You know those warnings when you get into a plane and they warn you to turn off cell phones and electronic devices and then you pretend like you turned it off and keep using it? Yeah well it turns out those warnings are real. ABC News retained a copy of confidential studies that report that … Read more
About 7 months ago we ran a poll asking Windows Phone users what their thoughts were of the platform. At the time 89% of you gave a 4 or 5 star response. So the honeymoon is well over at this point. Let’s put all the talk about how sales are doing, etc behind us and … Read more
PCMag author Sara Yin took a shot at buying a Windows Phone in Manhattan. It wasn’t pretty. She saw stores without displays, sales reps that wouldn’t suggest buying the phone and even sale people deterring the sale even when she came in explicitly asking for it. She was pushed to the iPhone and Android often. … Read more
Vanessa Saint-Pierre Delacroix & Her Nightmare is an acclaimed indie game that’s now available for Windows Phones where it’s rocking a solid 4.5 (going closer to 5) star review. It’s a puzzler but it has all of the bells and whistles that full fledged title would have as it’s already available for PC. You need … Read more
Internally we’ve been discussing just how hard it is to find someone walking around with a Windows Phone. Admittedly, there’s a sea of iPhones, Android devices and Blackberries but I probably only see a Windows Phone in someone’s hands once a week. That’s still more than the zero times I’ve seen a WebOS device but … Read more
Steampunk Fantasy is Glowpuff’s (yeah Gridrunner Girl and Zombie Circus to name a few) latest Windows Phone 7 game and after playing it until I nearly drained my battery, I can assure you it’s addictive. I think it’s best described as a cross between the classic game Pipes and Tetris. You need to connect pieces … Read more
The Windows Phone Blog has posted an interview with one of the guys responsible for the music search features that are built in to Mango and they laid out some new details. Notably, instead of capturing a large clip of the song and then uploading it once it’s complete, it works by ‘fingerprinting’ the song … Read more
Just rethinking the demonstrations that Nintendo put on yesterday when they unveiled the Wii U. Well what they admittedly did was unveil the New Controller (some video footage they’ve acknowledged to have use Xbox and PlayStation images for because the Wii U is a year off). It’s a somewhat novel idea to have a touchscreen … Read more
So about that iCloud thing. Infinite Apple received some screen shots of what a wifi sniffer reveals when traffic goes through the iCloud and the result: Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS cloud services received calls. They state “icloud.com provides some sort of authentication to a windows.net address, and then sends a confirmation back to iCloud. … Read more
If yesterday’s iCloud feature announcement served to do anything it was to give iOS users their one shot at being able to claim innovation. There is one problem with that, Microsoft isn’t going to let that happen. Way back at Mobile World Congress and at MIX ‘11 we saw that SkyDrive integration was deepened. People … Read more