Category: Windows Phone

If you’ve been looking for a good “Breakout” style game for Windows Phone 7, IonBallEX might be it. This is the usual bouncing-ball type game where you’ve got a paddle at the bottom to deflect the ball in different directions in order to get it to break all of the objects on the screen (or accomplish other goals). Or at least, it starts off that way. You’ll also have to use the bouncing ball to …

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Microsoft has announced fourteen new Xbox LIVE games for Windows Phone that will be coming to the Windows Phone Marketplace in the coming months. Most of these games are the silly cartoon type that we’ve become accustomed to on mobile phones. The really good games (like “Splinter Cell: Conviction”) for mature audiences only will require Mango’s new support for parental controls. The fourteen new games announced are: “Beards & Beaks: Cave Area” The turf war …

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Microsoft just announced the availability of two new FREE Xbox Live games for Windows Phone 7. If you’ve been using Windows Phone 7 for a while you know that for a long time the only free Xbox LIVE game available was Flowers. Now you can download Minesweeper and/or Sudoku as well! Both support Xbox LIVE acheivements and leaderboards, both have a similar panoramic design and simplistic game-play interface design, and both are advertisement supported. The …

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For those who are using Windows Phone Mango, or those who are looking forward to using Windows Phone Mango later this year, you’ll probably want to find an easy way to access the cloud-based free 25Gb SkyDrive that Windows Phone is so well integrated with. Sure, the SkyDrive website works pretty well, but why isn’t it just fully integrated with Windows via some sort of app that you just sign in to? Unfortunately there is …

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While many will agree that Windows Phone 7 doesn’t really need custom ROMs to make it better (since it’s easy to uninstall anything you don’t want), a lot of people still enjoy pushing the limits of their smartphones. Today we hear that Ansar of XDA-Developers has created the first custom ROM for the HTC HD7 using the DFT hard SPL tools. The custom ROM doesn’t add a huge amount of differentiation, but it does make …

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If you’re looking for more video footage of the first Windows Phone Mango device to be announced, Dovellonsky has sent us a few links for your viewing pleasure. We’ve got a Windows Phone commercial from KDDI that shows off some very cool graphics and then fades to the 3 versions of the Fujitsu Toshiba IS12T at the end. Then there’s a video from MobileGazette that goes through some of the device’s capabilities. Finally, we’ve got …

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