WP Mango Emoticons
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WP Mango Emoticons is an application which contains all the emoticons for windows phone.The free version of the applications has 54 emoticons with SMS box , Phone box and access to your contact book. Also you can tap to the emoticons and send them to your SMS box (this is a feature only for the first 18 emoticons) ! Finally you can tap the symbol of an emoticon and you will see its meaning.
Now in the PRO edition you will have 93 emoticons to send funny messages to your friends. Here you have full access to tap the icons and send them to your SMS box. The PRO edition is selling for 0.99 €.
The QR code for the PRO edition is to the right. You can find the FREE version of WP Mango Emoticons here .
Introducing Emotiboard – the Emoticon keyboard for Windows Phone 7
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The emotiboard is designed to allow you to create new and creative messages. Impress your friend with over 650 Emoticon characters to really bring your messages to life. |
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Windows Phone 7 does not currently allow custom keyboards but that hasnt stopped us from trying to make the experience as seamless as possible:
- Quickly switch between the standard keyboard and the emotiboard to make your message creation easier.
- Your recent emoticons are automatically remembered so you can quickly access them again and again.
- Simply click send to launch a new text message with your message ready to be sent.
- One click copy, enabling your message to be used in any other application on your phone.
- Search function so you don’t have to spend any time looking through the 650+ emoticons!
- The emotiboard uses Emoji and Unicode characters which means all other Windows Phone 7 devices are compatible as well as iOS and Android devices with the corresponding Emoji application installed.
| Emotiboard is available ad-supported for free here or for less than the price of a cup of coffee (USD $0.99 or equivalent) here. |
Mobile innovation in an unlikely place
When one thinks of third world countries, one pictures starving children, civil wars or dire economic conditions just to name a few. Interestingly, a different image sprung in my mind with the news a week or so ago about certain Google (third party contractors) poaching business from a Kenyan startup Mocality. I instead recalled a post I had read sometime back in regards to the rapid growth of mobile device usage in that country. From the article, Africa Might Just Skip the Entire PC Revolution
Earlier this year, the Chinese firm Huawei unveiled IDEOS through Kenya’s telecom titan, Safaricom. So far, this $80 smartphone has found its way into the hands of 350,000+ Kenyans, an impressive sales number in a country where 40% of the population lives on less than two dollars a day.
The country has an approximate population of 41 million with an outstanding 26.5 million mobile phone users in contrast to mere 355,493 fixed line customers!
With consumers here in the US bombarded with ads touting 4G LTE as the panacea for all our data hungry app cravings, nobody here in their right might would think that the good old SMS technology could be used for more than text messaging.
As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention, facing the prospects of serving a large subscriber base living on a limited disposable income, the country’s largest carriers have come up with solutions that give their customers the best value for their money.
Homebrew tool for backing up SMS messages created but needs fully unlocked Windows Phone
Currently if one were a first generation Windows Phone 7 owner wishing to upgrade to a second generation handset one one would lose not just all your game progress and app data and settings, but also all your SMS messages.
There is no solution for the other issues yet, but ConanWTN on WPXAP.com has developed a homebrew app for backing up SMS messages on your Windows Phone.
Interestingly it appears the Windows Phone 7 OS already backs up the SMS messages from the previous day to a file \Application Data \ Microsoft \ Outlook \ BackupVols \ CommsBackup.xml. This was discovered by Thunder_ on XDA-Developers.com.
ConanWTN’s app will make daily backup of your SMS messages and store them in Isolated Storage, where they can be copied to your desktop. The next version will allow upload to SkyDrive, and also for exporting of SMS messages as text.
Unfortunately to get access to this file requires a fully unlocked Windows Phone, which means only a few devices are supported.
Read more about SMS Backup at WPXAP here.
Thanks Max for the tip.
TxtTrans4mR – Spice Up Your Texts and Emails
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TxtTrans4mR from Studio M is a fun app that allows you to transform text in a variety of humorous and interesting ways. Fo’ example, this hyar sentence was runned through th’ “redneck” dialeck. Thees oone-a ves roon thruoogh zee heeleriuoos “Swedish Chef” deeelect. Um de hur de hur de hur. There are eight dialect transforms to choose from. In addition to dialects there are other popular transforms like flip text (upside down and reversed), faux cyrillic, reversed text, etc. Simply enter your text, tap the Transform button and send the result. Spice up your text messages, email messages and more with the TxtTrans4mR!
In addition to being able to enter and transform text, the app includes a library of seven sample text sources to play with, including popular proverbs, Miranda rights, Murphy’s laws, and Math and Science.
- Features include:- 8 dialects and 4 other transforms to choose from. More transforms are currently under development and will be added soon- Built in library of sample text sources to choose from, including proverbs, Miranda rights, and Murphy’s laws.- Easily send your transformed text via text and email, or post to Facebook using the phone copy/paste function.
TxtTrans4mr is currently free. Download your copy from the marketplace today!
Message Manager for groups
Message Manager is an all in one app that allows you to send SMS and email to groups or individual contacts. SMS or email can be send using pre-defined messages or freshly created ones.
Features.
- Helps you organize your email and message groups or your frequent contacts.
- One touch buttons to initiate SMS, emails or phone calls to contacts or groups.
- Separate list for SMS group, email group and personal contacts.
- Predefined messages can be created and this could be send to groups or contacts.
- The groups and contacts are created as a panorama for easy navigation and for launching email and SMS.
- Pictures can be used for groups and contacts.
- App background can be changed.
Message Manager can be downloaded free from the WP7 market place here.
Group SMS app now available on Windows Phone 7
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Stefan Stumpfl wrote to let us know about a new Group SMS app he wrote:
Everyday when I brows through various forums I see many people asking for a way to create groups which can be used to send SMS or e-mails. Since there is no way to do this on windows phone 7 devices, I wrote an APP called Group SMS. Group SMS allows you to create groups of your contacts and send them SMS or e-mails.
The Windows Phone 7 design idea is really great, especially the panoramic view.
It makes it so much easier for the user to interact with the application without switching between multiple pages.
Group SMS perfectly adapts this design. The mainpage is a panoramic view where you can create and edit groups from your contacts and define message templates.
It also tries do adapt an very important Windows Phone concept: “get in, out, and back to life”.
It takes just a second to write a message to a group. Just start the app, tap the desired group and type the message.
Sending a predefined message is as easy and fast. Just tap the desired message on the panoramic view, swipe your finger to the left, tap the desired group and hit send. Thats probably as straight forward as it gets!By the end of the week the app will support multiple languages, this includes german, french, italian, spanish and of course english.
Future updates will also bring synchronization with google groups and windows live groups!
Group SMS is $0.99 with a free trial. Find Group SMS in marketplace here.
Beta SMS – Send SMS from BetaMax and VoIP providers
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Beta SMS allows you to send cheap or free SMS from your favourite BetaMax and VoIP provider directly from your windows Phone 7 device. It supports more than a dozen of SMS services like ‘WebCallDirect’ and ‘Voip Discount’ and still counting.
In order to use Beta SMS, you need to have an account in one of these services:
SUPPORTED SERVICES:
- webcalldirect.com
- voipdiscount.com
- poivy.com
- voipstunt.com
- voipwise.com
- voipcheap.com
- internetcalls.com
- smslisto.com
- justvoip.com
- voipbuster.com
- freecall.com
- intervoip.com
- smsdiscount.com
- dialnow.com
- telbo.com
Beta SMS is available on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace here for $1.29.
GPS to SMS for Windows Phone
GPS to SMS is an app that makes it possible to share your current location by sending it via SMS or e-mail. The message contains the GPS position data and a link to Google™ Maps.
It also works (limited) without internet connection, so its a great tool for trips to foreign countries where the roaming costs are often very high, to tell your friends where you are.
Before sending the message hava a look of the displayed accuracy – it improves the longer you wait.
GPS to SMS features:
- Send SMS with your position.
- Send e-mail with your position.
- View your current GPS data (longitude, latitude, altitude, accuracy).
- Choose between metric and imperial units.
- Choose between decimal and degrees° minutes’ seconds” coordinate format.
- View your current position on map.
- Correct your position within the map if GPS accuracy is not good enough (e.g. inside the buildings).
- Works without internet connection (avoid roaming costs in foreign countries). Limitation without internet connection: no e-mail, no map.
- SMS and e-mail contain a link to Google™ Maps.
Reasons you should use GPS to SMS:
- Problems with the car and you need help?
- Injured while jogging and want to describe your position?
- Do you want your children to tell you their exact location?
- Got kidnapped ?!?
There are thousands of reasons to use GPS to SMS!
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GPS to SMS is $0.99 and can be downloaded from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace here.
XMAS is coming to your Windows Phone 7
Hi, there!
I’ve just released an application which will help you to be creative, when it’s coming to send Merry Christmas greeitings to your friends and family. Well, You can even send greetings in 7 different languages, without the need to know that specific language. Each greeting is confirmed by a native speaker.
Christmas is just around the corner and some of you might have started putting your festive boots on but the special occasion of Christmas doesn’t make any sense without the loved ones. So, it is time to send your friends and loved one wishes through this great Christmas greeting app released by MG-SOFT for your Windows Phone 7 device.
Xmas Greetings features some great collection of christmas greeting cards which you can send through SMS or E-Mail directly from the app on your iPhone. Now you won’t have to get in the long que to buy cards when you can send your own personalized cards right from your Windows Phone.
It features 7 different languages; English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian and French which means you can send the greetings in 7 different languages (no language barrier should stop you from wishing your loved one). So, get ahead in the line and start sending your wishes.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU !!!
Links: Marketplace Browser, Marketplace.
The memories remain
I’ll start by admitting that I have a soft spot for music, and especially music videos that tell a story. It was a contest between Daughtry’s “September” and Alan Jackson’s “ Remember when” but, hundreds of other songs could have sufficed.
Our lives are becoming more and more dependent on electronic gadgets and smartphones now almost define our identity. These devices also double as a repository for a lot of our daily experiences be it photos, videos, voicemails, text messages etc. Since the Christmas season is now upon us, these gadgets will be used to extensively record and document the family gatherings, reunions, laughter, cries and everything in between.
Paul Thurrott has an interesting article titled “The death of email” In it, he posits the theory that email is being supplanted by more instant forms of communication like SMS, IM and Facebook messages (Mr. Thurrott is not someone who casually proclaims the ‘death technology “a” or technology “b” ’ so I was curious to read what he had to say) I can attest to that fact because most of my email correspondence is now relegated to work related stuff. IM, SMS and Facebook messages/chat with an occasional phone call here and there make up the majority of communication with friends and family. I have friends who in fact are far easier to reach with the “instant” means because they will hardly ever reply to an email but they will text me back immediately. The salient portion of Mr. Thurrott’s article that I would like to highlight is when he writes
These people (meaning this generation) don’t care about us or our traditions. Don’t get me wrong, they’re not malevolent about it. They just literally don’t care. And while they may find our muttering about "retention needs" and "conversation threads" interesting in a polite, don’t-agree-too-much-or-they’ll-keep-talking-about-it kind of way, they literally don’t care. Not about our concerns. And not about our previous and old-fashioned email technologies.
HTC HD Mini, Touch Pro 2 gets ‘SMS stability’ update
HTC’s HTC Sense SMS software does not have the best reputation for speed and reliability, and while it seems recent versions of HTC Sense have fixed the issue, this does not help users running carrier ROMs.
Fortunately HTC has decided to take care of current owners by shipping a hotfix for the HTC HD Mini and HTC Touch Pro 2. The update “amends the internal management of SMS functionality, and enhances SMS transmission stability.”, and is suitable for ROM version 1.36.XX on the HTC HD Mini and ROM 2.08.XX for the HTC Touch Pro 2.
Download the HTC HD Mini version here, and the HTC Touch Pro 2 version here.
The update should leave your data untouched, but a backup is always advised.
Group SMS 1.1 reviewed
Group SMS is a simple app that allows the user to send a single SMS to multiple contacts quite easily. To see if this something that you should spend your money on read on to see what this app offers and if it is worth the buy.
Read the rest of the review at BestWindowsMobileApps.com here.
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