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Xbox Live Indie Game Devs Soon to Bring Quality Games To The WP7! Part II “Porting is easy..Right?”

August 9, 2011 2 Comments

The first article started with select highlighted, nominated Indie Games Uprising game studios that are looking forward to having their games ported over to the Windows Phone platform. This article, to be frank, is full of a lot of “BUTS”. Indie game developers can do so much on their own when it comes to creating […]

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Windows Phone ‘Tango’ Focus is “Hitting the Lower-Price Point For Windows Phone”

August 9, 2011 No Comments

You might have heard of the ‘Tango’ update, which is said to be the update that will be the Mango updates successor. There isn’t much information available yet regarding Tango but CNet’s Mary Jo Foley found out just a little bit to tide us over until Microsoft begins making official announcements about ‘Tango’. An anonymous […]

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Nokia Sea Ray Shows Up on AT&T

August 9, 2011 No Comments

The screenshot above is from DSL Report’s Mobile Speed test. If you look closely though there is bigger news hidden between the lines. Nokia’s first WindowsPhone, the Nokia Sea Ray is featured on this list running HSDPA via AT&T. 1211mycingular.net Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows Phone OS 7.5;Trident/5.0; IEMobile/9.0; Nokia; SeaRay) Will the Nokia Sea […]

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Molly Wood Faces Her First Week in the Windows Phone Challenge (updated)

August 9, 2011 No Comments

Cnet reporter, Molly Wood has accepted and began her Windows Phone Challenge. Brandon Watson challenged Molly Woods to try a Windows Phone 7 device running Mango and see if Windows Phone gives her everything she was looking for in a smartphone but had never found. If she isn’t satisfied with Windows Phone then Brandon Watson will donate […]

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Hack: Quick Way to Add Japanese and Other Languages to Mango Beta

August 9, 2011 No Comments

The Windows Phone Mango update will add tons of features that really make it a heavy hitter in the mobile market. One of the most important add ons to WP7 via Mango are the different languages that it supports. Japanese and other languages will be making their way onto Windows Phone soon but there is […]

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Microsoft Shows Us The Power Behind It’s Cloud Services (Data Center Video Tour)

August 8, 2011 No Comments

This Microsoft made video shows off the power behind some of Microsoft’s services like Xbox Live and Bing. If you have about 10 minutes to spare and are interested in where all this great information is stored  – you should definetly take a look at this great video. “This video will provide a deeper look […]

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Fruit Ninja Kinect Coming this Week

August 8, 2011 No Comments

  Fruit Ninja, the wildly popular mobile game is making its way to Xbox 360. It was announced a couple of months ago but it was announced today that Fruit Ninja will be available in the Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace this Wednesday. Microsooft’s Major Nelson made the announcement today via his Twitter account. In the […]

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Developer: Video Guide to Creating Augmented Reality Apps on WP7 Mango

August 8, 2011 No Comments

Windows Phone Mango AR Part 1 from Sangar ANNADORAI on Vimeo.   Microsoft Singapore has put together a guide to help developers create Layer-like Augmented Reality apps on WP7. Augmented Reality will be an actual reality on Windows Phone as soon as Mango is released. A second video shows developers step by step on how […]

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WhatsApp Searching For C# Developer: App Coming to Windows Phone?

August 7, 2011 No Comments

WhatsApp, the very popular group messaging service with over 15 million users is searching for a client-side developer with skills including C# development. Since Windows Phone is the only mobile OS using C#, it only makes sense to assume that WhatsApp is making the jump to Windows Phone finally. Here is the job posting: Client […]

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Karios Games Holding Contest for Rare ‘I Love Windows Phone’ Stickers

August 7, 2011 No Comments

Karios Games the creators of MonsterUp and Galaxium are holding a pretty cool – easy to enter contest to win Rare ‘I Love Windows Phone’ Stickers. Check out the details below…. Win one of the two amazing and hard to find “I Love Windows Phone” stickers. Here’s what you have to do: For the first […]

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Fujitsu Windows Phone IS12T Launch on August 25th Official

KDDI has finally admitted that the Fujitsu Windows Phone IS12T will be sold on Thursday (August 25th). Not only...

LG E906: Leaked Images of New Windows Phone Running Mango

Last month we covered a WiFi Interoperbilitly certifification from earlier this year for an LG E906. Nothing more was...