Its hard to stand apart in the smartphone market these days, it is even more difficulty to do so in a positive way. With a market dominated by a handful of devices and everything else scrambling to live up to the hype, purpose built platforms or devices in general are none existent. Ever since the … Read more
First things first. I don’t have a Blackberry Playbook, HP Touchpad (I sold it). I don’t have Android Tablet with ICS or up installed. I sold them on eBay and bought a nice Surface Pro for me. That puts my tests incomplete, but they gave me a basic idea. Since Playbook and Touchpad have minimal … Read more
This has been much anticipated and you can grab it now. The redesigned app offers free calls with HD sound, pinning of conversations to Start via Live Tiles, lock screen notifications, and beautiful improvements to its look and performance for Windows Phone 8. Connect in group conversations with up to 40 people. The app, which … Read more
The Games Developer Conference (GDC) is taking place this week so it is only natural that new games would appear. New games have in fact arrived on Windows Phone and quite a few to boot with a couple being platform exclusives. Lets run through the list. Clicking on the game titles will take you to … Read more
Have a look at this, a wonderful example of how technology is making strives to help the disabled! Blind Maps sits on top of the iPhones already great accessibility options, it uses voice commands to get started and a unique braille device to help keep the person in the know when approaching street crossing, detonations … Read more
The developers for the popular Windows Phone photo app Fhotoroom have taken to Twitter to let their followers know that an update to the app is on the way. Check out some of the Twitter posts below. There are no shortage of committed and talented developers on the Windows Phone platform and I want to … Read more
This morning an uproar was caused when it was reported by WMPoweruser that HTC confirmed that they had no plans to deliver a high-end flagship device for Windows Phone this year. I admit my first reaction was a mixture of smug “I thought as much” and “truly a sad day”. Then my curious nature came … Read more
At times like these I’m reminded of the sage phrase “Money talks, B.S. walks”. There is clear momentum taking place for the Windows Phone platform. Phones are selling better than ever, apps are back to being updated regularly, popular apps from iOS and Android are making their way to the platform and more are … Read more
Continuing the recent surge in popular applications making the jump from Android and iOS comes Maluuba. Maluuba is a personal assistant app that helps you do more on your Windows Phone using your voice. You can ask "Where can I find sushi restaurants nearby?" and receive a list of sushi restaurants to explore. Maluuba enables … Read more
Yesterday Microsoft’s Windows Phone twitter account tweeted that one of the most popular mobile racing games would arrive on the platform today and asked their followers to try and guess which one it would be. I guessed Asphalt 7 while our editor Doug Smith guessed Real Racing. Turns out I was right as a … Read more