Tag Archives: WP7
Tap+Send: The Love Story of 2 NFC Devices
Innovation in technology is hit and miss for a number of reasons. To prognosticate what advances in technology will be accepted by the general public is by no means, an exact science. There’s a constant barrage of new expensive toys with exclusive features that are “sure” to turn the world upside down, only to hit the market [...]
January 15, 2013 App Reviews, Windows Phone
Tags: Android, marketplace, Microsoft, NFC, Samsung, Tap+Send, Windows Phone, WP7, WP8
Editorial: Windows Phone 7 is not dead!
We all know that Windows Phone 8 was launched a few weeks ago. And with that launch, there came up far to much voices that want to tell us that Windows Phone 7 is dead. It is not, and I am going to tell you why. Microsoft is still providing support for Windows Phone [...]
The WinPhan is joining msicc.net!
Well, I’m back. Some of you know me from Twitter, Facebook, and various WP news blog sites as WinPhan7. For those that don’t know me, nice to meet you. I’ve evolved slightly, I now go by a more encompassing title: The WinPhan, but you can also call me Sean. I’m not a developer, although I am interested in [...]
(Updated) What´s wrong with the Me tile on Windows Phone?
Over the last few weeks the Me tile on our Windows Phones is showing a strange behavior. As usual, we get notified in the way you can see above. What are we doing then? Right, we are going into the “notification” tab and check what´s going on. Normally, the notification on the tile are going [...]
Windows Phone Marketplace expands to 13 new countries
The Windows Phone Marketplace is now available to 13 additional countries. With this new countries, the Marketplace is available now in 54 countries. The new places are: Bulgaria Costa Rica Croatia Estonia Iceland Latvia Lithuania Romania Slovakia Slovenia Turkey Ukraine Venezuela But this is still not all. Microsoft is set to bring the Windows Phone [...]
Fast Application Switching (FAS) also for 256 MB devices
Andreas Hammar, developer and author on jayway.com, discovered that Fast Application Switching is still available on 256 MB devices. As he discovered, the MSDN documentation has been updated recently. Microsoft confirms the availability to use the FAS. Read my full post at 1800PocketPC.com.
Path is coming to Windows Phone, CEO got compliments for the OS
Yesterday WMPoweruser discovered another company is choosing Windows Phone for their app besides iOS and Android. The mobile social network Path is coming to Windows Phone, and Path´s CEO Dave Morin also got some compliments for our preferred mobile OS. What makes this something special is the fact that he formerly was an Apple employee, [...]
Audible app for Windows Phone caught on video
If you have a lot of colleagues like me which are all having the phone with the “i” in front and its baked in Audible support in iTunes, you cannot wait until it is finally released. You often hear from them that a cool audio book is on sale on audible. Perfectly to enjoy while [...]
Nokia is number one Windows Phone manufacturer
Nokia has recently climbed up to the number 1 Windows Phone OEM. Nokia´s vice-president of Nokia Middle East, offered this hot news to Gulf News: “Our strategy is working. When we formed an alliance last year with Microsoft our intention was to regain lost share. After one year, it is still working. We are the [...]
Announcement: Writing WP7-News for 1800PocketPC.com
Yesterday Saijo George, owner of 1800PocketPC.com, asked me to join the team. As I love this site, of course I accepted the offer. How will this affect my blog? Well, on some entries in Windows Phone category, you will find a short version of the post, for reading the whole article you will be redirected [...]
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