Pradeep

Pradeep was a Microsoft Student Partner when he was pursuing his Computer Science & Engineering degree. He now works for a MNC. He is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with people. People used to mention him as “A Geek who is not Nerd”. He was fascinated by the Metro Design language and Windows Phone which made him to follow and develop applications for it. Follow him at twitter.com/pradeepviswav

Aviary Releasing SDK For Windows Phone Platform

February 10, 2012 | By Pradeep

Aviary, the company which provides photo-editing tools for the web and mobile is planning to expand its support to Windows Phone platform. Aviary will make it possible for app developers to incorporate its photo-editing technology into Windows Phone apps using the SDK which will be released soon.

According to Todd Bishop,

Aviary was convinced to make the investment in the Windows Phone SDK based on factors including Nokia’s focus on photography in the new Lumia line of Windows Phones, with Carl Zeiss lenses. “At a hardware level they’ve just done everything right,” said Paul Murphy, a vice president at Aviary.

via: Geekwire

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Official Domino’s Pizza App Now Available In Windows Phone Marketplace

February 9, 2012 | By Pradeep

I think our little community effort has paid off. Back in may when Domino’s UK Facebook account ran a poll to know their next platform of choice for their mobile app effort, we covered it to raise the Windows Phone platform in the poll. And now Domino’s UK app is available in the marketplace for download.

App Description:

You can now order your favourite Domino’s Pizza (UK & Ireland) from a Windows Phone 7 device, with our shiny new app that puts ordering into your hands!

The full Domino’s Pizza menu including drinks, desserts, sides and meal deals are all a click away on your WP7, with smooth and easy to use functionality – Domino’s-style.

Domino’s Pizza’s first app for WP7 features:

• A Full Menu
• Store Locator
• All Meal Deals available
• Ability to Customise Your Pizza with extra toppings or special requests
• Payment via credit card, cash or on collection

A follow-up version of this app is already in the oven, which will include voucher usage, so watch this space!

You can download the app here from the marketplace.

via: TNW

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Social Mints Now Available In Windows Phone Marketplace

February 9, 2012 | By Pradeep

Winners of the Fast Track to the Mobile App Design Challenge organized by Core77 was announced back in December. Social Mints was one of the winners in that competition. The app is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Social Mints is a FREE powerful app that allows you to easily monitor the Web and Social Media for interesting and trending content in real-time. You can track & measure what people are saying about a topic that interests you, get the latest on a celebrity or event and keep tabs on your favorite sports teams.
- Monitor a developing news story
- See Twitter trends and sentiments
- keeping current on a competitor or industry
- know what people are saying about your company

The app also features,

- Simple and intuitive metro design
- Save or Pin a Mint to quickly access later
- Share quickly on facebook and twitter
- Live Tile and Fast App Switching enabled

You can download the app here from the marketplace.

via: mobilitydigest

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Vote For Apps At Windows Phone Marketplace Requests Page

February 9, 2012 | By Pradeep

We already have an official uservoice page for Windows Phone to post our feature requests. Scott J Dorman, a Microsoft MVP has started a new uservoice page for marketplace requests alone. As usual you can vote for your favorite apps that you would like to see on Windows Phone Marketplace.

So far Skype, Instagram, Mint, Audible, Pandora leads the list of apps.

Check the page here.

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Navigator, A New Web Browser For Windows Phone

February 8, 2012 | By Pradeep

We have seens lots of 3rd party browsers based on IE rendering engine in Windows Phone platform. Add this “Navigoaor” to that list. The UI has been tweaked which allows you to experience browing in an effecient way.

App Features:

- up to 6 tabs
- fullscreen-mode
- slide from top to bottom to view tabs preview
- slide from bottom to top to show application bar and urlBar
- liveTile – run under locked screen
- share link
- pin to start
- instant suggestion
- history
- favorites
- session manager

The beta of this app will come soon.

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Xbox LIVE Deal Of The Week : COLLAPSE

February 8, 2012 | By Pradeep

COLLAPSE is a little puzzle game where you destroy clusters of three or more blocks to win. This game comes with a great greast play. Under Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week, Collapse will be on sale for $1.99 instead of $2.99.

From our review of this game,

COLLAPSE is very simple, and can practically be played by tapping madly on the screen until you clear everything. However, it also has some more challenging gameplay modes like the Strategy modes, and it presents new Expert goals for each level, giving you unique targets to shoot for when playing. The most important thing about the game is that it’s actually fun to play. Once you get about thirty minutes into the game, you are really drawn into it thanks to the always changing gameplay style. There are boss levels, puzzle levels, double sided levels, and more. There are even upgrades you can buy using points earned from playing the game. It’s an extremely fun and easy to play puzzle game.

You can read our full review here. And you can find the game here from the marketplace.

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Windows 8 Beta/Consumer Preview Coming On February 29

February 8, 2012 | By Pradeep

Microsoft today announced that Windows 8 Beta/ Consumer Preview is releasing on February-29th at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. As announced earlier at CES, you can download Windows 8 Consumer Preview/beta at the last day of this month. The event invites was sent out to the press with the title “Windows Consumer Preview event”

Developers: Photon Cloud Adds Support For Windows Phone Platform

February 8, 2012 | By Pradeep

Photon Cloud has added the support for Windows Phone platform for its network engine. Photon Cloud allows you to rapidly develop online multiplayer games . You can now add multiplayer to your games within a fraction of the time you normally would need to develop fast and reliable networking. It even supports cross-platform gaming. There is a free SDK which allows you to develop in C#/.NETck 4.0 and easy UI creation and view-management via Silverlight/XAML.

Check out here for more details.

via: wpcentral

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Pre-Order Unlocked White Nokia Lumia 800 For £429.95 From Mobilefun

February 7, 2012 | By Pradeep

Nokia yesterday announced the availability of White Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone device. European mobile retailer mobilefun has announced that unlocked White Lumia 800 will be available on sale for £429.95 from its stores. The device is expected to be shipped before end of this month. You can order it here. Nokia also accidentaly revelead the White Nokia Lumia 900 device on its Facebook page. So you can expect Lumia 900 too to be available within few months in Europe.

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New And Different Nokia Lumia 800 Ad In Greece

February 7, 2012 | By Pradeep

We have seen lots of marketing videos from Nokia to promote its Lumia devices. Most of them were done with the same theme “The Amazing Everyday”. But this video on Nokia Lumia 800 for Cosmote, the largest mobile operator in Greece is different from those old videos which we have seen so far. Enjoy the video! What do you think of this ad ?

Update: Post title corrected by adding Greece instead of Germany.

Thanks to Alex for the heads up.

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LG Miracle Second Generation Windows Phone Revealed

February 7, 2012 | By Pradeep

We have seen lots of leaks about LG Fantasy, a second generation Windows Phone device is the past. Now Pocketnow reports that this LG Windows Phone device will be now called Miracle and it was sold to an XDA member by a Romanian LG tester. The device will have 4-inch WVGA Nova display with VGA front cam, NFC and other standard Windows Phone specs. It is expected to be revealed by LG at MWC later this month.

Source: Pocketnow

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White Nokia Lumia 900 Images Leaked

February 7, 2012 | By Pradeep

Yesterday Nokia announced the Lumia 800 white availability. Nokia Facebook pages posted images of the device, but to our surprise they are not Lumia 800, instead its Lumia 900 in White. As you can see in the image above, Lumia 900 sports a front cam and less space near capacitive buttons. We are expecting Nokia to announce the Lumia 900 equivalent device for rest of the world other than USA.

via: Pocketnow

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Developers: How To Get Your App Featured In Windows Phone Marketplace?

February 7, 2012 | By Pradeep

How To Get Your App Featured In Windows Phone Marketplace? I know many Windows Phone developers ask the same question again and again. Before answering the above, what will happen when you get featured on Windows Phone Marketplace.

Panorama Placement: Panorama placement is the premiere placement for promotion on the Windows Phone Marketplace. The value of this placement is immense as we have seen a 2000% increase in downloads for an app (on average) that is featured in panorma mode.

Featured Icon Placement: Being promoted as a featured icon is the second best way to be featured on the Marketplace. Apps that get Featured Icon Placement on average see an 800% increase in app/game downloads during their time being featured.

Featured List: The third mode of getting featured in the Marketplace is the Featured List. It does return an average of a 150% increase in app/game downloads.

The answer to the question of “How To Get Your App Featured In Windows Phone Marketplace?” depends on whether your app has all the three important attributes listed below,

Delight
Utility
Functionality

You can read each of them in detail through this blog post from MSDN.

This post was the fifth and final post in a series of five posts on strategies for being successful on the Windows Phone Marketplace. The first post (publishing in the right geographies) is here. The second post (trial mode and the art of the upsell) is here. The third post (finding the pricing sweet spot) is here. The fourth post (the differentiation game) is here.

Great job by Paul Laberge.

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