If you have an Xbox 360 with Kinect then you’re probably loving the voice commands that are built into it (like navigating Netflix with your voice) but know there’s plenty of room to make the experience deeper. Currently there’s an Xbox dashboard and then you convert to a Kinect dashboard and need to navigate through … Read more
The more I use Mango the less I use text. I find myself using messenger a lot more than text and while I mostly use it with people on Windows Live Messenger it would easily cross-over to users that use Facebook chat as it’s also fully integrated. From my perspective, I don’t really care what … Read more
Man I must have totally been watching the wrong channels to have missed this Bud Light commercial but it’s a Friday so let’s go with it in case you missed it too:
I picked up a used Focus from my wife even though while she waits for an iPhone 5 (and I hope she opts out) and of course I Mangoized it. I picked it up and she has a damn voice notes app on her home screen. Really? I asked her why she didn’t use One … Read more
As you know this week’s Windows Phone Xbox Live titles are Minesweeper and Sudoku, which are free and pretty vanilla actually. Not a cool version of either game but they are free and you get achievements. Also, the deal of the week is Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 for 2011. And next week? “Watch for “IonBallEX” … Read more
News broke earlier today that HTC was making a major announcement tomorrow and AllThingsD has revealed that HTC is announcing an alliance with Beats Electronics. Those are the “Beats by Dre’ people that make some kick-ass headsets. Look, I get that HTC still needs to make a larger name for themselves as they’re still not … Read more
While it’s definitely true that Google+ is gaining momentum it still isn’t established and Facebook has a real simple solution to end the competition. See this is a market where there is a single dominant player. There wasn’t room for MySpace and Friendster and Facebook so two were killed off. It’s just reality – we … Read more
While some of the features in mango are simply amazing there are still some things that need a bit of ironing. I was super excited that they worked out the photo and video sharing features in Mango but they’re not perfect yet. First off, if you share a picture in Mango to Twitter what it … Read more
So I decided to give you guys a few screenshots of what the voice features are in the dev Mango build. These are the ‘help’ screens and they show you what’s possible. Launching apps is sweet (“Open Angry Birds”) and everything works great. In fact some of the features are not covered here, like the … Read more
