NAVIGON for Windows Phone Now Available

NAVIGON has just been released for Windows Phone 7. There are two versions available, one for the USA for an introductory price of $29.99 until 11/15/11 when it will be regular price $49.99 and one for Europe for $69.99. One unique feature of Navigon is the augmented reality function Reality Scanner, which provides an instant and effortless way of identifying nearby destinations while on foot. You can also select address information directly from the phone’s …

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Hawaii Five-O Gets Some New Windows Phones

Hawaii Five-O is a few episodes into their second season, and along with some new characters, we also see some new Windows Phones. In last week’s episode called “Kame’e”, we see that SEAL Lt. Commander Joe White (Terry O’Quinn) happens to us an HTC HD7 as his mobile phone and Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park) has upgraded to a new device. Kona has switched to a Dell Venue Pro which she keeps in her boot, but …

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Weather Channel App Updated With Mango Features

The Weather Channel is one of the more popular Weather apps for Windows Phone, but they weren’t the first to offer Mango support. Today, the app has finally seen an update which brings some great improvements to Windows Phone 7.5 Mango users. First off, you get fast app switching support so that the app doesn’t have to reload everything every time you switch to it using the task switching. General navigation of the app seems …

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Windows Phone’s Exchange 2003 Reply Issue

A bug has been discovered when using Windows Phone 7.5 Mango with an old Exchange 2003 account that could be damaging in the workplace when trying to keep track of a conversation. When you reply to an email, normally the text of the original email is included at the bottom, and you’ll see it at the bottom of your email reply on Windows Phone 7.5. The problem is that when you send it through an …

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Windows Phone’s Cloud Companion Services (Video)

With the recent update from Windows Phone 7 to Windows Phone 7.5, Microsoft’s Windows Phone cloud-based companion sites have also seen some updates. First off WindowsPhone.com has seen a redesign, but that page just kind of gives you basic information. The new “Marketplace” link at the top is quite useful though. That will let you browse through all the apps available for Windows Phone. You can also purchase them right there and send a link …

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Using Pandora with IE9 on Windows Phone (Video)

When Windows Phone 7 was originally announced it was also announced that Pandora would be creating an app for it. That never happened, but now that Windows Phone 7.5 includes a fully HTML5-compatible hardware-accelerated version of Internet Explorer 9 and now that Pandora.com is HTML5 compliant, you can just log-in and play Pandora playlists through your phone’s web browser. You might find the HTML5 site to be a little buggy, but if you try skipping …

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