Glympse is a highly acclaimed app that lets you send a link to share your location in real time to a person or group for a limited period of time (for free). It’s already available for Android and iPhone and it’s received some great reviews. Here’s the official description for Windows Phones: Glympse is the … Read more
So not only is the Marketplace getting filled with garbage left and right but it turns out that Microsoft has denied app certification for a port of a popular iPhone entertainment app called Finger Cut. The iPhone version of the app is simple enough – there’s a spinning blade on the screen and tapping the … Read more
It was seven months ago when Windows Phone 7 officially was released to the public. It came equipped with a cool new UI and an inspiring Metro theme. Apple is routinely praised for their aesthetic designs and Microsoft shocked the entire world with the beauty of Metro. The new Windows Phone team didn’t … Read more
How soon? Try about 4 weeks soon. Speaking informally at a Windows Phone Mango VIP event in London on Tuesday, Achim Berg, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows Phone marketing told WinRumors that the company would release the bits in around four weeks time. Microsoft’s Brandon Watson previously revealed, at MIX 2011, that Microsoft was … Read more
Fresh off the announcement that a new web-based marketplace will be available in Mango, we’ve uncovered some information pertaining to a new marketplace experience on the phone. While search was improved in NoDo, this new version of the Marketplace browser embraces the panoramic views found in the OS, and provides a much cleaner look. Rather … Read more
Another nice touch for Microsoft is a new release of a promo video for Windows Phone Mango Update: Its been roughly three hours since the Live Press Event went on. I’ve taken some time to round up the facts and ponder what today’s reveals mean for Windows Phone in the 2nd half of 2011 and … Read more
Officially, this stands as a rumor (until tomorrow), but Neowin has received information that the Windows Phone “Mango” SDK will be available to developers in full tomorrow. This coincides with Microsoft’s preview for the platform, in which they are rumored to be announcing several new devices, and over 500 updates to the OS. Additionally, Neowin … Read more
Remember the Windows Mobile days? Whenever you plugged your WM into a PC, a pop-up menu would appear on screen with three options namely, ActiveSync, Disk Drive, Internet Sharing. Wasn’t it “Disk Drive”, you always clicked? Of course it’s a handy feature and almost…
8.5 Billion for Skype? Outlandish you say? Well we now have discovered that the video recording and sharing service, Qik, is coming along for the ride. You see, Skype finalized their purchase of Qik early this year and now Microsoft has yet another audio/visual communication stalwart in the fold. It is not a stretch to … Read more
Before you all get excited, let us tell you that this fictional design would perhaps never make into this real world. But, we can dream about it, right? So, you see there are indeed some people out there who don’t like Metro UI. Finnish designer Tommy Incrosnatu is one of them. He mashed up Symbian Anna’s updated UI (those round icons) and Windows Phone 7’s Metro UI to create something new, which we must say looks beautiful…