When I heard Paul Thurrott say that he only had one dropped call in 5 months of testing a Focus I was intrigued. And internally we’ve been discussing call quality on our Windows Phone devices and there’s a clear consensus – it’s damn near perfect. For my two cents, call quality (even on AT&T in … Read more
What do you do if your wife won’t get a Windows Phone? Let’s see how Ramon handled this delicate situation: Well played Ramon…well played
Beezz is a Windows Phone Twitter client (that’s free) that is going to get a top notch upgrade tomorrow. The new features are : – Live tile – Toast for direct messages and mentions – An innovative way to access writing a tweet – Choose your language in the preferences panel – Enhanced Search – … Read more
I you have a Windows Home Server than I have an app for you. WHS Phone lets you connect to your Windows Home Server and browse files, stream music, view photos, etc. So music from your server can go straight to your phone and you can upload photos from your phone to your home server … Read more
We knew that this app was on its way and it’s now available. Remember that you need to get the PC plugin here:http://www.daveamenta.com/2010-11/chrome-to-windows-phone-7/ It’s free and it’s official name is Chrome to WP7 if you search for it on Marketplace.
Mixed emotion day around here. So as you probably know, Chevron has been discontinued and that’s not just stopping downloads – the unlock tool has been disabled as a certificate it launched was actually on their servers. In fact, unlocked phones are effectively relocked now (which indicates that the trick they played was that the … Read more
I apologize in advance for making you watch any of The Ellen Degeneres Show. This is very spot on advertising though and I guess MS thinks that this is an audience that they need to hit since they dropped $10k for the winner but that’s relatively cheap for the amount of on air time they … Read more
The development march continues with ScoreMobile announcing today that their multisport app is headed to Windows Phone. It has sports scores, stats, standings and sports info. It’s already available on iPhone, Android and Blackberry and they had over 10m visit sessions last week alone. Not bad at all. To give you an idea of the … Read more
This is a pretty nifty way to get some buzz among the younger audience. First, they randomly give away phones to some people that are passing by just by having a flyer scanned. But to top it off they have some phones within a block of ice. To get them – you need to break … Read more
All Things Digital (part of the Wall Street Journal) is reporting that the upcoming Windows Phone update will not be massive or an iPhone killer. It will add CDMA support and copy and paste, but they don’t indicate anything beside that. The reporter is Ina Fried who has had inside access to WP development in … Read more