David K

I love hidden diagnostics. Lets you see what they play with and let’s you check to make sure things are operating ok. So if you have a Lumia just type in ##634## and a Diagnostic app will be added to your Lumia. Accelerometer, ALS, audio loopback, camera, battery status, DTMF, gyroscope, hardware buttons, headset detection, … Read more

Hey world – no news here! The guy that clearly had misspoke about the upgradability of existing Windows Phones has clarified that he misspoke but more importantly reaffirmed that he has no information on whether existing handsets will be upgradable. I know that’s being treated as him affirming that they will not be upgradable but … Read more

There’s a lot of talk about the new Android powered phone that is headed to India from Lenovo which will be packing a Medfield (x86 SOC). This is Intel’s chance to get into the mobile market and having Android as a partner makes things easier. But what happens when they take things a step further … Read more

Taptitude is the top free game for Windows Phones. It’s a massive collection of minigames that constantly evolves and has leaderboards and upgrades throughout. Through weekly updates and new games as well as rewarding those that play repeatedly within the game, they have a massive following and have even surpassed 1million ad impressions in a … Read more

So a Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Portugal stated that Windows Phone 8 was coming to all Windows Phones, even first generations phones and almost without qualification that has spread throughout the blogosphere as gospel. This wasn’t Ballmer making the statement. Wait, it wasn’t even a Microsoft spokesman. In fact this is someone who Tweets and … Read more

A little update from Skydrive that also impacts Windows Phones: Look, SkyDrive now supports Open Document Format! We also just released a few other things that we think are pretty cool: * Share to Twitter * 300MB file uploads in the browser * Short URLs (sdrv.ms) for Windows Phone images shared to Twitter We have … Read more

I know they’re not the first to do it but I still like it. The new Translator app for Windows Phone from Bing/Microsoft is neat. It’s real time scanning so you don’t need to snap a picture – just hold it and it will scan and translate in real time. Just watch this though: Video: … Read more

If you recall, the Nokia Institute of Tech is independent of Nokia but founded with their money. Anyway, another great game just hit Marketplace. It’s call Incredible Circus and you need to get the circus performer to bounce off the trampolines to the end. It’s really neat and plays beautifully. This was originally a Symbian … Read more

The blogs are on fire over this tweet from the co-founder of Apple: Personally I think it’s neat but we should all know that he uses an iPhone as his primary devices and has Android devices as well. He’s a tech whore. He’s fired shots at Apple in the past and undoubtedly he will have … Read more