One of the things that we didn’t get to see in our Ultimate Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Preview was the visual voicemail enhancements since I don’t think it was set up on the AT&T account we were using. As it turns out, when you have voicemail messages waiting and you tap your “phone” live tile, you’ll see a “Voicemail” pivot along the same axis as the call history. In the Voicemail section you’ll see the …
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Kik Messenger Now Available for Windows Phone
Kik is one of those cross platform propietary instant messaging applications that is an attempt at giving the Blackberry Messenger experience to a wider audience. In addition to offering your standard instant messaging features, Kik will show you when the person you’re talking to is typing a message, when they’ve recieved a message, and when they’ve read a message. Kik also nicely supports pop-up push notifications as well as a live tile so that you’ll …
Continue readingHow to get Custom Ringtones into Windows Phone Mango
It turns out there’s a bit of a secret to getting custom ringtones to sync over to Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. The Windows Team Blog has just posted about it, and it’s certainly not intuitive, but at least it will work. What you have to do is make a small WMA/MP3 file that’s less than 1Mb, and less than 39 seconds long with no DRM. Then in Zune on the desktop, you have right-click the …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7.5 Mango Landscape Support (Video)
Back when the original Windows Phone 7 was released, one of the most annoying things about it was the lack of landscape view support especially on devices like the HTC Pro 7, HTC Arrive, and LG Quantum which included a landscape sliding keyboard. Unfortunately landscape support was very inconsistent. What has changed in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango? Well, it turns out, not so much. We’ve been told that Mango will include enhanced landscape support, but …
Continue readingGPS Tuner’s Navigation App Now With Offline Maps
We were pretty impressed with GPS Tuner’s original Turn-by-Turn Navigation app for Windows Phone 7 which nicely gave us voice prompts while driving to a destination. Today the app was updated in the Marketplace with some excellent new features. The big one is support for downloading offline maps! If you set a destination, then go to the menu at the bottom and tap “Download Map”, you’ll see a nice little interface that will allow you …
Continue readingRemap Your Windows Phone 7 Hard Keys
Being able to remap hardware keys to perform functions that are more important to your personally has been something that Windows Mobile was capable of since the last decade. It was great for having easy tactile-access to applications and functions without having to look at the device’s screen. These days, customizable hardware keys have become practically extinct, however YukiXDA from XDA-Developers has discovered a way to edit the keybdpdd_htc.dll file on HTC Windows Phone ROMs …
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