The reason why we say it’s “sort of” official is because the Android version of Windows Live Messenger is coming from the same third party Miyowa software company that made the sort of official Windows Live Messenger for Windows Phone 7. Microsoft used to make mobile versions of Windows Live Messenger themselves for platforms like iOS, Windows Mobile 2003-6.5, Nokia Symbian, and Blackberry. For some reason, they’ve been contracting out Live Messenger mobile development to …
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Windows Phone 7’s New Build 7753 Appears Again
You might remember how some of our readers noticed a new button in a video we posted about a new version of Windows Phone 7 running on an HD2. There was a search-style icon button on the programs listing screen of a second HD7 Windows Phone that was caught in the background. Well, this time, the search button appears in Italy on an LG Optimus 7 belonging to Windows Phone Italy commenter “Huggye”. He posts …
Continue readingIM+ Coming to Windows Phone 7
While it seems to be a bit difficult for 3rd party developers to make a decent instant messaging application for Windows Phone 7, it looks like IM+ is working on it. According to the IM+ Facebook page a beta version might be available in April. We’re not sure how that will work since the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace doesn’t really have a beta-testing mode just yet. Hopefully we’ll see a full release soon since IM+ …
Continue readingAngry Birds Rio Now Available on Nokia N8 (Video)
The popular new version of Angry Birds called “Angry Birds Rio” is now available in the Nokia Ovi Store on the N8 smartphone. It costs $1.99 for the full version and there isn’t a free “Lite” version available just yet (as was available for the original Angry Birds game). The video below shows you how to find the new game in the Ovi store on the Nokia N8 and then goes through a couple of …
Continue readingSega’s Super Monkey Ball Comes to Windows Phone 7
Sega’s classic Super Monkey Ball game has just shown on in the Xbox Live section of the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. You may remember Super Monkey Ball 2 as being one of the premiere games to be shown off when the iPhone first started supporting third party applications. The original Super Monkey Ball has the same type of game play where you must tilt the phone in order to roll the monkey into the goal …
Continue readingBlackBerry Torch Review
It’s been a while since I’ve used a BlackBerry. My first experience was with the BlackBerry 8820 a few years ago. Today, we’ve got the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 to review, which RIM calls its best BlackBerry phone ever. It’s the first device with the new BlackBerry 6 operating system, and the software design is much better than it has been in the past — but is that enough, and are the differences significant? BOX …
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