Category: Software (Windows Phone)
Got yourself a Windows Phone 8 device? You’ll soon be getting 8.1 and includes a “bunch” of stuff which is, apparently, “rad”. Last year, if you had a screen big enough, Windows Phone 8 added an additional column to the main screen. This has now found its’ way …
So just to set my stall out, pre-Lumia and “Here”, I used CoPilot. It was one of the most feature-packed and reasonably-priced navigation products for Windows Mobile at the time. So here we are on a new platform – Windows Phone. It’s the same product and of course …
The Final version Microsoft’s Office Lens has gone live on the Windows Phone Store today. This app makes it easier to capture “Chalk and Talk” presentation, of Whiteboard brainstorms and receipts for expenses. Using OCR the text from documents is made searchable. There are 3 modes, Document Whiteboard and Photo. …
Last week at MWC Microsoft announced that Facebook Messenger would be coming to the Windows Phone Store soon, we all took that with a pinch of salt, expecting the “soon” bit to mean months. But lo and behold during the night Facebook themselves have published the app. If …
Tonight we’re hearing some breaking news that Facebook will be buying WhatsApp for a rather colossal $19 billion. WhatsApp are calling it a partnership but, for that amount of money (£11.4 billion in cash and shares), there’s more than a few raised eyebrows. It’s 35% of Facebooks’ total …
Great news for customers on Three UK who use Windows Phone 8 devices, you finally have access to an official My3 app. It was just released this morning to the Store and is a free download. This new app will allow you not only check your allowances, but …
There is always a firmware around that people are waiting for. Nokia users are no different, the latest update is called “Black” which enables and adds a whole range of features. The Lumia Black update has begun rolling out today for Lumia 1020 and Lumia 925 smartphones, with …
Xbox Music has been an integral part of the Music app in Windows Phone, which at times got a little confusing to differentiate between streamed subscription music, cloud music and local music. It’s a confusion which eventually led to me unsubscribing from Xbox Music in the end. Although …
Radio has been around for a few years now, with the latest way of listening being to stream the radio over the internet. There are a few apps around that let you do this such as Tunein and now Windows Phone users have another option. Here’s how the …
Recently Instagram added a new feature to its Android and iOS in the form of Instagram Direct, which allows you to send images to specific people and not make them public. The Windows Phone version wasn’t updated at the time and guess what? Yes you’re right, they’ve not …
Facebook Beta for Windows Phone has received one of its regular updates, and this one is a bit bigger than usual. Notifications and Messages have received big updates, with improved Toast notifications as well as Toast notifications for Messages/Chat. Tiles have also been redesigned, with a variety available, including …
I’m going to mention a couple of things that could send your head into a spin right now. First of all, it’s the sheer fact that people want to download an app which will let you re-watch Channel 5 programmes (such as … errr.. Neighbours and … ummm.. …
Rudy Huyn is the developer behind popular third party Instagram and Vine apps on the Windows Phone platform. He’s now gone and made a Snapchat app, called 6snap. Which If it’s anything like his Instagram and Vine apps it’ll probably be better than the original apps on other …
The day has finally come, the day that non Windows Phone fans have to search for another app to cite as their reason for not being able to get on with Windows Phone. Yes Instagram is now available for Windows Phone. But as is often the way, you …
Google made Windows Phone apps are a little rare, the one that has been around for a while is Google Search, it basically lets you search the web and do a little bit of browsing too. The latest update has basically improved the search functionality. Here is what …
A few weeks ago in Abu Dhabi Nokia announced real DNG file format support for the Lumia 1020 and 1520. Today they’ve pushed out the update to enable that, so if you really like to fiddle with your images then your going to be happy. But there is …
TV catchup apps are pretty damn useful, with the move towards official apps from each channel being the way forward apparently. Last night UK channel “Channel 4” released their TV lso catchup app. Which allows you to watch channel 4, E4 and More4. Streaming only works via WiFi …
During Nokia World in Abu Dhabi a few weeks ago, Nokia demonstrated a rather useful app called Refocus. Which takes a photo and then let’s you choice which bits to “Refocus” on. Nokia Refocus lets you take a photo first and choose what you want in focus later. …
A picture can only tell so much, imagine adding some sound to your pictures. Well that’s exactly what Foundbite does. Foundbite combines photos and sound to capture the real atmosphere of a place, event or experience in a new and unique way. From the cheering of a crowd …
Nearly all the Angry Birds apps (apart from Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Seasons) are now showing as free on the Windows Phone store. You can now get Angry Birds Star Wars and Angry Birds Star Wars II (although both are confusingly listed as just “Angry Birds …
Air Hockey is one of those games I often install on my phone, it’s quick easy and you can play for a minute or two or for hours. Blugri the developers behind Jungle Mamba, Sudoko, Freecell, Solitaire, spider and some others, have released their take on the classic …
This morning during the Nokia World event we saw a demonstration of the new Nokia Camera app. It is a combined version of Smart Cam and Pro Cam. Well they’ve only gone and released an update to the Pro Cam app already so if you’ve got a Nokia …
During the Nokia World event Stephen Elop from Nokia mentioned during a chat about photography that an official Instagram app would be coming to Windows Phone in the next few weeks. Source – Nokia Instagram
Maxthon is one of those alternative browsers that is available on various different platforms allowing you to easily sync your favourites between machines, now you can add your Windows Phone devices to that list as Maxthon have released a Windows Phone 8 version of their browser. Maxthon Cloud …
Last night, after turning my back for all of three minutes, my son pinched my phone and demanded that I download Angry Birds Go! Sure, I’d heard of Angry Birds (who hasn’t), but what’s this “Go!” business? Well, remember what happened when Mario Bros went from a platformer …
6tag for Windows Phone is an Instagram app that allows you to post pictures and view your friends pictures. The interesting thing about the latest update it is that you can view nearby posts. As there isn’t an official app for Instagram this is the closest you’ll get. …
This afternoon Twitter for Windows Phone has had an update. You can now choose from a light or dark theme. A feature that none of the other official apps have. People will be outraged (possibly). How dare Twitter implement something on Windows Phone before any of the other …
The ongoing dispute between Microsoft and Google about a Windows Phone version of YouTube has continued during the night. Basically after years of having a rubbish web based app made by Microsoft we recently got a really really good native Windows Phone app, again made by Microsoft. Google …
I take a lot of pictures and often wish I could share my emotions whilst taking the picture. DualShot for Windows Phone let’s you do exactly that. Capture both sides of every story. Take a photo of what’s in front of you then add yourself to the shot …
Today, Nokia and Adidas have announced the launch of a new app by Adidas, called miCoach and it’s a fitness app for Nokia Lumia devices. The Store description is as follows, it all sounds great, I almost want to run around nearby my work just to see if …
Google don’t seem to keen to publish their apps on the Windows Phone Store, initially it seemed liked there wasn’t enough users to warrant it, these days though it just seems that Google are being awkward. It’s left up to third party developers to create apps instead, Google+ …
A notable absentee from Windows Phone, Rightmove, have released the first version of their app for Windows Phone 8. Property apps in general have been notable by their absence from Windows Phone, and this was exacerbated by the Rightmove mobile website not working with IE10 either, but now …
Feedly is something that has become an essential part of my day, keeping track of the latest news and so on. As I’m often swapping between devices I wanted a nice synced service to keep track of my subscribed RSS feeds and Feedly does that perfectly. Instead of …
Can you bear to play Angry Birds ever again? If yes your next few days are going to be rather busy. Yesterday Rovio released the next installment in the Angry Birds saga. As per the norm with Rovio the gone all puntastic with their explanation of the game, …
In the past hailing a cab was just a matter of putting your arm out, screaming “taxi”, joining a queue of people at a taxi rank or heaven forbid ringing a taxi company up. Nowadays you’re meant to use an app, like most things these days “there’s an …
There’s a few games that people really latch onto and generally become huge. Where’s My Water? is definitely one of them, and has kept my son (and wife) entertained for quite a bit. Now there’s a new version, cunningly named “Where’s My Water? 2”. Oh and get this, …
Camera360 is becoming quite a handy app for Windows Phone 8, it has a wide range of filters built into a separate camera app, it has a photo diary and now it has a pretty cool double exposure mode. So as shown above with a little skill you …
OrangePixel make some rather splendid games, mostly retro style 8bit platform games or shoot em ups. Heroes of Loot is reminiscent of Gauntlet, that amazing dungeon game from the eighties. Here is the trailer for the new game. Description A dungeon full of skulls, imps, cyclops, minotaurs, flameheads, …
Isn’t it great when a company follows through and actually does what they said they would? A year ago….. It was about this time last year when Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 were announced and along with them came Xbox Music, which was Microsoft’s Music streaming service, …
One type of app that there seems to be a never ending supply of, on every platform, is weather apps. Some are better than others and some stand out. Umbrella 8 is a weather app for Windows phone that falls into the later category. Lots of apps illustrate …
