If you look at user reviews for any Windows Phone available today you will be hard pressed to find any with less than a 4 star average rating. The majority of users who buy these phones rate them very highly. Only once in a while you’ll find some one that returns a Windows Phone and rates it poorly because it doesn’t do something esoteric like Bluetooth file transfer (which may have been useful in 2005) …
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Apple Co-Founder Very Impressed by Windows Phone 7
We heard a while back that the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, was lining up for a Nokia Lumia back when it was originally released, and now he lets everyone know what he thinks about it in an interview from aNewDomain. Here are a few good quotes: Just for looks and beauty, I definitely favor the Windows 7 Phone over Android. I’m kinda shocked how every screen is much more beautiful than the same apps …
Continue readingWhy SkyDrive is So Much Better Than Google Drive
This week, some new upgrades to SkyDrive were revealed just before Google revealed their “Drive” cloud storage service. Many sites gave the Google Drive service a lot more coverage than the SkyDrive upgrade, but most users and commenters were able to realize that SkyDrive is much better than Google Drive, DropBox, and many other cloud services. Sure, there are a few things that it doesn’t do as well, and those may be deal-breakers for a …
Continue readingDo We Still Need Skeuomorphs?
First lets talk about what skeuomorphs are. It’s a new buzz word used to describe design elements that have no purpose in their current form but are used to give a familiarity to something from the past. Skeuomorph design elements are extremely prevalent in Apple’s software designs. In iPhoto for iOS you’ll see your photo albums represented as books sitting on shelves with pictures on them. You’ll see pictures of paint brushes and pencils to …
Continue readingWindows Phone 8 Fan Concept Art Looks Feasible
A designer and Windows Phone fan by the name of Jonas Dahnert has created some mockups of a Nokia styled device running what he envisions as a possible design for Windows Phone 8. You’ll see the new Windows 8 logo as well as new icons for search and back which more closely echo the design style of Windows 8. The designer calls this a Nokia Lumia 920 and his renders are very nicely done. Of …
Continue readingKeep Your Free 25GB SkyDrive
Microsoft has announced today that the free storage amount for SkyDrive accounts will be reduced to 7GB. It turns out that 99.94% of users take advantage of much less than 7GB in their SkyDrive accounts, so most of that space goes unused anyway. If you already are using more than 4GB of SkyDrive storage then don’t worry, you still have 25GB of storage for free. If you are one of the 99% who is using …
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