Holy Crap – David Pogue Likes Windows Phone 7.5: What A Change a Year Makes

A year ago, to the day, David Pogue wrote that “for now, [Windows Phone] may not be the phone you’ll want to buy”. What a difference a year, and a release of Mango, has made. In his column today he’s genuinely impressed with the OS. Check out some sound bites: Windows Phone 7.5 is gorgeous, … Read more

Windows Phone’s Angry Birds Dilemma–The Gift And Curse Of Xbox Live Titles

What do you do after you complete Angry Birds and then go back and get three stars on all levels? Well if you have a Windows Phone that means you find a new game to play. Both iPhone and Android have three versions of Angry Birds – the classic, Rio and Seasons.  But don’t expect … Read more

Nokia’s Pulse App Available In Marketplace For All Phones

Simply awesome. Nokia showed off some stellar hardware today but there was also a lot of software. It was marketed as though the software was a selling point for Nokia hardware but it looks like they’re opening up the software to all devices. What is Pulse? It’s something that Microsoft should integrate directly into the … Read more

Tango’s CTO Indicates Skype For WP7 Is Months Off…And Other Leaks

The CTO of Tango (the cross platform Skype competitor) did an interview with Forbes and there’s some potentially juicy stuff here. First, they claim that Tango will be available before Skype is for Windows Phones. Now we know the Radar will come to T-Mobile on November 2 and that includes Tango. But they also note … Read more

Google and Bing on the Ropes: McHammer’s Search Engine is Coming

McHammer refuses to quit and in his latest attempt at the spotlight he’s announced that he has a search engine in the works. Seriously, this is CNN reporting this: The project, called WireDoo, has been two years in the making, said Hammer (real name Stanley Burrell) Wednesday at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. … Read more

Microsoft Reasserts That Qualcomm Is The Sole Chip Maker For WP7 Today and Tomorrow

I get that working with a closed set of chips means that you can optimize the heck out of them. Agreed. But Qualcomm isn’t the only chip maker in town. Well Microsoft is still using only Qualcomm chips and that appears to be staying that way. Andy Lees, head of the Windows Phone division, had … Read more

Call To Action: Remove Illegal Nintendo ROMs From The WP7 Marketplace

As you’re probably aware, there are several games in the Windows Phone Marketplace that are direct ports of Nintendo games. These aren’t clones. They have all of the cheat codes, etc in tact and it appears as though these were ROMs that were converted to Silverlight and then brought into the Marketplace. You may ask … Read more

AT&T Activates One Million iPhone 4S’

Wow that’s a lot of phones. AT&T thinks it’s because of their faux 4G speeds. I think that it’s just because they had so many iPhone 3G (and other existing) customers that are rolling over but either way, I’d imagine Verizon has figures close to this and Sprint has a good number of this so … Read more

Clown College Available For WP7 For Free

If you haven’t tried Clowning Around yet you’re missing out on a great puzzler. Don’t worry though because they just released Clown College for free: Clowning Around: Clown College takes you through the first chapter of our clowns’ performance, allowing you a special viewing absolutely free! The game contains the first 15 levels from Clowning … Read more