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Archive for February 10th, 2014

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Nokia to Reveal Android Powered “Normandy” at MWC in Barcelona

Nokia to Reveal Android Powered “Normandy” at MWC in Barcelona

| February 10, 2014 | 92 Replies

Advertisements Nokia’s Android powered “Normandy” device has been leaked for quite some time now; we know that it will be an entry level device, available in multiple colors and set to take on the lower end Androids. And now we have a reveal date thanks to the Wall Street Journal, who have been informed that […]

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WP 8.1 Action Center Settings Show Up in Chinese Build (on Lumia 920)

WP 8.1 Action Center Settings Show Up in Chinese Build (on Lumia 920)

| February 10, 2014 | 18 Replies

Yesterday we got our first glimpse at what the real Action/Notification center on WP 8.1 will actually look like and it wasn’t half bad, there was an option for 4 quick shortcuts at the top of the bar to quickly toggle settings on and off (as seen above). Now it appears that a (blurry) image […]

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Microsoft’s OneDrive to Feature Referral and Camera Roll Upload Bonuses

Microsoft’s OneDrive to Feature Referral and Camera Roll Upload Bonuses

| February 10, 2014 | 2 Replies

We previously reported that Microsoft were renaming their cloud storage service to OneDrive after running into some legal issues, now as the launch of OneDrive approaches more details about the re-branded service are surfacing. According to Liveside, OneDrive will feature a referral bonus when a user gets their friends to sign up (similar to the dropbox […]

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Show Your Love with a #Sendtiment Card; Win a Surface RT

Show Your Love with a #Sendtiment Card; Win a Surface RT

| February 10, 2014 | Reply

A cool app on Windows Phone, Sendtiment Cards, allows you to share personalised cards. For Valentine’s Day, they’re holding a competition where you can win a Surface RT and a Red Touch Cover. The competition is simple; create a card and share it using the app, and like them on Facebook. The Press Release is […]

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New ‘Large’ size tile for WP8.1?

New ‘Large’ size tile for WP8.1?

| February 10, 2014 | 13 Replies

Nazwil8 tweets that there might be a fourth live tile size. We began with ‘medium’ square and ‘wide’ rectangle. This was followed by WP8 using more of the width of the screen and introducing ‘small’ square. For WP8.1, we can enjoy Mr Joe Belfiore demoing the resizing of tiles all over again with the ‘Large’ […]

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360 ‘video’ of Nokia Lumia Icon from Verizon #929

360 ‘video’ of Nokia Lumia Icon from Verizon #929

| February 10, 2014 | 3 Replies

This ‘video’ was grabbed from Verizon’s site showing the Nokia Lumia Icon #929 rotating 360 degrees. As with Nokia’s 3D renders, they often make the device oddly uglier/thicker than real life pictures. This may be the case again here since we’ve already seen live pictures of the icon and it looks better than what we’re […]

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Swype(like?) keyboard coming to Windows Phone says Tom Warren

Swype(like?) keyboard coming to Windows Phone says Tom Warren

| February 10, 2014 | 7 Replies

A user commented on TheVerge saying that the only thing they’re missing is something similar to the ‘Android Swype’ keyboard. Tom Warren replied that it’s coming. Tom Warren is more often than not correct on his MS/WP related comments. I’m not quite sure which specific Verge comments this came from but it was reposted to […]

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