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Another new Xbox LIVE game for Windows Phone comes out tomorrow and we’ve got it a bit early again. This one is called Orbital and it’s a space-themed puzzle game with futuristic Tron-like graphics. The objective is to destroy as many orbs as possible and shoot yourself into the Orbital Olympus. The problem is that every time you shoot, you create another orb. There are three modes that you can play the game in. Each …

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We finally got around to taking Navigon for a test drive. This is one of the first full-featured GPS navigation programs for Windows Phone that does include offline maps. Upon first launch of the application it will require you to download over a Gig’s worth of mapping data to your device. The good thing about having all the map data on the device is so that you won’t have to be taxing your internet connection …

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While earlier today we asked “What else would you want on your Start screen?” a few people thought it would be cool to have live tiles that represent groups containing other apps. We’ve seen sketches of something like this possibly coming to the next version of Windows Phone, but Windows Phone Hacker has been working on a home-brew method of adding apps to live tile groups or “folders” so that you can better organize your …

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With Windows Phone 7.5, application developers can make it so that you can pin practically any kind of content directly to your Start screen for easy access. The operating system itself offers lots of options for pinning live tiles to your start screen, too. With the iPhone, you’ve basically got two options for content on your home screen; application icons and web page icons. With Android, your options are a bit more flexibile since you …

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After updating to Windows Phone 7.5, have you noticed the on-screen keyboard randomly collapsing itself as if you had pressed the back button? Some users (such as Branislav Hupka) believe that this is due to a specific line of code that may have made it into certain apps by accident. The code: “ScheduledActionService.LaunchForTest” is used only for testing purposes and should not be included in the final release of your Mango-compatible app. A developer named …

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A lot of people think that what Apple is doing with capacitive touch screens and touch-based user interfaces is magical, but what if you could interact with a phone that was just a hologram? A team at Microsoft Research has put together a “Holodesk” which not only displays three dimensional holograms, but also lets you physically interact with them. It uses a Kinect sensor to see your hands or other physical objects within its view …

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