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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

Advertisements 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 […]

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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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Concept: WP8 background wallpapers (animated .gifs)

Concept: WP8 background wallpapers (animated .gifs)

| February 9, 2014 | 12 Replies

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen concepts for WP that includes a background wallpaper. This concept is created by Fabian Pimminger. In the animated .gifs below you can see how it works with vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling (including a side swipe notification). Note that some of the tiles are slightly translucent to maximise the […]

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WP Notification Centre on Nokia Lumia 1020 (Action Center)

WP Notification Centre on Nokia Lumia 1020 (Action Center)

| February 9, 2014 | 46 Replies

Tom Warren from TheVerge seems to have a different version of the WP notification screenshot going around. This may be a mock up put on the 1020 or a different screenshot altogether.  Either way, he confirms this new look is genuine. The four basic quick settings are customizable. I think I might set screen brightness […]

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Windows Phone 8.1 Action Center Leaks here’s how it looks

Windows Phone 8.1 Action Center Leaks here’s how it looks

| February 9, 2014 | 13 Replies

The above email exchange between Microsoft employees is arguably the first leaked screenshot of what Microsoft is calling Action Center, just like Android and IOS, it’s accessed by a swipe down from the top, and it’ll present four customizable quick settings buttons. (Which makes the picture bellow a lot more credible) If you’re within an app the Action Center will not show notification […]

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Lumia 1520 camera performance review. (updated)

Lumia 1520 camera performance review. (updated)

| February 9, 2014 | 16 Replies

I‘ve only used Nokia phones as my camera, and over the years, Nokia kept giving me reasons not to buy dedicated cameras, as such every Nokia that focused on photography I had to snatch it right away. I never had the cash or the heart to buy a Lumia 1020 because I already had the 808, so when the […]

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ArsTechnica responds to The Guardian – Fork off, “Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android”

ArsTechnica responds to The Guardian – Fork off, “Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android”

| February 8, 2014 | 98 Replies

Peter Bright from ArsTechnica responds to Charles Arthur’s suggestion on The Guardian that Microsoft should fork Android. Why? It’s unworkable. He says you can have compatibility or control but not both.  Google has worked to make Android unworkable. For those who might bring in Amazon, Peter discusses those shortcomings too. In the grand scheme of things, […]

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