The Verizon Galaxy Nexus is the first Ice Cream Sandwich Android phone available in the U.S. and it is highly anticipated. Here’s our unboxing of a review unit. The device comes with your usual MicroUSB cable, charging adapter, and some wired stereo headphones, along with a few booklets full of documentation. It would seem that our review unit does not include actual retail packaging since it’s so void of branding. There is an embossed Verizon …
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T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 710 Launch and Hands-On (Video)
Yesterday, Nokia announced their first Windows Phone to be available in the U.S.A. on T-Mobile and they held a little launch party in New York City where we got to preview some of the devices. The Lumia 710 will be available in January for only $49 with a 2 year contract, so it’s certainly not intended to be the premiere high-end flagship smartphone, but it could be quite enjoyable for many people who may not …
Continue readingBreeze: New Xbox LIVE Game (Video)
“Breeze” is a new free Xbox LIVE game for Windows Phone and it’s got two playing modes. You can use touch controls or tilt controls. Touch controls will create a breeze of wind to blow the little flower in the opposite direction of where you touch. The object of the game is to use the wind to blow the little flower to its checkerboard goal destination without running it into the walls or spikes that …
Continue readingDoodle God: New Xbox LIVE Game (Video)
Doodle God’s claim to fame is that it was the winner of the Bada Developers Challenge Award, and claims 15,000,000 users in the past few months of its release. Now it’s available on Windows Phone as well. The game is a puzzle type game where you have to combine “elements” in order to create new “elements” and even life. It’s a lesson in evolution, except not really since sometimes you create fictional “elements” like ghosts …
Continue readingBattle Wagon: New Xbox LIVE Game (Video)
The story behind Battle Wagon is that the Queen and her son were forced out of their kingdom on a beat up wagon. The son learned how to build a Battle Wagon to help win back his kingdom. You’ve got to build up your battle wagon with different types of battering rams, armor, wheels, canons, etc. Then you’ve got to crank up the launcher and send it down the road. Occasionally you’ll have to use …
Continue readingSkyDrive Apps for iPhone & Windows Phone
While SkyDrive is already pretty nicely integrated with Windows Phone 7.5, some people still wanted more. Today, Microsoft announces the SkyDrive app for Windows Phone as well as a version for the iPhone! It should be avialable sometime today, so keep an eye out. In Windows Phone you already have some access to SkyDrive in your Office Hub where you can see all the files there and open any Office documents, sync OneNote notebooks etc. …
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