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Waze Crowd-Sourced Navigation Enters WP Beta Testing

Waze Crowd-Sourced Navigation Enters WP Beta Testing

| June 21, 2013 | 17 Replies

Advertisements Waze is a pretty popular navigating app that has the huge plus of being completely crowd-sourced, meaning you get live traffic, accident, cheapest gas prices and most importantly police/speed trap warnings on your maps. The app is pretty useful and depends on the community to update and improve their maps, well here are a […]

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Vixl: Instagram Like Filtered Videos Coming Soon to Windows Phone

Vixl: Instagram Like Filtered Videos Coming Soon to Windows Phone

| June 20, 2013 | 6 Replies

Vixl is a new app on the way to the Windows Phone marketplace, from the developers of Pixl for Flickr, a flickr viewing app comes Vixl. Vixl is surprisingly similar to the new Instagram update announced today which brings the “instagram look” of vintage filtered images to videos up to twenty seconds long. Vixl does pretty […]

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Qualcomm Announces Six new Snapdragon 200 Series; Brings Dual Sim Support to Windows Phone

Qualcomm Announces Six new Snapdragon 200 Series; Brings Dual Sim Support to Windows Phone

| June 20, 2013 | 37 Replies

  Till now Windows Phone’s processor choice has been limited to the Qualcomm family (by restrictions set by Microsoft); thankfully that family has opened up a bit with 6 new additions to the Snapdragon 200 range. The new chips come with HSPA+ support (not true LTE), and Adreno 302 graphics processor (the 720, 620 & 520 […]

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Temple Run Now Available for 512 Mb Ram Lumias

Temple Run Now Available for 512 Mb Ram Lumias

| June 20, 2013 | 20 Replies

  One issue with games on WP is that occasionally high profile titles would be left out for the 512 mb community, the one that caused the most noise was Temple Run not running on 512Mb devices (something I JUST mentioned yesterday). Well apparently Windows Phone (or at least Joe Belfiore) have been listening: A […]

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HERE Maps Data Overhaul for WP8; Brings Multiple Improvements

HERE Maps Data Overhaul for WP8; Brings Multiple Improvements

| June 20, 2013 | 16 Replies

The HERE maps mapping database has just received another hefty overhauling bringing more roads, buildings and traffic to your phone, the update brings:  Better map coverage for Tunisia, Senegal and Cyprus 1.86 million building outlines in Croatia Public transit for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (would HERE Transit work there now?) Trucking routes and other changes […]

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Lumia 928 for $30 on Contract at Amazon

Lumia 928 for $30 on Contract at Amazon

| June 19, 2013 | 1 Reply

For anyone interested in the Lumia 928 Amazon have it for $29.99 on contract (of course), so you can grab one from the link below (white or black): Nokia Lumia 928, White (Verizon Wireless) Nokia Lumia 928, Black (Verizon Wireless) And hey while you’re at it, you really can’t go wrong with a 52 cent […]

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Microsoft Was Talking With Nokia Regarding a Buyout, No More Though

Microsoft Was Talking With Nokia Regarding a Buyout, No More Though

| June 19, 2013 | 206 Replies

Hot on the heels of Huawei saying they’d consider buying Nokia; then changing their minds all of a sudden; new details have emerged showing that Microsoft was actually talking with the folks at Nokia regarding buying out the devices division of the company. Apparently the deal fell through sometime last month after Nokia asked for […]

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Video: Lumia 520 Gaming Performance Test

Video: Lumia 520 Gaming Performance Test

| June 19, 2013 | 15 Replies

We’ve established that WP8 runs pretty smoothly even on the lowest device on the hardware spectrum, but what about actual gaming performance. True WP8 doesn’t have the more taxing games (but it’s getting there, with the inclusion of some of the more graphic intense games such as N.O.V.A 3). The other issue facing these limited hardware devices […]

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MS giving Nokia more control over WP8 updates with GDR2/Amber

MS giving Nokia more control over WP8 updates with GDR2/Amber

| June 19, 2013 | 19 Replies

  According to reports from WPDang, Microsoft is going to be giving final control over updates to Nokia (and other OEMs). Microsoft will do the basics, i.e. GDR2. Then there’s the handset specific stuff, either the handset itself or the chips inside them, plus any additional firmwares that need testing. This is then processed by carriers […]

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