When some one says their phone has a dual-core processor, that sounds very impressive. It means one side of the processor can be doing one thing while the other side is doing another. It’s very advantageous to multitasking scenarios, provided the operating system is designed to handle the two processors well enough to take full advantage of them. Windows Phone 7 is not designed to take full advantage of multiple processors or multi-threaded applications at …
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Sat Rad Player Streams Satellite Radio in the Background
The new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango compatible apps are just pouring in today. This time we’ve got the Sat Rad Player version 3. This is an app that lets you log in with your Sirius or XM Satellite radio subscription account and stream audio from any of the channels available to you. The freshly updated Mango version brings some excellent new features including the ability to listen over Bluetooth as well as the ability to …
Continue readingFlixster Updated for Windows Phone Mango
Today Flixster saw an update that brings some very cool Windows Phone 7.5 Mango features to the app. If you’re familiar with Flixster already, you’ll know that it offers access to showtimes, movie trailers and Rotten Tomatoes reviews. With the recent upgrade to version 1.6, it now supports fast app switching in Mango and Bing search integration. That means if you’re searching for a movie using Bing, you can swipe over to the “apps” tab …
Continue readingBeards & Beaks Add-on Content
Beards & Beaks is one of the first original games to come out of Microsoft’s Game Studios for Windows Phone 7 and it’s also the first to offer in-game purchasing of add-on content. The free trial of the game gives you a small handful of easy levels to play and if you like that, the full game costs $2.99 for a much larger set of levels to play (in addition to Xbox LIVE connectivity and …
Continue readingAT&T LG Thrill 4G Software Tour (Video)
The LG Thrill 4G is very similar to the LG Optimus 3D. It’s running Android 2.2 Froyo out of the box and not everything makes use of the 3D screen technology. There is a special 3D launcher that is activated from a button on the side and 3D enabled applications appear separately by default in the application tray. This is also running LG’s custom flavor of Android, so you’ll see some significant differences from the …
Continue readingAT&T LG Thrill 4G Hardware Tour (Video)
The LG Thrill 4G features a dual-core 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor aided by a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, 512 MB of RAM and 8GB of ROM storage. The screen is 4.3″, 800×480 pixel glasses-free auto-stereoscopic 3D. The dual five megapixel cameras on the back can record 1080p 2D (30 fps) and 720p 3D (30 fps) video. There’s also a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls and conferencing in addition to the usual suspects: accelerometer, …
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