Apple is expected to announce the next version of iOS on June 10th at the WWDC. Last year with the announcement of iOS 5, many smartphone users who have experience with more than one platform realized that a lot of iOS 5’s new features were copied directly from competing mobile operating systems such as Android and Windows Phone. The drop-down notifications tray is a direct copy from Android’s method of consolidating notifications, and the new …
Continue readingCategory: Pocketnow
Xbox Video Coming to Windows Phone 8
At E3, Microsoft kind of renamed their Zune music service to Xbox Music. It’s pretty safe to assume that support for this new renamed service will come to Windows Phone 8 just with a few minor rebranding changes. However, it looks like Windows Phone 8 will finally get Movies/TV support in the Marketplace. Marc Whitten of Microsoft shared a letter on Major Nelson’s Blog that mentions some of the new Xbox services that will be …
Continue readingWindows 8 Release Preview on a Tablet
There’s a new build of Windows 8 available called the Windows 8 Release Preview. We thought we’d take a look at how it works on our old HP TouchSmart TM2 tablet PC. Take a look at the video below to check it out. Not a whole lot has changed within the primary operating system other than a nicer app launching animation. We still have the customizable live tiles on the start screen, but with the …
Continue readingDon’t Forget About Your Free Lumia 710 Cover
Nokia has been having a promotion where if you buy a Nokia Lumia 710 before today, May 31, 2012, then you can mail in the reciept, proof of purchase, and a printed form and they’ll mail you a new battery cover in the color of your choice. Currently the Lumia 710 is only available in black or white, so with a free color cover, you can change it up to something more interesting like cyan, …
Continue readingA Look at the Windows Phone Hacking Scene
Back around the turn of the century, Windows Mobile had a very large hacking community. This was very important because many stock devices shipped with annoying and frustrating bugs. I remember the HTC Himalaya (XDA II), one of the very first touch screen Windows Mobile phones with functional Bluetooth and an internal antenna. It shipped with a limitation of support for only 32 processes which quickly were used up by most of the built in …
Continue readingLatest Trend: Windows Phone Cakes
For some reason it seems people like to bake cakes that look like Windows Phones. Quite a few have appeared on the Windows Phone Facebook page in the “Fan Art” section and it looks like Microsoft has decided to start a little contest to encourage even more Windows Phone themed cakes. The top three with the most “Likes” for their Windows Phone themed cake photo wins a new Windows Phone for themselves. The submission deadline is 5/30/12 and voting ends …
Continue reading