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WinPhone Info Updated for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)

September 16, 2011 | By Kevin Schaefer

WinPhone Info

WinPhone Info is a free app with no ads that displays information about your Windows Phone device. It combines multiple sample applications into a single, Metro-styled interface. This new version includes information that is only available with the APIs in the Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) update.

Includes:

Device info – uptime, manufacturer, model name, unique id, and hardware and software versions
Memory info – total, current usage, peak usage, and available storage
Media info – artist, album, genre, playlist, song, and picture counts
Misc(ellaneous) info – primary and front-facing cameras present, keyboard present and deployed, and power source (Note: The charging status is not available yet.)
Network info – cellular carrier, data and data roaming enabled, network available and enabled, wi-fi enabled, and interface type
Region info – format, time zone, short and long date formats, short and long time formats, and first day of week
Sensor info – accelerometer data, compass, gyroscope, and motion APIs supported, yaw, pitch, roll, and rotational and linear acceleration
Location info – latitude, longitude, heading, speed, as well as a Bing map to view the data updates in real-time

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Over 300,000 Users and 20 Million Messages Sent Using Who’s Near Me!

June 8, 2011 | By Brian Hamachek

Windows Phone 7′s own Who’s Near Me recently hit 300,000 users and over 20 million messages sent! An update to the Windows Phone 7 application was also just released. Who’s Near Me version 1.7 adds new features such as the ability to log out of your profile, better searching filters, improved push notifications, and more reliable image uploading. A lot of work has also been put into the performance of the application, especially for scrolling of large lists of users.

If you don’t already know about Who’s Near Me, it is a free application for Windows Phone 7 that allows you to chat with strangers around you in real-time. You can view and search user profiles and photos to find someone near you for friendship, romance, networking, or just for fun. Who’s Near Me is not just for Windows Phone 7 and is also accessible from all major Smartphone devices, as well as from any web browser at www.whosnearme.net.

Be sure to like the Who’s Near Me Facepage page and follow them on Twitter!

You can download the free Windows Phone 7 application from the Social category of the Marketplace or just click the button below:

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Verizon Wireless laying down LTE plans

December 23, 2009 | By WenWP

Verizon wireless is the United State’s current 3G king with the largest 3G map, well it seems that 3 might become a 4 very soon. BGR just yesterday announced that a webcast starting 11 AM ET on Wednesday, January 23, 2010 which is today will have all this info. The webcast will go over the new 4G specification for devices that will run on Verizon’s 700MHZ LTE network.

The Updates will include information on address network access, SMS requirements, data retry tests, lab and signaling conformance, and details on the device approval and introduction process.

The current speed the LTE network is aimed at is about 12Mbps,and they are planning to launch LTE in 25 to 30 markets in 2010 and maybe even take over their current 3G map with LTE by the end of 2013. We’re sure there will be a map for that when Verizon’s 4G finally launches.

This will make Verizon the largest 4G network in 2010 because Sprint has yet to roll their network into a wider market. They are taking a long time to get a 4G device on there network out, but they have been working on some Windows Mobile Wimax devices which should be coming soon. This news is good news which should mean that we might start to see some 4G LTE and Wimax Windows Mobile devices soon.

Source:BGR

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Upcoming reviews

December 4, 2009 | By WenWP

Hello readers, I am here to give you a little preview of what is to come each night of the week. Each day of this week I will have a comparison each of these devices, the droid, the Eris, the storm2 and the touchpro2. At the end of the week I will be doing a post about my favorite alternative to the Touchpro2, so look forward to those things coming up this week.

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Free IP and Cab signing utilities

June 5, 2008 | By Surur

Jason Langridge’s Weblog reports on two free utilities released by by Enterprise Mobile.

The first is the Enterprise Mobile IP Utility for Windows Mobile Devices which allows you to troubleshoot IP connections using functions such as PING on both Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

The utility features:

IP Configuration – View and renew IP configuration for all network interfaces on the device
Ping – Simple ping to any destination host name or IP address
Trace Route – Trace route from the device to any destination host name or IP address
Ping Sweep – Ping a sequential range of IP addresses in a subnet
Speed Test – Check the current bandwidth speed of your device connection to the internet
Logging – All results of IP Configuration, ping and trace route operations are logged to a text file for collection or sharing

Download Windows Mobile IP Utility

The second Cab Signing Utility is a desktop app used to sign CAB files are used for installing applications on Windows Mobile devices. When the installation and execution security policy is enabled on Windows Mobile devices, all CAB files must be signed prior to deployment onto a device. Microsoft provides a command line tool, cabsigntool.exe, to sign CAB files which requires the administrator to understand and configure a number of parameters making the process both time-consuming and cumbersome.

The app features:

A GUI interface for signing CAB files minimizes the chance of errors while expediting the process.
Replace existing CAB file signatures with your own signature.
Sign multiple CAB files at once.

Download CAB Signing Utility

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