Beards & Beaks is one of the first original games to come out of Microsoft’s Game Studios for Windows Phone 7 and it’s also the first to offer in-game purchasing of add-on content. The free trial of the game gives you a small handful of easy levels to play and if you like that, the full game costs $2.99 for a much larger set of levels to play (in addition to Xbox LIVE connectivity and …
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AT&T LG Thrill 4G Software Tour (Video)
The LG Thrill 4G is very similar to the LG Optimus 3D. It’s running Android 2.2 Froyo out of the box and not everything makes use of the 3D screen technology. There is a special 3D launcher that is activated from a button on the side and 3D enabled applications appear separately by default in the application tray. This is also running LG’s custom flavor of Android, so you’ll see some significant differences from the …
Continue readingAT&T LG Thrill 4G Hardware Tour (Video)
The LG Thrill 4G features a dual-core 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor aided by a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, 512 MB of RAM and 8GB of ROM storage. The screen is 4.3″, 800×480 pixel glasses-free auto-stereoscopic 3D. The dual five megapixel cameras on the back can record 1080p 2D (30 fps) and 720p 3D (30 fps) video. There’s also a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls and conferencing in addition to the usual suspects: accelerometer, …
Continue readingSpb Shell 3D for Symbian (Video)
We’ve been fans of Spb’s shell UI replacements for a while. They started original on Windows Mobile back in 2007 (See our review of version 1.5), but have since expanded to offering shell replacements for Android and Symbian as well. Today we’ve got a new version of Spb Shell 3D for Symbian and we’ve got it running on the Nokia N8 with Symbian Anna. Spb Mobile Shell has evolved quite a lot over the years, …
Continue readingMango Multi-Task Toggler in the Works
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango features new multi-tasking and fast-app switching that will help you quickly switch between recent applications as well as allow certain things to keep running in the background. While there is a spot in the settings for you to selectively choose which apps can run in the background, these new features could still affect your battery life. XDA-Developers user “GoodDayToDie” has decided to make a home-brew Mango app that toggles the multitasking …
Continue readingMicrosoft’s Response to the Privacy Lawsuit
Last week a lot of news sites picked up a story from Reuters about a Michican woman who is sueing Microsoft for collecting location data without the user’s permission. A number of our readers found that odd since Windows Phone always asks for permission whenever there is anything remotely related to privacy concerns. The litigation claims that the camera software transmits GPS cooridnants to Microsoft when active and without the user’s permission, so I decided …
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