WP7.hu has posted a large number of screen captures from the leaked Windows Phone 8 SDK emulator which reveals plenty of new Windows Phone 8 features. You’ll notice a few very interesting additions. First up is the “Backup” settings which lets you save things to Microsoft’s cloud service automatically attached to your Microsoft ID. There’s an option for saving your app list + settings which will make it easy to reinstall all of your apps to …
Continue readingCategory: Pocketnow
Windows Phone 8 Consumer Features to be Unveiled
Chinese Windows Phone site, WPDang reports that the Windows Phone 8 consumer-oriented features will be unveiled at Nokia World on September 5, 2012. Up until now we’ve only seen a handful of developer-oriented features at the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco. We know there will be a new start screen, a new web browser, a shared Windows 8 core, and a number of new ways to build apps, but that’s about it. If Windows …
Continue readingXbox Live on Windows Phone, iOS, and Android (Video)
If you’re one of the many fans of the Xbox 360, you may already know that there are a number of Xbox LIVE companion apps for different smartphone platforms. You’ll find some nice Xbox LIVE apps for Windows Phone, Apple’s iOS and Android, but they all have varying degrees of Xbox integration. Windows Phone probably has the best support for the Xbox 360, but it’s split throughout the Games Hub and two other apps called …
Continue readingOffice 2013 Preview on a Windows 8 Tablet PC (Video)
Last week a free preview version of Office 2013 was released for Windows 7 and Windows 8 Preview. We decided to install it on our Windows 8 Release Preview release equipped HP TouchSmart TM2 Tablet and take it for a spin. The coolest part of Office 2013 is the new OneNote MX which is a Metro-style version of OneNote that is fully compatible with the new Windows 8 interface. It doesn’t have all of the …
Continue readingWhich Looks Better? A Comparison Between Popular Apps on Android and iOS
Remember when we showed you a series of comparison photos between a number of popular apps on iOS and Windows Phone? And then we showed you another series comparing Windows Phone with Android? In those galleries, it was clear that Windows Phone’s design language was much different from Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. In this series of images you’ll see more of the same popular apps and how they differ on iOS and Android. In many …
Continue readingNokia Drive 3.0 Now Available
Nokia’s free GPS Navigation software available for Nokia Lumia devices tonight has seen its 3.0 update which brings some great new features. The feature I’ve been waiting for is the ability to pin destinations to your start screen. It’s a bit difficult to find, but if you go to the Set Destinations window and then tap and hold on a location in the History or Favorites listing you’ll find the “Pin to Start” option. That …
Continue reading