After Long Zheng saw those first press-shots of the Nokia 800 Windows Phone that is expected to be announced next week, he noticed that the images are using Nokia’s “Pure” font style for the text as opposed to Microsoft’s usual Segoe font originally designed for Windows Phone. As we know, Nokia has special privileges when it comes to modifying the Windows Phone operating system due to their deal with Microsoft. Changing the font to something …
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Jet Car Stunts Xbox LIVE Game for Windows Phone (Video)
This week’s new Windows Phone Xbox LIVE game comes out tomorrow, and it’s called Jet Car Stunts. You may have already heard of this game as it’s pretty popular on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, but now it’s on Windows Phone 7 as well. We’ve got a little demo of the game on our device a few hours before it’s released to everyone else, so check out the video below to see how it works. …
Continue readingFive New Xbox LIVE Windows Phone Games Shown at Comic-Con
At Comic-Con in New York this passed weekend, the Xbox exhibit was extremely popular. There was a 2 hour line if you wanted to try out Mass Effect 3, but while you were waiting in line an Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone representative might have come by and let you play a few new mobile games on his phone while you waited. These were unreleased Windows Phone Xbox games too. I thought that was a …
Continue readingThe Future of Microsoft TellMe on Windows Phone
While Apple’s new “Siri” speech interface on the iPhone 4S may have a few more features and a little more intelligence than Windows Phone’s current speech interface, Microsoft isn’t standing still has been working on similar features for a while now. They put together this video that was released months ago of how a future version of Windows Phone will work with a more natural, personalized, and adaptive speech interface. Microsoft also shows how this …
Continue readingT-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Amaze 4G Launch Party
T-Mobile throws some pretty good parties! Last night we attended the T-Mobile 4G Factory Live launch event for the new Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC Amaze 4G. In addition to T-Mobile, the party was also hosted by Nur Khan of Electric Room, Rassi Mazdack of Milk Gallery, and Hillary Kerr & Katherine Power of “Who What Wear”. About 500 people attended the party including a few A-List celebrities such as Khloe Kardashian, Chace Crawford, …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.5 Mango Lets You Correct Bing (Video)
In our Windows phone Mango preview device there’s a nice new feature in the menu for Bing locations that lets you suggest changes or corrections. It only shows up in searches for locations really, but it’s a good way to easily help Bing fix some of the errors or recent changes to local places that you may come across. When you tap the “suggest changes” command, it will load a webpage with fields relating to …
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