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BulletAsylum now in Marketplace

February 8, 2012 | By Surur

The “bullet hell”-type game BulletAsylum is now in Marketplace.

This week’s Xbox Live video game promises over-the-top action, melding classic gameplay with next generation visuals and mechanics, vibrant graphics, and an all-you-can-shoot buffet of alien hordes to destroy.

bulletasylumqr The game features:

Multiple unique game modes, including Arcade, Survival, and Architect.
Dozens of upgrades; because bigger guns are better guns.
Several game modifiers; change the rules
change the game.
Leaderboards; Show your friends just how much better than them you are.
Achievements; 200 Gamerscore up for grabs.

The game costs $2.99 with a free trial and can be found in Marketplace here.

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Angie: Another Windows Phone Siri competitor

February 8, 2012 | By Surur

At Microsoft Techdays in France xBrainSoft will be showing off their new Siri competitor, Angie.

The app uses natural language input and can give you access to TV programs, read your favourite news, access information related to your social networks (birthday, etc.), translate your words into a foreign language, wake you up in the morning, find a fuel pump, and much more.

xBrainsoft distributes a development kit which allows any developer to create skills for Angie or create their own Personal Assistant.

A demo can be seen in the video above, and if you are a francophone you can find the app in Marketplace here (it does not seem to be in the English Marketplace). The code to unlock the app is “xbrainsoft"

Read more about the app at Monsmartphone.com here.

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Nokia Sweden takes over Kanal 5 airwaves with Lumia ads

February 7, 2012 | By Surur

Similar to what Nokia did with Channel 5 in UK (and for which they were ultimately slapped on the wrist) Nokia has integrated their Nokia Lumia 800 ad in the channel name announcement, moving seamlessly from the usual flash into their commercial.

Kanal 5 is one of the biggest TV channels in Sweden, and is just part of Nokia’s push to get their Lumia handsets firmly established in the Nordic region.

Thanks Hasona for the tip.

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BulletAsylum Xbox Live game coming to Marketplace this week (video)

February 6, 2012 | By Surur

BulletAsylum is an amazing-looking Windows Phone 7 game in the style of ‘bullet hell’ common on arcade console games.

The description reads:

Annihilate invaders with a wall of firepower in this insane arcade shooter. BulletAsylum delivers over-the-top action, melding classic gameplay with next-generation visuals and mechanics. With an insane amount of firepower at your fingertips, vibrant graphics and an all-you-can-shoot buffet of alien hordes to destroy, BulletAsylum will blow you away!

The game looks pretty amazing and will hit Marketplace on the8th February for $2.99. The game has a website here.

Via Bestwp7games.com

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Early Peek: Splinter Cell: Conviction and Toy Soldiers for Windows Phone 7 Demoed on video

February 5, 2012 | By Surur

Microsoft is soon starting 3 months of must have games by releasing major Windows Phones games very week.

PocketPC.Ch have managed to get their hands on two of the games, Splinter Cell: Conviction and Toy Soldiers, and have demoed them in the videos above and below.

Splinter Cell: Conviction will be $4.99 and released on the 22nd February 2012. Toy Soldiers will be $2.99 and released on the 29th February 2012.

Are you impressed? Let us know below.

Via PocketPC.ch

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Motley Fool Asks if Microsoft is charging too much for Windows Phone

February 5, 2012 | By Surur

In the above video from Motley Fool senior technology analyst Eric Bleeker and developer Chris Bledsoe asks if Microsoft is charging much too much for Windows Phone 7, especially as they attempt to advance into more price sensitive markets.

In particular they argue that Microsoft is still stuck on earning one-time revenue from selling software, rather than taking advantage of other revenue streams while giving their software away.

Microsoft has of course been very successful with this business plan, reporting record revenue each year, and has recently criticized Google for getting 96% of their revenue from advertising, which allows them to give their software away for free but which also makes advertisers, rather than anyone else, their main customers.

What do our readers think? Should Microsoft be giving Windows Phone away while selling user activity and information to advertisers, like Google is planning, or should they stick to their current business plan, which may limit their success in places like China and East Asia?

Let us know below.

Via Fool.com

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Nokia Lumia 800 launches in Poland with awesome light show

February 5, 2012 | By Surur

The Nokia Lumia 800 launched yesterday in Poland, and the event was celebrated by an awesome 3D projection on the Staszic Palace in Warsaw, the capital of Poland.

Despite temperatures of -18° C the event still drew crowds. The projection was however just the start of promotion for the handset in the country. There will be a TV ad, which appears to be the same one used elsewhere, translated into Polish, with the theme Every day unique.

Additionally a truck will be touring the country, and a special stand will be installed at Ok?cie airport where people can try out the handsets, see accessories and explore the Xbox Live integration.

Read more and see more photos of the event at WP-games.pl here.

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AT&T claims the HTC Titan runs Android 2.2

February 3, 2012 | By Surur

Talking about advertising fails, on AT&T’s website the much lauded HTC Titan is currently being promoted with a flash animation as running Android 2.2.

The other defining features of the handset is similarly murdered – the 4.7 inch screen is replaced with a 3.8 inch one, and the 8 megapixel camera with a 5 megapixel one.

See the flash animation, hopefully before AT&T yanks it, here.

Thanks Leon for the tip.

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T-Mobile Austria Photoshopped iPhone Facebook app onto the Nokia Lumia 710

February 3, 2012 | By Surur

Bildschirmfoto_2012-02-03_um_18.29.53.png.scaled1000 T-Mobile Austria thought it would be a good idea to remind buyers that Windows Phone 7 does have a Facebook app, and ran this add showing a father interrogating his daughter’s boyfriend based on his Facebook profile.

So far so good, but the creators of the ad also felt for some reason the official Windows Phone 7 Facebook app was not familiar enough, and Photoshopped the iOS Facebook app onto the very Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 710.

Showing that Windows Phone has the essential apps that users expect on the platform is a great idea, but showing off the distinctive UI of Windows Phone 7 is another, and we hope that future Windows Phone marketing will work a bit harder at doing this.

Via hypertechtronium.com

Thanks Martin for the tip.

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Microsoft posts guide for moving your Google Docs to SkyDrive

February 3, 2012 | By Surur

While Google is busy scaring users by violating their privacy, Microsoft is taking advantage by showing Google Docs users how easy it is to move to a Microsoft alternative – Skydrive and Office 365.

From the video it seems its no more than a 3 step process, and of course also means you will be able to edit your docs using the native client on Windows Phone 7 also.

Via YouTube.com

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$250 Rogers Canada Nokia Lumia 710 is pentaband and works on WIND and Mobilicity also

February 1, 2012 | By Surur

Pentaband handsets was part of the promise of a Nokia Windows Phone 7 handset. Unfortunately the Nokia Lumia 800 did not deliver, but it seems the super cheap Nokia Lumia 710 is a true Nokia handset, and supports all 5 common HSDPA frequencies, including the 1700 MHz AWS from T-Mobile and also small Canadian carriers WIND and Mobilicity.

The above video shows pretty simply how to get an unlocked Lumia 710 on WIND using a simple SIM cutter – finding the mysterious unlocking website will be left as an exercise for the reader.

WIND does not currently offer any Windows Phones or the iPhone, and this development will provide a great alternative to the limited range of Android handsets on the network.

If Nokia continues to produce high quality cheap Windows Phones they may even do a little bit to undermine the lock carriers have on us due to contracts, which would be great all by itself.

Video by BallerOtaku, thanks Mark for the tip.

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Need for Speed:Hot Pursuit previewed

February 1, 2012 | By Surur

Pocketnow have had an early preview of the new Xbox Live Must Have Game, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and have posted the demo above.

They note unlike previous games you are now allowed to play as the police also, which which affects how your progress through the 48 career events in the game.

The app should hit Marketplace today at $4.99.

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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