DashWire closes up, grab your data while you can
If you had a Windows Mobile phone a few years back then you may well have seen or used Dashwire. It basically plonked your pictures, videos, texts and contacts onto an online portal for you to access. It was great, [...]
Yandex Acquire SPB Software
SPB Software, the mobile software development company famed for it’s prevalence on Windows Mobile devices of the past, has been acquired by Russian company Yandex for an undisclosed amount. Yandex is known throughout Russia as the provider of the country’s leading search engine [...]
Android almost doubles UK market share according to report
Just in case you weren’t aware, Android is continuing to rise in popularity. Research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows the sheer seismic shift in the market share for Android. Android now has a 47.1% share of the smartphone market here [...]
Daylight Savings fixes for HD2 and Touch2 go live
A couple of updates are now listed on the HTC website for the HTC HD2 and HTC Touch2. These updates are to readjust your clock for the hour gained during Daylight Savings.
Links – HTC HD2 Update – HTC Touch2 Update
Windows Phone 7.5 next year?
We’ve already heard that an early update is coming in January, followed by possibly another one around the same time as Mobile World Congress. Early rumours have called these first updates “massive” but now there’s some slightly different news surroun…
Windows Phone 7 Apps – 4,000 now available
Just three weeks ago there were 3,000 apps in the Windows Marketplace. Now there’s a choice of 4,000 applications and games.
Yes, there’s around 1,000 apps arriving in the Android Market every day, but this is still a pretty respectable increase for …
KIN Studio goes offline. KIN phones still selling?
The Microsoft KIN phones launched in April aimed at teenagers and twenty-somethings. They were billed as a “social phones” but, just two months after, they were dropped. Those who did end up buying one have now received a letter from US network Verizo…
Android Gingerbread, now for .. your HD2
For those of you prepared to gamble, a new experimental ROM has appeared on XDA-developers.com. It’s Android 2.3 (aka Gingerbread) and it’s designed for (wait for it) .. a HTC HD2.
Yes, the normally-Windows-Mobile-powered device becomes one of the fir…
Windows Phone 7 – 15 App Push Notification Limit
If you’ve seen our Windows Phone 7 Review then you’ll know about the “Push Notifications” that update the Live Tiles on the main screen. It’s what makes those Live Tiles.. err.. “Live”. A lot of the apps we tested didn’t seem to have the ability to us…
Windows Phone 7 starts to get Copy and Paste
Sure, if we’re honest this shouldn’t really be news. Copy and paste should just be there, as default, in any smartphone you buy. Windows Phone 7 got released without this feature but now developer devices are starting to receive an update to add this …
Samsung Omnia 7 Review
The team at 3 very kindly loaned us a Samsung Omnia 7 recently to review for you all, and here is that review!. There is a massive 25 minute video review after the link and you can also click below for a photo album of various shots of the…
Sky Mobile for Windows Phone 7 now available
This is the Sky TV application for Windows Phone 7. It’s a pretty popular tool that iPhone and Android users will already be familiar with. You can search through listings, browse programme times or set programmes to “Remote Record” from anywhere with…
Windows Phone 7 Devs must wait until February for cash
Are you a Windows Phone 7 developer who went to the open days back in September last year ? Did you submit an app in October ? If you sold lots of apps and made cash you’re probably quite happy right now, but unfortunately it looks like February is go…
WP7 Custom Ringtone Manager – WMA files only?
The people that brought you the Windows Phone 7 unlock tool have now released a custom ringtone manager for Windows Phone 7. Don’t pop those champagne corks just yet though, this needs either an unlocked developer phone or that unlock tool we mentione…
Another way to find WP7 apps on your browser
Another website has popped up to let you look through Windows Phone 7 apps and games from the comfort of your computer browser. Called WP7 Applist it lists recent changes, price drops and sorts all the software into neat categories.
Currently the sit…
HTC 7 Mozart Review
So here it is at last. Our HTC 7 Mozart review. Inside is Windows Phone 7, 8GB of storage, an 8 megapixel camera with xenon flash. Outside it’s one piece of aluminium with a very solid but lightweight feel.
We’ve already had a look at the OS itself …
Windows Phone 7 – First update to be "massive"
We knew even before Windows Phone 7 was completed that a few features would have to wait and that the first update would fix a lot of the issues reviewers had flagged up. Custom ringtones, copy and paste etc. Although we kinda all knew it, developer C…
Microsoft advise against unlocking Windows Phone 7
Just yesterday a tool called ChevronWP7 was released. It is designed to unlock your Windows Phone 7 and allow “side-loading” of apps and games without the Windows Phone Marketplace. This will unlock your phone and let apps install that could access pr…
3,000 apps for Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 can now boast 3,000 games and applications to download. Windows Phone exec Todd Brix has stated that 15,000 developers are “signaling their intent” to produce Windows Phone 7 apps and there’s a definite buzz around the platform.
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MarketplaceBrowser.com – Look through apps on the web
Windows Phone 7 owners now have a place on the web to search through the games and applications they can install. The 2,436 apps (at the time of writing) are all filtered into categories and types on MarketplaceBrowser.com. It’s a site built by Paul W…
