2012 | By Pradeep IM+ cross platform, cross network messaging app just got updated to v2.6 with new features and performance improvements. Change log: - Beep mobile-to-mobile instant messaging service;- Customizable Push sesssion timeout;- Performance improvements. You can download the app for free here. ...

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Rdio Music Streaming App Updated With WP8 Support And Improved UX

Rdio Music Streaming App Updated With WP8 Support And Improved UX December 28, 2012 | By Pradeep  Rdio is a music streaming service that lets you listen to millions of songs ad-free on your Windows Phone devices. Rdio app got updated with Windows Phone 8 device compatibility and improved UX. Find the full change log here. New in version 3.14: • Windows Phone 8 compatibility• Improved online streaming/playback• Browse...

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Windows Phone on track for a 7 million + sales in Q4 2012

Windows Phone on track for a 7 million + sales in Q4 2012 December 28, 2012 | By Surur (Gartner quarterly WP sales vs Quarterly MAU of the built-in Facebook app added, Q4 2012 sales predicted) It seems Windows Phones have continued to fly of the shelves, and in Nokia’s case as fast as they can make them. Our proxy numbers, monthly active Facebook users, have continued to soar in the month of December, adding half a million...

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Exclusive Nokia Weather Channel app updated to version 2.6

Exclusive Nokia Weather Channel app updated to version 2.6 December 28, 2012 | By Surur The Nokia Weather app, which is their custom Weather Channel App, has been updated from version 2.0 to 2.6. As is often the case, there is no changelog, but Windows Phone Italy compared the old and new apps side by side, and found a number of UI tweaks, and also the ability to pin the weather of a specific city as a secondary live tile. The...

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HTC 8S unable to install Guns for Hire due to 1 GB RAM limit

HTC 8S unable to install Guns for Hire due to 1 GB RAM limit December 28, 2012 | By Surur Its Tango all over again, as the 512 MB RAM in the HTC 8S is starting to show its limitations. WinPhoneViet reports that the HTC 8S, HTC’s low-end Windows Phone, is unable to install the Guns For Hire game, with the warning that it needs a device with at least 1 GB of RAM, a warning which interestingly does not appear in...

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UI Designer For Windows Phone lets you design your app on the move

UI Designer For Windows Phone lets you design your app on the move December 28, 2012 | By PeyPey UI Designer The Idea -I built the UI Designer in hopes of allowing anyone anywhere to design UI for the Windows Phone. The Functions – The UI Designer currently has 6 basic controls you can add, Text Boxes, Text Blocks, Buttons, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons. You can customize various things about the control such as title and...

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Petition for Google apps on Windows Phones

Petition for Google apps on Windows Phones December 28, 2012 | By Ferrarifan To this day, Google has ignored Windows Phone users by making the controversial and arguably anti-competitive decision to not build apps for the platform beyond a very basic search app.  Here is a petition that the goal is to make Google hear the Windows Phone community and to get them on the path of making polished apps on the Windows Phone platform. Sign...

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Nokia Lumia 510 received second Windows Phone 7.8 ROM update

Nokia Lumia 510 received second Windows Phone 7.8 ROM update December 28, 2012 | By Surur If there is any doubt Windows Phone 7.8 is still a work in progress the news of Nokia is pushing out a second ROM update for the Nokia Lumia 510, which ships with the OS, should erase it. New firmware for the handset has just appeared on Navifirm which takes the OS from firmware version 12460 to 12490. There is no word on what’s new with...

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Windows Phone Store breaks 150,000 apps

Windows Phone Store breaks 150,000 apps December 27, 2012 | By Surur Slightly hidden in Todd Brix’s announcement from this morning was the news that the Windows Phone Store has passed 150,000 apps. The statement reads: Over the last year we’ve certified and published over 75,000 new apps and games (more than doubling the catalog size) … which gives us a total of more than 150,000 apps in the Windows...

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Nokia: Lumia Device Sold On Discounts Are Fairly Standard At This Time Of Year

Nokia: Lumia Device Sold On Discounts Are Fairly Standard At This Time Of Year December 27, 2012 | By Pradeep Nokia started selling Windows Phone 8 devices few months back and since then the prices of these devices have come down significantly. For example, Nokia Lumia 920 which was originally listed as $99 on 2 year contract from AT&T is now available starting $39.99 from retailers like Amazon. Even Verizon and T-Mobile...

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Nokia Updates Accessories App For Lumia Windows Phone Devices

Nokia Updates Accessories App For Lumia Windows Phone Devices December 27, 2012 | By Pradeep Nokia today released an update for its Accessories app for Lumia Windows Phone devices. Accessories app is a companion for your Nokia Accessories like Fatboy Pillow, PowerUp speakers that will allow you to manage battery life, control them, etc,. The new update brings the sleeping mode screen that shows you the weather, time, and...

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HTC HD2 WP8 port leads to Windows RT on the HTC HD2

HTC HD2 WP8 port leads to Windows RT on the HTC HD2 December 27, 2012 | By Surur The HTC HD2 is famous for running every OS ever written, and now the latest to add to that is full Windows RT. The pictures above and after the break were tweeted by Cotulla, who has been working on porting Windows Phone 8 to the HTC HD2.  It seems the work on getting UEFI to work on the device also paid off for Windows RT, which...

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Help a 22 year old blogger choose Windows Phone

Help a 22 year old blogger choose Windows Phone December 27, 2012 | By Bernard Taylor Soper, blogger at GeekWire.com, is in the market to replace his HTC G2 for T-Mobile, and is debating between the Apple Phone 5 and the Samsung Droid Galaxy 3. He hasn’t discounted Windows Phone, though he thinks he “just won’t go that route”. Let’s convince him otherwise. Taylor is 22 years old and owns a Machintosh computer (hello Windows...

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Windows Phone Kid’s Corner Wins Pogie Awards For the Brightest Ideas Of 2012

Windows Phone Kid’s Corner Wins Pogie Awards For the Brightest Ideas Of 2012 December 27, 2012 | By Pradeep One of the unique features of Windows Phone 8 is Kid’s Corner. It grants your kids access only to the apps, games, videos, and music you choose for them which prevents them from accessing your important stuff. NYT’s David Pogue today posted the “Pogie Awards for the Brightest Ideas of 2012″ and Kid’s Corner was one of...

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HTC 8X available for only $305 unlocked in Switzerland

HTC 8X available for only $305 unlocked in Switzerland December 27, 2012 | By Surur Oliver has written to let our readers know about a neat trick to get an unlocked HTC 8X for pretty cheap. Apparently Digitec is selling the SIM-unlocked handset deeply subsidized by Orange, such that one can buy it on a two year, 10 CHF contract and a 40 CHF once off payment, resulting in a total bill of only 280 Swiss Francs (305 USD). Besides...

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Facebook For Windows Phone 7.x Devices Updated To v2.8

Facebook For Windows Phone 7.x Devices Updated To v2.8 December 27, 2012 | By Pradeep Facebook app for Windows Phone just got updated o v2.8. There is no change log mentioned in the release, so if you find any changes, let us know in the comments section below. The previous update v2.7 brought some bug fixes, performance improvements and I guess it will be the same in the case of v2.8 too. Download it here from Windows...

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75,000 Windows Phone apps published this year, 54 apps per phone downloaded

75,000 Windows Phone apps published this year, 54 apps per phone downloaded December 27, 2012 | By Surur Speaking on the Windows Blog, Todd Brix, Senior Director of Windows Phone Apps Team, made some announcements about the year in review for the Windows Phone Store. He noted Microsoft certified and published 75,000 apps and games this year, and approved over 300,000 app updates. They also expanded payment options, including...

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Facebook For Windows Phone 7.x Devices Updated To v2.8

Facebook For Windows Phone 7.x Devices Updated To v2.8 December 27, 2012 | By Pradeep Facebook app for Windows Phone just got updated o v2.8. There is no change log mentioned in the release, so if you find any changes, let us know in the comments section below. The previous update v2.7 brought some bug fixes, performance improvements and I guess it will be the same in the case of v2.8 too. Download it here from Windows...

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75,000 Windows Phone apps published this year, 54 apps per phone downloaded

75,000 Windows Phone apps published this year, 54 apps per phone downloaded December 27, 2012 | By Surur Speaking on the Windows Blog, Todd Brix, Senior Director of Windows Phone Apps Team, made some announcements about the year in review for the Windows Phone Store. He noted Microsoft certified and published 75,000 apps and games this year, and approved over 300,000 app updates. They also expanded payment options, including...

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HTC 8X down to $100 on contract on Verizon

HTC 8X down to $100 on contract on Verizon December 27, 2012 | By Surur Verizon is promoting a new, lower price for the HTC 8X on their network. Retailing for $199 at the beginning of this month, the carrier is now listing the handset as $149.99 and selling it for $99 after a $50 “online discount”. The handset comes with Wireless Charging built-in, unlike the AT&T model and supports HSDPA on the AT&T bands and also...

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AppoinTile now for Windows Phone 8

AppoinTile now for Windows Phone 8 December 27, 2012 | By Jandieg This tile-app allows you to replace the standard calendar tile with a wide tile designed to give you much more information about your upcoming agenda. While now being one wide tile, it still allows an optional secondary tile you can use for tap actions like to open Meeting Assistant, create a new appointment, open the full list or just refresh/resync. More...

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GasBuddy App Updated With Windows Phone 8 Features

GasBuddy App Updated With Windows Phone 8 Features December 27, 2012 | By Pradeep GasBuddy app just got updated with redesigned UX and support for Windows Phone 8 devices. This new app features dynamic lock screens and the main tile that locates you and tells you the current average gas price of the nearest city, state, and then of your country, as well as trending info if prices are increasing or decreasing. In...

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