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Lumiappdate: NFC Toolkit (+ Christmas sale [TweeCoMinder too!] )

Lumiappdate: NFC Toolkit (+ Christmas sale [TweeCoMinder too!] )

| December 15, 2013 | Reply

Advertisements NFC Toolkit, a great app allowing you to create profiles launched by NFC has received an overhaul of new features lately. I use this app myself, with NFC tags around my house for getting things done. (I just wish that MS would allow devs to toggle Bluetooth, WiFi etc and not just open their […]

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Microsoft Rumored to Offer Samsung $1 Billion Dollars Incentive to Focus on WP

Microsoft Rumored to Offer Samsung $1 Billion Dollars Incentive to Focus on WP

| December 15, 2013 | 137 Replies

According to a recent rumor Microsoft are offering Samsung a very similar deal to one they offered Nokia before the WP agreement was struck. Before Nokia accepted WP as their primary platform OS Microsoft agreed to pay Nokia quarterly “support payments” to help ease the change to a new OS; which greatly helped Nokia stay […]

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Lumia 525 On Sale in Vietnam & Singapore

Lumia 525 On Sale in Vietnam & Singapore

| December 15, 2013 | 6 Replies

The Lumia 525, this year’s refresh to the wildly popular and successful Lumia 520 (which comes with almost the same package, except for 1Gb of ram) has just gone on sale in both Singapore and Vietnam. In Vietnam it’s priced around $165 while in Singapore the device is closer to the $200. The 525 is […]

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LeakyLeak: WP 8.1/Blue Screenshot Reveals Touch Based Navigating Keys

LeakyLeak: WP 8.1/Blue Screenshot Reveals Touch Based Navigating Keys

| December 14, 2013 | 43 Replies

  Recently rumors have surfaced about the possibility of a future for Windows Phone that loses the capacitive touch button keys (or hardware keys like some models). @evleaks has just posted a partial screenshot showing off the replacement of these buttons with on-screen touch buttons: What do you guys think of this possibility? A future […]

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Microsoft Build 2014 Announced, April 2-4; Future of WP Likely to Be Revealed

Microsoft Build 2014 Announced, April 2-4; Future of WP Likely to Be Revealed

| December 13, 2013 | 23 Replies

Microsoft’s annual Build convention for developers was just announced for 2014; where it will be held in San Francisco from April 2nd to the 4th. The event is organized by Microsoft for developers regarding all things Windows (PC, RT or Phone); and usually contains previews, if not full reveals of upcoming software updates. It’s more […]

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“Educational” Video From Nokia Russia Shows How to Revive a Water Damaged Lumia; Requires Blonde Beauty in Bathtub

“Educational” Video From Nokia Russia Shows How to Revive a Water Damaged Lumia; Requires Blonde Beauty in Bathtub

| December 13, 2013 | 22 Replies

Here’s an “interesting” video I stumbled across, from no other than Nokia Russia; the video shows how to deal with every smart phone owners worst nightmare; a water-damaged phone. The instructional video shows you step-by-step instructions on what steps you can do to attempt to revive your phone; with a helpful demonstration by a girl […]

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What is “Forked Android”, and What does it Mean for Nokia?

What is “Forked Android”, and What does it Mean for Nokia?

| December 13, 2013 | 58 Replies

If you’ve followed up with the most recent news tidbits about the Nokia Normandy/Project N, you probably heard that the device is running a “forked version” of android, rather than the Asha platform that we expected. MNB can also individually confirm that this is true in terms of the OS running on the device, as […]

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Air Now Provides Air Quality Information Direct To Your Windows Phone

Air Now Provides Air Quality Information Direct To Your Windows Phone

| December 13, 2013 | 1 Reply

An app for Windows Phone, Air Now, allows users to get real time data about Air Quality in their area. With such a bog focus being on environmental sustainability and clean living, this app comes at a perfect time. What the app does, is pulls information from the EEA – European Environmental Agency – and […]

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#WPDev: Windows Phone Testing & Error Management Pluralsight Course Goes Live

#WPDev: Windows Phone Testing & Error Management Pluralsight Course Goes Live

| December 13, 2013 | Reply

A few weeks ago we told you about a pluralsight course by our friend Lars, that helped Windows Phone developers to create some great apps. He has just published his second course, that discusses Windows Phone Testing & Error Management. The course goes into creating test libraries, test data, performance stress testing etc, as well […]

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