iStunt 2 is this week’s new Xbox LIVE game for Windows Phone! This is another cool game from miniclips.com. You can play a similar version online as well as on iOS and Android platforms. The game involves tilt controls to control your snowboarder as well as some on-screen buttons and gestures for doing special tricks. Sliding your finger up will make your character jump, while sliding down and holding will make him crouch. Two corner …
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Windows Phone Has Turned Me Into an Xbox Gamer
I know that integrating Xbox LIVE features and gaming into Windows Phone 7 was supposed to be a way to entice some of the millions of Xbox 360 owners into switching to Microsoft’s new mobile operating system for their smartphone needs. It seems to have had the opposite effect on me however. It all started when the Samsung Focus first came out and there was a deal to get a free copy of ilomilo for …
Continue readingProject Detroit: Custom Windows Phone and Tablet Car Integration
Cars are a big part of being mobile. Only recently have we started seeing mobile phones and computers really begin integrating with the automotive experience. Microsoft and West Coast Customs, tricked out a 2012 Ford Mustang with the aesthetic of a 1967 fastback as well as high-tech custom Windows Phone apps, Windows 8 in-dash touch tablets, Xbox 360, Azure, Ford Sync, Bing and external Kinect sensors never before used in automotive applications. The Windows Phone …
Continue readingPES 2011 Retired. PES 2012 Now Available.
Today a new version of Pro Evolution Soccer is released as an Xbox LIVE game for Windows Phone. It may look familiar because there was once a Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 version already in the Windows Phone Marketplace. That version has since been removed without notice and today is replaced with the 2012 version. Owners of the 2011 version will have to buy the new one and will not ever be able to re-install the …
Continue readingNokia’s Redesign of the Windows Phone UI
We all know that back when the Nokia and Microsoft partnership was announced, Nokia was given special rights to alter the user interface as they saw fit. At least with the current Lumia devices, we didn’t see much of a redesign at all, however we have recently come across some work by one of Nokia R&D’s senior graphic designers (who has also worked on the Nokia 808 PureView) that clearly shows at least some one …
Continue readingAudible App Coming to Windows Phone
Audible.com has been the place for mobile audio books for about 10 years or so. I remember back when Microsoft’s Pocket PC 2002 original smartphone operating system actually included an eBook Reader that doubled as an Audible audio book player. You could sync audio books to your device, add bookmarks, and pick up where you left off whenever you had time to listen some more. Now, Audible is working on an app for Windows Phone …
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