While you may have already seen some of the new speech interface features in our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview, we thought it would be fun to give you an even more in-depth demonstration of what exactly you can do without having to touch or look at your phone. While you may have already seen some of the new speech interface features in our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview, we thought it would …
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Google+ Mobile Site Now Supported on Windows Phone
While we have heard that Google might be working on a Google Plus app for Windows Phone 7, today they’ve updated their mobile site to actually support Internet Explorer 7/8 based browser on current Windows Phone 7 devices. Previously, Google+ (plus.google.com) complained that it no longer supported the browser by Windows Phone and suggested using a modern desktop browser. The basic mobile view of Google Plus on Windows Phone 7 noticably lacks some features you …
Continue readingTentacles Xbox Live Game Appears in Marketplace
One of the new Windows Phone Xbox Live games that we saw announced at E3 is now available. Tentacles is about a microscopic creature named Lemmy who must make his way through the body of a scientist named Dr. Phluff. Lemmy has 4 tentacles that you can move one at a time in order to navigate by grabbing onto the sides of the walls or attack enemies. Tentacles seems to be a quite unique game …
Continue readingThe Guy In Charge of the People Hub
The Windows Phone Youtube channel recently posted a cool video interview of Greg, the product manager in charge of the People Hub for Windows Phone 7. In Greg’s video you’ll get to hear a little bit about him as well as some thoughts and features that went into the People Hub experience for Windows Phone’s forthcoming “Mango” update. For example, things like the pinning a live tile of a person to a start screen lets …
Continue readingHow to Make Custom Ringtones for Windows Phone Mango
Many people are missing being able to add custom ringtones to Windows Phone 7. With the “Mango” update coming to Windows Phones later this fall, you’ll finally be able to add your own ringtones. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly an intuitive or straight forward process, at least not at this time. There’s still at least a few months before Mango is released so things may change. First off you’ll need the new Zune 4.8 beta software …
Continue readingFree Beards & Beaks Avatar Prop (If You’re Lucky)
A little while back there was a promotion on the Xbox 360 console where you could get a cool Windows Phone 7 prop for your Xbox Live Avatar. I don’t know about you, but I was pretty jealous since I don’t even own an Xbox and wasn’t able to get a special Windows Phone prop. Well, today I noticed on twitter that the Microsoft Games Studio’s PlayXBLA Twitter account was giving away codes to a …
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