Conflipper Leaves The PPC Community – Will Be Missed

Conflipper is a household name in the PPC community. Not just for cooking ROMs but also for his ability to get his hands on ROMs before anyone else and to delve deep into them while always sharing the goodies he found. In fact, recently he’s the one who has been telling us what devices HTC … Read more

A Nice Windows Phone 7 Shopping List App

While keeping it simple, this app has nice animations and ease of use. It remembers you prior purchases and looks great. Only thing missing is the ability to make separate lists for different stores like groceries, liquor, Home Depot…otherwise I’m liking it.

An Overview of The WP7 Preview Reviews

So you didn’t have time to read the multi-page reviews from ZDNet, CNet, Gizmodo, Engadget, Mobile Crunch BGR and Windows Super Site? [Sorry but I couldn’t get to the others beyond those myself;)] Well here’s an aggregate of what they had to say about various aspects of their Windows Phone 7 experience. All you get is quotes from the sites themselves – their words, not mine.  Multiple sites had the same comments and I’m just randomly picking the ones that work best as snippets. Some sites really focused on certain areas and some omitted some areas entirely so this attempts to bring them all together for you – the good and the bad. But I’m not going to discuss hardware since the hardware they are testing on is not going to be released to the public. We’re getting better stuff;) Similarly, I’m not going to go into details about the UI itself. By now I think our readers know about the UI and I’ll just briefly address it in the Conclusions section. Anyway, here it is, broken down by category:

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WP7 To Take Photos Even With The Device Locked

Ever reach for your phone to snap a quick photo but first you need to unlock it and then launch the camera? Well that won’t happen with Windows Phone 7. As Paul Thurrott notes regarding a dedicated camera button: This button is particularly genius, because it connects to a new software feature in Windows Phone … Read more

Windows Phone 7 To Support Front Facing Cameras

Before you get too excited, the minimum specifications for WP7 do not require a front facing camera but nothing prohibits it (unlike screen resolution which is limited to two resolutions). Apparently MS is going to support front facing cameras as the latest build shows ‘SelfPortraitCamera’ which Justin Angel has uncovered. Now remember, WM6.5 can has … Read more

iPhone Deathgrip Resolved? Can You Find Your Deathgrip?

So Stevey said that the iPhone deathgrip problems isn’t really their problem. It’s everyone’s problems. See, before taking any responsibility, first he wanted to make it clear that all other phones are also f@cked up. Even yours. Let’s go through it one at a time. So he winds up giving away a bumper to every … Read more

BP Plugs Its Hole: Apple To Follow?

So BP has their hole under control and the rumors from TheStreet are that Apple will follow suit to fill theirs and offer a ‘recall’ of the iPhone 4. This is like a car recall though – bring it to the shop to get it fixed sort of thing. Apparently they are going to place … Read more