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PixelTV it is a simple movie maker!

February 4, 2012 | By Stiml2

PixelTV it is a simple movie maker! PixelTV allows you to create fun movie in your hand.

Express yourself in 108 pixels and 24 colors and share a movie with the world! Create your own pixel TV.

PixelTV in Hot Apps by MS Channel 9

PixelTV is $0.99 with a free trial. Trial version limit up to 10 movies’ plays.

Get app in Marketplace here.

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New pictures of ‘new’ Sony Ericsson Windows Phone confirms it is the old one

January 19, 2012 | By Surur

se7 NokiaWP.net have released some more pictures of their Sony Ericsson Windows Phone prototype, and the pictures confirm the handset is the same as the cancelled device which first leaked in March 2011.

A picture of the device booting up also proves the handset is not running Mango, but an older version of Windows Phone, as it still has the round Windows Phone logo. This should disabuse people of the notion that the device is still under development.

The Sony Ericsson Julie would have been one of the better keyboarded Windows Phone 7 handsets, with 16 GB storage and a reasonable 4 inch screen, which makes it a pity it was never released.

By today’s standards however the handset will at the very least need a thinner form factor.

Sony Ericsson (now just Sony) has just suffered a 20% YoY drop in phone sales in the 4th quarter due to intense competition in the Android sphere, where only Samsung appearing to be doing very well. Maybe it is time for Sony Ericsson to rethink their Android-only strategy.

See more pictures at NokiaWP.net here.

Thanks Juddy for the tip.

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Windows Phone only second to the iPhone in customer satisfaction

January 10, 2012 | By Surur

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The latest Changewave survey of 4000 North American Consumers have found once again that Windows Phone 7 users are extraordinarily satisfied with their handsets, with 55% Very Satisfied with their handsets.

The number is second only to the iPhone, with 75%, and ahead of Android handsets with 47%.

RIM only manages 22%, with only 2% of consumers planning to buy one in the next 3 months.

Bringing up the rear are Windows Mobile handsets, with only 12% very satisfied. The combined rate for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone increased to 32%, up 8 points.

Changewave notes that the high customer satisfaction rates for Windows Phone has not translated into sustained momentum in term of buyer preference. I suspect it is a bad taste from Windows Mobile which may be the issue.

Read the full report at Changewave here.

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Samsung adds Windows Phone 7 MOVL Smart TV support

January 9, 2012 | By Surur

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Samsung has its own Smart Connected TV platform for creating apps which work across mobile devices and TVs also.

The MOVL Connect Platform allows developers to build multi-screen, multi-user, cross-platform apps with tools like HTML, JavaScript, Java (Android), ObjectiveC (iOS), Flash (AS2, AS3). The Platform establishes the infrastructure between the TV and the mobile device controllers and enables one to easily transfer data between both the host and the controllers.

Until very recently the service only supported iOS, Android and web Apps, but it appears the company has recently added Windows Phone 7 support, if the icon on their page is anything to go by.

Hopefully we will soon see some Windows Phone 7 apps which communicate accross both the big and small screen which do not rely on Microsoft for its 3 screen functionality. I expect we will hear more at CES soon.

Read more about the technology at connect.movl.com.

Thanks Ahmad for the tip.

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Windows Phone looks pretty great on a 10 inch screen

January 2, 2012 | By Surur

Even after Microsoft unveiled their Windows 8 tablet strategy, there are still some who feel Windows Phone 7 would have resulted in a quicker time to market and a better user experience than the hybrid Windows 7/Metro combination we are expecting in 6-9 months time.

The SocialEbola developer, creator of Windows Phone 7 apps such as Fail ++ and Urban Dictionary 7, have posted a demo of the Windows Phone 7 emulator running on a Magic Touch secondary USB touch screen, demonstrating the UI works pretty well at that scale.

See more about the hack at SocialEbola here.

Via Engadget.com

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Verizon was in the running for a LTE Windows Phone, but turned it down

December 29, 2011 | By Surur

verizon We posted what was an unverified rumour 2 days ago about AT&T getting the Nokia Lumia 900 with LTE and Verizon not.

With Thurrott now revealing that Verizon will not be getting any LTE Windows Phone 7 units the rumour is now on a bit more solid ground, meaning the rest of it is probably also correct.

According to the rumour the Nokia Lumia 900 with LTE was pitched at Verizon, but the carrier turned it down. It seems now Verizon has turned down all high end Windows Phone 7 handsets.

Our anonymous tipster said the CDMA carrier may be back for a Apollo/Windows Phone 8 handset in the fall.

The rest is not from our source, but it seems Verizon does not have much faith in Windows Phone, and certainly not enough to stock a high-end handset. We suggest our readers who are thinking of buying such a device no longer waste their time on Verizon and move to AT&T, as certainly nothing will be forthcoming from them anytime soon.

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xmas! – Create and share electronic Christmas cards from your Windows Phone 7 device

December 23, 2011 | By MGL74

Hi, there!

Remember the “xmas!” app that helped you create Christmas cards last year?

“xmas!” is an an application, that will help you to be creative, when it’s coming to send Merry Christmas greetings to your friends and family. Well, You can even send greetings in 8 different languages, without the need to know each of them. 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 as 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!” features some great collection of Christmas greeting cards which you can send through MMS, E-Mail or Facebook directly from the app on your Windows Phone. Now you won’t need to get in the long que to buy cards, as you can send your own personalized cards right from your Windows Phone.
The app features the following 8 different languages, which are:

English
German
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Italian
Russian
Polish

That means, you can send greetings in 8 different languages, even if you don’t know those languages (no language barrier should stop you from wishing your loved one). So, get ahead in the line and start sending your wishes.

xmasqr We’ve shortly released several updates to it, improving the stability (1.2) and allowing to add your own photos (1.3). We hope, version 1.4 featuring Facebook integration will make it shortly trough the certification process and will be delivered directly to your phones just before Christmas.

You can grab this app directly from the Marketplace for just $1.29.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU !!!

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Microsoft Poland sending our Windows Phone chocolates to the blogs–where’s ours Microsoft?

December 22, 2011 | By Surur

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oWindowsPhone.pl has dropped us a line to let us know that Microsoft Poland has been kind enough to send them some surprise Windows Phone- themed chocolate for Christmas. The gift was accompanied by a greeting card from Tomasz Baginski Osipiaka and Ewelina from Microsoft.

This is of course a great gesture in appreciation for the social media helping spread the word about Windows Phone 7 and we are incredibly jealous.

Microsoft, where are our chocolates !?!

Via oWindowsPhone.pl

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SM Reader – ebook reader for Windows Phone 7

December 17, 2011 | By sp_sheffield

SM Reader – is an ebook reader for a mobile phone (OS: Windows Phone 7), which allows users to create their own private online library, read books on the phone, PC or other device, which support Silverlight 4. In this case, the book can be uploaded from a home PC (using the control panel, which is available on www.smreader.com for users) and public libraries from th6e phone (using the built-in browser of libraries in the phone).

SM Reader is not only a reader. First of all, it is the service. When customer download any book to the phone, it first goes to one of the pre-processing server. On this server, this book is “repackaged”: reduced images size to fit the phone screen, the text is compressed. As a result – size of books is reduced to save customer traffic (95% of the books in online library takes up less size than it had in its original format).

Current version 2.0 is now avalible on Zune Marketplace

Key features:

Supported formats: FB2, TXT, EPUB, HTML.
Ability to change the font size (6 sizes).
Customizable display pages (9 of standard templates and the ability to create your own).
Search by keyword.
Easy navigation.
Bookmarks.
Saving the state when the application exits.
Compression of images and text (reduces traffic when downloading books to your phone)
Various interface languages.
Catalogue of most popular libraries.

For more information visit www.smreader.com

Develper: seagemicro

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Bill Reminder Updated for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) including Double-Sided Live Tiles and Pop-Up Reminders

December 10, 2011 | By Kevin Schaefer

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**Now supports double-sided Live Tiles 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.

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.


Free, ad-supported version	Paid, ad-free version

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IDC thinks Nokia may sell 380,000 Lumia handsets, says carriers are “pleased by the numbers”

December 9, 2011 | By Surur

Speaking to Bloomberg, IDC analysts Francisco Jeronimo revealed their prediction for Windows Phone sales in Europe in Q4 2011, and it does not look too rosy.

The company expects only around 500,000 handsets to be sold in the region in the whole 3 months, or about 160,000 per month.

He expected the majority of sales to be in UK, with 210,000 devices going there, followed by France with 84,000 and Germany with 80,000.

The bulk of the sales are expected to go to Nokia, who they expect to sell “as many as 380,000 units”.

While the estimate appears pretty disappointing, Jeronimo appeared to feel the numbers met expectations.

“Carriers are pleased by the numbers and Nokia is trying to manage it so they won’t be left with stock and can start the year with strong demand.”

“When people talk about estimates of a million units for Nokia, I wouldn’t expect them to sell that kind of volume,” he said.“ It’s a new system and Nokia and Microsoft are investing a lot to advertise it on every street in London,” Jeronimo said. “They want to get the message right so that people will try the phone and that matters more to them than sales numbers right now.”

Again revealing shockingly low numbers, he said in Q3 2011 only 138,000 Windows Phones were sold in western Europe.

While the trebling of sales in Europe is nothing to sneeze at, I expect Nokia and Microsoft spent tens of millions advertising the Lumia handsets, making the predicted outcome a rather poor return on investment.

A brief look at Microsoft’s Windows Phone simulator on the iPhone

November 30, 2011 | By Surur

Microsoft has created a HTML based Windows Phone simulator for iPhone and Android which allows those users to get a taste of the OS simply by visiting the website.

As can be seen from the video above, the simulation is surprisingly good. Refer your Android and iPhone owning friends to the simulation at aka.ms/wpdemo.

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TrueDialer, new Smart Dialer by the TrueCaller team!

November 29, 2011 | By nami

TrueDialer is a smart dialpad which searches for your friends and contacts using a simple numeric dialpad a feature sorely missed on WP7. But as a twist, TrueDialer also connects to all the white and yellow pages of the world giving you instant access to information about people you’re about to call and even let’s you save their information with one simple click. trudialerqr

TrueDialer is optimized for a speedy startup just like your regular dialer but improved for quick searches and reinvented in a innovative way! And this is just the beginning, give it a try, you will love it!

TrueDialer can be found in Marketplace here.

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