Everyone’s anxiously waiting for the huge Windows Phone 7 upgrade to arrive, both in terms of the upgrade to existing phones as well as new phones with new hardware features. Eric Hautala just posted to the Windows Phone blog that it will be coming in the next week or so. That’s kind of vague because it sounds like it will be the same kind of thing where certain carriers and certain devices will get the …
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Implode! for Windows Phone (Video)
This week’s new Xbox LIVE game for Windows Phone 7 is “Implode!” It’s a chalkboard-drawing-style physics puzzle game where you have to drag and drop little bundles of dynamite onto certain areas of a stacked structure in order to make the whole thing crash into a pile that sits below the dotted line. It’s a simple concept, but of course the structures get more complicated as you progress through the levels. The game also has …
Continue readingLG Thrill 4G Review (AT&T)
The LG Thrill 4G is naturally the AT&T version of the LG Optimus 3D, which we previously reviewed. It’s designed to compete with the HTC EVO 3D on Sprint as a GSM flavored Android phone featuring 3D imaging and display technology. The Thrill 4G also features three technologies that are “dual” in nature; a dual-core processor, dual-channel data transport and memory, and dual-memory chips. Of course, you’ve got the dual cameras for 3D photo and …
Continue readingWhy Doesn’t Windows Phone 7 Support Dual-Core CPUs?
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 …
Continue readingSat 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 …
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