The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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mySquare, the 2nd Foursquare Client for Windows Phone
For a long time there were no Foursquare apps for Windows Mobile at all. After much demand, a single client appeared in the form of WinMoSquare. Now we see a new program called mySquare which might suite your needs better if you’re a Foursquare player. MySquare seems a bit more extensive than WinMoSquare, with maps, friend requests and a bit more “snappiness.” Check out Mobility Minded’s review of the mySquare beta here or download the …
Continue readingA First Taste of Samsung’s Cetus Windows Phone 7
A lot of people are waiting to see what Samsung comes up with for a Windows Phone 7 device since they’ve been one of the manufacturers for the prototype developer devices that have been floating around. Well, just the other day the FCC released some info on the Samsung Cetus Windows Phone 7. The phone will have a 4″ screen and AT&T’s 3G bands. It will also have a decent Galaxy-S-like formfactor at 64.2 x …
Continue readingKIN Gets New Twitter Features
It looks like the KIN is still kicking! If you loaded up a KIN phone recently you might have noticed some new features. There was no actual user-indication of an update being installed or downloaded, but the new features just magically appeared. First up you’ve got Twitter avatar images in the Loop now. I’m glad to see that since previously all you had were blank little boxes. You’ve also got the ability to reply to …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 Used to Multitask
Over on XDA-Developers there’s a thread where user mightymn was able to develop a program that keeps counting even when the emulator is switched back to the start page or a different program. That would seem to indicate real multi-tasking capabilities in Windows Phone 7. Unfortunately, it turns out he was using the April version of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools/emulator and the latest version no longer shows this capability. (You might already know …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 puts BlackBerry 6 to Shame on the Engadget Show
Last night, a Windows Phone 7 prototype appeared on the Engadget Show along with the new BlackBerry Torch and BlackBerry 6 operating system. Joshua Topolsky compared the web browser on “the best BlackBerry ever” to the Internet Explorer on the unfinished Windows Phone 7 running on demo hardware. Unfortunately for BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 was clearly superior. Even though the BlackBerry was using 3G and Windows Phone 7 was using WiFi, Windows Phone 7 was …
Continue readingMobile App Match: Exchanging Ideas
Microsoft launched a great new site called Mobile App Match the goal of which is to match up people who have great ideas for apps with developers who are looking for great ideas for apps. So if you’re making an app and want to see what people think of it, you can post the concept and presumably some screen shots or a video demo. Then other people can vote on how cool that app is. …
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