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Stage 2 of Laptop Magazine’s March Madness: Nokia Lumia 900 vs Huawei D Quad

March 22, 2012 | By Surur

LaptopMagazine’s March Madness smartphone contest has gotten serious, now that it has entered its second stage, pitting the Nokia Lumia 900 against the Huawei D Quad, the iPhone 4S defeater.

I have no idea what a Huawei D Quad is, but of course the Nokia Lumia 900 is set to be the new Windows Phone flagship, featuring a 1.4 Ghz processor, 4.3 inch screen, 8 megapixel camera and LTE with Dual Channel HSDPA for high speed downloading wherever you are in the world.

Show your love for Windows Phone by voting for the Nokia Lumia 900 here.

Thanks Fahd for the tip.

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Bill Reminder Updated with Windows Live SkyDrive Back Up and Restore

March 22, 2012 | By Kevin Schaefer

Bill Reminder

**Now with Windows Live SkyDrive back up and restore, a double-sided Live Tile, and pop-up reminders**

If you are like me, you already use a full-featured money management program on your computer, and you don’t want to re-enter all of your financial information into a separate application on your phone or rely on email reminders to know when your bills are due.

Bill Reminder was written with those problems in mind. It gives you convenient, color-coded, reminders to quickly see when your bills are due; red for past due, yellow for due today, and green for not due yet.

Bill Reminder QRCode No account numbers or amounts are required. Just enter a name, frequency, and next occurrence date, and Bill Reminder color codes and sorts your bills into the correct lists. Mark a bill as paid, and Bill Reminder automatically updates the next occurrence date, color code, and reminder lists.

Thank you to WMPowerUser’s own andrewbares for his excellent SkyDrive back up sample.

For more screenshots and links to download the paid or free, ad-supported version, please click here or scan the QRCode.

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Round 3: HTC Titan II vs the Sony Xperia Ion–Vote for Windows Phone now!

March 21, 2012 | By Surur

Today we have the third round of LaptopMagazine’s March Madness which includes a Windows Phone handset, and the first which has a non-Nokia device.

Today we have the HTC Titan II with its 4,7 inch screen and 1.5 Ghz processor and LTE squaring off against the Sony Xperia Ion.

Show your love for Windows Phone by voting for our favourite OS here.

Thanks Fahd for the tip.

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Round 2 March Madness– Nokia Lumia 900 vs the Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx

March 16, 2012 | By Surur

After the Nokia Lumia 710 demolished the Samsung Galaxy Note with 87% of the vote 2 days ago, today we have the second Windows Phone 7 handset in Laptop Magazine’s March Madness smartphone play-off.

In today’s contest we have the Nokia Lumia 900, yet to be released anywhere vs the some disposable Android phone.

Show your love for Windows Phone by voting for the Nokia Lumia 900 here, and lets make the final result an all Windows Phone affair.

Thanks Fahd for the tip.

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Show your interest in DrawSomething, and we may just get the app on Windows Phone

March 13, 2012 | By Surur

DrawSomething is the latest mobile app rage on iOS and Android. The game requires you to draw and guess words, and can be played either cooperatively or against rivals.

Unlike some developers which has been pretty sniffy about supporting Windows Phone, on their Get Satisfaction support site, OMGPop’s support has been pretty clear that they will “definitely try to make one” if there is a high enough demand.

Show your support for bringing this fun social game to Windows Phone 7 by adding your vote on their page here.

Thanks Peter for the tip.

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Smartphone Madness is back! Vote for the Nokia Lumia 710!

March 13, 2012 | By Surur

Forget March Madness! Laptop Magazine’s smartphone madness is back, where they pit popular smartphones against each other.

Last year we did quite well, until those nasty webOS folk started cheating. Look where they are now

This year the iPhone has already been eliminated, and the Nokia Lumia 710 is up against the Samsung Galaxy Note.

Show your love for Windows Phone by voting for the Lumia 710 here.

Thanks MarcXW for the tip.

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Starbucks Card – First free Starbucks payment app in the marketplace

March 8, 2012 | By denhamsolutions

Starbucks Card is now available in the marketplace. The first FREE Windows Phone 7 app that allows you to make payments at Starbucks stores. You only need to enter the card number and security code. The cards you enter do not have to be registered online but if you want to collect Starbucks rewards you should register your card directly at Starbucks website.

Starbucks Card has the following features.

Enter multiple cards with custom names
Check card balances
Pay for purchases
Search for store locations
Order notepad

Give it a try for free!

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Developers: Get Hundreds Of Metro Design Icons For Your Apps

March 8, 2012 | By Pradeep

Syncfusion’s Metro Studio gives you access to over 600 Metro-style icon templates that can be customized to create thousands of Metro icons using an intuitive customization tool. The icons are available in royalty free way, so you can use it in your commercial applications as well. And the developer team behind this program at Syncfusion is creating more and more icons to release it for public developers.

Find more details on it here.

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Looking for a fast, reliable, and metro web browser? Try Next Browser!

February 24, 2012 | By simzz

Next Browser is on sale for $1.49 currently, and will soon go back up to $1.99. There is a free trial available with no limitations except for an advertisement.

Next Browser is fast, beautiful, and has many great features like:

up to 8 tabs
fast and metro-designed
main and secondary tiles flip to show useful
information
orientation lock
Telerik controls
and others!

Next Browser has a 4.5 star average rating in the marketplace, and is only
$1.49 instead of $1.99 for a limited time! Try the free, ad-supported trial now
and buy it if you like it. There are no limitations!

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Bazaar Homebrew App Marketplace Releases A Desktop Client

February 21, 2012 | By Pradeep

Bazaar, the homebrew app marketplace for Windows Phone platform has released a desktop client similar to Zune. The desktop client allows you to browse through the apps listed with description & screenshots on homebrew marketplace. If you have your developer unlocked Windows Phone device connected to your PC, then you can download a homebrew app and install it on your device with a click using this new desktop app.

Find the app here.

via: plaffo

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FREE powerfull stop watch : StopwatchXB discount last days

February 16, 2012 | By XingBull

StopWatchXB new year discount is about to end. Get it now for FREE.

Why use it ? you can…
- follow your performances easily with graphic chart embedded
- send data by mail to your friends
- analyse data at home
- StopWatchXB includes a sound alert to prevent you on scheduled time for each lap or total time : don’t be afraid to miss the person/car you wait on each lap.
- calculate your average speed on each lap
- save unlimited laps
- use it as a quick and easy stopwach always in your pocket
- keep data same after interruption of the app, StopWatchXB works like running in background
- automatic lockscreen disabled

Where to use it ?
- Running, Athletics
- Cars racing, Motorbikes
- Cooking
- Everywhere else you need a stopwatch

Just try it and adopt it !

For more information and try the new version, you can download StopWatchXB on the following link :

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4th & Mayor Developer Jeff Wilcox Moving To Windows Azure Team At Microsoft

February 13, 2012 | By Pradeep

We all know Jeff Wilcox as the developer behind the best Foursqaure client on Windows Phone platform 4th & Mayor. But Jeff was also a Microsoft employee working on many versions of Silverlight Toolkit, many Silverlight runtime versions, the Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.1 SDKs, etc,. In particular things like Windows Phone user interface controls, helper libraries, utilities, and much more. He is now moving to a new role at Microsoft under Scott Guthrie. He will now be on Windows Azure team to focus on the open source story for Microsoft’s cloud.

Its sad to note that just after Brandon Watson, Windows Phone team loses another notable face. We wish him good luck on his new role and thank him for his contribution to Windows Phone community. On the good news, here is the plan for 4th & Mayor in 2012.

As I have previously tweeted in various capacities, my 3-pronged hope for 2012-2013 is:

Keep updating 4th & Mayor for the Windows Phone.

Offer a Windows 8 implementation on the Windows Store

Open source 4th & Mayor sometime in the future with the friendly, flexible Apache 2.0 license.

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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