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Are you fan enough to shave the Windows Phone logo into your hair?

May 19, 2012 | By Surur

Because Gilbert Alexis sure was, and the result can be seen above, in the picture he tweeted.

Now of course most of us are not that extreme, but I think there has certainly been the rise of the WinPhan movement, as many sites have found when posting articles or reviews negative to the OS.

Now some may think this makes regular users look bad, but I think it is a sign of the love the OS inspires.

What do our readers think? Let us know below.

Via MobilityDigest.com

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The rise and rise of anti-Windows Phone articles

April 17, 2012 | By Surur

Over the last 10 days there has been a dramatic increase in Dvorak-like inflammatory articles about Windows Phone 7, I think likely associated with the high profile of the OS due to the Nokia Lumia 900 launch, but also in particular related to the Verge Nokia Lumia 900 review, which got in excess of 2,500 comments.

Rather than dissuade unnecessarily negative articles, the response simply provoked more of them, resulting in articles such as ZDNET’s “Windows Phone’s many problems: Should Microsoft give up?” which concludes with “While two negatives added don’t always make a negative, unfortunately two poops just land you with one giant poop.” The rest of the article is of similar quality.

Continuing on the faecal theme, Gizmodo asks “Dear Windows Phone: Get Your Sh*t Together”, again a rather empty article complaining “Windows Phone is rotten with broken windows, while Apple keeps the paths in its walled garden pristine.”

Another example was the Techcrunch article accusing Windows Phone of being a haven for porn.

I will not be linking these articles, because the last thing I want to do is drive more traffic to articles which are clearly just designed to inflame Windows Phone 7 fans.

In fact I would suggest when readers come across such inflammatory articles not to leave a comment and then go back and check the response, which just gave the author 3 free page views (the real goal), but to find the author on their social network and let them know your displeasure directly there.

At least they will not be paid for how many tweets they receive.

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2 year old baby using Windows Phone like a pro! (video)

April 5, 2012 | By Surur

If anyone ever tells you Windows Phone is not intuitive, point them to this video, of a two year old who clearly mastered Windows Phone pretty well, not just swiping pages, but moving purposefully through the start menu, apps list and the app itself!

The child is called Mati and was recorded by his father, who recently purchased his Windows Phone from the Waha Store, which is a Windows Phone online store in the United Arab Emirates, where they clearly grown them smart.

Do any of our readers have stories about young Windows Phone users? Share them below.

Thanks Fahd for the tip.

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DrawSomeThing Windows Phone 7 app under consideration–show your support now!

March 24, 2012 | By Surur

DrawSomeThing is the new Pictionary-type mobile game that is taking the world by storm at the moment – except of course on Windows Phone 7, where the app does not exist.

On DrawSomeThing’s GetSatisfaction site one of the biggest topics at present is the request to port the app to Windows Phone 7, with more than 2000 likes.

The petition has also received a positive response from the company, with Joseph Alminawi, OMGPOP’s community manager saying the platform is under examination and that a demonstration of demand would increase the likelihood they will deliver the game to our platform.

If you would like DrawSomeThing on Windows Phone 7 then, add your vote to 2000 others at the GetSatisfaction page here, and spread the message as widely as possible.

Thanks Adam 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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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.

Microsoft taking Windows Phone Marketing suggestions on UserVoice site

February 3, 2012 | By Surur

I have an inkling this might not be a new story, but I know our readers are full of opinions on how to better market Windows Phone 7, and I don’t want to miss this chance to remind our readers of this opportunity to get your idea to Microsoft.

Microsoft’s Windows Phone User Voice sit is taking Marketing suggestions. They write:

If you’re here, we assume that’s because you love Windows Phone as much as we do – but maybe you’re frustrated that word’s not getting out to everyone about how great Windows Phones are? Just like with your suggestions on features to add to future versions of the product, we’d like your suggestions on how we can spread the word about Windows Phone itself via advertising campaigns, community or social media involvement and other types of promotions. Creativity highly encouraged, let us know what your ideas are!

Standard Disclaimer – our lawyers made us put this here Please note that the Windows Phone Advertising and Promotion Suggestion Box is moderated and is a voluntary participation-based project, and if your submission is not a relevant suggestion it may be removed. Please do not send any novel or patentable ideas, copyrighted materials, samples or demos which you do not want to grant a license to Microsoft. See the “Terms of Use” link below for more information. Please limit your suggestions to 25 words or less.

The site already has more than 100 suggestions, from reasonable ones such as Make a TV campaign using the Smoked By Windows Phone challenge to pretty radical ones such as Offer to buy out contracts early termination fees for a limited time for current android and iphone users.

Add your own suggestion at the site here.

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Another contender for the most embarrassing Windows Phone fan video

January 31, 2012 | By Surur

There have been a few Windows Phone fan videos which have gone viral (who can forget the rapping white girls) and this one seems to be intentionally going for the cringe factor.

Of course everything these Microsoft student partners say is true, so I see no problem in helping to spread their word

Via YouTube.com

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Cool! Successful proposal using WP7 Wordament Game clone

January 29, 2012 | By Surur

Here is a wedding proposal a bit more creative than hiding the ring in the champagne. Munkiiyebee and Jenny were both Wordament fans, and, inspired by the game, he created this clone, shown in the video above, rigged to ask the all important question.

He tells his story below:

Myself and my girlfriend are big fans of Wordament and often play it together. I recently decided that it was time to ask her to marry me and I wanted a fun and original way of doing it. I thought about how cool it would be to have a custom game of Wordament where some of the words were “will”, “you”, “marry” and “me”.

As a WP7 dev I decided to create a private, one-off version of Wordament just for us, for that night.

I just wanted to thank you guys for a great game and being the inspiration for my marriage proposal.

I think there’s some dust in my eye…

Reminder: Windows Phone into round 3, Nokia Lumia 800 taking on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus! Vote now!

December 29, 2011 | By Surur

Windows Phone sailed through round 1, and did a good job defeating the Nintendo 3DS. Now, in possibly its biggest fight ever, the Nokia Lumia 800 is taking on the new Android heavyweight, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Vote for the Lumia 800 and all of Windows Phone against Android at Gizmodo here.

Thanks Xpache for the tip.

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Merry Christmas to all WMPoweruser.com readers!

December 25, 2011 | By Surur

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All of the editors at WMPoweruser.com wish to convey our season greetings to all our readers and their families. May your Christmas be filled with love, peace and many great gadgets

From the WMPoweruser.com team.

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For Developers: AdDuplex creating list of Windows Phone Sites

December 16, 2011 | By Surur

For developers, getting the word of their app out is essential if they do not wish to be drowned out by a deluge of ebooks and other marketplace spam.

One of the best ways of promoting apps are letting the Windows Phone blogs know about them, and to make things a bit easier for developers AdDuplex have created a site which compiles a list of Windows Phone websites, both big and small, and whether for example they do reviews or not.

Impressively the database already has more than 50 entries, which is both a sign of the hard work of the team there and also how productive the Windows Phone community has been in getting the word out about our favourite mobile OS.

The site, WindowsPhoneSites.com can be seen here, and if your favourite site is not there, its addition can also be requested.

Read more about the effort at AdDuplex here.

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